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by jfarmer 16y ago
Hey, thanks! We just made our first jobs page, check it out: http://www.everlane.com/jobs
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Financial service companies will want to advertise where their customers are. Pitching them before you have traction will just get you the question, "Ok, how many leads can you send us?" But let's say you do and get 20 signed up as adverti
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I just looked through my wallet and Amex, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover all have the same date format, and for MasterCard three are from separate issuing banks, one of which is a debit card. Not questioning you, but what's the rule? Do yo
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Everlane - San Francisco, CA (FULLTIME, H1B, INTERNS) Hey HN! This is Jesse, one of the co-founders of Everlane. Check out our website at http://www.everlane.com , and my personal blog at http://20bits.com We're trying to re-imagine ret
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by jfarmer 16y ago
A convertible note is a loan, just one that you never expect to pay back.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Other (small) changes I'd make: 1. Don't say "sign up" -- say something like "Join free." In any case say something that indicates value to the consumer vs. signing up, which indicates value to the site owner. 2. For the signup button use
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Well, then the default default is hotels.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Just so people understand, Google is not happy that sites like Sugar, Inc.'s http://www.shopstyle.com/ are taking a chunk of commerce search away from them. I'm sure it's all the more frustrating when they're building ad networks on top o
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Funny enough, these sites (including Kayak) are pushing users away from flight booking and towards hotel booking because the margins are much larger. kayak.com defaults to hotel search now, for example.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Damnit, Keith. I wanted to submit this article and promote it, but now I'm afraid you've missed the HN success window. Anyhow, I just read this and it's honestly the best article about customer acquisition and retention I've ever read, I t
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Party round! Woo! Everyone into to the pool!
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The iPhone logs all my texts. I've had an iPhone longer than I've been dating my current girlfriend (dating over 3 years now), and it's a little fun to scroll all the way back to the beginning. :) But yeah, I wouldn't call it AMAZING.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Yes, they are definitely paying that much (or more). Groupon and Zynga are responsible for increasing the CAC via Facebook ads by 2-3x over the last year and a half.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
He's saying he actually needs to make the API calls, not that he needs to look up the API docs. If you're building a Facebook app, for example, you need to have Facebook available at all times or it just won't work.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
@andreyf: When Facebook switched from their old API to their new OAuth-based API they also removed restrictions on storing data.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The typical arrangement with such law firms is that payment is deferred until your first round of financing. Of course, to get such a deal you probably need an introduction. Catch 22!
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by jfarmer 16y ago
In two words: distribution and monetization. That's all that matter, period. This is why Facebook kicked OpenSocial's fragmented and poorly implemented ass, and why the iPhone developer ecosystem is more robust than its Android counterpart
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by jfarmer 16y ago
This is absolutely the most annoying thing I've found on the mobile web. Newspapers seem to be particularly bad at it.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Both Brown and Boxer opposed Proposition 19.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
There were FB apps like that, but unfortunately the viral channels that made it possible (notifications) are no longer available.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Well, when the OP's software is more-or-less mandatory he can get away with it. Until then... :)
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by jfarmer 16y ago
You're on Mars, man. None of that has anything to do with your customer. What hurt does your product soothe? Right now you're describing a (very complicated) mechanism. It's what you use that mechanism for that counts. As an exercise I'd
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by jfarmer 16y ago
I'm a pretty smart guy. Degree in math from a top university, started a few companies, etc., but I am totally, completely confused by what your product does. And you're expecting someone who hasn't decided they're really going to make a go
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by jfarmer 16y ago
The $200MM for the datacenter is amortized over that datacenter's lifetime.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Reed's law follows from the fact that a set has 2^N possible subset. So it's a statement about how group membership affects the dynamics of a social network. There are O(N^2) possible connections, which is related to Metcalfe's law.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Uhm, the key difference being that between that time and now Facebook has grown 5-6x. By what metric was that a bad decision, exactly?
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by jfarmer 16y ago
First step, move to where the startup founders are. The SF Bay Area is the best. Second, once there, there are tons of events like you describe! E.g., http://founderdating.com/ If you can't move to the SF Bay area then the next best thi
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by jfarmer 16y ago
He obviously meant that most of Apple's product line is less than 3 years old. The iPad, per se, did not exist three years ago, though of course the concept of a tablet computer is decades old.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
Nobody is jumping on your because you're being "anti-Apple." They're down-voting you because you're being pedantic, whether intentional or not.
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by jfarmer 16y ago
All it proves is that the Flash toolchain is more mature.

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