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by ericabiz 15y ago
Amazon is not currently collecting sales tax in California, so there's no change until Sept. 2012, when it will start collecting sales tax in CA (assuming this goes through.) It's business as usual until then.
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by ericabiz 15y ago
The real selling point of Dropbox, for me, is the ability to just drag and drop files to a folder in Windows and have them be shared. I can also create a subfolder--then I can hit the Dropbox website and type in an email address, and voila,
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by ericabiz 15y ago
It's only cheaper if your time is worth nothing. Digging through pages of upsells takes time. I prefer using a registrar where I don't have to do that. (I use both Namecheap and eNom.)
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by ericabiz 15y ago
My mom is an extreme couponer. And while true that you can get great deals (she once saved over $600 in a single trip), you have to balance that out vs. how much your time is worth. For most of us who are entrepreneurs, an hour would be far
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by ericabiz 15y ago
Anywhere in the US, it's possible, and most likely other countries too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_verification_service "Account current status verification"
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by ericabiz 15y ago
http://ww2.cox.com/aboutus/policies/limitations.cox Full list of Cox's limitations by area. If available in your area, you can get the Premier service, which has a higher transfer cap.
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Last month we had over 40 people attend. Can we top that this time? Let's find out! (Please RSVP by clicking on the link above so we can tell our friendly coffee shop owner exactly how many people are taking over his space Friday night!) Wa
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San Diego: Join us for Hacker News meetup #14 (Fri 2/25)(anyvite.com)
42 points by ericabiz 16y ago|4 comments
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Perhaps part of the problem is both the Valley's and tech news sites' almost-obsessive focus on B2C (vs. B2B) companies. ;)
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Chris, I could not agree more. This seems to happen in the Valley every four or five years. I lived through two of those crazy cycles before finally leaving in 2009 along with a bunch of other people. By 2013, another wave will leave. I als
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Hi, I'm Erica (the author of the article.) I'd say 37signals is probably one of the most common examples on sites like HN. They're the poster child for no funding. Having been in the web hosting industry for 6 years, I can safely say that m
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Silicon Valley is Broken. Should We Even Bother to Fix It?(erica.biz)
85 points by ericabiz 16y ago|44 comments
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by ericabiz 16y ago
No one is suggesting we replace the end of the month meetup.
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by ericabiz 16y ago
YES! Holy farking email spam! I just got back from a lunch meetup. Someone else had added me and I had hundreds of emails. In a related note, Facebook needs to let you edit notifications via the mobile interface. I looked, and couldn't figu
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by ericabiz 16y ago
The lack of energy rings a familiar bell to me. I started feeling tired after I ate several years ago. Actually, not just tired, but wiped out. Exhausted. I tried changing all sorts of things related to my diet, but finally saw a nutritioni
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by ericabiz 16y ago
I had one of the first .biz domains in 2001 and used it to run a 7-figure business. Back then, it was far less accepted than it is now. My blog is doing fine, too (and I get tons of compliments on the domain name!) My point is, it sure didn
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by ericabiz 16y ago
I'm a bit confused by this poll's "in production" wording. I have a SSD in my laptop, but I read "in production" as "in use in the server room" (maybe that's just my background in web hosting coming out.) I'll answer "in production" with th
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Yes, and make sure to notify Google of the 301 from inside their Webmaster Tools site, as well. Also, run a Yahoo Site Explorer search to see who is linking to you, and email all those folks to have them change the links to your new domain.
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Totally disagree! I own a short .biz domain (erica.biz) and have had people mis-speak it when introducing me as "ericabiz.com"...so much so that I put in a backorder on ericabiz.com and when the previous registrant finally let it drop this
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Sure. Of the 26.63% who used IE, here's the version breakdown: 8.0 72.07% 7.0 20.93% 6.0 6.57% There was a fraction of a percent using the IE9 beta, and one person using IE 5.5. :) So it looks like about 1.7% of all traffic to my blog is u
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by ericabiz 16y ago
I run a business blog that is in the Alexa top 10K for US users. It probably leans slightly more techie than average. Most people read it at work. Here are its stats for the past 30 days: Firefox 37.78% IE 26.63% Chrome 18.11% Safari 12.24%
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by ericabiz 16y ago
On the flip side of that, I once interviewed a candidate for a summer internship at my tech company in San Jose. Our first question was "What is your favorite operating system?" The candidate looked confused and replied, "What's an operati
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Here's how I would do it...and I grant that this may be overcomplicated. 1) Set up a script that spools all existing customers into Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) and gives each of them a unique ID 2) Set a similar script to run when a new custom
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by ericabiz 16y ago
It's not necessary to roll your own affiliate software just for privacy reasons. There are plenty of products out there where you buy an owned license, install it on your server, and integrate with it using an API instead of using a third p
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Interesting that there are so few responses. Over at http://blogsetup.com , I set up Post Affiliate Pro with some custom PHP code to integrate it so the commission triggers upon fill out of a form, then goes into a "Pending" state until w
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by ericabiz 16y ago
Strongly agree with this. Also, it's worth noting that many people consider "startup"=creating a consumer-focused company with millions of users (i.e. Twitter; Yelp.) Often the most successful businesses focus on selling a lot to a little.
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by ericabiz 16y ago
"Hatred of women? All women? Not just the ugly ones who screw up your attempts to get with the hot ones?" You know, it honestly didn't occur to me that the title of this article could be construed as misogynous. But your comment...that type
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by ericabiz 16y ago
I ran a managed hosting company (dedicated servers and colo) for 6 years. Because of that, I'm pretty picky about where I host. I currently have my sites at ServInt on 2 VPSes (a Signature VPS for my production sites and an Essential VPS fo
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by ericabiz 16y ago
If you really want to know the hardware specs for a given hosting operation, there are two ways to do it: 1) If large company, find out who their network admin is. Buy this person a beer and/or dinner. 2) If smaller or mid-size company, fi
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by ericabiz 16y ago
That's because Google builds their own servers. Rackable Systems is the company that supplies servers to a lot of the other top sites (disclaimer: no personal connection to Rackable Systems.) Most smaller companies just buy 1U servers and h

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