jasonmcalacanis

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Launch Hackathon: $50k in prizes/investment, 48 hours(launchhackathon.com)
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Building a better techmeme (launch.co)
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by jasonmcalacanis 14y ago
It's great for 10 folks, but I need a 10,000 person solution. sigh , i guess i need to build it.
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by jasonmcalacanis 14y ago
we tested etherpad, which hackpad is built on (and google docs is) and it's just not super stable if you have 50+ folks on it.
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by jasonmcalacanis 14y ago
doesn't seem to work for this function. I need something really lightweight. i think i might have to build it. If there's a developer out there who wants to work on a live ticker CMS with me please ping me jason AT calacanis.com
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by jasonmcalacanis 14y ago
No, but I do think it's a very cool idea. Downloading the app right now from iTunes.
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Ask HN: What's the best live blogging/etherpad-like service?
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The inside stuff folks are afraid to talk about WRT the Kleiner scandal(youtube.com)
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Answering a troll: will Mahalo return the $21M invested?(quora.com)
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
It was actually an Apple story, so it's really much, much more a TM story than a HN story. also, the last time I had a story on both HN was like 3x TM, so I think that scale is huge. Compete.com is probably off in terms of under reporting--
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
Quick note: According to reports Draw Something from OMGPOP was generating $250,000 in net revenue per day. That's a lot of money.
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
If you're paying your VCs legal fees you're making a mistake. You don't need to do that any more. :-) You can also cap it (i.e. $10k of your legal fees). Fight for this point by saying "you want as much money in the company as possible"). $
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
Thanks for the fact check. When folks raise their angel rounds they have 18 months or runway, so I could see the 6 turning in 20. Which might be 1/3rd. Raising an A-Round is HARD because VCs only do 1.5 deals a year each individually (10 bo
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
Could have made that point more clearly I guess. Zynga, Airbnb, Dropbox and OMGPop all have massive revenue growth. Instagram could have easily had massive revenue, they just--wisely it seems--decided to make filters free. Hipstamatic charg
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
I do say you're not going to be able to charge 10% for a flatpanel TV, but for a Groupon or movie ticket? Well folks already get 10% commissions on those items (i.e. Fandgo or Groupon affiliates). But if not 10% let's just say 2%... it's st
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
My understanding is hotels are actually high margin in the travel space. That's why all the airlines and travel sites ram and jam you into booking a hotel. They make $10-30 per night hotel commission but only $1-5 on a airline ticket. Also,
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Oct 11:I asked Kevin about Facebook stealing Instagram features(youtube.com)
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
I read this an immediately thought 'this is an April 1st joke.' Looks like it's science fiction :-) http://twitter.com/#!/raganwald/status/186940946015993856
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Did a great interview with Naval of AngelList (video)(youtu.be)
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
... and nothing matters today except a hockey stick curve. If you showed up in a thong and pink cutoff shirt and barefoot with a pinterest-like curve any VC would run over their grandmother in the parking lot to fund. VCs only care about on
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
Walked into a meeting with VCs last week with my standard outfit: very expensive shoes, cheap $40 jeans, crisp but simple Brooks Brothers shirt and a decent (but not outrageous) designer blazer. This is my dressed down... no tie, no suit. I
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
someone like Scoble probably put you in a circle and then 3k folks followed that circle.
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Google spreadsheet of education startups (docs.google.com)
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Stanford's Jeff Pfeffer, author of Power, interview(youtube.com)
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Launch Festival breaks $1M in prizes/investments(conference.launch.co)
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We just pushed Launch prizes to $639k (launch.co)
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We flipped our App to free and hit the top 10 in 24 hours (chart)(plus.google.com)
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
I've started using the bar coder in the iphone app to snap the bar codes of the things in our house we use regularly and putting them on auto order or buying them in bulk. The $22 hair gel my wife bought was three for $24 at Amazon. I don't
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
We're going to do that next. Right now we have "courses" which are inapp purchases, but not a portion of the "main course." That's what we will try next: first two chapters free, next five for $1.99.
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by jasonmcalacanis 15y ago
I wonder if you can ride the free push into solid reviews, feedback and a better product that folks will pay .99 for? Clearly "usage" plays some sort of role in rank, so i think it's good to get a large base of users and then be paid. or so

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