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by kitcar 16y ago
While I value the positive press, assigning the words "Silicon Valley" to Toronto is quite a misnomer. As a lifelong resident of Toronto / member of the tech business community, I've watched many of our best business/tech minds get sucked s
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by kitcar 16y ago
to other domainers: dnforum.com or sedo.com .
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by kitcar 16y ago
I've used Odesk.com with good success. Much more individual-developer focused than elance.com or similar (which is full of overseas firms)
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by kitcar 17y ago
It's not video, it's film that has been converted to video. Moving Pictures have been around since the late 1800's. The first Sci-Fi film was made in 1902 actually - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGd_240ynk Le voyage dans la Lune, Méliè
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by kitcar 17y ago
Many people don't realize this, but I believe Apple is actually has one of the largest marketing budgets in the tech business - 1/2 a billion in 2008 ( http://industry.bnet.com/technology/1000574/apples-advertisi... )
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by kitcar 17y ago
Just bought one. Going to attach it to my draftsman table I picked up at a thrift shop - should make quite a useful work surface...
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by kitcar 17y ago
The key point I'm making is as an advertiser, there is no way for me to know that you saw those 10 ads on TV - hence the need for 3rd party measurement. On the web, I have a direct line of sight to you - hence why introduce a 3rd party?
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Ask HN: Double Entry Bookkeeping SaaS Recommendations ?
2 points by kitcar 17y ago|1 comments
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by kitcar 17y ago
on the maintenance side - I find NGINX conf files to be substantially easier to work with than Apache's - check out the demo conf at the end of this article for example: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10108 . And setup was pretty eas
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by kitcar 17y ago
+1 for NGINX + PHP-FPM + XCache + MySQL as a replacement for the LAMP stack - significantly decreased my web server's utilization of both CPU and Memory...
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by kitcar 17y ago
IMHO a better model is to actually offer something of value to your paying members, rather than than trying to create artificial scarcity. For example, paid membership gives you live access to influence the interview, by selecting / voting
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by kitcar 17y ago
At the end of the day, the real problem with using ComScore #'s when developing a media plan is unlike with all other forms of mass media (TV/Radio/Print), in Online the advertiser has direct feedback from the audience of their advertisemen
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by kitcar 17y ago
Quora was started by a whole slew of Facebook's early tech team, include their past CTO. It has heavy hitters both in-house, and on the investment team. Check out http://gigaom.com/2010/01/05/former-facebookers-try-to-foste... . It gets l
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by kitcar 17y ago
The only reason the CrunchPad mattered was because it gave TechCrunch and CrunchGear something to write about. There are already tablets available which have the feature set the CrunchPad would have, below the price point they were trying t
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by kitcar 17y ago
You only need two skills to succeed in business: the ability to negotiate and the ability to sell. Buy low (goods, services, knowledge), sell high. Without knowing your personally, I would say you need to work on the sales side of things, a
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by kitcar 17y ago
Could either CSSHttpRequest or JSONP be used to determine what URL an iFrame contains? (assuming the user has navigated within the iFrame beyond the initial page defined in the iFrame property)
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When Websites Become Ads: Apple's Takeover of Wired.com(vimeo.com)
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by kitcar 17y ago
Just remember, Cycling is not always better exercise than walking - for short distances, walking is "more work" than cycling.
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"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died(theglobeandmail.com)
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A Paradox of Entrepreneurship(newmediaist.com)
1 points by kitcar 17y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 17y ago
Umm - http://www.elance.com http://www.odesk.com Post your portfolio to both those sites. Begin bidding on projects. Bid low first just to get some reviews / get your foot in the door. If you are good you will have people chasing you d
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by kitcar 17y ago
I guess I am the outcast - I spend 4-7 hours / day in excel / word / powerpoint, and love the new ribbon. It took me quite a while to get used to - as I've been on office since the Windows 3.1 days - but once adapted I move through the appl
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by kitcar 17y ago
Exactly! http://www.newmediaist.com/blog/2007/01/08/dissecting-story-... "revenue(traffic) does not equal profit. Without income statements, it is impossible to know how much money they are actually bringing home. If I took out a $100,000
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by kitcar 17y ago
Basically if you've ever worked in the affiliate business, either as a publisher or an advertiser, you pick up on specific terms which are used when talking about not-so-nice activities in "nice" conversations. There were lots of those term
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by kitcar 17y ago
Let me summarize this video for you and save you some time: 1) Guy makes some good money in the "sewers" of Internet Marketing during the boom years (using search engine spam tactics to gather traffic, resell it to the .com startups for inf
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by kitcar 17y ago
Before you go in to discuss your raise, first sit down and try to write down the exact economic contribution you have made to the firm - ideally link cost-savings or revenue-generation directly to the activities you have performed. This act
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by kitcar 17y ago
Classified businesses, much like auctions, are a game of network size. Get big first, you win, even if you have an inferior product. In Canada, Craigslist took a little longer to catch on. Ebay noticed this, and therefore "picked up the pac
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by kitcar 17y ago
just a tip to all startups that have a blog separate from their main website - please include an "about us" page link on the blog, or a 2 sentence summary of what your company does somewhere in the sidebar. Or at least a link to your compan
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by kitcar 17y ago
Probably will have no effect. It should give a small boost to Mexico's tourism business though
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by kitcar 17y ago
I have a neat viral marketing / mailing list building idea for you if you like - a local radio news station here has a "weather guarantee". They have a pool of prize money which increases daily. Every day on the radio they say what their gu

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