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by dglassan 14y ago
Getting the word out is only a fraction of what marketing actually is. Marketing involves: - defining who your customer is (demographics, income, etc.) - gathering feedback from the customer through surveys - using that information to itera
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Ask HN: Does anyone else not like LinkedIn's redesign?
1 points by dglassan 14y ago|1 comments
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by dglassan 14y ago
I recently bought a domain name from a premium domain seller and I asked the same question. The original post can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4278380 Don't make the first offer. They'll probably give you a price hig
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by dglassan 14y ago
I've been really happy with MediaTemple.net They have great support and helped me a whole lot when I was first getting started with server administration. They were always available to answer any questions I had about how to do something.
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by dglassan 14y ago
I get that, and I'm saying you don't need someone at an incubator to tell you that.
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by dglassan 14y ago
It's not about managing your time, you need to figure out how to scale your business , especially operations and customer support, that's the most difficult part about running an early stage startup. I previously worked at an early stage d
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by dglassan 14y ago
There are tons (maybe more?) companies that are successful without the help of an incubator. People have been raising money and building successful companies decades before the idea of an incubator even came about. Not making it into an inc
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by dglassan 14y ago
It flopped because you didn't make it into an incubator? C'mon. I don't know what product you built but it sounds like it flopped because no one needs a better way to gather their friends. That doesn't sound like a problem (or a business) t
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by dglassan 14y ago
Oh, you want to 'refactor the internet'? Go ahead. I'll make some popcorn.
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by dglassan 14y ago
I've gone through one acquisition within the last year. Ours came about through a combination of us releasing a new feature and getting some pr that caught corporate dev's attention (they read techcrunch too you know), and we also tried to
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by dglassan 14y ago
If you're looking for design inspiration then check out the admin themes on themeforest.net, lots of great examples there if you filter by # of sales. Although it won't give you a lot of ideas as far as functionality goes
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by dglassan 14y ago
You collected the user's email addresses during signup right? You should send each one of them a reminder email, and maybe list the outstanding bugs they haven't closed yet. You were able to convince 150 people to sign up for your app, you
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by dglassan 14y ago
Telemundo is in Spanish
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by dglassan 14y ago
AznHisoka had a great comment below...unless your plugin is bringing in serious revenue -- perhaps enough money to pay your living costs, it's a project, not a startup
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by dglassan 14y ago
Exactly. I wanted to be a startup CEO for a while until I worked at an 8 person startup and saw just how much effort they put into it. Now I'm not so sure, at least not right now in my life.
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by dglassan 14y ago
I have similar feelings to this guy. I've lived in the bay area my entire life, although I'm only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble. My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it "cool" to start a company again. People had such a bad ta
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by dglassan 14y ago
My opinion is that you're overthinking this way too much. Just because a single employee probably chose to link it to "opening ceremony london 2012" doesn't mean they're trying to avoid copyright infringement. It probably means nothing
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by dglassan 14y ago
Wasn't this Taco's idea from the TV series The League? NeckFlix?
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by dglassan 14y ago
There is an escrow service that we'd use for the deal. The quote price doesn't include escrow fees.
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by dglassan 14y ago
Great response. Thanks for your input. I think I'm going to set a max price and use that as my only counter offer. If they don't accept I'll keep looking.
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by dglassan 14y ago
But how can they justify such a high price? Besides them saying that they believe it's worth that much. There's no Alexa data on the domain and it doesn't have any history of back links or pagerank.
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Ask HN: How do you value a domain name?
11 points by dglassan 14y ago|12 comments
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by dglassan 14y ago
I'm wondering the same thing
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by dglassan 14y ago
I'd be taxed $9.00 per day just to get to and from work. There's no chance this thing is going to pass.
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by dglassan 14y ago
You're missing the most important point...you're not selling the used software...you're selling the used license, or the unique license key. If I uninstall adobe photoshop and sell you my license key, you can install the same version and ac
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Ask HN: Are there laws around aggregating and archiving news stories?
2 points by dglassan 14y ago|1 comments
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by dglassan 14y ago
I've always wanted to start my own business...be the CEO...work towards my passion. But within the last year I've begun to question whether or not I'm really ready for the commitment. I've worked at one startup and we ended up getting acqui
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by dglassan 14y ago
1. Pretty sure Facebook is the only one hitting Facebook levels. Facebook is an outlier, don't use this as an example to invalidate his entire point. 2. There are great PHP programmers...just because you're writing something in PHP doesn't
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Ask HN: How can I make sure no one will steal my work on Github?
1 points by dglassan 14y ago|3 comments
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by dglassan 14y ago
I don't think Facebook, er...Zuckerberg, even had a plan in place when they acquired Instagram. I bet it will be a while before we see any kind of strategy since Facebook is probably still trying to figure out exactly what to do with Instag

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