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N00b Resources for Learning to Design(refer.ly)
8 points by dmor 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
No this is not how it works. Without the advertising, many products would never be discovered at all by the buyer. The opportunity cost of not doing advertising is much higher for seller than just the dollars spent. Do you really believ
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by dmor 14y ago
Its not about spending $5, it's about spending $5 x 10,000. Same reason credit card validations are $1 (which then gets credited back to the card a few days later).
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Why Advertising on Mobile Sucks, From the Marketer’s Perspective(distributionhacks.com)
61 points by dmor 14y ago|29 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
I agree, and I'd add that if you have some common ground (e.g. Your company is in a sector that is the investors expertise) say so. There is an initial "should I care" filter to get through. Also, meeting in person is always better.
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by dmor 14y ago
This topic makes me think of the Jack London story "To Build a Fire", which is one of my favorites. http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html Also timely, one of our power users at Referly just made a preparedness kit list for winter dri
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by dmor 14y ago
If you are driving unprecedented revenue to your company go to your bosses boss, the CEO, whoever it takes. Getting pushed out is stupid, if you are good at what you do and love it then fight. You have nothing to lose. I don't understand
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by dmor 14y ago
Choose something, immerse yourself in it, and course correct as you go. The dichotomies are false, but you do have to choose something.
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by dmor 14y ago
One woman in tech to another I'd love to meet you. I'm headed to Toronto and Montreal in February but if you're elsewhere in Canada I'm sure we can find a way for paths to cross. There are few of us (@bluehat is one as well) - email me (i
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by dmor 14y ago
Different place, similar light fixture
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by dmor 14y ago
IRC chat is still the best community tool. ;)
612.
by dmor 14y ago
Love PG's comment about the light fixture of death. Was this "the warehouse"?
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by dmor 14y ago
I love Gengo, and I know a lot of people who need to break out of agencies - I'd never heard that part of your founding story before. How did you decide to start your company in Japan, were you originally from there (you mention the UK)?
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by dmor 14y ago
You are so rare! Where did you grow up? I grew up with the lore of Microsoft, what was it like growing up with the companies of SV? It seems like there are/were so many more.
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Ask HN: Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?
52 points by dmor 14y ago|70 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
Back when I was living in Seattle and hadn't even conceived of coming to Silicon Valley I started to follow industry blogs. These are the ones I love, from my pristinely manicured Google Reader account (still the best "social" Google ever
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Must Read Blogs for Entrepreneurs(refer.ly)
15 points by dmor 14y ago|1 comments
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The Temptation of Data(ventureblog.com)
4 points by dmor 14y ago|0 comments
619.
by dmor 14y ago
The key: create more value than you capture. Tim O'Reilly first presented this idea in 2009, which is why you might be thinking "hey that's not new": http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-...
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by dmor 14y ago
Neither have I, downloaded!
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by dmor 14y ago
I agree, I wonder why they decided to end it the way they did.
622.
by dmor 14y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is a badass, but I hardly think that movie portrays him as a hero
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by dmor 14y ago
Feature idea: make it so other people can add stuff to collections and then the article's owner can moderate it in or out. Would you use that?
624.
by dmor 14y ago
Haha okay, I told him he needs to make the list better
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by dmor 14y ago
This comes up every time we post a collection from Referly to HN, regardless of it being very relevant to the community here. I think it bears pointing out that every content site makes money from getting traffic on HN - for us we make mon
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by dmor 14y ago
I don't think you're participating in this conversation is in good faith, so I don't think it is worth continuing. I'm not interested in winning (there is nothing to win), it isn't an argument, I am interested in understanding the OP's pos
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by dmor 14y ago
I didn't get the impression from the tone of this post that there was anything adversarial about their meeting, that the OP was saying he was better at social skills than the technical CEO, or that the OP was even judging his companion's ap
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by dmor 14y ago
There is a big different between a $10 - $100 gift card and $1 per targeted message
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30 Minute Facelift: Downplaying Search, Value Prop & About Page(refer.ly)
5 points by dmor 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
Think of Start Fund is like a blind startup index fund. But now that Andreessen Horowitz has made a significant investment in IFTTT I'd imagine they're unlikely to make any future investment in Zapier unless their business changes quite a

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