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by jyu 16y ago
No one said it'd be easy. But if you listen to customers with money and problems, at least you have a shot at being successful. When you approach people as the potential solution to their biggest problems, it's surprising how easily people
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by jyu 16y ago
That's exactly his point. Both Facebook and Google have secured market domination to a level where their culture, be it engineering or managerial, doesn't really matter.
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by jyu 16y ago
I think what you want is ad serving technology. For most ad networks, the technology for serving ads is their secret sauce, because after that it's about having sales people contact advertisers and publishers. Try to shop around different a
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by jyu 16y ago
Working on two different ideas with different target markets simultaneously is a recipe for disaster. Facing the challenges of a single bootstrapped start up is hard enough.
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by jyu 16y ago
The most obvious ideas are porn site, adult dating site, etc. The biggest challenge is figuring out the highest and best use. I think the best use is turning sex.com into the authoritative site for sex questions / videos. With this approach
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by jyu 16y ago
It's hard to crash and/or die in bumper to bumper traffic.
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by jyu 16y ago
Could you do something like Amazon, where they preauthorize the charges before the ship, and then actually bill when the items arrive? This may be something you want to specify this with processors before you get a merchant account.
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by jyu 16y ago
Does this work well on https pages?
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by jyu 16y ago
For those that don't want to login: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
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by jyu 16y ago
Facebook Pages are a powerful word of mouth marketing tool, and also a great place to listen to your user's thoughts. I think it's only really useful when you have a decent number of fans, like in the several hundreds, because only a small
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Ask HN: Where do you store your sensitive info?
13 points by jyu 16y ago|9 comments
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by jyu 16y ago
Slightly off topic: Is there a good place to view upcoming start up events in NYC?
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by jyu 16y ago
Anyone else concerned about privacy? Google already has heaps of your search data, can track browsing history with the doubleclick and adsense network already. With social network data, they can directly tie in who you associate with, age,
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by jyu 16y ago
Nowadays, there are co-working arrangements in most major cities with month to month leases. In the early stages, why bother getting locked into a lease at all?
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Ask HN: Know Anyone at VideoGenie?
1 points by jyu 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Recommended Tools for Teamwork?
3 points by jyu 16y ago|4 comments
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by jyu 17y ago
Here's some advice from a top earner fom RentACoder: http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/a2485
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by jyu 17y ago
If people don't upvote/downvote, you could always pay a few bucks to get mTurkers to do it :)
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by jyu 17y ago
You can actually remove it completely by going to the bottom of gmail, and turn Buzz off.
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by jyu 17y ago
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." - Balzac
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by jyu 17y ago
I'm glad the full transcript is available. You get a lot of insight into the personality of the founder that you wouldn't otherwise.
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by jyu 17y ago
Yea, I couldn't think of a better way to describe this article. Surely I think it's an improvement over "Big Food vs. Big Insurance" which doesn't give you any idea of what the article is really about. Do you have a better suggestion?
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Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits(nytimes.com)
48 points by jyu 17y ago|59 comments
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by jyu 17y ago
The same can be said about laptops. Why buy a $2,000+ Macbook Pro when you can get similar functionality in a $400 Acer? Simple answer: It's nicer.
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Cross Browser Compliance?
1 points by jyu 17y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 17y ago
The easiest way to find awesome professors is talk to upperclassmen and grad students in your major. Grad students have to meet and talk with profs a lot more than undergrads, so they usually get a better feel for profs.
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by jyu 18y ago
As witty and funny as this comment was, is it really worth 60 upvotes?
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by jyu 18y ago
Where is this $20 million/month figure cited from?
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by jyu 18y ago
I got profitable after week 1. I am making very good money, and recently quit my job to do affiliate marketing full time.
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by jyu 18y ago
It was about 1 year ago. Now I do affiliate marketing, which seems to be a faster and more reliable way to "F U" money.

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