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by ericabiz 15y ago
Look into how Traffic Travis does this: http://www.traffictravis.com/ They built an email list of hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded free software. The list is a more valuable asset to them than anything else.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Yeah, until your time is so valuable that you'd rather pay your assistant and/or a copywriter to help you with it. That's where I am with my company right now. Even with my copywriting background, my time is valuable enough that I need to h
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Just to add some clout to this one, I'm doing consulting for WP Engine and @patio11 was here for a week in January. Jason, the CEO, is an amazing person to learn from, as he's already had one successful exit, and he builds a team that's the
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Love the concept but hate the name. "iDoneThis" isn't even proper grammar... This is a case where a few hundred dollars on a good domain name would go a long way.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
FWIW, Hipchat's pricing is $2/month/user (so $16 for our 8 people), and Grove's is $25/month for up to 10 people. Not sure where you're getting $50. And yeah, for what we need, it'd take a lot more than an hour to set up. Not to mention exp
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by ericabiz 15y ago
"I already run my own UnrealIRC daemon, on Linode, for $20/mo with however many users it can handle." Then I would argue you're not the target market. I'm a tech company CEO. I have WAY better things to do than set up an IRC server, even th
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Yes, but that dedicated box (even an older/cheaper one) is going to beat the pants of S3's I/O. Apples and oranges.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Your analysis of dedicated servers is somewhat dated. For instance, most higher-end dedicated servers these days come with IPMI. You can use it as a KVM in case you muck something up. It has its own IP address (on a different subnet) and br
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by ericabiz 15y ago
IANAL-Is it possible to set up a class-action lawsuit on this? We, Verizon customers, entered into a 2-year contract agreement. Now, in the middle of that contract, they are changing the agreement. At the least, shouldn't they be forced to
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by ericabiz 15y ago
The problem is, they don't charge for recurring credit card payments. Only one-time . And as someone who's signed a lot of merchant account agreements, there aren't different charges from Visa/MC/Amex for recurring payments vs. one-tim
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Try a Galaxy Nexus. You can easily unlock the bootloader on it and root it. And it doesn't come with all the junk that the other manufacturers install. Ice Cream Sandwich is amazing, too. The phone is really designed and built for geeks lik
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by ericabiz 15y ago
I was using my OG Droid on a regular basis until I got a Galaxy Nexus. I was running the latest Gingerbread and a super-tuned fast kernel from http://www.peteralfonso.com/ on it. When the manufacturers drop the ball, the community jumps o
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Agreed. Thank you for your post! That's basically exactly what the book I recommended says, except she goes into 200+ pages of detail about it (with much supporting evidence.)
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Dude, I run a popular blog. I've had every insult imaginable thrown at me. No offense taken. I tend to answer every question in the same dry, blunt manner. ;)
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Nope, I'm not. I basically really suck at school, and am pretty awesome at computers and making money. That's why I started a startup at age 20 instead of finishing college, then sold it for a nice profit when I was 26. Now I'm on to anothe
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by ericabiz 15y ago
As a girl geek who grew up on Legos, this makes me really, really sad. From the NPR article linked to from the article above: "Lego also consciously aimed for boy customers when it embarked on its stunning turnaround. Boys were easier to se
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by ericabiz 15y ago
I'm really hoping you can get the remaining 3.6.x users to force-upgrade. We still have a couple people using 3.6 on our web app (where some pages won't render properly--we've labeled this 'wontfix' in our system since Firefox 7.0+ renders
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by ericabiz 15y ago
And in my experience, the best math teacher I ever had (Geometry!) was female. Lesson: Don't gender stereotype based on personal experience. Not only is it probably not relevant to others' experience, it's also not helpful.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
I'd really like to see on the homepage which operating systems this works with/has been tested with. They're obviously using some sort of nix in the examples...but does it work with every nix (including Mac OS X)?
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Um, on every Windows machine I've ever seen there's a little sticker with the serial number--or it's imprinted onto the device just like his example.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
I agree with the two posters who've already replied; your strategy didn't work not because cold calling doesn't work in your niche, but because your pitch was mediocre at best. (I also know personally someone who built a big merchant accoun
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by ericabiz 15y ago
> "My office is in Santa Monica and the weather is 70s, sunny, and never too humid. We keep the door and windows open and a cool ocean breeze blows in all day. Silicon Valley has similar weather, so that would be easy" Hate to burst you
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by ericabiz 15y ago
The scariest part of the article: "The researchers found that compared to 1981, children in 1997 spent less time in play and had less free time. They spent [...] 168 percent more time shopping with parents." Wow. We're teaching our children
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by ericabiz 15y ago
I own a popular blog, and Google Analytics shows 3x-4x the unique visitors Compete does. So, while I would say that yes, their stats tend to be inaccurate, that's still an alarming trend for InDinero. (Update: I also compared to my startup'
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Turn Off the Noise and Start Creating (An Entrepreneur's Manifesto)(erica.biz)
11 points by ericabiz 15y ago|1 comments
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Automated way of doing this...Lazarus form recovery is a free plugin that has saved my butt numerous times: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-... Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loljle
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by ericabiz 15y ago
We don't all sit a lot. ;) Personally, I've become a huge fan of standing desks. I have a Biomorph desk with a hand-crank adjustment, and my boyfriend has the GeekDesk (motorized up/down...very cool.) We both LOVE our desks. Added benefits:
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Yes, and there is substantial risk for the American involved too. If listed as an owner, you're the one who gets served if the corporation gets sued in the US. So it's never as easy as "find an American and get paid", unfortunately.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Damn. I really hoped I could help. Unfortunately, those with autoimmune diseases can't donate bone marrow. I do sincerely appreciate this being brought to light here, however. This post can literally save thousands of lives...if we take act
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by ericabiz 15y ago
"Would you even say the BMW and the toyota are in comparable categories?" I would. They both get you from point A to point B. And for most people, that's what matters. You are missing the real point here. Most people aren't making a choice

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