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by garply 16y ago
Paul, this would be a great opportunity for you to plug Arc, an increasingly active Anarki ( http://github.com/nex3/arc ), and the growing Arc community ( http://arclanguage.org/forum ).
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by garply 16y ago
I run a business in China. To run a business targeting Chinese consumers, you need to be based inside China. I often see people ask American-based startups: "Why don't you offer Chinese support and try to grab the Chinese market?" It's real
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by garply 16y ago
I don't really want to hear the arguments, but I'd be interested in the demographics. I think you should convert this to a poll.
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by garply 16y ago
Posts like this make me miss the Midwest. One of the things I disliked about living in California was how health conscious everyone was. People at Stanford used to look at me in what appeared to be horror when I described my eating habits a
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by garply 16y ago
spawn, for self-evident reasons
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by garply 16y ago
I drink a moderate amount of alcohol to ward off insomnia. I guess this wouldn't work if I had chronic problems sleeping, but I find sipping a sweet nightcap or maybe a glass of wine while reading a book or watching TV helps push me over th
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by garply 16y ago
I can handle $1k / month, I just prefer not to. I go out for coffee periodically, which would bring that number up, but that's usually business-related. I can legally bill in RMB. $2500 sounds really high for visa and entry /exit expenses,
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by garply 16y ago
Beijing, China I live off about $400 / month, with $220 in rent (I split a relatively centrally-located apartment with a Western-style bathroom with my girlfriend). Most of the rest of the money goes to ordering / eating out, at about $1.50
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by garply 16y ago
The goal of reaching an amount of revenue instead of profit makes me think: "Buy 20 million dollars worth of products and sell them for half-price."
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by garply 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo is unsurprisingly blocked.
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by garply 16y ago
No, it did not.
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by garply 16y ago
As a Westerner intimately familiar with China (live and work here, Master's in Chinese), I find Chinese foreign policy exceptionally rational, if Machiavellian (for examples, I would point to their behavior towards North Korea and their cur
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by garply 16y ago
What is the sales cycle like? Do you take on more than one client at a time? If so, on average, how many? Are you looking for new gigs even while in the midst of implementing something for a given client? Should my blog be about tech-relate
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by garply 16y ago
Even for non-commodities, customer contact information can be invaluable. Often would-be repeat customers just forget you exist, but if reminded about you they would happily continue to buy. The same reasoning for websites periodically send
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by garply 16y ago
Can you give a rough percentage of people who respond to you from CL? I've only recently started hunting for gigs via CL. I've picked 3 and responded (I took time to write what I thought was a good, carefully-worded response) within 24 hour
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by garply 16y ago
I meant as a percentage of the profit I would be making from the ad.
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by garply 16y ago
You're right, I didn't get a ton of responses. Still, the responses I did get were overwhelmingly pro-Groupon. As someone seeking an answer to an important question, my takeaway was "Hm, HN thinks it's a good idea." Honestly, I'm still on t
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by garply 16y ago
I'm a physical goods retailer and I'd like to point out a bit of group-think on HN's part. 3 months ago, I asked you guys if I should use a Groupon clone ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490096 ) and I got overwhelmingly positive resp
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by garply 16y ago
Groupon takes a far larger cut than the local newspaper would.
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by garply 16y ago
I live in China and I have several friends in the clothing business. If you'll give me your email I can probably get you connected.
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by garply 16y ago
20k USD and living costs of 400 USD per month. Also, very marketable skills: Teaching English in China can get you that 400 USD rather quickly. Also, if you can do basic web development, you're pretty marketable (this pays relatively better
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by garply 16y ago
I live in China and am on China Unicom. Not experiencing this now. This happened to me ONCE (one page view on a very familiar site, might have been HN) about half a year ago and I was shocked. But I couldn't repeat it so I just shrugged it
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by garply 16y ago
I own a retail business and I'm surprised you left out rent in your list of overhead costs. You can start in a crap location and gradually build up a loyal customer base. That's cheap and can eventually be lucrative if you're really good a
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by garply 16y ago
Local bank, pay monthly in cash (China is a cash economy).
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by garply 16y ago
Watching the evolution of Groupon clones in China has been very fascinating. First, there was an explosion of sites just like Groupon and a market leader (Meituan) pulled ahead. Just as Meituan really started to clean up, all the major soci
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by garply 16y ago
Speaking as an American who left Silicon Valley to go bootstrap a "lifestyle" business somewhere cheaper, I think the US is really over-rated. It's expensive to live and work in the US, especially the Bay Area, and you can still target Amer
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by garply 16y ago
I hesitated when writing "grow-fast-and-flip", but went ahead because ultimately owners of large funded companies tend to sell a large percentage of their company to the general public via an IPO. But you're right, characterizing an IPO as
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by garply 16y ago
After listening to DHH speak at Startup School a few years ago I came to the conclusion that for an entrepreneur a "lifestyle business" is a much more probable path to getting rich than the grow-fast-and-flip approach demanded by VCs and an
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by garply 16y ago
I really don't move my tongue when I say these in a row. Is this because I'm speaking with a Beijing accent? Apparently what's coming out for me is: ʂ̺ɻ̩. Or should that combination also force me to move my tongue? When I lay off the accen
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by garply 16y ago
Ironically, when pronouncing this you don't move your tongue at all.

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