itsprofitbaron

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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Undertexter was profiting from simply translating subtitles whereas, Rap Genius falls under fair use because, they're creating a new layer on top of the lyrics.
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
What I mean by this is don't make your selling point about having more features (since a competitor can copy them) but rather create an additional value-add that meets your customers or potential customers needs. SaaS currently tries t
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Your Salesforce example highlights a SaaS replacing Enterprise Software - Salesforce vs. Siebel. Regarding your point about software being sticky like some hardware offerings have been commoditized - software can also suffer this to some ex
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
I wasn't arguing about adding more features (since a competitor can also do that) but rather create an additional value-add that meets your customers or potential customers needs. Whereas SaaS currently tries to say "this is the s
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
I mentioned the uniqueness elements to highlight areas where SaaS services can evolve into from their "solution" service to a "problem" service. I do however agree with you that, you should always try to offer something
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
In regards to the commoditization point & to you examples of Oil, Investment Funds and Pharmaceuticals there has been consolidation within these. For instance, OPEC has effectively brought all the oil-producing nations under one rule so
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The Commoditization Of SaaS(profitbaron.tumblr.com)
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
If you want to build strong domain authority and have the artist profiles take advantage of the positive metrics & ranking ability of the domain then use: domain.com/artist (the sub-domains do not always inherit all of the positive metr
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
I'm glad they've finally moved to Moz.com (I predicted they would do this when Rand started blogging on Moz.com) because apart from when it was an SEO blog, SEOMoz has never really been just about SEO - they're more of a marketing suite (an
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
I understand that EU-citizens get free Masters' education. This is somewhat a side-effect of the EU-wide Bologna process, which promoted everyone's Bachelors degree into a Masters by adding a year's worth more of education and introducing
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Yahoo employees can't keep secrets and are always leaking things to AllThingsD (a sister company to WSJ).
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
They'll use the GA Enterprise version which serves up to 1 Billion "hits processed per month" its £90,000[1]/$150,000[2] as a flat fee per year. [1] http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/analytics/premium/feature... [2] http://www.google.co
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
For instance when two nations go to war it doesn't really matter who wins or loses because, they're both creating debt (the one who loses the war usually ends up with the most debt) in order to fund their conflicts. Likewise, another exampl
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Regarding the last part In the US, when it comes to banking it's really not about logic but about power. which you wanted elaboration on, the OP is essentially referring to the fact that power is king (well one of the kings anyway) and in
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
You are allowed to downvote once you get a certain amount of karma.
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
I always go with advisor over adviser because, I believe that advisor looks "right" as you look at it whereas, adviser looks strange. The statistics back this up as well specifically, the exact global searches in Google which are as follo
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
To address your comment, I respectfully disagree with the majority of it. Especially "attacking you personally" I didn't do that as highlighted by the fact that I clearly stated "this may come across as harsh but, it's useful feedback" Mo
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
In other news, rejected YC applicant[1] calls out PG asking to be a "mole" company[2] which could ruin YC's credibility in the long term with investors and doesn't even make sense - for a startup the OP admits they have been told no one wan
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Friendster was the extreme case because, of the poor management behind the company. For instance, they went through 4 CEO's over a short period of time and they chose to do a full rewrite from Java to PHP instead of trying to scale the serv
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Without knowing what the domain is, I can't comment on its actual worth but considering everything that you have said you should buy it. The reasons are because: - You're already committed to the name - you have a trademark and you say the
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Here's how I see it: Chief Technical Officer = Someone who looks at the market, trends, how their competition or potential competition are evolving their product(s) & trys to anticipate users demand within ~5 years. In other words a CTO
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Nothing has really changed with Instagram since Facebook acquired it, there was the TOS debate but that was overblown . Instagram’s core operation is around being able to quickly take and share photos & adding filters etc and that hasn
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
"why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company?" This happens with the majority of acquisitions that, as soon as they are acquired they see an uptick in signups. The uptick would be more interesting if
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter, Obvious and now Jelly. I don't consider Biz Stone to be a founder of Medium as it operates independently of Obvious. Obvious have invested/incubated Medium, Branch, Jelly, Lift, Beyond Meat, Good Fit and N
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Medium.com is a publishing platform for the sharing of ideas and experiences. It's founded by Evan Williams[1] of Blogger, Twitter etc. [1] https://twitter.com/ev
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Reading your requirements specifically in relation to the procedures using “2 astronauts working outside the space station (called EV1 and EV2), plus a robotics operator inside, and other actions taken by mission control on the ground. All
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
The most skateboarding I've ever done is playing Tony Hawk but this was a really interesting read! Congratulations on finishing and for an awesome achievement - you've confirmed to yourself you can do anything you want when you put your min
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Not as much since the algorithm has evolved. Personally, I'm more interested in a site's Domain Authority[1] (anything over 30 is good) [1] http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Actually your examples: mywhateverblog.com/red-widgets-in-texas/ and mywhateverblog.com/?p=545 isn't comparing keywords in URLs but Static vs. Dynamic URLS - and static URLs e.g. /red-widgets-in-texas/ is NOT better than /?p=545 - Thi
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
bear in mind that Google has acknowledged that keywords in URLs "help a little" Actually, Google released an EMD update[1] in order to fix that issue. [1] https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251784203597910016

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