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by johnl 16y ago
Email lists are undervalued. You can get some unbelievable % responses in the Retail business. I would think a startup company that you can create a web blog from an email would be the perfect candidate for this type of marketing.
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by johnl 16y ago
If it is user oriented, I would release the project and make sure you have a feedback loop to see how the project is being used by the end users. You are finished when they are happily using your project, you usually don't get to decide for
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by johnl 16y ago
You can say that about smart people too. It is just hard to jump outside the framework of your own education and experiences and come to a conclusion that conflicts with everything you see as being right. He should have validated his hypoth
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by johnl 16y ago
An interesting read. Hedging: A transfer of a portion of a position's risk to another party. Risk can be transferred, it can not be removed.
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by johnl 16y ago
I would recommend some backtesting results so people can see what they are getting into.
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by johnl 16y ago
There are lots and lots of hotels in any city that serve different niches of the market. Not just one. Some marketing analysis might reveal niches that can be exploited cheaply by you.
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by johnl 16y ago
Ask you a question: OK. Why doesn't Google develop a database that is somewhere between Excel and SQL. Instead of Relational or cell and column oriented, make it list and tag oriented that sits behind the web page. The database would help c
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by johnl 16y ago
I wonder what Posterous's arguments were for going for the direct attack route instead of an offer to purchase or merge? You can get bigger quicker by purchasing competitors than by swiping their clients I would think.
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by johnl 16y ago
I would not even think business, takes longer. Think infomercial. For example: That star wars sword thingy was just a flash light on the end of a plastic tube and made the guy a million so I heard.
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by johnl 16y ago
Measuring the psychology of the markets using web seems to be an interesting idea. This a better shot then most I have seen. Next step is to see if each stock's results are leading or lagging and over what time period.
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by johnl 16y ago
My summary of the article would be: Relying on the statistics of a distribution works but relying on a optimization of the same distribution doesn't work.
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by johnl 16y ago
Or maybe its the ipodization of the web where you no longer hop from web site to web site but suck the apps to your browser as you like.
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by johnl 16y ago
Here are some charts on the subject. http://www.financialcyclesweekly.com/public/530.cfm?sd=2 The charts are interesting but not sure about the financial links. They do seem to affect weather patterns which in turn affect crop yields.
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by johnl 16y ago
Sound like you need 2 apps, one: the teacher's assistant app that the kid works with and a second app that monitor's the analytics of the students progress real time so instead of working one on one with the kid you can work with multiple
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by johnl 16y ago
The parents are the ones that pay you so maybe that is where the deal can be made. Make it so the parents can oversee the kid's progress without actually knowing the answers or doing any work. A cheaper tutor.
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by johnl 16y ago
Out of curiosity, when you last had the flu, did your muscle aches go away and your head fell clear right after your fever broke?
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by johnl 16y ago
My thought would be to stay away from the teachers. Quiz the kid to see where they need help and then teach away with loads of feedback and reinforcement.
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by johnl 16y ago
That's what I was thinking. The markets is there but in front of it there is this very big bureaucracy that you have to deal with. So maybe point the app towards something like homework where the educational bureaucracy doesn't have much co
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by johnl 16y ago
I would agree. Windows has the largest population of non-computer literate people worldwide so hackers get the bigest bang for their buck and windows gets a bad rap. If everyone jumps to another OS so will the security problems.
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by johnl 16y ago
A good book and a quick read on the same subject is: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales.
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by johnl 16y ago
Making a firm decision like this as to what the Twitter customer wants seems like a bad idea in my opinion. I would have rather have seen Twitter create a preference check box allowing those who want ads to have them, and set 3rd party ad p
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by johnl 16y ago
Also quickly. Being able to have something up and running and building momentum in 3 months would be as important as cheaply.
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by johnl 16y ago
First thing that came to mind was Smalltalk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk . Developed in the 80s but have no idea where it went. .
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by johnl 16y ago
Being "adult" may not be the problem. You may want to think of the problem as a "niche market" problem. Retail companies that succeed in niche markets do so by branding themselves better than everyone else. You might look for a different "
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by johnl 16y ago
I like the comparison with poker. Doesn't mean that Facebook is out of the game by a long shot, it does open the space up for some competition. Maybe the companies that helped push FB along should get together and start their own?
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by johnl 16y ago
My guess is that the algorithms do well within say one standard deviation range but beyond that the computers step away. Once the computer volume drops, markets get thin and "Market Orders" produce the results you see. You see bad fills q
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by johnl 16y ago
Accenture went from 41 to 0.04, back to 41 on twice the previous day's volume. I guess once the computers stop, the markets get thin really fast.
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by johnl 16y ago
Seems a little early to start pigeonholing kids for that type of stuff. I would rather pick it up from grades and such. And put yourself in an environment your not used to and most everyone will see and hear things that aren't there
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by johnl 16y ago
I thought the issue wasn't "Obama is right that you have to watch out what personal information" you show per the comment but that Facebook is the culprit in exposing what information is public. A consistent policy from Facebook would go a
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by johnl 16y ago
It's not so funny when you think that everyone depicted in the diagram is heavily armed. McChrystal is right though, rearrange the dependencies into a more controllable bureaucracy (like writing a program) and you will have a better chance

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