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by ig1 13y ago
The author makes the mistake of taking a single data point (a throwaway comment at that) and generalising from it. If you've got a board member or advisor (be it from a VC or elsewhere) with strong experience, then it's crazy not to talk to
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by ig1 13y ago
WebMD does it: http://symptoms.webmd.com/
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by ig1 13y ago
Google acquired Urchin (became Google Analytics), YouTube, Android and Applied Semantics (AdSense). Ebay acquired Paypal and Stubhub. Twitter acquired Summize (Twitter Search). Apple acquired PA Semi (designed the core chips used in modern
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by ig1 13y ago
With all the talk about Yahoo acquisitions I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone that back in 1998 Yahoo acquired a three-year old Viaweb. With that exit money the Viaweb founders (Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Black
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Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)(news.cnet.com)
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by ig1 13y ago
Database scalability isn't likely to be a major issue, pretty much any major database can handle the volume of data you're likely to need. Security, reliability, consistency and integrity are likely to be much more important. How will your
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by ig1 13y ago
Wordpress.com has 66 million blogs and it's parent company made ~$45m - and I'm guessing a significant chunk of that came from a tiny percentage of power users. Most users just aren't willing to pay for a consumer web product let alone inve
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by ig1 13y ago
He works for a creative PR agency, it's not as if he's going to be hauling steel.
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by ig1 13y ago
There's plenty of people (in every competitive industry from startups to consulting) who work until 11pm everyday without having heart attacks, presumably there were other factors at play here.
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by ig1 13y ago
MSN is dead, Microsoft migrated users over to Skype.
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by ig1 13y ago
I'm amazed at people complaining about the fragmentation of IM clients and how it's going to kill instant messaging. IM has never been unified. In the mid-90s you had the war between AIM and ICQ, then came along the IM clients from MSN, Yah
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by ig1 13y ago
Google the law around "liquid assets" (assets which are easily convertible to money without loss of value). Money laundering laws have been around a long time and tend to be written to encompass a wide range of work arounds that criminals h
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by ig1 13y ago
Facebook do it but it doesn't seem to have any traction: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/21/technology/social/facebook-m...
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It's important to note that regardless of whether bitcoin is a currency or not, the specific question on money transmission was "Does your business accept funds from customers and send the funds based on customers' instructions". This means
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by ig1 13y ago
What's the size of the market ? - assuming it's substantial I wouldn't overly worry about it. But it's important to think about your longer term competitive advantages and how you'll defend them. Your product will naturally evolve as a resu
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by ig1 13y ago
That doesn't change the fact that it's misleading and not the original blog title. HN Policy is to keep original title unless there's a strong reason to change it.
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by ig1 13y ago
Kings Cross has undergone several major overhauls over the last few decades, there's a good chance that the routes have changed.
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by ig1 13y ago
Flagged. The title on HN has been specifically changed from that on the original article "Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion" to make it seem like it's about open access when it's actually about vanity publishing. That's exac
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by ig1 13y ago
Stripe are in closed-beta in the UK, but they've issued plenty of beta accounts. They made an open invite at the London hacker news event a few weeks for anyone who wants to join the beta just to email them, so if you ask they'll probably g
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by ig1 13y ago
Paypal or Stripe
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by ig1 13y ago
Would you be ok if AdBlock sent an identifier to the website so the website could choose to block you if they wanted ?
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by ig1 13y ago
If you try and change a significant amount of currency banks will require you to go through "know-your-client" verification and anti-money laundering checks. I'm assuming Mt Gox didn't do that.
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by ig1 13y ago
A large part of the credentialing value of a degree is that the person was skilled enough to be accepted onto the course, if they make entrance less competitive it will likely significantly reduce the market value of the degree in credentia
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by ig1 13y ago
It seems like your approach would suffer a lot of selection bias and would need to collect a lot of data before it would be useful, hence it'll be hard to bootstrap contributors. I'm not an academic, but wouldn't a better strategy be to do
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by ig1 13y ago
What's the value proposition - i.e. why would someone want to use it, what benefit would they get from it ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Bloomberg's main competitors are Thompson Reuters and News Corporation, both of whom are substantially larger in revenues and market cap than Bloomberg (although you could argue News Corps financial arm is smaller). So it seems unlikely the
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by ig1 13y ago
Exchanges charge their own fees in any case which Bloomberg passes on to the end client with no markup, hence they don't really care about the fact that it goes through Bloomberg (in-fact because Bloomberg make it easy to subscribe to new e
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by ig1 13y ago
Essentially the issue is that the reporters had access to Bloomberg's internal analytics/crm system. Pretty much every single sophisticated SaaS company in the world collects this data (login frequency, etc.) - it's invaluable for sales, su
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Why not do it based on tweets ?
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If YC ever got to the point where it needed donation from alumni to survive it would mean it has failed. That is if it got to the point of no-longer graduating successful companies which generate heaps of money for them, then there would be

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