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by imjk 12y ago
For one thing, native ads tend to be more viral oriented versus paid, so they have much lower costs which can be as low as free. It's not so much about the narrow targeting as it is about the engagement. These "advertisements&quot
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This is also very common of people in Massachusetts who live near the NH border. The state run NH liquor stores are significantly cheaper than in MA. They also conveniently place their stores all along the border on major highways. It'
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Not that this takes away anything from this generous philanthropic gesture, but this happens to coincide with Zuckerberg's recent purchase of a large portion of a Hawaiian island that certain reports say cost more than $100MM: http:&#
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If you have any concerns, here's their support page: http://support.qvivo.com/
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Just out of curiosity, are you a student or recent graduate?
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Sorry, how do you watch it at 2x speed on in Chrome?
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The mobile payments space - in its various forms - is extremely competitive. Everyone's gunning for market share right now including Square, Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Apple, Amazon, Google, merchant processors, the major credit
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I read this years ago and thought he had a great premise for a book. I guess it kinda ties into Gladwell's Outliers and David and Goliath, but I still hope he writes more on this topic in the future.
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I think most people who invest in these things take future/potential growth into account. Also, it can be argued that consumer web investments have been working on the greater fool theory for the past decade: http://en.wikip
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Wow, with a quarterly loss of $17MM, and having raised only $100MM, they really NEED this IPO to sustain operations at their current level.
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I think this makes sense for Amazon for two reasons: 1) One of the barriers to entry of live-streaming sites is the expensive hosting costs. With AWS infrastructure, Amazon could potentially have another competitive advantage over other liv
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Though the article only briefly touches on it, the Koreans are far from having a stronghold in the industry. With razor thin margins, the vast majority of these businesses are in perpetually precarious situations. Many of these businesses w
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The Secret World of Fast Fashion(psmag.com)
82 points by imjk 12y ago|32 comments
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They could use the same model as Instacart currently does and charge a premium on the individual products themselves. This is also the same model that online delivery food services (ie Foodler) have successfully employed.
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I may live within 5 minutes of a super market, but it's still a time-consuming (up to one hour to shop) activity that I find inconvenient and have to do very regularly. I would gladly pay a premium (and I do, via Instacart) to have it
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It's a time consuming and often inconvenient thing that almost everyone has to do on a regular basis. Everyone is a large market and if you can find a small percentage of that market willing to employ your services, that's still s
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What city do you live in? Instacart offers one hour Costco deliveries in my city (Boston) right now.
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The VC model is more conducive to the Greater fool theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory . While social psychology and public sentiment certainly plays into the valuation of public companies, being a
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Have you actually used the service before? They have a very good upsell service for order add-ons, a lot of them with fees much greater than the $5. For many sellers, the $5 is just a foot-in-the-door sales method to acquire the customer, m
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And just to add my own personal anecdote, I've had a very good personal experience ordering a design on fiverr. I ordered a logo for just the minimum $5 (FIVE DOLLARS!) knowing full well that I'd have to pay an additional $20 if I
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by imjk 12y ago
I see a trend of Hacker News envy emerging: The news of any startup (other than a Y Combinator company) that raises a large sum of money is derided and accompanied by a series of anecdotes of poor experiences. I think there's so much g
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But how far do you stretch this? The same argument could be made for many types of manual labor and blue-collar work. I would argue even prostitution and selling organs are far apart on the spectrum.
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Who Made That Twitter Bird?(nytimes.com)
1 points by imjk 12y ago|0 comments
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How did you decide on the placement of adds and layout of site? Glad it's doing well for you.
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Where are your costs for labor. Is that all included in your consulting cost? If we as an advertising startup decided to migrate all that internally, I'm sure our costs would go up not only in manpower but also from the distraction of
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That was my first thought too. Uber's having varying affects on medallion prices on different cities. The price of medallions in NYC, for example, have gone up: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-28/
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Look at above comment about f.lux. You don't even need hardware; you can do it with software. But a quick search for such filters already delivers a lot of results: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=sea
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Cool, thanks. That's def the type of insight I was looking for. It's surprising that someone as credentialed as Paul Buchheit has had such "modest" success/returns on his investments. $1.2MM also seems like a very c
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Yeah, it's hard to get a real estate professional to talk frankly about the market. Right now I'm in a market that I think is over priced, but you won't get that sense from any of the realtors here.
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Just out of curiosity, which Boston neighborhood do you live in? I feel like it's such a seller's market in Boston right now, I'll probably wait it out a year before I decide to buy.

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