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by jwesley 18y ago
Mashable will truly cover anything.
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by jwesley 18y ago
No, I doubt this could ever be a real business. Even if it catches on, you'd have to sell millions of these dirt packets to ever make any money. There was a thread on HN about a condom key chain business that failed for this reason. Even th
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by jwesley 18y ago
You need a tagline that explains what the site is and differentiates in from competitors. I would also nix the advertising. For a new site with little traffic it won't make you much money and undermines your brand. I think you'll also find
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by jwesley 18y ago
Paper is just more trash, more clutter. It might be worth reading the first time, just to find good local blogs, but why would anyone want a collection of blog posts they have likely already read? If anything this is free advertising for th
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by jwesley 18y ago
Yes, the title is misleading. Simply having a form where none existed before doubled his RFPs. No reason to think there is anything magical about WuFoo forms, although it is a good service.
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by jwesley 18y ago
A few suggestions: There needs to be a way to sort the results by source so people can see only mentions on twitter, digg, blogsearch, etc. Currently it can be tough to tell where any given conversation was found. It would be helpful to hav
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by jwesley 18y ago
You need to allow brand names to be more than 20 characters. A lot of brands are longer than that, for example school names. "University of Blank" will almost always be too large, and those educational brands spend a ton of money on marketi
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by jwesley 18y ago
And why should they get the web better than any other bunch of middle-aged business guys? Microsoft is a desktop software company, the web isn't in their DNA. The web is a threat to kill their primary revenue streams! Goes to show that real
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by jwesley 18y ago
She got Techcrunched because she is a 17 year old girl. Her promising website currently displays a blank page: http://internshipin.com/search.php It's a nice story for bloggers and journalists, but I don't think she's someone I need busin
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by jwesley 18y ago
I was hoping the included spreadsheet model would be enough to secure funding.
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by jwesley 18y ago
I'm sure Big Mike would have no problem going back on that if it looks like this thing could make a mint.
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by jwesley 18y ago
I agree no one will pay for friends. You can get them easily enough without paying, just by interacting with people and searching for users that Twit about relevant stuff. As much as people here think advertising is boring, I think Twitter
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by jwesley 18y ago
It's good to see a counter balance the "OMG Developer Made 100K in 3 Weeks!" mania we've been seeing lately. Still, there is clearly opportunity in these apps. You just shouldn't overestimate the odds of having a big hit right off the bat.
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by jwesley 18y ago
I think he's saying that a cushy job can lead to a mediocre career. Once you get used to high pay, perks, and having it easy, it gets extremely hard to leave for a risky (but likely more rewarding) opportunity. That situation is the norm at
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by jwesley 18y ago
Personally, I've had to start searching Craigslist posts with Google in order to find listings I'd visited recently. They should just outsource their internal search to Google, and if they feel like making many millions of dollars, run Adwo
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by jwesley 18y ago
Yes, I can't resist saying that maybe with a college education you could spell rudimentary words like "business".
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by jwesley 18y ago
That's because it's an affiliate page, and a brilliant one at that. Where is the column for referral payout?
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by jwesley 18y ago
Advertising is a medium of information, not a substitute for it. I think the moral is that people love free trials and it's essential to test your landing pages.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Maybe he does not have any big ideas right about now and wants to collect some massive paychecks from Google? Nothing wrong with that.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Florid satire filled with clichéd tech references. Not really funny or clever at all.
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by jwesley 18y ago
In my mind, the definition of a social media consultant is someone who sells consulting services related to social media. This does not require that they actually know what they're talking about. Personally, I think it's a good indicator fo
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by jwesley 18y ago
Have to give it to them though for getting Zuckerberg, Ozzie, and Marissa Mayer to show.
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by jwesley 18y ago
1. If a novel is intended to be realistic fiction, it should reflect reality, not the author's philosophical agenda. (My opinion, but I think this is the only way serious art reveals truth. Imagine if Marx had written a novel.) This is dist
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by jwesley 18y ago
There is millions of dollar being made every day with Facebook ads. You can target them very specifically and drive large amounts of traffic cheaply. No, it is certainly not Adwords. For some offers it doesn't work. For some it works better
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by jwesley 18y ago
Ha. As reality based as any other Facebook valuation.
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by jwesley 18y ago
Atlas Shrugged is propaganda masquerading as art. The characters are thin shells used to promote Rand's thinking and in no way reflect reality. The idea that unbridled self interest leads to the greatest good guided Greenspan's monetary pol
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by jwesley 18y ago
"The whole purpose of this article is to refute the thinking that you obviously subscribe to (given your comment)." What type of thinking is that? That VC companies are required to shoot for the home run exit? That's not a mode of thinking,
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by jwesley 18y ago
Don't reveal that you wouldn't mind the investment. Act like you have no want/need for it.
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by jwesley 18y ago
"Web 2.0 is not like Web 1.0. It's in a special (ed) class of its own." The author clearly does not get it. Profitability is not a "pipe dream" for companies like Digg and Facebook. If profitability was the only objective, I'm sure they cou
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by jwesley 18y ago
The whole concept of learning to be a savant by reading some interview is ridiculous. You would have better results with Tim Ferriss' Brain Quicken product. Some interesting bits though. I hate how knowledge gets degraded into self help pse

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