itsprofitbaron

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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I think you can trust VC firms because they are incentivised to not steal your idea. In fact, they see that many ideas there will probably be 4-5 entrepreneurs pitching them the same idea potentially with the same/slightly different spin
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Your idea is against eBay's Link Policy[1] and eBay actively remove listings (and in some cases limit users ability to sell on eBay) as their Policy states if you link to non-eBay sites where other items are offered for sale. Likewise, addi
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
On a previous Priceonomics blog post[1] in the HN discussion 'startupfounder' suggested that we needed a "Warby Parker for Diamonds"[2] which I disagreed with[3] my disagreement is also relevant with this Priceonomics post because: "Diamon
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
TechCrunch generally disclose when Crunchfund invest (albeit they didn't do so effectively with Orchestra/Mailbox). Having said that I don't feel that they need to disclose that a former founder & now part-time Writer, has an investment
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Michael Arrington is a Limited Partner in SoftTech VC meaning that, he's an investor in the VC firm. He doesn't make the decisions on what they invest in that's down to their team who you can find at: http://softtechvc.com/team/ . In other
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
It depends on the niche as NGO's still provides a large scope. For instance if your NGO's is a non-profit I would immediately go to: http://www.google.com/grants/ and apply for the $10,000 per month Adwords Grant. After that I would start
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I like the idea of a website builder for restaurants because the majority of their websites suck - they're either flash OR they want you to download a PDF. However, there are a lot of competitors in this space such as: http://www.happytabl
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I think it will eventually happen but for now there are still issues to overcome. For instance SSL-encrypted HTTP traffic requires more resources (mainly CPU and memory) on servers, than unencrypted HTTP. Although when Google moved to SSL [
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I believe that this blog post is absurd, disrespectful and insults the entire Dropbox and Orchestra/Mailbox teams as well as, those at Aol/Techcrunch and Crunchfund. Dropbox did not buy Mailbox based on a couple of Techcrunch posts, and the
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Google can't open source Google Reader even if it wanted to because, to make connections and recommendations it used Google's Crawler which is part of the rest of Google's infastructure - something which Google definitely won't open source.
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
First of all, congrats on the launch guys! There are several people within this space and going beyond the fact that, they’ve got a nice generic .com (important for this type of product) which the public can easily remember they actually ha
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I actually like that Referly are 'pivoting' (I really don't like the word ‘pivoting’ mainly because, in terms of startups it’s also been associated to failure but many of them aren’t failures) into a content model ala. Medium etc meaning th
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
First of all, this isn't really surprising considering if you spend any time (more than 20 seconds) on any Freelance sites you'll see that people want something creating for a price that, the majority of people in here will consider ridicul
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Whatsapp grew because it positioned itself as a BBM for All Phones. It was free on its biggest platform (in terms of having to attack) BlackBerry which encouraged people to tell their friends on the iPhone to get it - which they did, and th
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
For your type of service, I would initially limit the locations available to your users (and build your base from these users) and have a signup form for other locations (and open them up as soon as you have enough ‘seed users’). How are yo
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Tom Truscott[1] and Jim Ellis[2] invented Usenet. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Truscott [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ellis_(computing)
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
It appears that the OP is surprised the domain Example.com can't be registered as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have set it as a special use domain[1] alongside several other domains. [1] http://www.iana.org/domains/specia
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
IIRC that quote evolved from Oscar Wilde's: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
You can generate the sentences with something like this: <?php $sentence = "Keep Calm And Carry On"; $replacements = array('Carry' => 'Other', 'Dictionary', 'Words', 'On' => 'A Lot', 'Off', 'Them', 'Us'); echo strtr($sentence, $
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I started making money online at 14 with $0 and I remember thinking then if I could make $100 online that would be amazing – I made it within 3 days of my decision to start making money online through forum boosting (there’s a load of forum
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
PayPal's billing changes take place at the end of the billing period. However, the 20% limit is wrong as PayPal’s own example highlights this further down the page on that link above.
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
You can actually create a button to "modify" subscriptions (allowing them to upgrade/downgrade packages). There are more details here: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/payp...
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I wouldn't bother with the PayPal API because you can simply create a PayPal subscription button within PayPal and integrate PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN) into your database - this is simpler than using PayPal's APIs IMO. Ther
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Personally, I'd use PayPal. However, if you're going to create a SaaS and are using PayPal, I highly recommend that you create a new account for the business (You are allowed 1 Personal and 1 Business account separately with PayPal[1]). T
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
FWIW you can still access the content/guide without signing up - You can click your way to the guide/content which is still possible now. I didn't link out of courtesy since they want to acquire users to gather feedback.
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
The ~$500M number doesn’t consider that 50% of that goes to the merchant leaving ~$250M. After that they have a "team of more than 4,500 employees includes LivingSocial professionals in every city where we offer deals"[1], 19 offices[2] plu
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Yet requiring them to signup to see the guide will help you build a list of potential users for your premium features.
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
I haven't read the content or looked properly at the site but I can see your entire content without even signing up. Since you are eventually going to charge you definitely need require a login for the content.
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Let’s not forget that PG's full-time job is YC whereas Drew's full-time job is as Dropbox CEO. I think the difference is already apparent in that sentence – Drew isn’t a substitute for PG and PG isn’t a substitute for Drew. YC has never bee
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by itsprofitbaron 14y ago
Whilst PG, Jessica, RTM, Trevor, Harj, Kirsty, Paul, Geoff etc and the other members of the team at Y Combinator are there to help founders, the most important thing that YC have created is their alumni network (YC have invested in 400 comp

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