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by drusenko 19y ago
Actually, Weebly isn't much in the same space. The newly re-designed Google Sites (Jotspot 2.0), site/wiki builders like Wetpaint, or social network builders like Ning are all in the "facilitate group communication" space, and all look to f
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by drusenko 19y ago
In our experience, we've rarely run into scenarios where users forget their passwords and have mistyped their email/faked an email after having spent time on their account. If they haven't spent time on an account -- create a new one! Other
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by drusenko 19y ago
Obviously, it needs to be included in the risk vs. cost calculation. The point of the post: Don't assume the risk automatically outweighs any cost.
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The hidden cost principle(david.weebly.com)
24 points by drusenko 19y ago|9 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
right, because EU startups are doing very well now... cheaper credit/more foreign investment doesn't change the fundamental dynamics at play when starting a company, like how rigid the laws are, or how cheaply one can build a startup.
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by drusenko 19y ago
i'm sure it did... it was a world map of the entire fleet. i was touring as part of a boyscout troop at the time, and someone dropped the ball and forgot to turn it off... and they were very, very nervous when i pointed out the screen that
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by drusenko 19y ago
Years ago, I toured an active Navy ship of some kind of other (pretty big ship). When we got to the command center area, I noticed that all of the individual computers were running Windows 9x (the ones they used to check email), but that th
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by drusenko 19y ago
We're doing some emergency maintenance on the sites, and things should already have been fixed a long time ago. Scaling issues are rough. The good news is that even though our shared-storage system was quite scaling as we'd hoped, we've got
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by drusenko 19y ago
very true, but it does matter who gives the advice: some people give bad advice that sounds good on the surface, but isn't. you always need to follow your gut, and listen to all advice no matter who gives it, but we always listen especially
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by drusenko 19y ago
i'm still a bit confused by your point, but advice has been very helpful for us. generally, the person giving advice tries to formulate their advice in such a way that it applies to more than just one situation. advice seems to be most usef
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by drusenko 19y ago
I'd recommend giving yourself 1 extra week from the point you originally wanted to launch. Make sure everything is finished, and give yourself 1 week to actually use the product. Fix all the little things, and add the extra polish, things y
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by drusenko 19y ago
hang out with PB for 10 minutes and you'll hear 10 things that make you say "aha". you've got to be humble enough to realize that you don't know everything, and you won't necessarily stumble upon every realization on your own.
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by drusenko 19y ago
exactly right. good publicity and a bad product wouldn't help anything. and if you notice the "new users per day" graph, it settles higher after every publicity hit -- which is a good indication that your product is of value, since the more
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by drusenko 19y ago
"Don't launch with a crappy product -- launch as soon as what you have is better than what is out there." If I remember correctly, that is advice given by Paul Buchheit.
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The importance of launching early and staying alive(david.weebly.com)
92 points by drusenko 19y ago|29 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
and you won't have that piece of paper. sucks. it's still important -- maybe some people can get by without it, but not every one can, and a lot of people are worse off for not getting it. besides, working at a startup and graduating from c
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by drusenko 19y ago
From what I've seen of PR, it's not very effective, especially not for the $/results ratio. The point of Andrew Chen's article is indeed good -- viral growth, if you can achieve it, is awesome. But press is far from useless. I have no idea
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by drusenko 19y ago
With all due respect to Andrew Chen, he's wrong. He makes a good point -- viral traffic is the best kind -- but there is definite use to press traffic as well. All of our growth has been based on press. I'm planning on writing a blog post i
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by drusenko 19y ago
- Newsweek was through YC generally, but not all companies in the round got a mention in the article, so it certainly had some to do with our effort. - Time reporter contacted us initially, but she sent out the same email to a lot of startu
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Press for Startups: 10 tips(david.weebly.com)
49 points by drusenko 19y ago|8 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
i believe it fell out of grace because the maintainer's page disappeared. and no, it shouldn't be any more vulnerable to CSRF than a simple session-cookie system, which is what this basically is.
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Simple Apache Form Authentication: mod_auth_cookie
7 points by drusenko 19y ago|4 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
Here's a link to a high-quality video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/science_nature/video/1...
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How scalable is one web server?(david.weebly.com)
22 points by drusenko 19y ago|11 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
maybe the market was accurately valuing Google, though? of all the startups out there, how many deliver on a Google scale?
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by drusenko 19y ago
One thing quite a few people are failing to notice when describing the "huge" premium of 62%: look at Yahoo's historical stock price charts for the last few months or so. Yahoo's taken a real big hit, likely for several reasons that are bey
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by drusenko 19y ago
i was quite impressed with nevada, not so much with wyoming: got stranded there for 3 days due to a total white out, and thought i was going to end up in the ditch for sure. turns out that traveling 80 in early January isn't the best of ide
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by drusenko 19y ago
Although the trip was from New York to San Francisco, I ended up buying the camera and started taking pictures in State College, PA. I used 3 circle stickers on the roof of my car to mark the position for a tripod, and kept the camera attac
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Driving New York to San Francisco(david.weebly.com)
17 points by drusenko 19y ago|11 comments
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by drusenko 19y ago
It's also a sure-fire way to fail. One thing nobody ever mentions about raising money: You're aligning your interests with some pretty powerful people. The fact is, nobody really wants you to succeed -- everybody is trying to make it themse

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