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by ericabiz 10y ago
Investors love to spout this stuff. Unfortunately, it really isn't true (even though as a founder who generally prefers to bootstrap, I wish it was.) FTA: > If the cost of customer acquisition (CAC) is greater than the lifetime valu
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Just like Shake Shack is "scamming" people by selling an $8 burger when McDonald's sells a burger for 99 cents. What scammers! (sarcasm)
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If you are in the United States, check Sam's Club. I was just there a couple days ago and they had several 1366x768 laptops--made by HP, if I recall correctly.
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by ericabiz 10y ago
How about a "trending" page that shows users who have gained the most karma in the past x days or months? Here, I would say I prefer comment karma instead of article submission karma, as I don't care who submitted the story a
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by ericabiz 10y ago
You have to put yourself in the shoes of the poor or homeless person who walks through the door of our repair shop. They don't have enough money to buy a computer. So their entire life is on that phone: photos, contacts, documents, ema
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by ericabiz 10y ago
iPhones are VERY repairable. Source: I run a repair shop and iPhones are most of our business. You want to talk about phones that are not repairable? Let's talk about ANY HTC phone. They're total crap to repair. The worst, though,
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by ericabiz 11y ago
We don't, but the gas tax here is per gallon, so less fuel-efficient cars pay more in taxes. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to deter SUV drivers, since gas here is so cheap to begin with.
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by ericabiz 11y ago
> employers allowing friends Your sentiment is there, but I find this choice of words a bit bizarre. Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator.
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by ericabiz 11y ago
The vast majority of colleges lose money on college sports. And when I say "money", I mean millions of dollars that come directly out of students' pockets in higher fees. Here are the numbers: http://www.al.com&#x2
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Not indestructible at all--I run a repair shop, and 6/6+ are the most common phones we repair. The bigger the screen, the easier it is to break, in general. You may have gotten lucky, or you may have a good case on it (a good case and
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by ericabiz 11y ago
They're not, but I can see his point. VCs often look for an educational pedigree when deciding who to fund. Here is a great example: http://recode.net/2015/12/03/venerated-vc-michael-moritz-ope... He&#x2
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by ericabiz 11y ago
If you like MST3K, definitely check out the Master Pancake series at the Alamo Drafthouse - https://drafthouse.com/austin/series/master-pancake . To be honest, it's one of my favorite things about living in A
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Southwest Airlines has one that gets you Rapid Rewards points for registering a credit card and eating at certain places: https://www.rapidrewardsdining.com/ I registered, because why not, but most of the restaurants in it
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by ericabiz 11y ago
We are setting up a trailer at 7th & Red River for SXSW doing cell phone repairs and selling external batteries, cables, chargers and cases. Why it is awesome: I have done a lot of things as an entrepreneur, but I've never street h
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Yep. I get what you are saying. A lot of disreputable crap happens in this industry, and it's unfortunate. We have gotten to the point with our distributors where we order in such large quantities that they know us personally--and they
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Many of the replacement screens available on the market are from iPhones where the top layer of glass broke, but the LCD is still intact. These broken screens get purchased from screen replacement stores and sent to China, where factories c
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by ericabiz 11y ago
I haven't seen the precise wording of the agreement, but I have talked to multiple "authorized repair center" owners, and my understanding is that they can only replace batteries on iPhones, and even then they must submit the
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by ericabiz 11y ago
The only "authorized service provider" for iPhone screen and home button issues is the Apple Store. Apple doesn't license or sell parts to anyone else for iPhone screen repairs. If you get your home button repaired by a third
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by ericabiz 11y ago
> Apple does have licensed third party repairers. This is a common misconception. Apple DOES license repair shops for Mac repairs. However, those licensed shops cannot do iPhone screen repairs, per their agreement with Apple. Apple doesn
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by ericabiz 11y ago
You are correct that Apple does not sell parts--and thus "genuine OEM parts" do not exist outside of an Apple store. That being said, most highly-rated third-party repair shops use high-quality screens that are pretty much indisti
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by ericabiz 11y ago
The part cost wholesale (ordering 100+ of them at a time) is $74-$78 currently for a high quality LCD+digitizer for an iPhone 6. Note that Apple doesn't sell parts directly, and any third-party repair store that says differently is lyi
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Next time, take it to a third-party repair shop. (Check reviews and ratings before you go to one!) Usually, they can bend the frame out. Should save you a lot of money over a replacement from Apple. (Note: I co-own a repair shop and we do t
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Sorry for the late response--I just now saw this. We've fixed thousands of screens at this point--we'd have an angry mob if screen replacements caused the issue! Yes, we have had people come back with Error 53; that's how we
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by ericabiz 11y ago
> Curious how other people are dealing with it? I moved to Austin after 10 years in the Bay Area. No regrets. Great startup/tech scene, no state income tax, more relaxed life, yummy tacos, and I was able to buy a house in a nice nei
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Facebook (seriously!) For Boulder/Denver, start here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boulderstartups/ For Austin (where I live), start with these three groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups
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by ericabiz 11y ago
This only affects the home button. If you replace the screen and keep your original home button, there is no issue. I co-own a repair shop. We have known about this for a while. We won't replace home buttons for this reason. But we rep
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by ericabiz 11y ago
The guy who wrote this post literally has no idea what he's talking about. He makes two completely faulty assumptions: 1) Only Chinese people buy from Alibaba. I co-own a retail store here in the US and we order a lot of stuff from Ali
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Get with a doctor who has experience dealing with autoimmune issues. Anecdotally, I can say your issues are consistent with Celiac disease. Headaches/migraines, depression and "brain fog" are some of the most common symptoms.
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by ericabiz 11y ago
Counter-point: I co-own a repair shop and we do a ton of phone repairs, including the LG G2. Wholesale cost on the screen for a G2 is $53 right now (not $75), so we do the repair for ~$110. Given the small number of G2's still on the m
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by ericabiz 11y ago
> All three did own their .com domain names from the very beginning. Twitter did not; it started out as twttr: http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/

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