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by garply 18y ago
Really? The notion that this many ( http://www.statsaholic.com/twitter.com ) eyeballs a day (with a lot of those people being early adopters) is worth $100 / month strikes me as completely incredulous. I personally would pay well over $100
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by garply 18y ago
Whenever I see a webapp that's popular and has no ads, I can't help but wonder why. Sure, maybe they have a non-ad-based business model further down the pipeline, but what do they lose by putting up some ads? I doubt that they would lose m
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by garply 18y ago
To me the valley seems like a good place to grow if you're already profitable and can't find enough talent in whatever location you started. For a business with a few guys doing product development in an apartment and counting every penny,
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by garply 18y ago
The guy in the video makes a point about external funding: a lot of well-known, large tech companies accepted money only after they were already profitable and did so in order to expand. That seems really sane to me - capital seems like a m
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by garply 18y ago
People smoke very different amounts, so at what amount do you cap consumption? Imagine the same scenario being carried out for alcohol. You might drink a couple beers a month, but Joe the Drinker might max out his beer quota every day and s
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by garply 18y ago
Why should a marijuana consumer be logged in a central database? Stores are required to do ID checks, but there is no database for alcohol or tobacco consumers.
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by garply 18y ago
Hasn't the primary business model of media companies (newspapers, radio, TV, etc) been advertising since the rise of widely circulating newspapers? That apparent historical trend makes me suspicious of claims that the ad-based model won't b
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by garply 18y ago
When I dug into this when I was setting up, my understanding was that, in Delaware, there is established case law dealing with multiple shareholders that investors really like. But in Nevada, privacy laws are supposedly stronger (I believe
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by garply 18y ago
I really liked Cuil's old layout, and I like the new one even more. But the poor relevancy of search results prevents me from using them.
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by garply 18y ago
Delaware if you want to take external investment or are looking for an IPO. Nevada if you're self-funded.
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by garply 18y ago
Thanks a lot for the very informative legal info. Looks like I have more digging to do. "Most people reading this would not be happy at all living off of $400 per month, that's noodles for lunch every day." I did say I was talking about ram
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by garply 18y ago
I've lived off of these numbers in BJ before, by splitting a 2 bedroom apartment and rarely buying anything beyond essentials. Aside from the pollution, I felt that my quality of life actually went up compared to living in the states becaus
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by garply 18y ago
This is exactly my experience as well. I'm interested in hacking and making money - I have no interest in mucking about with a few hot-button political issues that, frankly, aren't any of my business. So, easily-circumvented firewall aside,
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by garply 18y ago
You can target wealthy families, build relationships so that you get recommended to their friends, and market yourself as an upscale tutor. Re: firewall, I haven't found it to be particularly problematic. Just set up a server in the US and
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by garply 18y ago
If you're seeking tech employees, Beijing is probably the easiest place to find them. It's China's tech hub - the best universities are there. Google and MS, for example, locate their headquarters right next to Tsinghua University (China'
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by garply 18y ago
I'm a US citizen in the SF bay area, bootstrapping a web company by myself, and I'm heading out to Beijing this summer. PG talks a lot about reaching 'ramen profitability' and there's no easier place to hit that than China. It's going to c
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by garply 18y ago
I don't get it.
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by garply 18y ago
I find privacy important because I do things which a sizable portion of society might find distasteful, but which I do not find distasteful. I value my ability to do those things without incurring the ire of other people.
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by garply 18y ago
Thanks for responding to this. It seems I don't have permission to view this note (probably due to a change in networks on my side) and I believe the incident was a few months ago, so I may not have perfect recollection of the note. I hope
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by garply 18y ago
APIs aside, I'm really struck by the lack of professionalism on behalf of the Facebook employee the author mentioned. I'm friends with several Facebook employees and several times I've seen this type of behavior (mostly through notes that t
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by garply 18y ago
I don't understand this part of the argument: "Here's the problem: As a matter of simple arithmetic, total spending in the economy is necessarily equal to total income (every sale is also a purchase, and vice versa). So if people decide to