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by emmett 19y ago
I think this is an idea with a lot of potential. Rather than importing your blog, I'd focus on being the weebly.com of mobile. A couple more notes, from using the product: Deleting an element pops up an incredibly annoying confirm box. Offe
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by emmett 19y ago
And don't forget the $3000 in consulting fees charged for integration!
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by emmett 19y ago
We sold Kiko on eBay for $250k, which is around the neighborhood you'd want. The issue is that for that to work, you need to get a lot of attention. Since you have real revenues, I'd consider going to a boutique investment bank and seeing i
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by emmett 19y ago
$50,000. It was met very early, but the price went from $70k to $250k in the last 2 hours.
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by emmett 19y ago
We sold kiko.com on ebay for $250k. If you can drum up enough coverage, it works quite well. The key is getting coverage - the more people know it's up for sale, the more people will bid.
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by emmett 19y ago
Because it's completely and totally wrong. I work for Justin.tv, so we have our own traffic graphs. And we also have ustream's traffic graphs, because they use QuantCast. And neither of our charts have anything to do with what Alexa says. T
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by emmett 19y ago
I know. Look at all those crazies thinking they'll make money on ads. None of the big boys do that; just look at these recent top tech startups (reading through Alexa): Google MySpace YouTube Blogger fotolog Photobucket Flic
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by emmett 19y ago
I have to agree. There are interesting things to say about App Engine, and this isn't one of them.
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by emmett 19y ago
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php This essay is a required read for anyone thinking about copyright law, and why tricks like this don't actually work.
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by emmett 19y ago
These kinds of comments are unnecessary on HN...we have editors to fix them.
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by emmett 19y ago
I think the most interesting consequence of this idea is the realization that the origin of the idea alters its value. Evidence that an idea is good can come in many forms, but it's rare that external evidence changes your mind unless it co
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by emmett 19y ago
New anti-running legislation introduced in Congress to stop baneful influence on our children. Running causes horrible leg and knee problems, and people die every single year from overdosing and running to exhaustion! Running is a gateway s
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by emmett 19y ago
He means they fund every qualified startup that applies; they have plenty of money. If 100 promising startup teams applied, they'd fund all 100 of them.
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by emmett 19y ago
At least for me, those two were exactly the same thing. If you don't have a prototype, that should be one of the very first steps in your business. If you do, great - you have everything you need to apply.
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by emmett 19y ago
What database are you using?
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by emmett 19y ago
This is the broken window fallacy. Making a "market" in window repairs by smashing windows doesn't create wealth.
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by emmett 19y ago
It sounds like it could be a promising program, but my question is: Why do you have to go to prison to be offered a chance like that?
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by emmett 19y ago
This is the first ValleyWag article I've read that wasn't a complete waste of time.
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by emmett 19y ago
I think that's an awesome idea. I've wanted to do much the same thing. I think putting the money out purely as a bounty will probably work fine, and if it doesn't you can always try something else instead. A few ideas I've had for plugins I
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by emmett 19y ago
Yeah, Google is going to stop making money any day now.
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by emmett 19y ago
I'm currently at the top of your leaderboard after issuing nothing but buy orders for about 5 minutes. I didn't even read the charts. This confirms my opinion that chart reading is nonsense.
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by emmett 19y ago
Hardly excessive. That comment is basically trolling for angry responses.
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by emmett 19y ago
I was putting myself in the mindset of someone looking for a job, and I was extremely disappointed after viewing both awesome snaptalent ads that I could not click "Browse more". I wanted to see all your listings.
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by emmett 19y ago
We do, but it's all in house. Sometimes it reveals very interesting data, often it reveals nothing at all. Don't expect big gains with no work.
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by emmett 19y ago
At Justin.tv, we give really good programmers equity and we pay them good salaries. So if you know any who are risk averse but want to work at a startup, send them our way.
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by emmett 19y ago
That's a graph straight from Ganglia ( http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ ), which is what we use to monitor our servers.
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by emmett 19y ago
Of course the evidence is far from conclusive without more data. But Pound has had terrible performance so far, and based on what data I have nginx is an order of magnitude more efficient.
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Don't use Pound for load balancing(blog.emmettshear.com)
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by emmett 19y ago
Like his critics say - his politics come first, and then the evidence follows. Anyone who thinks averaging brain scans directly leads to information that can be used to set policy is fooling themselves.
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by emmett 19y ago
Because the cost of three 9's of uptime is unacceptably high. Squeezing out that last 3 hours of uptime per year costs far too much. Next question?

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