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by lurker 18y ago
Godin's company is Squidoo. It's an odd little web page builder thing. A "Lens" is what he calls a "page". Because if he called it a page, then no one would care. Now almost no one does.
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by lurker 18y ago
>> It reads like a load of over-dramatized crap. All of Godin's work is over-dramatized crap. That's his shtick.
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by lurker 18y ago
"One disadvantage of living off the revenues of your company is that you have to keep running it." that's an odd "disadvantage", Paul. It implies that running my company is something I don't want to do. Don't know about you, but I LOVE runn
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by lurker 18y ago
is techcrunch spamming YNews? why would copies of the same story be at the top of the news list?
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by lurker 19y ago
you mean like 37Signals? ok, they're in chicago, not iowa (same thing, right?) But they didn't have connections until they created bitchin products. The connections are the easy part.
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Gary Gygax D&D Obit(nytimes.com)
14 points by lurker 19y ago|1 comments
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by lurker 19y ago
Here's the only answer you need: It doesn't matter. You can make it work. You're a motivated developer/entrepreneur. You'll be fine. Work whichever variables (roommates, location, dining, etc.) you want to meet your budget, but this town is
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by lurker 19y ago
Dude, quit your job.
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by lurker 19y ago
haha! I love those aging commies at the Guardian.
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by lurker 19y ago
Here's two random data points for you: 1. I, coincidentally this morning, just asked my first question on LinkedIn. I had my first answer in 25 minutes. Done. 2. S&P runs a service called Vista Research. They've built a stable of expert
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by lurker 19y ago
You mention 'market research groups' and maybe that's your differentiation niche. Some statistically sound methodology that Google and LinkedIn and Yahoo don't provide. Then you can build your audience by dealing with a professional groups
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by lurker 19y ago
So you've got 2500 unique visitors this month doing 50k page views. general, social network traffic might generate $1-2 cpm so that's $100/month in revenue. if you have a high value niche with targeted, quantifiable traffic you can get tha
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by lurker 20y ago
what about Inkling? they're in chicago, which is a decidedly lesser startup hub.