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by dabent 16y ago
My motto is if one can't be a general, one can be a great lieutenant, or in the floor-mopping case, private. I didn't used to feel like that, but over the years I've changed.
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And The Facebook Checkin Abuse Begins(hyde.tv)
2 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to the new decade(levelofindirection.com)
19 points by dabent 16y ago|1 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
The "Traction" podcasts by Gabriel Weinberg are very good. http://tractionbook.com/ They have real discussions of what people did to get their business going.
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Things I wish I knew before starting a business(entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)
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by dabent 16y ago
It's interesting to see results from the strategy the author said "worked" in the article. I've also noticed something similar in television ads. On a golf telecast, for instance, many ads are about golf products, but not all. They are ab
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by dabent 16y ago
Facebook toughened their ad policies and began policing ads and landing pages rather heavily. Users just hated scam ads.
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by dabent 16y ago
Oh, I believe there's certainly something to be gained by going with YC, beyond what any prior success would offer. Sorry if my comment may have not gotten that across. There probably is some loyalty there, but that's largely due to your p
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by dabent 16y ago
My guess is that it worked the first time, so why not try it again? That and they may feel some loyalty to PG. Well, then there's the "instant post in TechCrunch" one gets when combining YC with a successful prior exit. They are bound to
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by dabent 16y ago
My notes: - "Hipmunk?" I don't get it. Why not tripmunk? - I like the visualization and the "agony" sort. Pretty cool - Is the plan to book the trip directly on the site eventually. Once I got to the end, I thought "Why don't I just go
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by dabent 16y ago
Yes, the survivors are the ones who accumulated wealth. If there are other paths to accumulating wealth, they should have survived as well, but aren't apparent in the sources I've seen so far. There are many businesses that fail and people
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by dabent 16y ago
There may be some bias in the Reddit thread, which is admittedly slanted toward sofware/tech startups, but I also draw on some other sources. The book "The Millionaire Mind," Thomas Stanley looked at a variety of wealthy people and found t
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by dabent 16y ago
It seems the theme is business ownership. Of course, Reddit might be populated more by tech-savvy folks, leading to the talk of startups there. But overall, those who seem to make big sums of money are those who have equity in successful
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by dabent 16y ago
My first impression was "how are they going to filter out the jerks?" My next impression was "how are they going to also filter out the spammers?" I'd love to hear the creator's answers to those questions. If they solve that, it could be
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by dabent 16y ago
The region I know was the Midwestern US, the industry was manufacturing and the generation was my father's. He worked 25 years for a big company, got a decent pension, did reasonably well on his other investments and retired at 55. He died
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by dabent 16y ago
504 Gateway Time-out nginx/0.7.65
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by dabent 16y ago
Charleston is a beautiful city. I came very close to moving there twice in the past few years. Get a J-O-B there for a while and stabilize your money situation. Enjoy Isle of Palms and the rest of the city. Go up to Hilton Head, down to
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by dabent 16y ago
"It's what you do, not what you call it."
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by dabent 16y ago
Partner Selection: The person I chose to partner with on my startup is a great human being, but not cut out for being a startup partner. Not everyone is cut out for this and even people like pg have trouble determining who's got the determ
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by dabent 16y ago
> Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it. Welcome to Atlanta. Or maybe many other cities. I've often thought that there must be some remote working solutions out there that just need to overcome inertia to b
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by dabent 16y ago
I knew a person who was rather honest about their laziness. One day at lunch he just said "Yeah, I'm ready to be a millionaire." I said "Well, you better get busy!" With all sincerity he said, "Oh, no! I didn't want to work for it!"
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by dabent 16y ago
Advertising - especially online. I believe one of pg's areas he thought YC would fund was an ad startup and there's a good reason for that. Online ads are still in their infancy. Ads are often clumsily placed on content sites using keywor
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by dabent 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback. The silence was honestly worse than harsh feedback. I'll add a "clickable" next time and time my posts better. "Noise in my Twitter stream" - I'm very interested in avoiding that and worried this app won't help if
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by dabent 16y ago
So. There's NO interest in this? Ouch.
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Ask HN: Review my side project - DealBabyDeal
2 points by dabent 16y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Review my project - DealBabyDeal
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
That is true. There's a lack of stickiness to the original poster's app as it is. It might be interesting to see how other people's writing was rated. The newsletter addition was a good idea. I have a feeling many "writers" would be upset
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by dabent 16y ago
http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/
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by dabent 16y ago
To me, the most interesting "hack" here is how the Tumbleweed house company has hacked its way onto Oprah, NPR and the top result for "tiny house" on Google. I wish my startup could do that. They've done a remarkable job with PR and are eff
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by dabent 16y ago
I would have thought he was known for selling coffee instead of wine. He's got undeniable energy.

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