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by larrys 12y ago
"because most investors still do not understand how powerful a low churn recurring revenue stream is" Isn't this a problem then with educated them and selling them? If it fits with the rest of your strategy maybe you could do
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by larrys 12y ago
"Might work." Not going to work and it can't work. If the strategy was to put the company in bankruptcy then they can't pay any debts out of bankruptcy period. It wouldn't be legal. As a side note whatever chance yo
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by larrys 12y ago
"If you sell network equipment, the basic concept of comparative advantage almost guarantees that Cisco can do a better job extracting value from it than you can." Doesn't take into account branding, sales, and marketing of a
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by larrys 12y ago
"There was no technological reason." Ok stipulated. But under the "every man for himself", um, "doctrine" the attorney should have made a more noble effort even if it ended up in failure. [1] Kind of the relate
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by larrys 12y ago
"Justice Roberts asked for a _technological_ reason." But counsel didn't answer (from what I'm reading, if I'm wrong please correct me obviously) with a technological answer. If I say to you "speed isn't
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by larrys 12y ago
I agree that they could have done better on this point (and I've upvoted you). What I don't agree with though is that your answer hit the hot button. At least in the way the justice was "lob-lawing" the ball. The softbal
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by larrys 12y ago
"you're going to hire a bunch of folks who will do that job to your script on the telephone all day, every day" Cracking this particular market without a super motivated and nicely paid phone force is really difficult. SMB ar
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by larrys 12y ago
Used to own a business that sold advertising in the same college market. Be very careful when extending credit to advertisers. The sale is only one part. The other part is collecting the money. Would suggest you try and not extend credit an
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by larrys 12y ago
"even if they are not expert in that part of the law" Agree. And what's even more dangerous is someone with legal background but not years of experience that is able to weigh, on gut, the pros and the cons of adding that lega
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by larrys 12y ago
Just google " "when is it legal to lie in negotiations""
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by larrys 12y ago
This is important to always consider, as a reason that having someone with a legal background can sometimes contradict entrepreneurship: "Note that such lies are not always illegal. Rather, the law is content to leave the ultimate ques
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by larrys 12y ago
Paywall - To get this full article use the google link: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd... (Or Google "when is it legal to lie in negotiations")
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When Is It Legal to Lie in Negotiations? (1991)(sloanreview.mit.edu)
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by larrys 12y ago
Also noting that with the exception of Frist a quick read shows no connection to healthcare. As others noted these board members appear for another purpose such as government issues or attracting others by the halo of their importance.
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by larrys 12y ago
"What would you recommend doing if I wanted to see which are valuable?" If people are approaching you to buy them that is one indicator of value. In general domains are a numbers game. If you own a large quantity of decent names y
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by larrys 12y ago
"You do realize that that 'parking spot' has had my highest income website on it for over a decade with about 100K visitors daily even at the low times?" Why even "apologize" like that? You don't have to.
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by larrys 12y ago
I understand that you said your broker did a good job for you so I'm sure others would want to contact him. For example the parent commenter. But if you follow the links the site premiumurls.net redirects to twitter and the whois info
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by larrys 12y ago
Right. But nothing in the above explanation seems to address the "shift the supply/demand landscape" which you said influenced you selling at this time. As far as "20 years worth of revenues" I had a domain related
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by larrys 12y ago
That was his asking price.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Seems like a bad time to be buying domains" In general, buying a great domain with the hope of selling it later for more money is a bad idea. Unless you can steal it and the chance of that happening is slim. And you can wait 5 or
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by larrys 12y ago
I'd be curious if you could do a post on that. I'm in the business and while I can't predict the future I don't see it that way. At least in the short term long term of course anything is possible obviously. While to oth
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by larrys 12y ago
I own one of these things as well. For the benefit of others on HN although I've never received a quote from a broker to market a 2l which I own I have on other domains. Generally anywhere from 7 to 15%. I've also had brokers take
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by larrys 12y ago
In this case I agree with you (stands on its own) but otoh I think in terms of some of the major contributors to HN a less interesting story is often worth reading just for that fact. As the person who posted the story I would have posted
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by larrys 12y ago
Perhaps if Jacques is not willing to give the price that he sold the name for he could mention the % that the broker received for the sale and/or the gross commission. Edit: I'm curious why the HN handle of the seller was removed
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WW.com Sold in Private(domaininvesting.com)
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Question - Wouldn't it be possible to provide a static version of the site, operating elsewhere, when there are connectivity or maintenance (what this says) for the main site? Even if outdated by X hours would still be better than gett
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Stack is down (says maintenance) why not static site?(stackoverflow.com)
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by larrys 12y ago
"Great example of something good for the restaurant owner" You could also argue that pushing desert is bad as well (sugar, fats etc.) Where do you draw the line though? What about the entire meal at the restaurant - it's not
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by larrys 12y ago
"Yet the prospect of fine-grained, digital monitoring of workers’ behavior worries privacy advocates. Companies, they say, have few legal obligations other than informing employees. “Whether this kind of monitoring is effective or not,
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by larrys 12y ago
"Now that product info is ubiquitous, the author says, the role of brands and traditional advertising is declining" Declining but still very important. All else equal someone will make a purchase from a brand that they have used,

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