kellyreid

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by kellyreid 15y ago
i actually make a living buying and selling magic cards, and i can attest that ABU Games is legitimate. I sell cards to them often, and I was unaware they took BitCoin!
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by kellyreid 15y ago
good thing I made a bunch of money by trading BC intra-day when it hit mainstream. seriously, did anyone expect this to be a "new paradigm"? it was a fun toy for financially-minded engineers and traders, but I can't say I'm surprised to he
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by kellyreid 15y ago
how dare people want to learn stuff.
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Ask HN: Basic Spreadsheets/Data Management for Startups
5 points by kellyreid 15y ago|2 comments
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by kellyreid 15y ago
Get used to it. I think paying someone else to deal with billing stuff is a fine idea, but don't distance yourself too much. I could easily delegate out the "refund reply" job, but I choose to do it personally. It's really easy to turn a r
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by kellyreid 15y ago
take the most low-effort job possible to keep cashflow up while you develop a product, service or whatever. the odds that you're profitable in 3 months are zero, no matter what. the odds that you're profitable in 3 years however, are cons
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by kellyreid 15y ago
My girlfriend has been active on Ravelry for some time, and we actually had dinner with a charming family that she met via Ravelry. They actually hauled an antique spinning wheel across the country for her, made us some italian chicken, and
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by kellyreid 15y ago
In a vacuum, sure. But most governments would consider it something like gambling and stop it. Ethically, as long as all the participants know the rules of the game, there's no trouble. Some people like games where there's an element of t
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by kellyreid 15y ago
BS. I turned my free site into a free-mium site, and it changed everything. One I had the budget to hire a couple writers to keep up content production, i got MORE traffic. Honestly ask yourself if your product is worth what you're chargi
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by kellyreid 15y ago
I run a small retail biz and do a lot of trade shows. Square is the best thing to happen to my business since finding funding to start it. It's THAT good. I don't know if it's even on the table, but I agree with the article; there should
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by kellyreid 15y ago
great idea, but it seems like you're making everything look very "stock". i suppose if you want your startup to look like another "web 2.0" company, then great, but I'd like to see some examples of how you took a personalized brand and tur
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by kellyreid 15y ago
as someone who's brought a niche blog into the mainstream (in my niche at least), just use something like WordPress. If you're already worrying about SEO, you're losing. your focus should be nothing beyond generating great content and get
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by kellyreid 16y ago
ask questions that give you answers to specific questions! dont ask how useful it is - ask what the most useful feature is. etc
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by kellyreid 16y ago
on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.
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by kellyreid 16y ago
not a coder, but a businessman. it was the night i opened the doors of my retail store for the first time and 25 people walked in and started playing cards and buying stuff from me. i knew in that moment that there was no way I'd ever go
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by kellyreid 16y ago
I'd like to read more about relationships and dating for entrepreneurs. i find it frustrating to explain what I do to women I meet, and even more frustrating when they don't "get" that, yes, just because it's 3am doesn't mean I'm not at wo
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by kellyreid 16y ago
Not as of yet - we have a form/spreadsheet going that keeps track of this, go fill it in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862266
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by kellyreid 16y ago
i'd prefer to be in a stable relationship while working for myself. it is helpful to have an "anchor" person who gets what you're doing, at least, or abides its because they love you. when you spend all your time pitching somewhat crazy i
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by kellyreid 16y ago
look at my comment above - the form version i put up should handle the destructive edit problem
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by kellyreid 16y ago
as a 26 year old single man, I must say it takes a lot of stress away when I don't have to explain it to my SO, my son/daughter, etc. I also don't have to worry if someone else will starve (I can handle myself, of course). That said, for t
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by kellyreid 16y ago
See, we non-technical co founders can make a difference. Just give us the right tools!
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by kellyreid 16y ago
drugs =/ crutch. yeah self medicating with blow is bad, of course, but with the direction of a doctor, the right drug can allow you to really do what you intend to do, and preven those short circuits in your brain from screwing it all up.
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by kellyreid 16y ago
we're curious, and it helps alleviate the stress and anxiety by having people to commiserate with
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by kellyreid 16y ago
Enter your Info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZkT2QxZXF... View the Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ataf_IejHzNydFZkT2Q... This is the harder-to-troll version, which i'll be posting on HN shortly.
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by kellyreid 16y ago
if anything it showcases the hacker/startup spirit. i'm sure if it's a problem we'll find out somehow
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by kellyreid 16y ago
here's hoping this isn't against some rule or guideline. good idea, though!
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by kellyreid 16y ago
Don't self-diagnose ADHD. I got a psych eval when I was 20 which showed that I was a classic case, and have been adapting ever since. Its often the case that people with ADHD are amazingly capable entrepreneurs, but can still get landmine