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by ericabiz 12y ago
Not just in Melbourne, but even here in the US that's a lot! I just pulled up my monthly bill to confirm--my current bill reflects 33 days of service, and is for 3900 gallons. I live in Austin, TX in a single-family home that typically
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by ericabiz 12y ago
Question for the hackathon organizers: Do you want attendees to come in with a completely new concept that they haven't worked on before? And, if it's okay to have worked on it previously, how far along is "too far along&quot
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by ericabiz 12y ago
"As property listing sites go, Airbnb did not produce any true innovation." Strongly disagree. As an Airbnb host (I rent out my master suite on Airbnb), there simply wasn't a site where I could do that before. Craigslist? For
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by ericabiz 12y ago
The choice as defined above makes it seem obvious, but in the show there are some extenuating factors. The $10M belongs to Google in the show (they use different names for companies/people, but the parallels are obvious.) You may also
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Would something like this fix that issue? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chargekey-for-iphone-and-... I backed this on Indiegogo and received it a few weeks ago. It is quite small.
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> Now if this is true, that takes lots of balls... Yep, it really is. Not only have I turned down several huge income opportunities to work on MarketVibe, but I'd also sell just about everything I have to see this product come to ma
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> deep down I know I'll never be as good/desirable as someone with a CS degree. I stopped working to write this comment--that's how important it is to me that you know this is a belief that will only hold you back. I could
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Not what I said.
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The situation described at the tradeshow in this article has also happened to me, repeatedly and consistently. The difference? I AM technical. I just also happen to be a woman. I love the tech industry. I've been in it professionally s
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by ericabiz 13y ago
There have been several articles about this previously, and even a book (I'm probably more aware of this than many HN readers since I follow several food blogs.) Here are some lists of what to buy and not buy: http://lifehac
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> On another note regarding the price: What on earth merits that setup if you get new boxes every 2 years? If your company has revenue and/or funding (we have both), an extra $500-$700/year is nothing if it makes your employees
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by ericabiz 13y ago
My goal as a startup founder is to make life simpler for my employees. I've been running companies for the past 12 years--at first, I was stingy with employee benefits, before I figured out that giving good benefits helped keep employe
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by ericabiz 13y ago
@argumentum: Please feel free to contact me offline; you've met me through Airbnb, so you have my contact info. I'm going to repeat what I said above: "There's not much more I can say that I haven't already said, as
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by ericabiz 13y ago
There's not much more I can say that I haven't already said, as some of the conversations I've had were explicitly off the record. But I can say this, in a generic sense: All of the top accelerators will seek out people they
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Those statements don't conflict. Not surprisingly, the female founders I talked to who felt that YC is a "frat house" did not apply or go to YC.
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> As a founder, with due respect, why you don't do anything about it? There's a difference between "good idea" and "marketable business." As founders, we have to make that distinction. I'd like to see Y
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by ericabiz 13y ago
The straight answer is no. Here's a slightly longer version of the story, in case you're curious: I first met pg at SXSW several years ago, when he was swamped by hungry startup founders. The whole scene was intimidating to me--I
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by ericabiz 13y ago
As a female founder, I think this is a well-thought-out, articulate response, and I appreciate pg stepping up to say something about women in tech. In a similar vein, I'd love to see YC take on one or both of the following: 1) Do at le
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by ericabiz 13y ago
This post is a day old, but I wanted to add this in in case others think that Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) has not been penalized: http://moz.com/blog/widgetbait-gone-wild "We soon ranked for competitive keywords s
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I'm having a difficult time reconciling this article to what I actually read when I read Lean In ...to the point where I don't think the author of this article has actually read the book. It bothered me enough that I bought the K
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by ericabiz 13y ago
It starts with a belief that you can be one of those successful people. That you can do this. If you believe you are lucky, you are more lucky. Here's the study behind that (PDF): http://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com&
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I didn't work full-time when I started there. College student, remember? I didn't have a full-time gig until I dropped out of college in 2001. BigCo refused to bring on part-time workers, so I quit school and interviewed into the
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious as to why people believe that it is 100% up to "luck" that some people are successful and others are not. If it was "luck", wouldn't CEOs be evenly distributed amongst minorities, men, and
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I started out doing desktop support for $15/hour. (I actually think I started out making less, but I'm not sure how much "less" was--perhaps $12/hour? so I quoted the higher number.) $49,500/year was after I
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I never know what to make of these articles. I started out with low pay in Silicon Valley, too; I took a job at a startup in 1999 making $15/hour doing IT desktop support. In 2002 (edit: this was 2002, not 2001), when I quit to do cons
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Good question. I don't have a good ad stats program right now, and I charge a flat rate for banner ads on my site, so the honest answer is...I haven't checked! My ad service provider is going out of business on 12/31, so over
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by ericabiz 13y ago
My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions. I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, an
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Interesting article. Surprised it does not mention DC use in datacenters: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/the-next-big-thing-for-data-cen... AC power supplies on computers are notoriously inefficient and "n
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by ericabiz 13y ago
The GP asked for citations; I picked the first one that came up in a Google search. I'm also privy to the issue, having been involved in the community at the time (as, I'm guessing, was the OP "Dewie", though I don'
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Here: http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/why-steve-p... (Note: I am not the person you replied to; I was also around the Steve Pavlina forums/website at the time, and know several of the &q

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