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by majani 11y ago
According to the press releases from the Loopt exit, they had raised 17m at that point, and 9.8m of the acquisition was the golden handcuff for the employees. So sama probably doesn't have 10m just lying around and is probably pulling
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by majani 11y ago
Could anyone explain to me why they would do this instead of advertising/affiliate arrangements with all the ticket vendors out there?
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by majani 11y ago
why would you want to be sheltered from such a basic fact of life? Anyway, if it's any consolation, 10m is probably not small change for Sam. His biggest liquidity event so far was 40m for Loopt, so 10m is definitely a considered inves
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AussieCommerce buys LivingSocial(April 7, 2015)(insideretail.com.au)
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by majani 11y ago
That would work for an independently wealthy individual blogger. Otherwise for a blog with a sales team with aspirational dreams, when the Flash SSD advertiser expresses interest in advertising, he'll go for the deal to make his commis
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by majani 11y ago
In a world where the blatantly fraudulent sixpackshortcuts[1] is the biggest fitness channel on YouTube, I feel that a list of informative fitness channels is paramount. The only ones I've found so far are ScottHermanFitness and Jugger
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by majani 11y ago
On Opera Mini, the bullshit button doesn't work...
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by majani 11y ago
There was a redditor who explained the difference between various levels of wealth, from his real life experience dealing with rich people: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
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MPESA API(safaricom.co.ke)
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by majani 11y ago
A suggestion for the disclaimer: *this advice only applies to upper middle class white males based in Silicon Valley(or at least the US), who own trendy startups that have raised some VC funding
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OMI's 'Cheerleader' Will Be Billboard's Next #1 Hit, According to Shazam(May 8)(m.billboard.com)
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by majani 11y ago
You only see the cost as a problem because you don't have the money. Those who do have the money see it as a sustainable competitive advantage
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by majani 11y ago
It's a joke about how reddit is supposedly full of unpopular people, but strangely enough, the joke has now become about how HN is full of people who can't recognize a joke.
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by majani 11y ago
You've got a bigger chance of winning the lottery than replicating that.
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by majani 11y ago
It's not much more profitable to move to subscription model. According to Billboard's new measuring mechanisms, 1500 streams = 1 album sale. By that measure, only a handful of artists have gone 'platinum' in the streamin
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by majani 11y ago
Let's not forget Ellen Pao's husband is an openly gay male hedge fund manager. fortune.com/2012/10/25/ellen-pao-buddy-fletcher/ That to me screams that she's a big time financial schemer.
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by majani 11y ago
Currently the world's most famous athlete, Lionel Messi, is legally permitted to take HGH, one of the most potent steroids ever made, due to an earlier growth deficiency. Johann Cruyff, also considered one of the football greats, went
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by majani 11y ago
Rev share on searches that come through Firefox?
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by majani 11y ago
That's fair, but you can only reason that way with an owner who is mentally "done" with his business, or his business is flat/ declining. For entrepreneurs that feel they haven't yet attained anything close to the f
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by majani 11y ago
Trying to make work fun is a naive fool's errand. The nature of most work is to be repetitive, and repetition takes the fun out of anything.
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by majani 12y ago
this video explains why a billionaire may consider the purchase: https://youtu.be/0J6BQDKiYyM
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by majani 12y ago
I wonder if producers began to take video game movies seriously whether they could uncover a demand like what happened with comics.
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Naja Pitches on Shark Tank(youtube.com)
3 points by majani 12y ago|1 comments
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by majani 12y ago
Not really. Right now streaming services barely manage to pay even the top artists anything meaningful. This scheme would mean everyone gets paid barely anything, and the bigger artists may leave, which is an existential threat to the busin
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by majani 12y ago
Gigaom provided value to you as a reader, but what did they do for their clients, the advertisers? On a basic level, advertisers are looking for reach and frequency for their ads. These two requirements are nearly impossible for a high lev
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by majani 12y ago
Low capacity means they lack the man power to do fancy custom campaigns( think Vox Media level customization http://www.voxmedia.com/vox-advertising ) Relevance advantage means that a site is so big and important in a broad
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by majani 12y ago
I don't think Twitter realizes the value of their own search engine. If Twitter could dedicate more resources towards approximate string matching, and put Twitter search as the main attraction on the logged out homepage, it could drive
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by majani 12y ago
500k-1m users (According to Google Play doesn't seem like much. It seems more like a strategic buy to me, the way Microsoft has been trying to push the boundaries of late with cloud productivity tech
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by majani 12y ago
a company feeding a strong addiction is a good long term bet, unlike box
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by majani 12y ago
that's one of the things that I'm shocked has managed to escape the media all this long. YouTube is by and large a music video site, but that tag has never been applied because of a few other clips here and there

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