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by ig1 13y ago
If you're a typical early stage startup with 100 visits a day then you shouldn't be caring about the difference between 4% and 5% - it's not big enough to matter. At that stage you should be testing big changes not little one
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by ig1 13y ago
What can your technology do ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Get a lawyer, delete this post.
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by ig1 13y ago
Look at where the charges were filed, it was Alexandria, VA. A town where the largest employer is the DOD. The vast majority of potential jurors either work directly or indirectly for the government and have security clearance. It's no
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by ig1 13y ago
I had a quick scan, seems pretty readable, you can skip the maths if you can't follow it and still get a sense of the work from the written material.
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by ig1 13y ago
Primarily because iOS is where the money is, iOS customers tend to be middle-class with significant disposable income, hence they're both the group most likely to be interested in health related apps and have the income that makes $100
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by ig1 13y ago
> Neither the verification nor ip address is admissible I suggest you research ACH, banks can and have reversed chargebacks in such cases. Your bank account will be flagged onto the bank (and government) watch-list anyway for making high
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by ig1 13y ago
ACH fraud isn't a new thing, generally if the vendor can show evidence to the bank that the transaction was legitimate (the verification & IP checks are probably sufficient) they can suspend the chargeback. There's also the de
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by ig1 13y ago
It's amazing that this got through, you don't need to be a crypto expert for this to jump out as wrong. Anyone with undergrad number theory or crypto should easily be able to realize that using 1 is crazy.
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by ig1 13y ago
I imagine the bigger issue is that it's a clone of the Electronic Arts game Theme Park.
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by ig1 13y ago
It would probably be an illegal search in violation of diplomatic immunity. (airports aren't allowed to scan diplomatic pouches)
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by ig1 13y ago
BBC Worldwide which is their commercial arm is an independent subsidiary of the BBC.
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by ig1 13y ago
The BBC brand is hugely valuable, letting a commercial site use it (even one owned by the BBC) is clearly promotion.
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by ig1 13y ago
The BBC are prohibited from running certain commercial services (of which BBC.com is one) in the UK due to regulatory requirements. It's not their decision. You could of-course lobby your MP to get it changed, but I imagine there would
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EdTech: Catching on at last(economist.com)
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by ig1 13y ago
If consumerist would publish an article on such a thing because someone on 4chan sent them a screenshot then 4chan is going to take them for a ride in any case...
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by ig1 13y ago
The obvious solution for 4chan would seem to be retargeting because no-one wants to expose themselves to the 4chan audience, but retargeting would mean only targeting those members of 4chan who would be seeing their adverts elsewhere anyway
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by ig1 13y ago
You could easily write a chrome plugin that added that functionality (it'd be 4-5 lines of code) if it's an issue for you.
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by ig1 13y ago
Yes, there's plenty of other options such as PR, virality, social media, SEO, etc. However in general if you're not paying for traffic (in addition to your organic traffic) you're probably leaving money on the table.
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by ig1 13y ago
They're not, they're just getting flooded out by other posts. There's been at least 20 in the last day, but only a tiny percentage (low single digits) ever make it to the front page.
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by ig1 13y ago
People have had their accounts permabanned from HN for less.
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by ig1 13y ago
Before you spend money on marketing I'd recommend spending some time improving your landing page and the sales funnel. The Copy Hackers ebooks are a good place to learn about this stuff: http://copyhackers.com/ I'
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by ig1 13y ago
They need to be good t-shirts though, which means a decent design, good fabric, light-on-dark, well fitting (hint: female attendees have different body shapes to male attendees). All of which can push the expense up quite a bit.
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by ig1 13y ago
That's equally unacceptable, saying "mexicans are lazy" is as bad as saying "hispanics are lazy". It's just xenophobia. The OP wasn't starting a conversation about business practices, they were attempting
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by ig1 13y ago
Flagged. Lets keep xenophobic comments off HN. [Edit: s/racist/xenophobic as per conversation below]
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not typical of the type of business VCs would invest in, but you might be able to find someone interested. The key questions you should think about are: 1) What's the revenue per student you're making (or could reasonabl
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by ig1 13y ago
It doesn't stop things like IP ownership clauses which cover all work you do (including work outside of work hours). It's the reason major open source projects require a waiver from your employer if you're contributing substa
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by ig1 13y ago
Where are you based ? Generally where you're located has a much bigger impact on your earnings and potential clients than your skill-set.
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by ig1 13y ago
Giving someone a real project to do which they get paid for is a really bad idea. If the person is working for another company at the time then they likely have something their contract that specifically stops them doing work for someone el
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by ig1 13y ago
Outsourcing development rarely works if you're building a tech company.

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