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by eappleby 8y ago
Why does it have to be one or the other? I don't think a company is greedy if they raise the price on a luxury item more than the rate of inflation. Consumers speak with their dollars. If a company prices out their consumers, consumers
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by eappleby 8y ago
What if the companies that were placing job ads on Facebook were also placing job ads on other platforms that weren't targeted to men only? Playing devils advocate here...
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by eappleby 8y ago
What about recruiting from all-female schools like Barnard?
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by eappleby 10y ago
Personally, I feel the most undervalued skill to being a successful entrepreneur is being comfortable with a low personal burn rate. If you can navigate that, starting a company at 35 is actually an ideal time, since you have savings, poten
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by eappleby 10y ago
A friend of mind built an app called SoundPrint ( https://www.soundprint.co/ ), which helps people find venues based on their noise level. Similar idea.
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by eappleby 10y ago
I write code on weekends and after-hours. I've found that in order to build trust with clients and stay on top of new opportunities, I need to be responsive to emails. Product development is a little slower, but since I coded the entir
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by eappleby 10y ago
I love my Fogless Shower Mirror: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003BQ6QXK?ref_=ams_ad_dp_asin_1 Most others use chemicals (I believe) to stop the fogging, which fades in effectiveness over time. Had this one for 5 years an
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by eappleby 10y ago
Similar question was asked last year ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065355 ). Here was my answer then, which is about the same now, but the business has continued to grow: I started https://www.pubexchang
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by eappleby 10y ago
Interesting article, until you realize that the entire basis of the claim that the patent is worth billions is that the author assumed the 1-click patent "increases Amazon’s sales by 5% each year". Amazon isn't too forthcomin
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by eappleby 10y ago
I faced a similar question about 10 years ago. I had a bachelors in engineering (comp sci), I didn't want an MS or PhD, I had solid grades, and I wanted to move into "executive management" (whatever that meant). I ended up ge
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by eappleby 10y ago
I actually don't value contacts very highly, and almost never ask for intros or leverage previous relationships. For a one-person company, intros are a time-suck, since the recipient of the intro will tend to take calls or meetings eve
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by eappleby 10y ago
Thanks! The LinkExchange model is actually pretty different, but I hear that a lot. LinkExchange, and other webrings, automatically connected sites and had them all link to one another. The main benefit of those exchanges (particularly in t
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by eappleby 10y ago
I started https://www.pubexchange.com in 2013 and have been running it solo ever since. PubExchange is a platform that helps publishers establish traffic exchanges with other sites (similar to a social network) so that they can
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by eappleby 11y ago
FYI - when I tried Google Domains, I ran into a lot of issues with their naked domain forwarding (i.e. if someone goes to example.com/123, it would not forward to www.example.com/123). I don't know if that has since been fixe
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by eappleby 11y ago
They are tracking the clicks on the link. You can see it here: http://www.capsulink.com/6aX7rv+
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by eappleby 12y ago
Truth #10: nothing is truly random.
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by eappleby 12y ago
Made a change to my welcome email based on this post. Thanks!
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by eappleby 12y ago
Bitly has confirmed that this issue is resolved: https://twitter.com/Bitly/status/526012694835757057
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by eappleby 12y ago
I am the founder and sole operator of PubExchange, a platform that helps publishers manage their link exchanges. It is currently powering billions of links per month.
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by eappleby 12y ago
This launched last November. Haven't heard much news about since though. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-helpouts-...
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by eappleby 12y ago
Shutterstock didn't take any funding for I believe 8 years (and when they did it was at a huge valuation) and then this year they IPO'd for >$1B. Jon Oringer, the CEO of Shutterstock, is a big fan of bootstrapping. http:&#x2F
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by eappleby 12y ago
I signed up, but I don't think I will implement it on my site. I currently use PureChat, which is also free, and they provide a very professional looking chat box that is easily customizable. With Nice Chat, I didn't see any templ
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by eappleby 13y ago
That is definitely the holy grail. Personalization + editorial voice. You would think that an implementation like what you've described would require a site editor to make multiple suggestions and then there would be some algorithm t
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by eappleby 13y ago
It is up to your own interpretation, but my intention was more the former. If all 89 voices say the same thing, then not only do those voices lose some credibility and a key opportunity to share their opinion, but the users lose the divers
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by eappleby 13y ago
It would be interesting to know how many domains a user visits per day. My guess is that it would be somewhere in the vicinity of 40 which would represent the sites that user bestows the most trust to.
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Should the web be personalized?(blog.pubexchange.com)
12 points by eappleby 13y ago|9 comments
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by eappleby 13y ago
In the video for Walker and Company (owner of Bevel), it says that the company's mission is to make health and beauty simple for people of color. http://walkerandcompany.com/