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by jpwagner 17y ago
Did you consider an AppExchange App and piggybacking off Salesforce? Also remember that the larger prospects are going to be more "old-school", so aim for the small early adopters.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Do you have anything more substantive? Clearly some people make it work (Benioff, Ellison,...). Are you saying the people on HN specifically can't succeed?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Good article for pricing in general, but Joel doesn't seem to understand enterprise software sales. His analysis of bad idea #2 ignores ROI. This model works when there is real customer pain being solved by the application.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
good old 6th-grader-quality research. correlation mistaken for causation...so frustratingly pervasive in our society.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758787
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by jpwagner 17y ago
You are right. Thinking that they are doing it purposely is a bit harsh. But I do think it's fair to be worried that cabinet members are "blissfully ignorant" about other matters if they are about their own careers and matters with severe
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I can find 100,000 in the private sector. Why the double-standard?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
What real-world experience? Wasn't that part of the point? That website is about as ugly as a manatee in fishnet stockings...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Daschle paid $140,000 in back taxes and resigned. Geithner did not pay $34,000. Killefer seemed to have a reasonable mistake. We all probably screw up our calculations, tax code is a mess, but 10's of thousands (by an individual) is likely
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Multiple appointments had tax evasion issues. This type of thing seems fairly common, which is of course horrifying.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Would you mind talking about this with me? jpwagner [at> mit <dotty] edu Thanks!
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by jpwagner 17y ago
That is amazing! Great idea.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Why is the sentence about Wolfram Alpha in this article?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Totally true. I prefer they just report the facts of studies rather than have some writer fluff it up. I suppose that's the difference between a magazine and a journal.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
If you would quit school for your "startup", then you are a founder. If you will definitely not quit school, you are a student. Somewhere in between is "Pre-founder".
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Ask HN: Founders, Pre-Founders, and Students...
3 points by jpwagner 17y ago|4 comments
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Whoa, this is possibly the first post complaining about opportunity-negative-karma, which, in my opinion, violates the guidelines by technically complaining about being down-voted. FLAG
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Did he mean: " Poor product planning is just a waste of time."
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This article isn't about owning music at all!! In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same. The point by the way is valid. People get value out of list
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This is quite different from the Van Halen story. No lessons to learn, but at least there's "Dead Dog Island" to give a few laughs...
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Ask HN: RescueTime Users?
2 points by jpwagner 17y ago|0 comments
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by jpwagner 17y ago
because of custom modifications? ;P
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I think you make a good point. I'd liken this also to Mike Caro's poker concept of the "Threshold of Misery"...Suppose you considered $1,000 a lot of money. Then, mentally, losing $400 is bad, but not as bad as losing $800, but losing $4,0
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Great story!
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Are you saying 50% of the links on the front page (btw, a sample set of 1) are very interesting to you? That's a damn good batting average.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
You either created this account and posted your product to: 1. Ask for advice OR 2. Try to market your product to this forum as the audience If (2), I think this is an inappropriate approach. That's my opinion, and people can speak/flag
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21 profiles of profitable businesses(nymag.com)
11 points by jpwagner 17y ago|4 comments
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by jpwagner 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP.jpg
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Clearly you have good points. But the URL wasn't ShouldIBeUsingProfessionalJudgmentAboutScaling.info, it was "worry" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry
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by jpwagner 17y ago
who gets to define "use"? personally i am vehemently opposed to this sort of socialist way of thinking...

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