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David Pogue says simplicity sells (2006 but timeless)(ted.com)
11 points by joez 17y ago|0 comments
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by joez 17y ago
Just got home, took a deeper look and had a few more thoughts. I think the greatest part about these products is the "viral" (for lack of a better word) ability. Someone with a new necklace will have all their friends asking about it... sho
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by joez 17y ago
Thanks! Yeah, we are working on launching. Site is less than a week old and is just an inside joke. I'll be sure to post here when we are alpha. (Of course with some invites for anyone from HN)
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by joez 17y ago
I like your ideas. The back of the napkin math is a little excessive sometimes: I can do the math that if your averaging the same amount per user and your users increase by 10x, then your revenue does as well. I don't need to see what 100x
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by joez 17y ago
Go for less text. More http://www.smbc-comics.com less http://www.qwantz.com/ . The current template requires way too much. I am pretty sure the technical term is 'excel ninja' and not 'excel kung fu' too. But I guess that was the punchl
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by joez 17y ago
They will have different names then? I mean if you think hard enough on these I'm sure theres ways these checks fail. I could see a billing address being a company or communal living at which there are two people with the same given name.
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by joez 17y ago
Oh I wasn't talking about like a @gmail, @yahoo, especially not @mailinator address but one that would be unique to your employer or school. Most schools only allow it's students (and only it's students) to have one address. Most employers
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by joez 17y ago
He could request the billing address, I believe, and cross reference that. Of course you might have 2 billing addresses as well...
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by joez 17y ago
Maybe an email account that should be unique... i.e. a school or employer? @google.com or @berkeley.edu. Although people might have multiple schools/employers or a mix of both. This also might not work for certain demographics (ones without
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by joez 17y ago
Oh I agree. When a company has such a long storied history like Lucent then there can be many butterfly effects. It's just lately (past 2 years), the financial picture for Alcatel-Lucent has gotten really bad. Another factor for such a huge
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by joez 17y ago
This article deceptively makes little mention of Bell's macro condition. Just to say it went from 30,000 employees to 1000 in a 7 year span is not the whole picture. Let me provide some perspective. If you look at ALU stock mid 2000, it had
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by joez 17y ago
"Meaning new investors in the fund will start off with stock in Twitter." !.
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by joez 17y ago
I agree. If all the guy brought the table was a couple bucks for food, I wouldn't want to take lunch with him. The guy can't be an empty suit. Good stories and laughs are always welcome at my table.
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by joez 17y ago
Last year it was estimated they had revenue at 350 and expenses at 500.
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by joez 17y ago
Sorry to be a little negative but this is just a little vague: "Creating a super product and selling it." Maybe put down some of your ideas. I'm turned off just reading: SUPER product. The word super makes me think you guys have no directio
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by joez 17y ago
Most of the them are probably only part time (i.e. 2-3 hours a day during peak hours and only 2-3 days a week) and they are probably counting the kitchen janitorial crew. 50 ends up just being a nice sweet marketing number (directed at both
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by joez 17y ago
There's a saying... the Japanese invented ramen because the quicker you eat, the quicker you get back to work. In this way, I think they are the same.
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by joez 17y ago
You forgetting the teamwork benefits. When there is good food, teams will come together and chat it up. The lunch hour at the cafeteria can be conducive to productivity. People catch up on what their team is doing or spark new ideas on the
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by joez 17y ago
Check out Mahalo Answers? ( http://www.mahalo.com/answers/ ) I think this is basically exactly what you are describing. I do thank you for the link to this Kylin project. That was a confounded read but this team is definitely trying to do s
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by joez 17y ago
I feel like Wikipedia's latest move is just a bandage solution to a more fundamental problem. A bandage that causes Wikipedia to be even less inclusionist. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761589 for some discussion on deletionis
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by joez 17y ago
Tesla and the car industry is a whole other beast. I think with software and internet companies, you can have many more clever hacks for barriers that competitors have set up.
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by joez 17y ago
C) is two very different things. As previous articles/threads (try google search) have suggested, quitting because you hate your job is not the right place to start but maybe good motivation to take the final leap. The satisfaction of seein
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by joez 17y ago
I get a kick out of refreshing ideas but it feels like a horse kicked me when I see these people who have no idea of what their underlying expenses and scale are like.
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by joez 17y ago
As lots of people already said, your user growth projection is probably not going to be very exact. ARPU can be pretty close. Expenses can be really close. Depending on your product, you might be able to set up some initial targets and just
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by joez 17y ago
I really like Joel's point about reaching out to Chinese community centers. This gave me some good ideas for what you guys can do at Skritter so let me elaborate. This is from a Chinese San Franciscan's perspective, so it maybe a little ske
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by joez 17y ago
#7 is very relevant to the HN community. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ I'd much rather spend marketing dollars hiring a community rep and put up a site like spreadfirefox. Sounds like they are also having a lot of success with a 100% volu
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by joez 17y ago
The data is also a good indication of brand consciousness in a country. People are paying a premium for the American brand. In Beijing, a big mac meal could cost double or triple what you could get at a local restaurant. It's seen as high c
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by joez 17y ago
http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/20/avatar-official-movie-t...
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China's Ministry of Defense goes online(eng.mod.gov.cn)
1 points by joez 17y ago|0 comments
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by joez 17y ago
Mahalo.com is a different take on search and worth checking out. While although "human powered" results can never cover the breadth of Google. They might be able to compete on depth. I once heard an an important realization from Jason Calac

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