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   by gopi 15y ago

   I used to hangout with Markus in the old webmasterworld forum. Yes, POF site was a one man show until 2008 but not anymore. The last i heard POF has around 20 employees and generate $30 million revenue!...BTB, POF's initial growth was mainl
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   by gopi 15y ago

   In 2002 i made a SEO'd affiliate site. It took like an hour to make the site but it made me $500k over a year!
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   by gopi 15y ago

   Charismatic people with great oratory skills get elected, its as simple as that! In the south indian state (Tamilnadu) where i grew up most of the chief ministers (governors) are former actors with no college degree. Yet that state is relat
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   by gopi 15y ago

   I am confused why didn't he made an 83b election in 2005?...Was it bad tax advice or youthful laziness or some clever strategy we don't know?
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   by gopi 15y ago

   This is what i call 'Being at the right place at the right time' :)
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   by gopi 15y ago

   Actually there is a demand for high skilled trades. The problem is most of the not so academically gifted kids want to do useless college degrees instead of learning a trade. I think what US need is a german style vocational education syste
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   by gopi 15y ago

   If you need hard data here it is http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Germany/Price-Hist... - Average existing home price is 238k euros ($310k) http://www.census.gov/const/uspriceann.pdf - Average US new home price is $272k Rememb
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   by gopi 15y ago

   Your point look valid until when you compare the price of a typical European house with that of a american house. In most cases the European house is priced more than the american one. So how can you say that a European spends less of his i
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   by gopi 15y ago

   Actually when the top income tax rate was in the 60's in US the capital gain tax was around 25%, so the effective tax rate for the super rich was only 30%. If this authors suggest the capital gain tax should be raised to 83% for the rich th
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    by gopi 15y ago

    Better name than Indextank!
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    In One Slum, Misery, Work, Politics and Hope(nytimes.com)

    1 points by gopi 15y ago|0 comments
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    by gopi 15y ago

    I know Markus from good 'ol webmasterworld days when he was a active affiliate marketer. He is really a bright guy and POF's initial growth was mainly from SEO (until the network effects kicked in). If i remember correctly until a few years
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    by gopi 15y ago

    $20k for hall.com is really really cheap!
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    by gopi 15y ago

    The indian descents in mauritius, carribean and south africa migrated some 200 years ago. Counting them as indian diaspora is the same as counting the brazilians as the portuguese diaspora!
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    Evite Clones Paperless Post(uncrunched.com)

    4 points by gopi 15y ago|0 comments
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    The $50,000 Slum Shack(india.blogs.nytimes.com)

    5 points by gopi 15y ago|2 comments
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    Why Science Majors Change Their Minds(nytimes.com)

    73 points by gopi 15y ago|85 comments
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    by gopi 15y ago

    Yes, India is poor but the reason the infrastructure is bad is mainly because of corruption...Only about 30-40% of the actual funding goes to building it, the rest goes to the pockets of different people from the top level bureaucrat to the
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    by gopi 15y ago

    A un-initialised varible made our script to mail 20 copies of the same email to almost 10k users. One of our mass email script basically breaks the email list in chunks of 500 and emails them. The array variable that hold this 500 email chu
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    TapBuy: Interesting use of Cloud Browser technology(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by gopi 15y ago|0 comments
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    by gopi 15y ago

    I am not sure why many people are upset that this will attract the rich foreigners. Whats wrong with rich people moving in?. Think how much new tax revenue the country will gain if 10000 millionaires move every year
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    How the iPhone Got Tail Fins(steveblank.com)

    6 points by gopi 15y ago|0 comments
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    Cheap power: An overnight revolution(networkworld.com)

    1 points by gopi 15y ago|0 comments
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    by gopi 15y ago

    Instead of creating a c-corp in US and debating how much profit to leave in US just create a US LLC owned by your home country corp. Thus the profit just passes to your home country corp and you will pay tax on it in your home country. Also
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    by gopi 15y ago

    I don't have much experience with mobile, so i am not qualified to answer this
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    by gopi 15y ago

    Okay, Let me try to be a bit more specific :) In the start it was mostly SEO mini sites then its more PPC arbitrage and then when search marketing got tough i started creating sites that depend on word of mouth/viral traffic. At my peak i w
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    by gopi 15y ago

    @freemarketteddy, mine is just a one man shop doing inhouse internet only projects not a consultancy.
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    by gopi 15y ago

    Hmm, people downvote me because i don't want to share the details?
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    by gopi 15y ago

    I like my anonymity so cannot give more details, hope you understand :)
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    by gopi 15y ago

    I am a single founder, made around $10 million in pure profits in the last 8 years from relatively few internet projects/products. The interesting thing is i am not even a professional developer (but can write simple scripts and understand