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by majani 15y ago
TL;DR if you want to build a billion dollar business, build a social network. Disappointingly thin article. 'Social' is not some magical key to the big bucks. There are no magical keys, and those who preach them are false prophets. Why are
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by majani 15y ago
I look for signs of overcoming general hardships in life. Sometimes those signs show up in a resume, sometimes I have to talk to someone for a couple of hours to find them.
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by majani 15y ago
'Engagement' is overrated. Some sites , e.g Google and Wikipedia probably have super high bounce rates, because they solve your problem on the first page you see. What if people start entering his site mainly from band pages, get all the ne
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by majani 15y ago
'The main reason middlemen exist is information asymmetry' I don't think so. The main reason middlemen exist is because there are many , many things people just couldn't be bothered to do themselves.
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Why Does This Discrimination Of Africans Still Happen?(ghafla.co.ke)
2 points by majani 15y ago|0 comments
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by majani 15y ago
I'm not buying that. He had bloody giraffes on his lawn when they were taking him away.
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by majani 15y ago
Search... plus your world!
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by majani 15y ago
Could someone in ad tech please explain to me: is ad software's inefficiency with power and load times a necessary evil, or is it some gross incompetence from leaders in the field?
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by majani 15y ago
Yes, that's one of HN's biggest annoyances. When you consider HN's user experience (open article in new tab, read for five minutes, then return to HN tab) it's a misplaced 'feature'
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by majani 15y ago
Is acquihire just a Silicon Valley concept? Where I'm from, a big company is probably gonna offer you a massive salary rather than buy out a product with no potential.
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by majani 15y ago
The main takeaway here(if true) is about branding. There is hardly any proprietary software any more these days, it's been largely commoditised. In this situation, the wise words of Warren Buffet ring true. He said that the best investment
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by majani 15y ago
Here's another tip: I'm African, and I don't understand what you are talking about here. Maybe the next entertainment innovation should force global scale...
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by majani 15y ago
What has been your biggest mistake(s) so far?
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by majani 15y ago
Agreed. Torrents without some sort of user feedback mechanism is a disaster waiting to happen.
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by majani 15y ago
Buddy exits like this one and the Hunch exit are very demoralising. They make startups look like some sort of game. As you indicated, Loopt was clearly dying ( http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=loopt.com&cmpt=... ) and yet peop
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Ask HN: How are the conversions like on Opera Mini ads?
1 points by majani 15y ago|0 comments
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by majani 15y ago
This sounds like the story of a non technical founder. In my experience they are the ones most susceptible to faffing around with branding nonsense in a desperate attempt to contribute something meaningful to the startup
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by majani 15y ago
Necessary. Here's the pathetic voice assistant they used to use on the S-Class : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bateVoomrTY
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by majani 15y ago
Why doesn't tech media consider Opera Mini when writing about browser wars? It's always Chrome this or Firefox that, but somehow Opera Mini and its 100 million users are not worthy?
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by majani 15y ago
I think they are giving new users way too many hoops to jump through before they can start having fun with the site. First, get a Fb account, then get an invite, then use a real name they are comfortable with, then get some credits, and enj
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by majani 15y ago
Your argument beats around the bush. You and I both know that if TPB were to charge, their traffic would drop by several orders of magnitude. This is not because of logistics, not because of image, not because of inefficient distribution
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by majani 15y ago
Facebook really needs a 'friend clean up' tool ASAP. The problem of having irrelevant friends is huge.
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by majani 15y ago
I've found that in the recent piracy debates, there has been a high level of dishonesty, where people don't want to admit that the absolute number one reason people resort to piracy is because that shit is free. I'd like to challenge the fo
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by majani 15y ago
The 'crap' probably brings in a lot of money, so it's not that cut and paste.
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by majani 15y ago
He said that investors pressure you to run at a loss so they can plow more money in and grab more equity. Sounds like a bit of a conspiracy theory, but I'm currently running my angel-backed company at break-even, approximately 30% monthly g
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by majani 15y ago
The articles on the web are wrongly portraying Mocality as the little startup that could. Truth is, Mocality is a division of a 14 billion dollar media giant called Naspers. Not saying that Google is right or anything, but I think some peop
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by majani 15y ago
You don't have to build a fancy web 2.0 user-generated social-local-mobile app to be worth something. As long as someone has created value for a lot of people, then whatever you have built is worth a lot. PS: from personal experience I find
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by majani 15y ago
I'm currently mocking and misunderstanding Foursquare and Turntable.fm. Which startups are you mocking right now?
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by majani 15y ago
The copyright holders won't be taking down the rogue sites,they will be blocking them to US visitors. It's basically the same experience as the rest of the world gets with VEVO,Hulu and the like, except that US citizens won't get the polite
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The hypocrisy of SOPA protests
5 points by majani 15y ago|9 comments

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