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by jmtame 14y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment. It's interesting to hear from someone who worked on the OkTrends team. I'm still unconvinced that the reason they didn't start OKT back up is because they can't find some people like Chris Rudder or Chris Co
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by jmtame 14y ago
My mistake. I originally prefaced my comment with "I think" and should have left that in there, because I didn't know for sure. I misread a Mashable article that said OkCupid would never charge in 2011.
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Very interesting. I recall watching an interview with Sam Yagan and he said they were about to give up, but that blog was the one thing that saved the company. The guy writing the blogs had a math background, and it worked tremendously well
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by jmtame 14y ago
This is something that needs to exist, and I'm very excited about it. We may build this at CupidWithFriends. I've thought about tags for a while now, the problem is you don't have an identity layer to actually verify whether the tags are tr
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It has the classic chicken and egg problem that you'll face when you start any type of online dating startup. Niche dating startups are even harder to start because you have an implicit filter to start off with, and the problem with all fil
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by jmtame 14y ago
Funny things happen when companies get acquired. They stop acting like a startup and they start acting like large, slow companies, which is unfortunate. That blog was single-handedly what drove their traffic more than anything. Everyone I t
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by jmtame 14y ago
It was after their acquisition by IAC in 2011. Match.com is owned by IAC, so technically it was taken over by IAC. The CEO said multiple times they'd never charge, but plans tend to change after you get acquired.
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It's so pervasive now that you could make the statement true by replacing nerd with any other group of people. The only exception would be people in relationships or marriages. Unfortunately, even that is becoming questionable: look at Ashl
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by jmtame 14y ago
I must have missed the sarcasm. Plenty of people mistakenly believe that online dating is still used mainly by nerds. It was true at one point in time. Edit: I find it strange that you deleted your previous comment after you wrote a reply t
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by jmtame 14y ago
Honestly, I would be surprised if more than 1% of OkCupid's user base switched to BitCoin. Back in the 90s, the nerds dominated online dating. Same story with the Bulletin Board Systems of the 70s (The Matchmaker) and the punch cards at Sta
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by jmtame 14y ago
How exactly do you define "news" here? Right now, I'm on a news site, because it says that in the top left corner of my screen. I've seen this type of story mentioned before, and in the past the response was "the purpose of news is to give
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by jmtame 14y ago
Makes me want to read the Tesla autobiography. Is there something specific you can do to improve your own mental creativity and ability to model things visually? I have always felt some type of barrier when thinking of ideas and I usually r
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Foursquare raises $41 million Series D round(techcrunch.com)
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by jmtame 14y ago
I definitely agree that someone who buys Bitcoins needs to think about how identity is tied back to them, but so far it's not a convincing point that Joe is at a high degree of risk if he's cautious. Those points need to be debated specific
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by jmtame 14y ago
Wow, nice find. I hadn't thought about tracing the cell phone before, of all things. Practically, it seems like a stretch to try and look at GPS logs through a carrier and prove that someone was at a bank at a given time. It says the precis
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by jmtame 14y ago
Any BTC<->cash exchange would either be illicit or have very clear, robust records as required by the country that issues the cash currency. Here's an exercise for you: prove that Joe purchased $100 worth of Bitcoins to obtain dru
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by jmtame 14y ago
Bitcoin transactions are permanent sure, but they have no identity tied to them, unless they were purchased with something that already had an identity associated (eg never buy Bitcoins with PayPal, because PayPal already knows who you are)
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"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." - Mark Twain
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by jmtame 14y ago
The big ticket companies make exclusive arrangements with these rooms. They pay them just to not work with others. So if a company gives you 30 grand a year to stay away from anybody else, you need it. We didn’t attack their territory. We
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by jmtame 14y ago
why you had no interest in talking to them about an acquisition, when none was specifically mentioned by them in the first place But that's the whole point of the article: it's pattern recognition, and I'm using anecdotes to support that.
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by jmtame 14y ago
It's not a blanket generalization, I think that's the misunderstanding here. I should clarify that my advice is targeted at early stage startup founders. I don't think it applies to small businesses or lifestyle businesses. I don't think it
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by jmtame 14y ago
At one startup we sold access to our kick-ass CMS to another web design shop on a per-project basis. In that case, it's beneficial to you and I see that as an objectively good thing. I would do the same thing. In my case, OkCupid is a pro
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by jmtame 14y ago
I'm still more interested in the purpose behind the intelligence gathering, if that is the reason. It hasn't happened to me (yet), but I suspect that the reason is to either purchase what you've done, or replicate it if it's easy enough to
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by jmtame 14y ago
I used to have that curiosity to want to know why competitors were reaching out. I've seen the pattern enough times that I just know, so I have no interest anymore. You seem to support my point with your story. You said you thought they wer
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by jmtame 14y ago
What part of my response did you think was the equivalent of flipping them off? I wasn't trying to be malicious to anyone personally. I have my own beliefs on IAC and they're negative, but I don't think I said anything nasty to Brian. I fel
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by jmtame 14y ago
http://www.statisticbrain.com/online-dating-statistics/
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Do you have >50 Facebook friends when you try to join?
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Thanks, just fixed this
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Wow. I'm going to e-mail you this weekend. You've really thought about this stuff, and I think you've got some great ideas. Would love to chat with you some more.
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I've done multiple startups at this point, so I'm not as ignorant as you would suspect. Sometimes I wonder why I still do startups. I know exactly what I'm getting myself into, the only reason I'm willing to take it on is because I felt the

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