iloveyouocean

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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Precisely. Products do not fail because they are converged. A product will fail or succeed based on how well it is able to satisfy users' needs, etc.
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Who do you think will end up buying all the successful run-off companies? Its much easier just to pick the winners than mess around with a ton of investments.
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
I just read you blog entry about classifying things by their rank of importance. Top 10, 100, 1000. An effective way to look at things. Although in asking this question I wasn't giving in to a worry, merely curiousity. I think it is muc
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
For a really excellent, far more comprehensive and much better articulated series of articles pertaining to ratings/rankings, check out www.lifewithalacrity.com Some of the articles include: Using 5 Star Rating Systems, Experimenting with
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
If you are talking to a lawyer, trying to get a feel for whether or not you would like to retain them, should you be worried about them potentially stealing your business idea? If so, is an NDA necessary, and will a lawyer even consider sig
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Should you make a potential lawyer sign an NDA before revealing your idea?
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
An idea to differentiate and make some money: Take the questions that have good and well thought out answers and then figure out which products/services the answers pertain to. Example: What is the best alarm clock? Keyword them and als
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
If you are securing a domain for a mass market application then you MUST get the .com. Even very clever and well known sites such as del.icio.us also own .com (delicious.com). Many people simply type in the 'name' of a site and let their
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Add a way to contact another user directly, not necessarily Personal Message, maybe something along the lines of sending an email address from one user to another privately. The current method seems to be posting your email address in the c
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
So, in the case of the map application in the article, he could allow a user to list 0-5 countries for 'free' then if a user wants to add more countries, they would first have to complete a survey for a travel related business. Alternately
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Networks:Social Networks :: Advertising:Social Advertising ? Networks:Advertising :: Social Networks: Social Advertising? If not social advertising, then what? What would social advertising look like (and I dont think 'viral advertising' i
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Gigaom though is reporting that at the SF event CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: "you can serve ads on your app pages and keep all the revenue, sell them yourselves or use a network, and process transactions within the site, keeping all the reven
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
But there are two categories of ideas: features to release to users, and decisions about how to write/structure code. Of course users are the best people to bounce features off of (although an initial 'partner filter' is often valuable),
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Add a layer of interaction to the process. The default behavior would be to leave the text in images untranslated, but when viewing the translated page there would be an easy way to select specific images for translation. There would also
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
I wonder if a site like this would encourage people to structure their predictions with qualifiers and clauses in such a way as to give them the maximum chance of being proven "correct". Also, I wonder if this site would encourage people t
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
The deal would be in stock, not cash, and so is more a reflection of the value of MySpace to Yahoo, not the value of MySpace to everyone using the dollar as a standard. If MySpace is lined up to be trounced by Facebook, then I would imagin
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
Imagine an article supporting the opposite "Release Early" is more important than "Do it right". Clearly you could find examples to support either view. YC obviously has a comprehensive startup strategy that includes defaults for many sta
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by iloveyouocean 19y ago
There are so many "X Things You MUST Do . . ." and "Y Things NEVER To Do . . ." articles that after having read a substantial number of them I wonder what a presentation based on the sum of all of their advice would look like. "In the nex