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   by markbao 16y ago

   Good answer. I didn't know that—that should be on your site somewhere :)
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   by markbao 16y ago

   I know we've been told to "double your price. then double it again." but does the same apply in hugely saturated market spaces like hosting? Lots of hosts will bill you $8/month, oversell their servers, but still give you big numbers AND in
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   by markbao 16y ago

   I wrote a simple plugin to update Facebook and Twitter statuses when I published a new post in WordPress. Simply authenticating to Facebook took about 2 hours of work, following API links that no longer worked and linked to Bing searches, e
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   by markbao 16y ago

   I don't feel like those two are mutually exclusive. Nor that $100M could be all his liquid assets—if he does indeed have $100M to donate, then chances are good that he has more.
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   by markbao 16y ago

   Seriously. Now I'm curious. Salary and bonuses? SecondMarket?
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   by markbao 16y ago

   >And if you did, why would you deny wrongdoing in a tone that signals to readers that you're incapable of caring or acknowledging if what you're doing is wrong? Because if he were to go ahead and write a mild-mannered piece about the co
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   by markbao 16y ago

   From... six critics. That's like saying you got a 100% increase in conversions... from two trials.
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   by markbao 16y ago

   Then you obviously haven't heard of Dave before this and are judging his business acumen by his writing style. Dave is an extremely smart (enough for inDinero, Twilio, and KISSmetrics to have him as an angel investor) and well-connected guy
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   by markbao 16y ago

   Hacker News is a community of people who have what Dharmesh Shah calls a "genetic defect" that makes them crazy enough to start a startup. It's true. A subset of the people in the world are crazy enough to do something this high-risk high-y
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    by markbao 16y ago

    In mine, it's not. 80% of the current textbooks I'm using (freshman textbooks, at that) are unavailable on any filesharing site.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I wouldn't say so. Pirating textbooks is much harder than pirating music. The entry point is $0.99 for pirating music; it is $150+ plus scanning (or somehow obtaining a PDF version of the textbook) for textbooks.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Bro. You got into USC. You're doing quite well, at least better than me :)
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Mitch Kapor spoke and told the history of Lotus last year at Startup Bootcamp. Enlightening.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I'm in college, but yes, like I've always done.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Really appreciate it, man. Jason has been too busy lately, so he's dropping to an advisory role instead of a co-founder, hence this post.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Wow—thank you so much! You just made my day :)
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I'm looking for someone focused on marketing with an interest in family and social networks. The startup is a family sharing/storage app called Genevine http://genevine.com -- almost 100% built and on 2.0 but need a marketing-focused co-f
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    Ask HN: Is a free plan worth it or not? Trying to figure out our pricing

    29 points by markbao 16y ago|29 comments
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    by markbao 16y ago

    PayPal is absolute trash for payment processing. Horror stories aplenty. Take the time to obtain a merchant account.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    > "I remember telling David Filo in late 1998 or early 1999 that Yahoo should buy Google, because I and most of the other programmers in the company were using it instead of Yahoo for search. He told me that it wasn't worth worrying ab
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Ah, yeah, aware. Should have put something up. Thanks!
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Which helpdesk did you use that didn't really work out?
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Thanks! Yeah... I'll try to move things around to get it to work.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Latest Mac dev, 6.0.472.25 dev - with Don't Break the Chain, Concentrate, website screenshot thing, Evernote, and User-Agent spoofer (which doesn't work.)
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    by markbao 16y ago

    That's an interesting idea, though I don't know if it would be the best or easiest way to structure it. Thanks, though!
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Not a bad idea — one of the things we wanted to limit to higher accounts was whitelabeling. Re: no free plan: I don't know if this would work - won't people want to try it longer, and wouldn't a free plan work towards our favor in word-of-m
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Thanks! We're working on getting attachments working by next week. I've heard that others have problems with Tender too — hopefully we'll be able to fix those.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Thanks! We're always on the lookout for competitors, so this is great to know. Thank you.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Ah, good to know. I've been told the screenshots are pretty useless. I'll cook up an updated UI for that page that explains things a little better. (And we now have a lot more features that aren't covered.) Thank you!
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    by markbao 16y ago

    +1 on that. I don't think telling people "pay you can't use this software for 15 more days" is going to convert well for us for the next month. Thank you.