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by kitcar 12y ago
There are a number of receipt scanning services which can provide what you're looking for (they are mostly B2B, but do what you basically suggest) https://www.shoeboxed.com/ http://www.neat.com/ etc...
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Where Does Your Popcorn Come From?(modernfarmer.com)
1 points by kitcar 12y ago|0 comments
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Facebook acquires video ad company LiveRail(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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"The F-35 is a lemon" Pierre Sprey(youtube.com)
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The Cartographer Who Mapped Out Gotham City(smithsonianmag.com)
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by kitcar 12y ago
Would be interesting to read the original paper, but it does makes some logical sense that consuming laxatives would result in some water loss, and therefore weight loss. (Some artificial sweeteners are laxatives). Unfortunately it would n
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by kitcar 12y ago
You can download free landing page templates, or use landing page hosting services like unbounce, instapage, etc... https://www.quora.com/Are-there-services-similar-to-unbounce
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by kitcar 12y ago
That's the beauty of art, different strokes for different folks. By the way, some people (like me) enjoy Warhol not for his actual artistic creations, but rather for shining a light on the absurdity of it all, akin to the storyline of
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by kitcar 12y ago
For anyone (like me) wondering who Japan Power Plus / what they built: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-or...
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by kitcar 12y ago
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but that is simply not true. You can dedicate your whole life to a task - being more persistent than anyone else has in the history of the world - and still fail. It's actually a pretty common occu
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by kitcar 12y ago
http://uship.com/
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by kitcar 12y ago
A few reasons - but high level Google and FB didn't always support easy remarketing integration, hence a lot of big media agencies and companies are "grandfathered" into using services like AdRoll. It takes businesses a long
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Why can’t America get the sidewalk café right?(thesmartset.com)
66 points by kitcar 12y ago|77 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
More specifically - you can't refuse to give your SIN to a financial institution or to your employer (as for 99% of Canadians those are their main sources of income, and because those entities need to submit information to the governme
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Wu-Tang Clan redefines music as art, will release only one copy of new album(montrealgazette.com)
2 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
Personally, I prefer when people just say they are co-founders when there are no employees at the company. Kind of pretentious to introduce yourself as the Chief Executive Officer of no one.
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Ghostbusters, the greatest movie ever made about Republican economic policy(qz.com)
2 points by kitcar 13y ago|0 comments
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by kitcar 13y ago
From what I have been told by YC alum the assignment process for application review is randomized, meaning it is hypothetically possible that a direct competitor may read your application. As a counter point, if you want to raise external f
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by kitcar 13y ago
Ask yourself this: why can't the founders afford to pay market salaries if they have successful businesses already, and had previous success with fundraising? It's likely not that they can't pay you market wages, but rather t
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by kitcar 13y ago
Technically they already "sell advertising"; they just outsource the actual selling of the ads to Google (as they set your homepage to Google by default, and have a rev-share agreement with Google for any clicks on Ads in Google s
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by kitcar 13y ago
This is a phenomenal Easter egg: http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06346944 (A corporate Id number for the fictional space mineral extraction company is flashed on a screen in the movie - a search on that corporate Id
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by kitcar 13y ago
A free solution is use Cloudflare, which you can setup to serve a custom page when your server is unreachable. On that custom page include a feed from twitter / facebook / blogspot.com.
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by kitcar 13y ago
There is a Toronto startup that plays in this space for the enterprise - http://www.guardly.com
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by kitcar 13y ago
I'm not knowledgeable, but some total guesses: 1) As blu-ray is a consumer product its probably manufactured in greater quantities than backup grade tapes, and therefore can be had lower in price, and there are more vendors to source t
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by kitcar 13y ago
Mockups w/photoshop = information architecture / user interface designer Managing workers and segmenting tasks = project management both are available as fields of study and are defined roles in most businesses -
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by kitcar 13y ago
Wood is basically more expensive than plastic for mass-manufactured items. The basic raw material is more expensive. You can't source a large volume of aesthetically-identical pieces, so its harder to produce identical items. You can&#
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by kitcar 13y ago
True. Get them to be an investor in your firm, and that risk is reduced.
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by kitcar 13y ago
One thing to note about a lot of "infrastructure" businesses is it can make business sense for them to offer deep discounts to large customers to cover their overhead - they then make their profit by selling whatever excess capaci
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by kitcar 13y ago
That would be a great (yet unsatisfying) twist for the end of a low budget sci-fi movie.
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by kitcar 13y ago
Yes, it will be a step down - but then again, SV has the strongest tech scene in the world, so pretty much anywhere would be a step down! That being said, these will likely be of interest to you / get you familiar with who the players

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