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by ericabiz 14y ago
Truthfully, as another startup founder, I think now was a great time to post it. I grew my last business to an awesome success. And one of my regrets, looking back, is that I didn't blog more about the process of getting it there. About
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"Where does all the money go to?" Pensions: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-19/university-of-cali... (That's one article about one university system, but most others face similar issues.) I've said it before and I'll say it again:
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Care to explain? You don't have a clear strategy for "pro accounts" on your site, you don't have a pricing page--there's no indication that there's even anything for sale on your site.
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I discovered this last year, too, and ended up not setting any goals: http://www.erica.biz/2011/2011-goals/ 2011 was a great year. I met my future spouse, bought an RV, and we went traveling together. It went so well that I didn't set any
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"Do you have any advice for telling when someone is doing this?" Yes. Put simply, learn to read facial cues. (It's easier than you think--much like a programming language, facial cues are a system. So if you are a systems thinker--and I bet
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"Completely aside: is there any good advice for men who want to further the role of women in tech..." As a successful woman in tech, I would say the following: --Note that women tend to underplay their accomplishments and judge themselves m
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"Who is going to end up with my scan data and exploit it in the name of 'targeted marketing?'" I'm not worried about "targeted marketing" so much (heck, Facebook knows way more about the average person than this database would), but more ab
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As a woman in tech, I am dumbfounded by comments like this one. It is equivalent to saying, "Well, yeah, she was raped, but look at what she was wearing . Maybe if she hadn't been wearing that..." Disgusting. I can assure you the sexism do
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(Person you replied to here.) "The rotational UPSes are the cause of the majority of 365 Main's downtime, and in general, horrible and must be destroyed with prejudice." No. Incorrect. There is a reason I 100% refused to move my hosting com
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He's correct or incorrect, and that entirely depends on the facility. Many newer datacenters don't use battery banks--they are expensive to maintain and often cause more failures than they prevent.
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The batteries at colocation facilities are only designed to hold power long enough to transfer to the generator. They're also a huge single point of failure. A better design is a flywheel that generates enough power. But datacenters are oft
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Panda punishes "thin content" pages, so it's unlikely that they are making any money off Google search results. From what I've seen, all but the most common domains don't make much money off of type-in traffic, either. (Sedo, for instance,
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The article quotes a "transportation expert" who says: "'The incentives will be far too small,' he wrote in an e-mail, adding: 'You really do need big disincentives (big sticks). Little carrots won’t do the job of changing drivers’ decision
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The new ASUS Zenbook Prime runs 1920x1080 in 13": http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/asus_zenbook_prime_u... I prefer Windows--I'm going to try this out vs. the new Macbook Pro, but I may indeed pick up the ASUS.
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It's called Pinterest -- 82% female: http://mashable.com/2012/02/28/pinterest-women-marketing/ Perhaps you've heard of it? ;)
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Related (from 2007 but still relevant!): http://www.erica.biz/2007/hitting-the-jackpot-doesnt-mean-in... This does seem to be a consensus amongst successful entrepreneurs.
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Am I missing something? From the article: "At home, where money is tight , his family has two laptops, an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii, and he has his own phone." (emphasis mine) This is a family "where money is tight"?! Whatever point the
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by ericabiz 14y ago
FYI, we run an app that used to use Highcharts too, but we discovered flot and never looked back: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Wanted to share in case that's useful to you, too! (In particular, it will come in handy if you ever need to
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Google Apps for Business (a paid solution) offers phone support: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/upgrade.html#utm... Since they were using their own domain name, that's likely what they were on.
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Same story; different company: http://www.erica.biz/2009/common-mistake-in-business/ It is amazing how even fairly technically-savvy people get sucked into the "RAID=backup" mentality. This story (in the above link) ended up costing the b
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> The idea behind reCAPTCHA is that it occasionally throws in a word (or street sign, or occasional fragment of total garbage) that it doesn't know. Yes, but you don't have to input those. Try it for yourself and see. (I never input t
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Agreed. I lived in the Bay Area for 10 years and while it's nice there, there are other places that are equally nice without the hassle of having to pay so much in rent. Think of it this way: Even if you cash out rather nicely from a startu
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I hit this issue when I owned a .us site. After my site started making money, I arranged to buy the .com. When I made the switch, I did everything by the book (my background is in SEO) including properly 301 redirecting the .us to the .com
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I cannot overstate how important this is. My dad really helped me out as a young girl. He taught me how to invest in the stock market. (I still own stock I purchased as a kid with my own money.) My parents bought (or helped me borrow from t
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"That being said, her (realkatie's) inability to handle those jokes also represents a complete lack of social skills." It never ceases to amaze me that someone can make a flip judgment about a person (even throw them under the bus!) after s
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1) Buy a more modern computer with Windows 7, etc. 2) Set up a virtual machine with Windows 3.1 on it to run the bandsaw controller. 3) Now you can get any modern browser, still have the bandsaw software running, and not have to deal with m
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Hi, I have no idea if you are a woman or a man, but as a woman in tech, I feel compelled to reply. I appreciated this story. Not so much the comments attached to it on HN, but the story itself. If it got some guys thinking about how they wo
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Why You Should Talk To Investors (Even If You’re Not Raising Money)(erica.biz)
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The X200s has a 1440x900 screen. Well worth the extra $. Still waiting for Lenovo to release a new model with a comparable or better screen (it's been 3 years...really disappointed in them at this point.) I'm still using my X200s on a daily
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I'm looking at it right now and it has both the rounded-bottom keys and the contoured keys (there's a "divot" in each key where your finger can sit comfortably.)

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