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by kariatx 15y ago
Many years ago, I had a friend who was trying to schmooze her way into a development position hoping to "learn on the job." Anyway, she was stunned and even angry that she was asked technical questions during the initial phone interview. Be
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by kariatx 16y ago
I use Shutterstock. They have a reasonable membership plan ($224 a month for me), where you can download 25 photos / illustrations a day. They aren't as good as iStockPhoto, but I am way too cheap to use iStockPhoto regularly. Plus I found
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by kariatx 16y ago
I don't know if this is specific to where I live (Austin), but the most interesting people I've been meeting lately have very little to no Facebook presence. Everyone is on Twitter though. Facebook has turned into the place I avoid my crazy
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by kariatx 16y ago
I think the best solution for this problem is don't collect email addresses too soon. I am not of fan of too much time between submitting my email address and getting a launch email. Like others have pointed out, I totally forget about the
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by kariatx 16y ago
If it were me, I'd put entrepreneurship on the back burner and plow my way through that debt. I started my business with no debt, and I can't imagine I would have made good decisions with that much financial obligation stressing me out. In
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by kariatx 16y ago
I seriously woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking how I need to send my 84 year old grandma more postcards. This is so perfect for that.
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by kariatx 16y ago
I don't know if I'd be interested in cultivating customers who are that price sensitive, especially with so many publishers insistent on the 12.99 price point for new Kindle books. Seems like a weird move for Amazon.
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by kariatx 16y ago
It's the new LiveJournal, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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by kariatx 16y ago
I have heard from a friend in the hotel business that the majority of the leads they get from Facebook are from Facebook messages (meaning friends telling one another about the hotel). The other efforts they've made with advertising and mar
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by kariatx 16y ago
Fair enough, but even a men's small is too big for me - so it's not even really an option to wear it. Considering I'm a very standard size for a woman, it's hard to feel like the people behind the shirts are considering my gender. Taste is
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by kariatx 16y ago
Agreed, and thanks for bringing up women's sizes. I wish tech companies (and especially tech conferences I PAY for) would realize that men's shirts are not unisex. They're for men. Whenever a women's option isn't available, it definitely fe
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by kariatx 16y ago
As someone who has had a very variable income during her adult life (by a factor of 10x), I can't say I was much happier making a ton of money. In fact, I did it all wrong, and I was pretty miserable at times. After a certain income level,
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by kariatx 16y ago
I would totally use this app. I would especially like to be able to check potential new people to follow against my current list of followers to see what I'm getting into. Sorry, not helping :-)
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by kariatx 16y ago
I can't help but wonder if the "Hide" button has sucked all the meaningful engagement out of Facebook. I don't know about anyone else, but I have about 80% of my "friends" hidden. Over the past year, Facebook has pretty much become a ghost
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Rise & Fall, The Story of RedTagCrazy.com(redtagcrazy.com)
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by kariatx 16y ago
While this AirBnB exchange definitely wigs me out a little, I've had enough friends in the corporate hotel business to know that there are weirdos and creeps everywhere. That's not to say that hotels are as unsafe as AirBnB, but I do think
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by kariatx 16y ago
From a user perspective, I'd like some signs that people are actually using the site and lending books before signing up. Maybe consider featuring user activity on the front page (seed it with some friends if need be) and seeing how that c
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by kariatx 16y ago
I think this is a prime example of "too much telling not enough showing." While I dig Netta's moxie and possibly would even hire her as a community manager, there isn't much here that wows me. Less than 200 Instagram photos and a lackluster
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by kariatx 16y ago
Yes, since 2002 :-)
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by kariatx 16y ago
Not exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta