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jeffa107
18y ago
The interface looks wonderful (although the login link is covered by the nav menu in Firefox 2). Nicely polished. One practical suggestion: when adding a bookmark my eye moves from left to right. I thought the green + button was a continuat
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18y ago
Part time. But as the weeks go by it's more obvious that it needs to be full time. I took the day off yesterday and got more done than I have the previous eight or ten nights after work. It's not that I don't make progress on evenings and w
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18y ago
Make more mistakes; don't be afraid to fail. A college degree is overrated; the opposite is true of self-teaching. Buy the Corvette. It's expensive and impractical but you'll never have more fun with a car like that than you will at 24.
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18y ago
It's because most of us are still focused on building something people want. Without that, none of these other things matter. Most people who contribute to this community get that. Another important point: There are a bunch of brilliant, mo
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18y ago
"Truevert gives you special results—everything comes back through green-colored glasses. So a search for 'SUV' brings back HybridSUV.com as the top result. A search for 'building materials' brings back results for green building materials.
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18y ago
Congratulations! Can you give us a sense of how successfully you've been able to monetize all the users you've gained? What sort of challenges do you face on that front?
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18y ago
The more niched your content, the less accurate that statement becomes.
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Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
(zeldman.com)
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18y ago
Based on personal client experience, the ones most likely to need the service will have the least desire to pay anything for it. If they are willing to spend the kind of money to get things done at a high level, they will have already paid
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18y ago
I'm sure the companies behind news.com, blogs.com, tickets.com, shoes.com, and most others with generic names would argue that it's not moot, that it's the exception and not the rule. You still have to make something people want, something
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18y ago
Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, and The Motley Fool have the advantage in this space.