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by dfriedmn 14y ago
This really makes me wish they would leave content up rather than following the cohort model -- there are a handful of classes I'd like to take, but their current model forces users to basically adhere to the university schedule (they have
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Majority of "top grossing" apps are free. The article seems to reflect the opinion of a small minority, who happen to make a lot of noise in a few circles.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Education is also a much weaker predictor of sales abilities than of biz dev potential. Sales seems like a more directly learnable skill. Sales also tends to leave highly-educated people with a negative taste (that's absent from biz dev),
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
It's a good question, but I'm not sure it has to. They're almost breaking even right now with that cost, and their only consumer product is a crappy deals e-mail site. With better consumer offerings, they could be getting 2-3x the value off
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Not to mention trying to partner with dating sites and the like to offer offline inventory to their users - new revenue stream for both parties, and solves the problem of awkwardly have to choose where you're going and figure out who's payi
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Hah, was going to write the same comment ("No.")
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
To go against the tide in these comments, this is actually exactly what they should be doing. They've properly identified the problem (finally), and do have enormous resources in attacking it. As long as the daily deal product can hold its
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
I'm not sure what's so confusing about this strategy - Amazon certainly wants to make money off selling content, and the fire is a content consumption machine. But, they also know how much extra $ prime users spend, and figured they could c
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
if bing is interested in optimizing its 15% search market share, this is a nice move (and don't get me wrong, 15% of search is a pretty big business). BUT, if they're interested in upending the market and really doing something interesting,
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
given that signaling is one of the biggest challenges in online ed, and these are two of the best brands in edu, i hope they're coming together with some kind of credentialing system for their online offering. getting more backing behind m
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
No, it's not wrong - but as always it's complicated. VC's have a relatively short time horizon within which they need to provide a return to their LP's, and their returns typically are driven by a few outsized successes (>7-10x). Someti
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
You'll also need dotcloud's python library. After that, it should be fine, but sometimes there are unexpected issues. If you e-mail us, we'd be happy to help you through.
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
Sorry about that. We haven't had any issues before, but we might have faster connections. We're currently serving the media from Amazon S3, but we'll switch to Cloudfront to see if that helps. If you're still having issues, e-mail us at sup
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
Right now we only have an installer for the mac. The course should be similar on a Windows machine but some things are a little different (i.e. opening up the terminal). We're hoping to support Windows OS in the near-future, but for righ
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
Great idea. We'll definitely follow up with something if we get good results.
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
We're using stripe. It's by far our favorite solution. Thanks for the comment though -- we'll add a note to indicate what we're using.
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
genius strikes again!
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
I wonder whether the inability to measure repeat visitors is just because they haven't figured out how to offer it yet, or whether it's intentional because they know it will reveal damaging information to merchants (that running one doesn't
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Ask HN: Any startups using Dwolla for payment-processing?
1 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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Let's start paying college athletes(nytimes.com)
1 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
We need more companies with real business models focused on solving social problems. I couldn't be more excited about this rising crop of "do well by doing good" companies. I expect big things from Amicus.
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Why Groupon, Now?(dfriedman.me)
8 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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Have a Cow! (Donated in your name)(amicushq.com)
16 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|1 comments
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by dfriedmn 15y ago
Hard to believe, but hope this turns out to be true. Would represent meaningful progress for the world.
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Ask HN: Learning front-end dev
1 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|1 comments
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The End of the Future: Peter Thiel(nationalreview.com)
1 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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Digitization as the Second Economy: Today's Industrial Revolution(mckinseyquarterly.com)
2 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|1 comments
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How Tumblr Recovered from a Business Crisis(entrepreneur.com)
2 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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Planning a startup launch? Here's your reading list(blog.bestvendor.com)
2 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|0 comments
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Why VC's invest in Pigs not Chickens(bostonvcblog.typepad.com)
13 points by dfriedmn 15y ago|8 comments

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