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Refusing revenue - the death of blogrush(income.com)
3 points by jd 18y ago|0 comments
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by jd 18y ago
When you start a new startup it's better to have cash in the bank, so you can estimate how much run way you have left. You don't want to worry about two startups. It's too much.
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by jd 18y ago
Trying to get as much money as you possibly can fits the definition of greed, but that really doesn't matter. You want to get as much money as you can without feeling guilty. There are different ways to determine the worth of a hosting comp
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by jd 18y ago
Building an installer isn't so difficult anymore. NSIS and similar installer builders are really easy to learn and very stable. Windows has many flaws, but the whole install/uninstall system works remarkably well in practice. It's far more
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by jd 18y ago
1. Yes, absolutely. When somebody else makes the same mistakes I do I can see exactly what's wrong. If that person were to explain the same thing I would probably not understand. Or I would understand, but then it wouldn't have a lasting im
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by jd 18y ago
Of course, prevention is better than the cure. No argument there. But no matter what you do, you will still receive some support requests. And I'm curious how quickly people here feel obligated to respond to them. It's quite expensive to re
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by jd 18y ago
No different levels of support: best-effort is the best we can do. This means that sometimes it may take a while for us to get respond to somebody, given that we have to sleep occasionally. I'm mostly curious how other people deal with it.
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Ask HN: how quickly do you answer support emails?
19 points by jd 18y ago|23 comments
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by jd 18y ago
When people believe that a solution to a problem exists, they are much more likely to find a solution. Take for instance http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp Hypothetically: what if Eliezer never ran the experiments? What
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by jd 18y ago
$25 million is a lot of money, but so is $1 million in funding. Most web 2.0 companies need no more than $100k or so to get to profitability, and can easily exit at $2.5 million. Same ratio, but it sounds a lot more achievable. So the only
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by jd 18y ago
That is great, but it doesn't work well for teams. Paper also attracts coffee stains, so you tend to write a new list every other day. Gets tedious quickly. I really think a good software solution is the way to go. (Disclaimer: my startup i
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by jd 18y ago
You've raised a lot of interesting questions, and I cannot possibly respond to them all. I think you'd enjoy The Paypal Wars (Jackson). It's about how Paypal survived unfair fights with much bigger companies. Fascinating story. And it shows
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by jd 18y ago
The point was that Katz (allegedly) took the source code of arczip, improved it, and called it pkzip. This was in violation of the license agreement. If you then have to start a lawsuit against the person who has stolen your code (to protec
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by jd 18y ago
That's her. What happened? She got death threats because she said something about bloggers having the right to moderate/delete comments. From what I gather, somebody posted an anti-Sierra message and then a bunch of people (who didn't even
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by jd 18y ago
That same sentence stuck a chord with me too. We all know it's true: perception trumps reality. In this case the guy had to chose between fighting a PR war (which he didn't want to do - he wanted to win on merit) or losing everything he wor
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by jd 18y ago
This clip (20 mins or so) shows how the authors of Arc feel about it all. It is probably a bit biased, but it looks like Katz really hurt some people. http://www.esva.net/~thom/arczip.wmv
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by jd 18y ago
On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart reported that the main difference was an additional $150 billion in tax breaks.
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by jd 18y ago
Clickable link - http://stunf.com/blog/
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by jd 18y ago
The concept is pretty cool, but the target audience may be problematic. People must be tech savvy enough to be able to read and understand log files. But I don't think you can really compete with the power of a console with grep, so that ma