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by drusenko 18y ago
a large part of what investors invest in is the team. YC tends to do quite a few second investments, because they've already decided that they believe in the team. i would peg this investment as one of those -- that the idea was much less i
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by drusenko 18y ago
on the flipside, you also have access to a company with many multiples the distribution than your average mom and pop, so while they may not care about $0.25, you're also not going to be selling a lot to them. closing a wal-mart purchase, t
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by drusenko 18y ago
not for us. while TC coverage doesn't provide the "instant success" many hope for, it's been by far the largest traffic driver for us compared to any other online press sources, aside from newsweek.com and time.com
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by drusenko 18y ago
from what i understand from an employee-friend, the pogue comment is correct and they are preparing for the release of grandcentral 2.0, which would make this article completely false speculation.
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Will Britain Default?(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by drusenko 18y ago|1 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
that's not true. transferring a large amount of data in a consistent manner can be difficult. dumping your database without taking down your live site (or seriously impacting performance) can also be difficult without a dedicated backup sla
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by drusenko 18y ago
there's something honestly enjoyable for us in providing a free service that is useful to people. besides the point already mentioned (that it doesn't cost us that much), we're genuinely happy that we can help people and make their lives be
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by drusenko 18y ago
wouldn't adding a nofollow tag to all links nullify the spam gain?
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by drusenko 18y ago
it's broken: http://publishers.wozad.com/signup_confirm.php , the link that the confirmation email points me to, doesn't exist.
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Firefox on Linux is broken(david.weebly.com)
6 points by drusenko 18y ago|13 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
Here are my previous thoughts on the subject: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/press-for-startups-10... http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/the-importance-of-lau...
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by drusenko 18y ago
this is really interesting to me -- i spent a lot of time examining implied and actual volatility with regards to option pricing right before an earnings report. the short and skinny is that (as makes sense) volatility rises right before ea
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by drusenko 18y ago
this is a perfect example of premature optimization. same thing happened to me. i'm not sure how you could screw up a web app this simple. they seem to have gone in and tried to institute some form of rate limiting, and it's actually kickin
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by drusenko 18y ago
welcome to the real world. i can't tell you how many times people have taken UI and concepts we spent a ton of time developing and copied them directly, even some of our well funded competitors. even yahoo (they completely ripped off our th
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by drusenko 18y ago
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/19/yieldbuild-will-try-to-... they seem to do what you're talking about with adsense
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by drusenko 18y ago
lots of work, well over 9 months. our network and existing connections certainly played a big part.
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by drusenko 18y ago
as a point of clarification, the system greg's built goes much further than simple a/b testing. there are quite a few complications with implementing a genetic algorithm in the real world of constantly shifting preferences. once done right,
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by drusenko 18y ago
you're talking a couple generations behind what we're doing. there is a huge difference between plugging 10 variations into an ad server and using a genetic algorithm to quickly and efficiently find a local (or global) maxima in a search sp
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by drusenko 18y ago
We're actually working on both at the moment, and it's certainly not just a side project. Over time, the two companies will eventually each have an entirely dedicated staff.
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by drusenko 18y ago
i think you have to play it by ear. you certainly don't want to over-apologize or under-apologize. that hosting company apologized with the wrong apology. a good, sincere apology explaining what happened and why it's not going to happen aga
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by drusenko 18y ago
That reasoning is true until it isn't. If you sweep things under the rug, the public eye generally moves on to the next thing quickly, and nobody cares or realizes it happened a week later. If you apologize prematurely, then you draw attent
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Weebly launches re-designed site(blog.weebly.com)
15 points by drusenko 18y ago|2 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
there are a couple ways you could value this. in terms of users, you could probably acquire users at $1 apiece, so 14,000 users = $14,000 + (new user value). not sure what their growth rate is since all we know is that they've acquired 14,0
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by drusenko 18y ago
right, i'm not sure why the author feels like he has a god-given right to make $50,000/year no matter what kind of iphone app he/she develops. go ask any of the top 10 iphone application developers -- i don't think any of them are having tr
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Review: Sleep cycle tracking watch (with xml/csv data export)(david.weebly.com)
17 points by drusenko 18y ago|4 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
the day microsoft marketing says "We use Webkit, the same engine that powers other browsers like Apple's Safari" is the day they die (death by flying chair)
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YC interview advice(david.weebly.com)
50 points by drusenko 18y ago|10 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
thanks guys, appreciate the support! most of our new users come from word of mouth referals, and every little bit helps.
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by drusenko 18y ago
We've shied away from displaying $$ signs on our front page, as the Weebly service is very much free -- we don't want to create a perception on the user's part that they have to pay to use the service. On the other hand, most users run into
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by drusenko 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing Many of these issues are covered in basic marketing 101. As to how the pricing scheme is deceptive is beyond me. There are multiple different psychological price theories in use. As menti

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