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by jyu 7y ago
No specific tactic works forever. There is no "1 weird trick." You need to set up your advertising and sales funnels to track as prospects become customers, and continually experiment on the message and the channels. This is where
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by jyu 7y ago
When I'm stuck on a problem at work or when there's down time, I find myself reaching for The Algorithm Design Manual.
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by jyu 7y ago
Economic rents is an issue, but how else would you incentivize member companies to join into Libra in the first place? The proven business models are "evil" to some population: 1. Charge fees (like paypal, stripe, bank ach /
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by jyu 7y ago
The goings on with someone else's lifestyle business does not affect my own; nor does my business affect yours. I started about 2 years ago, it's the same stack I used at my job since customers don't care what stack you use a
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by jyu 7y ago
My lifestyle business is hitting its goals this year netting me much more than my previous job compensation last year. Consistently sleep 7.5 to 9 hours a night, which makes meditating at least 30 minutes more fruitful. Going mushroom forag
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by jyu 7y ago
Someone else suggested this book, a summary of hundreds of scientific climate change papers projected environmental global and local effects categorized by each celsius degree increase. It covers broad stroke scientific, political, and econ
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by jyu 7y ago
I don't know any better way than using an RSS feed and adding unknowing curators for the domains of interest. Then you add and remove curators as you see fit. Journalists, commenters, niche forums, twitter, bloggers can all be added wi
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by jyu 7y ago
You're young, hard working, and have a lot of life to look forward to. You're seeking to make a difference. All really great things. I relate to your disdain of capitalism and materialism, but those operating conditions aren'
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by jyu 7y ago
This situation sounds overblown. If you look at Amazon guidance, $X-million / year means you don't hit the threshold to get an Amazon rep. If you're over $10 million / year you do get a rep. Either increase sales to get
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by jyu 9y ago
If you link to resources instead of hosting content on your own site, consider having a plan to deal with link rot and site policy changes.
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by jyu 9y ago
The way people think and make decisions is prone to different types of cognitive errors. Learn, recognize, and apply ways to overcome those classes of errors. Then learn, recognize, and apply mental models to improve your decision making.
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by jyu 10y ago
If you've spent $1000, got 20 clicks and 0 sales, then either your targeting or your ad or both are piss poor. I have made quite a lot of money (and lost quite a lot in the beginning) advertising on Facebook ads in the past. Just becau
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by jyu 11y ago
The information advantage is when you know something that's true that most people haven't yet realized to be true, often accredited to Peter Thiel. Examples from the past: - Smartphones > dumb phones (invest in AAPL) - more dol
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by jyu 11y ago
Take this as a hard lesson learned. "Trust, but verify" should be modus operandi. You really should distance yourself from this guy, since he's acting maliciously. Badmouthing him to random people isn't really productive
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Ask HN: How to invest in eSports?
1 points by jyu 11y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 11y ago
The people most interested your shares are people who agree that company is a unicorn. Usually existing shareholders with some money (angel investors, VC, advisors, founders, other employees) or potentially new shareholders that want a piec
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by jyu 11y ago
Monthly subscription to "stock tips" scream all sorts of shadiness. That and stating that there's the potential to make "103%" return when you're just cherry picking back tested data. There's a lot that co
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by jyu 11y ago
There's this meme in the startup community of founders making large sacrifices and taking huge risks to keep a startup dream from dying. Just because you take large risks doesn't mean you will be rewarded for them. Much like buyin
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by jyu 11y ago
Maybe you both just don't mesh that well. Nothing wrong with that. If you actively wait for good opportunities, and sharpen your skills along the way, you'll be in an enviable position all along your journey.
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by jyu 11y ago
You're only as good as your BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement). If you don't have a better choice, then go through Codility. I think you probably have better options. Looking through your post history, why you have 7
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by jyu 11y ago
Whelp guess your skills suck. Or maybe you're being forced to run an arbitrary maze of someone else's design and creation. Some mazes are easy and familiar to previous work you've done; some are challenging; others are design
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by jyu 11y ago
Wife and I made a joke political t-shirt. http://teespring.com/get-dump-trump
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by jyu 11y ago
It's 2,000 grand pianos / yr, 500 upright pianos / yr. 149. Around 1,000 grand pianos and 250 upright pianos are produced per year in the New York Factory. The Hamburg Steinway Factory produces a similar number of instrumen
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by jyu 11y ago
Request a credit freeze or a security freeze from the credit bureaus. This prevents entities from accessing your credit report without you lifting the freeze. This stops a lot of the low hanging identity theft cases. http://www.c
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by jyu 12y ago
The strategy being looking for pre-IPO companies that plan to IPO within 1 to 2 years. Targeting these types of companies allows you to get market compensation with quite reasonable upside potential and seems a lot better risk/reward p
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by jyu 12y ago
What types of positions offer large pre-IPO grants? How were you hired? (referral from friend already working there or were you headhunted or what?) Were you aware of the IPO plans before applying, and is this the sort of strategy that is r
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by jyu 12y ago
If you have special nutritional needs, why not try diysoylent? You don't have to spend much time or effort into it, and it ends up being much cheaper. http://diy.soylent.me/
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Ask HN: How do you take cc payments as a consultant?
2 points by jyu 12y ago|2 comments
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by jyu 12y ago
Diogenes of Sinope. A philosopher, cynic, and has legendary altercations with Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates and other famous figures during that time. Unfortunately most of his original works were destroyed, so we only have bits of a
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by jyu 12y ago
How much are you willing to bet and by what date? Google has had multiple missteps. G+, terrible customer service, lack of diversity in revenue, a lackluster post acquisitions track record besides android. The specific examples stated rely

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