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by ig1 13y ago
Companies with large advertising costs is probably a larger group than you think. Many businesses with high customer lifetime value spread over a prolonged period (SaaS, Gaming, etc) have the problem that they need to spend the money on cus
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by ig1 13y ago
It's hard to tell what your startup is from your description, but it sounds as if you're some kind of content/event play in niche markets. It's very hard to raise VC money if your business will only scale with number of
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by ig1 13y ago
There's data organizations like https://discover.amee.com/ who specialize in this space.
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by ig1 13y ago
You could try the Common Crawl ?
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by ig1 13y ago
IIRC You can with the consent of the FS(C)A
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by ig1 13y ago
I don't know about US law, but in Europe if you're a financial institution and you suspect a customer transaction is involved in money laundering or a similar it's a criminal offence to inform the customer without first clear
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by ig1 13y ago
It sounds like you build estimation models by looking at the data you have and combining it together to try and figure out your goal. The disadvantage with that approach you often end up missing factors (because you don't have the data
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by ig1 13y ago
The underlying data might be different but the process is the same, you need to figure out what are the contributing factors, how they relate and establish an upper and lower bounds for the values you're assuming. Once you have data yo
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by ig1 13y ago
If it's something that impacts conversions then it's a business case (and something that's clearly measurable), but the fact that it annoys you personally is more-or-less irrelevant.
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by ig1 13y ago
Makes sense, most companies only care about university grades for first jobs (because there's very little else to distinguish candidates at the stage).
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by ig1 13y ago
I'm not sure where you've worked, but doing resource estimation for projects has been pretty important for most greenfield projects I've worked on. It's also good for sanity testing, it's a useful skill to be able t
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by ig1 13y ago
Actually they say they're giving less weight to them (historically Google has weighted them very heavily) which is significantly different from "test scores are worthless".
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by ig1 13y ago
Stop. Being personally annoyed isn't a business case. Before you spend a lot of time evaluating alternatives and migrating spend sometime analyzing what impact it will have to your business (conversions, etc) before deciding what to do
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by ig1 13y ago
You're vastly over-estimating the amount of traffic that being on the front page of TC brings you, generally we're talking about <10k direct visitors over a few hours. (although if other outlets pick it up as a result of TC cov
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by ig1 13y ago
Bitcoin is the opposite of anonymous, every transaction is available in the public ledger. You can build anonymity on top of it by using throw away accounts, but it's not an inherent part of the system.
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by ig1 13y ago
The Pembury is very well known in the geek/dev/startup/board gaming community, most of the people who drink there are geeks of one variety or another.
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by ig1 13y ago
Don't touch it. VCs are super-connected people, if you're at all connected with the startup world you should be able to get organic introductions through your network. If you're not at all connected then one option might be t
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by ig1 13y ago
If you want to go into more statistical type of roles in the future (data science, analytical marketing, etc.) than they're very useful. Outside of that they're of less use.
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by ig1 13y ago
As they point out in the email "We also advise to run a full virus scan on your computer to ensure there is no mal-ware installed, as this is one of the more common ways this type of information is compromised"
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by ig1 13y ago
There is such a law: http://export.gov/safeharbor/eu/eg_main_018365.asp US companies that want to hold EU data in the US have to guarantee the same level of protection the EU provides.
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by ig1 13y ago
You could definitely argue that Heathrow isn't the best airport, but it's clearly the biggest by passenger numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in... (CDG might be bigger for non
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by ig1 13y ago
Well hypothetically say he wanted to go to Iceland, you can't fly from HK to Iceland so you'd have to change in Europe. The obvious route is changing via London Heathrow, this stops him doing that.
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by ig1 13y ago
I'm not sure it's actually a bad thing. Realistically if he was in the UK he'd face extradition to the US. The home office putting out this alert means they won't have to do that. The US would be happy for Snowden to ent
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by ig1 13y ago
Stop caring about what other people think is meaningful and think about what you find meaningful. If you don't think you're adding value then it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, go and do something better with your lif
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by ig1 13y ago
While it makes sense for US carriers to want immunity from civil lawsuit, I'm not sure that would make sense for Google, Microsoft, et al - as obviously any US guarantee wouldn't protect them from civil lawsuits in other countries
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by ig1 13y ago
The question has to be asked, were there members of congress or the executive who were aware of the perjury but failed to take any action about it ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Because it's too small for them to care about.
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by ig1 13y ago
Except that theory doesn't explain the public statements either. Google has specifically denied having a drop box facility: "We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or vi
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by ig1 13y ago
Generally such businesses get sold directly by the owner approaching interested parties (companies in the same space, competitors, etc.). If they end up on a public market it generally means that no-one in that space was interested in it, w
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by ig1 13y ago
If you're a lovefilm subscriber go to one of the movie pages and look at the network requests (you can do it with chrome inspector), it used to be the case all the information was encoded in the calls to Doubleclick.

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