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by imjk 15y ago
The authors cover this twice. Once when they briefly mention soccer, may perhaps, take more prominence among Americans, and much more thoroughly, when they posit that the collapse of football would most benefit basketball, as it would be th
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FB's app is the product of a web-based service that's been transported to the mobile platform, while Path and Instagram are native to and created for mobile. While this is obvious, consider all the functionality that FB already had on the w
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While I agree with the author's conclusion that better integrated "ad" units like StubleUpon's Paid Discovery, and Twitter's Promoted Tweets will become both more prevalent and affective, his premise that contextual ads don't work is just f
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by imjk 15y ago
As mtgentry replied, Craigslist had a huge advantage in being first to market. But now as Craigslist is being supplanted by more niche focused sites, you better believe that good design will be an integral part of those new sites. Refer to
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Maybe it was a test case that they used to spot check the filter.
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There's too much flawed logic in this guy's arguments. The most convincing argument could be made by showing, either via heat map software or eye tracking analysis, that a vast majority of people who arrive at 37 Signals' landing page make
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I agree, the 37 Signals page doesn't disprove the value of the top fold. The argument for content above the fold was never entirely about people not reading below it (even for newspapers). It's about above the first impression you give to
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This means nothing without quantitative evidence. If you've watched the page evolve, you would have noticed that they've varied their length greatly as they've tested for conversions. Not saying they have the greatest page, but many times w
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I remember reading here about the guy applying the 10K Hour Rule to golf as a personal experiment to see if he can hack it as a golfer. Many of you found parallels to your own pursuit of programming proficiency, especially those of you sta
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Investment Banker Quits to Pursue Speed Skating Profession(longtracklongshot.com)
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I usually find a lot of fluff in Guy Kawasaki's rhetoric, but a lot of this content was actually meaningful. For once I think Guy's not so concerned of his reputation as an iconoclast or coming up with an ostensibly unconventional opinion t
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It's not so much that pretty designs don't sell, or that ugly designs sell really well. It's that experienced online and direct marketers understand the crucial elements for a high converting page (i.e. the call to action, the bold headline
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I think you're correct and I still don't think you invalidate Gladwell's point. Remember Gladwell originally proposed his idea on what it takes to become a "genius" to dispel the conventional notion of what it takes to become the Bill Gates
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Is it unreasonable to think that if someone has put in ten thousand hours into a general field such as programming (across various languages, as opposed to just focus on one language) that there are enough general principles to extrapolate
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Thanks. I was wondering who this anonymous other partner was that got to cash out 4X that amount of liquidity that rand would get ($4.75MM v. $1.25MM).
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I think there's an even more subtle implication that pg is too busy (and should be) to code, yet he still CHOOSES to continue to code. Obviously it would be really easy to find someone to do the coding work - whether keeping up with HN or t
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Interesting display of economics at work here. For whatever demographic your product caters to, they seem to be saying their social media interactions are worth more than $2. Considering absolutely none of them took the offer, I'm assumin
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Jumo Acquired for $0, Chris Hughes Saves Face with Graceful Exit(betabeat.com)
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At the same time there are many upsides too. Northern NJ has easy access to NYC without the high cost of living, overhead, and additional city taxes. As the tech scene in NYC continues to grow, I can see some of it spilling over to the othe
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"it’s hard to imagine that today’s tepid consumer and business markets have room to absorb all of the products and services offered by the hundreds of new startups that the incubators are now churning out each year." I think he's overlookin
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While they'll probably continue to acquire customers indefinitely for the near future, the question remains whether, once they've captured adequate market share/some sort of saturation point, they can really improve their customer retention
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I can almost guarantee that number is positive and % Repeat is something they closely monitor and consider in their internal equationss. As any direct response/lead gen marketer knows, customer retention rates/repeat buyer % is a crucial el
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Cool stuff you guys are doing over there at bocoup.
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You don't think that Mark Zuckerberg's "vision" has anything to do with the precedent set by prior entrepreneurs, including Larry and Sergei? Think about the consumer-facing internet companies that existed prior to 1999 when Larry and Serge
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Also, don't forget about the copious amounts of manpower necessary for a proactive customer support team.
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I don't think it had to do with the constitutionality of the issue for the MIT hackers, but more the practical issues that arise from them sharing with the public security loopholes before they were fixed.
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I'm originally from NY and currently running my startup in Boston. I came here for undergrad, and after graduating, I thought hard about whether to run my company from Boston or NYC. I had been running a profitable online business by senior
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Due to the resemblance of your "generic mp3 players" to the iPod Nanos, I'm gonna assume you got a threatening cease and desist letter from Apple.
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Could you elaborate?
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For me, the gym, sleep, and work all tie together literally; when I don't get the exercise I need, I can't sleep as well (or get to bed as early), and hence, my performance suffers the next day.

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