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by il 16y ago
Sure: Here are some numbers based on affiliate network stats, from the affiliate side: Amateur Match conversion rate is between 14-22%, paying out an average EPC between $0.70-$1.07. If they can afford to pay more than $1 per click and stil
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by il 16y ago
Make it an adult dating site...it has the makings of a strong brand. The significant type-in traffic will help get over the network effect issues that plague most dating sites, and your traffic is very targeted- people looking for sex(or at
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by il 16y ago
You got it. As an advertiser/agency, US traffic is worth significantly more to me than international traffic, and I'm willing to pay a premium for it. Facebook growth in the US is slowing, and international traffic is not doing well. In som
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by il 16y ago
They actually have been doing this for some time with Smart Pricing. It wasn't working too well.
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by il 16y ago
People build apps because it's easy. If you're a half decent developer building an app, you _can't fail_ and that is huge. Getting people to actually pay you for something is hard and fraught with uncertainty and danger. No wonder most peop
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by il 16y ago
With the exception of the US, don't they?
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by il 16y ago
I'm not sure I should disclose which startups have approached me for this. But, trust me, this happens rather often.
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by il 16y ago
I strongly disagree. I think marketing skills are incredibly in demand in an early stage startup, even more so than technical skills! Look at this recent HN post and what people would want to read about most: http://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by il 16y ago
Thanks for sharing your numbers, they are refreshingly honest. I wonder if conversion rate from free to paid accounts is similar in other industries. If so, the numbers are quite sobering. If even a successful, highly targeted and well mark
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by il 16y ago
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but real marketing is user acquisition. Contacting blogs is PR and it has very little to do with marketing(maybe with the exception of positioning). If your marketing strategy is to contact blogs and tweet, you don
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by il 16y ago
Keep in mind that, except for niche sites, purely ad-supported isn't really a viable business model. Even Facebook, which can attract brand advertisers who are willing to pay a premium, is generating less than $2/year per active user in rev
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by il 16y ago
A 5-20x multiple of your monthly revenue is a good place to start.
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by il 16y ago
If your email is in that list, expect it to get spammed heavily in the coming days. While it's nice of random social whatever startup hint.io to warn people that their password is compromised, linking to their landing page multiple times in
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by il 16y ago
This is HN on Sundays....
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by il 16y ago
So, to sum up: To get into YC and be successful in Silicon Valley, I have to have gone to Stanford, worked at Google and be building a social app? pg, say it ain't so! Are people like me who went to state school, never had a real job and ar
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by il 16y ago
Check lowendbox.com
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by il 16y ago
You seem to be conflating driving traffic and monetizing. I mostly talk about paying money to sites like Google to drive traffic. You can only do this effectively if you are selling something. Unless you have a Bing-size budget, it's near i
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by il 16y ago
The secure/payments stuff probably happens on totally different servers.
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https://www.paypal.com/ still works, all they're doing is hammering the front page, any transactions over SSL should still work fine.
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by il 16y ago
Nice to see a fellow UW-Madison alum on HN. Do you think being based in Wisconsin hurt your chances of success? I recently moved from Madison to San Francisco, and the difference in the startup scene is tremendous.
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by il 16y ago
Well, for one, Assange is not only being charged with the obscure Swedish law of "sex by surprise", which is having sex without a condom, but also with rape.
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by il 16y ago
I would strongly urge you to reconsider your approach and get a technical cofounder. I've seen countless startups founded by nontechnical people outsourcing everything stumble because crucial technical and architecture decisions were made
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by il 16y ago
Yes, definitely, especially if you 1. can scale up and down quickly like cloud hosting and 2. make extracting text from a large set of pages as easy as writing a regular expression. Shoot me an email, I would love to talk about this further
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by il 16y ago
Do you have any concrete evidence why using a service like LegalZoom is so bad? It seem like all they do is fill out some standard forms for you and issue boilerplate paperwork. What value would an attorney offer beyond this? I've started a
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by il 16y ago
Opt-in email marketing provides the highest ROI and conversion rate of any online marketing method. Twitter and Facebook may be cool, but the guys sending emails to their lists control the message and are the ones making the big bucks.
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Lessons learned after 21 weeks at a startup(jasonshen.com)
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How Andrew Warner built an email list of 23 million subscribers(startupfreedom.com)
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by il 16y ago
The "insurance" torrent contains all of the (unredacted) cables and other damaging information in encrypted form. If Wikileaks can't keep their site up, they just might release the password.
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by il 16y ago
What's the advantage of this over using the many HTTP parsing libraries available? Can I only extract data from 1 URL at a time?
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Anyone interested in a job specifically defined as "driving a lot of traffic right now" is going to be an affiliate marketing / black hat seo / marketing douche who will not add value to your business. Now that's just mean. It's very poss

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