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by majani 8y ago
Can't the third party instead raise the money for loans from investors?
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by majani 8y ago
The web is not all bullshit. It's just that certain areas of business online it are incentivized to get bloated and others aren't. I learnt this through personal experience: On one hand, I own a news site, and on the other hand, I
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by majani 8y ago
To answer your question, exits.com is a great resource for people seeking smaller acquisitions. If I may insert a personal opinion, I feel like for single person businesses, the potential upside is so great for you that it's going to b
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by majani 8y ago
He raises a good point about the law of large numbers. When your core business is doing $75b and has 95% market share, it's near impossible to find other lines of business to complement that core in a meaningful way. I'd go as far
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by majani 8y ago
You actually want Amazon to march into your country and eat up your local e-commerce market? That is incredibly short sighted. If you could take a step back and realize how important the software revolution is in the modern economy, you&#x2
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by majani 8y ago
cryptocurrency seems to me like a group of computer scientists learning Econ 101 from first principles but vehemently denying the conclusions.
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All the dreams you mentioned can be achieved earning anything over $100k per year in a company with good work-life balance located in a place with reasonable cost of living.
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and yet they still make mind boggling losses with no end in sight. I think in the next 10 years Netflix will serve as a reality check that shows why content creators have had to resort to their ugly business practices.
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funny thing is, there are also tons of influencer marketplaces and agencies, it's a space with incredibly low barrier to entry. Thing about the marketplace is, there is little incentive on either side for the influencers or clients not
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by majani 8y ago
I think the majority of people that get large disposable income are heavily influenced by lifestyle marketing. The tech crowd tends to be the exception with our frugal, down to earth ways despite earning lots of money.
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by majani 8y ago
I agree, except where you say it's a new phenomenon. Ever since the dawn of YouTube, the maniacal style of exaggerated content has always risen to the top, only to crash down after a few years. First it was Fred, then Smosh, then RWJ,
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by majani 8y ago
Profit is not usually the motive in a fire sale. The motive is to salvage something small from a bad situation. Doing good is a competitive proposition if you look at it that way
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by majani 8y ago
Isn't the largest cost of most online business the staff? This cost would reduce 10x if given to third world devs and surely that will put most of these flailing websites in the black
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Pressure sales tactics, spamming and hijacking the last click are the things that really work in affiliate marketing
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I've been mulling a form of charity where instead of closing down a once famous website, you give it to some talented developers in a poorer country to maintain it remotely. There are good developers in third world countries who get pa
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by majani 8y ago
The only way to eliminate all waste in advertising is to use an affiliate marketing model and that's the biggest cesspool of them all.
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by majani 8y ago
Firefox has major issues with scrolling and also with a lot of plugins that claim to be available on mobile but simply don't work. They need to do a marketing push because nobody wins when one browser has monopoly share on an OS, espec
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also a rush of reviews could mean that there was a downsizing
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mobile is clearly still secondary to them, judging by the list of improvements to each. A sorry state of affairs that few here seem to be calling out
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From the comparison of the lists, looks like desktop is still their focus, which points to a sad level of navel gazing for an internet company in 2018. Makes me question whether they are focused on competing with Chrome or whether they just
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by majani 8y ago
There was a viral post on HN back in the day that demoed how the web would look like with seamless page loads instead of JavaScript. The consensus then was that the blank page and spinning gifs were good UI for showing that your click has l
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by majani 8y ago
Unfortunately Google and Microsoft tend to make their money from solving hard tech problems, which results in natural monopolies or duopolies.
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by majani 9y ago
Not really. The luxury market is less about fulfilling basic needs and more about telling a good story and differentiating the owners of luxury from normal people
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by majani 9y ago
Don't forget the reaction of the reaction video.
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by majani 9y ago
The 'worth' of a private investor's portfolio is a vanity metric. A more precise measure of YC's success would be money invested VS realized returns. Are those figures available?
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VC backed startups are only about 1% of the total: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230011
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by majani 9y ago
Is there any successful social network that launched with a big splash? Big launches seem counter productive in social. You have a shitload of random people signing up, only to find that their friends are not yet on the network and they lea
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by majani 9y ago
Publishers are getting squeezed out of the web by various forces. There is this GDPR, then there is also the web giants Facebook and Google squeezing them with their algorithms and in-app browsers. However, I'd say the net effect is po
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Or maybe they could focus on just the video hosting bit which they are excellent at. Charge large creators for disk space and ad tools. Then they could outsource the ad stuff to partner ad networks who would take the brunt of the bad PR, bu
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by majani 9y ago
Sometimes I wonder if YouTube should cut their losses regarding this whole revenue sharing thing. It's so far caused so much grief and losses for them and it doesn't seem to be able to sustain high quality content like it was inte

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