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721.
by majani 12y ago
FOSS companies by design have no sustainable competitive advantages, and therefore shouldn't command high valuations. This Bubbly valuation is only being driven by comparisons with the equally silly Tumblr sale.
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by majani 13y ago
Surely you cannot expect a religious argument to do well in a scientific forum.
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by majani 13y ago
Realtors & hosting companies.
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by majani 13y ago
Nope. As long as it's wildly profitable, it shall be done.
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by majani 13y ago
Quora's largest source of traffic is a third world country, India(source is Gawker, which is blocked on HN) As harsh as this will sound, that automatically puts it into the garbage pile of advertiser profiles. They are never getting 80
726.
by majani 13y ago
if it were anywhere else in the world, we'd immediately be calling it out for exactly what it is: barefaced corruption amongst the incestuous VCs. But since the Valley has convinced many that it's the meritocratic mecca for former
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by majani 13y ago
I would say the perception for me is just that mobile browsing just sucks overall. Most of these apps are also slow as hell for me.
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by majani 13y ago
in this post, he's telling people not to chase big exits, yet elsewhere, he is spotted aggressively flossing his big exit money: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITkYtwmM-OU&ctp=CAIQpDAiEwj...
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by majani 13y ago
This reads like a satire considering Cuban made his money doing literally everything in that article, except the Stanford bit. I spent the whole article waiting for the point where he would say, "just kidding, don't hate the playe
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KNH confirms cure for cervical cancer(standardmedia.co.ke)
2 points by majani 13y ago|0 comments
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by majani 13y ago
I'm from 88mph's first ever batch. AMA
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by majani 13y ago
I'm from 88mph's first batch. in Nairobi. They gave me 25k USD to test out my idea to build Kenya's first blog network( http://ghafla.co.ke http://tambaa.co.ke and http://duwaa.co.ke ). Nee
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Whatsapp is the 2nd biggest tech acquisition of all time(businessinsider.com)
1 points by majani 13y ago|0 comments
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by majani 13y ago
I think they don't charge countries that don't support payment on app store
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by majani 13y ago
"Much more than they can see is how it'll always be, believe me" De La Soul - Much More http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VojfkAZZqXA
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by majani 13y ago
The man was foolish to reveal his stellar earnings to the international press while living in a third world, communist, authoritarian country where many businessmen travel with fleets of bodyguards. As someone who also lives in a similar co
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by majani 13y ago
Apple engineers get paid below the market average HENCE they work at one of the most profitable companies of all time
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by majani 13y ago
check out IPO roadshow presentations for an idea of what goes on at that level
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by majani 13y ago
With nearly 5 years under its belt, zero revenue, grossly overvalued at 400m$, new blog features backfiring, silly registration tactics, I see no reason why people should bother to cover this product. Its got nothing going for it at the mom
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by majani 13y ago
"with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irritating ads with zooming cars and flying coke cans" Seems like the ads are working to me.
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by majani 13y ago
They are doing value-based pricing, not cost-based pricing. They feel that the content is worth 5 bucks, and so do their hundreds of thousands of online subscribers. If you don't, no love lost. There are other places you can get your n
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by majani 13y ago
"You can't exactly have people taking phone calls..." you know what's absurd? That people still believe that it would be impossible for Google to set up some support lines. They make over 10billion dollars per year in pu
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by majani 13y ago
Your name looks South American. I can verify that a similar situation exists in Africa, right down to the numbers you stated.
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Ask HN: How can you tell between an Adsense banner and a DFP banner at a glance?
2 points by majani 13y ago|0 comments
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by majani 13y ago
Location data.
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by majani 13y ago
Wow, Bob's army actually got their attention. It was becoming scary how prevalent he was, but I still didn't think Google would care. Shows how low my faith in their user support has fallen.
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by majani 13y ago
I think the native advertising trend is taking care of the awful advertising problem. Ads that look and feel just like the product are way more palatable than banners. Only problem now is scaling native ads. The opportunity here is for a na
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by majani 13y ago
What percentage does Groupon charge merchants nowadays? I presume their 50% commission had to move back somewhat?
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by majani 13y ago
It is, if you Google hard enough ;-)
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by majani 13y ago
This thread was in the top 5 on the homepage just minutes ago, and now it's plummeting like nothing I've ever seen before. Cases of heavy handed moderation like these make me doubt the integrity of this forum.

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