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by maxklein 16y ago
I think you'll find it a bit difficult if you don't explain where the growth is going to come from. It's easy to make a trickle of money, but will it grow enough to make an investor his money back and more?
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by maxklein 16y ago
My suggestion would be simpler : have a "this is not hacker news" queue. It's like the frontpage, but it's for the stuff that is "not hackernews". Whenever something hits the frontpage that people feel does not belong, instead of whining, t
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by maxklein 16y ago
The only reason it's skewed towards young people is because software is a VERY young industry! People who did not grow up with software just have less experience with software and are less likely to start successful companies around it. In
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by maxklein 16y ago
It's not a good idea for the founders of the site to move to India. They will get bogged down with cross-cultural issues, the pressure they will bear would be intense, and they will only be able to observe a tiny part of indian dating cultu
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by maxklein 16y ago
The EU borders are very professional and straightforward. They don't ask you personal questions or base any decisions on how you look.
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by maxklein 16y ago
The app is about chatting with people near you. First of all, that's been done before...many times, and it has not worked yet. Secondly, if they are spending so much time & money on just an icon, and ending up with an icon that does n
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by maxklein 16y ago
The biggest lesson I learned was this : really consider the long term viability of a co-founder. You need someone to work with initially, but that may not be the same person who will last out in the long-term. So be very careful when collab
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by maxklein 16y ago
Perhaps the kids should be swapped out for more obedient kids?
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by maxklein 16y ago
Why not just put a bunch of spikes 50 feet below the ground, with a lot of scattered stones cut into the shapes of skulls. Most people will get that, and it will avoid having a prominent above ground landmark. Although on the other hand, if
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by maxklein 16y ago
Of course I'm not going to bet on a company which the CEO describes as being on a burning platform. You do realise that jumping off a burning platform does not mean you fall into a safe bed, it means that you know what you're doing now does
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by maxklein 16y ago
There is no other "something" to be done to save Nokia. It brings benefit to Microsoft, and it saves Nokia.
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by maxklein 16y ago
When I read such articles, that's when you realise that people are resistant to change. It's like those people still using Windows XP because it's the best. Tech is in constant change, but at some point, some people just give up and decide
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by maxklein 16y ago
For me personally, google is much, much worse than before. I don't find what I need. What I think is sad is that alternative search engines still work almost the same as google. Of course he's going to find spam if he searches for the most
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by maxklein 16y ago
You know, often I see these long speeches, always in retrospect about how one technology won over the other with a myriad of reasons. In almost all of these cases, the winners had one thing in common: They had better user interfaces. Not qu
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by maxklein 16y ago
I come from a family of educators & private school owners, and if a teacher cannot handle a disruptive class, then we change the teacher. Children are ALWAYS disruptive. It's the natural state of things. Some teachers can solve the prob
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by maxklein 16y ago
The U.S has come a long way since then. I wonder what happened to all those drug addicted people - where do they live now?
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by maxklein 16y ago
Well, that sucks for us normal people. Perhaps in a hundred years, the cognitive gap will be so large that there will be little meaningful interaction between the two groups. I wonder who'll do the boring middle management tasks then. Perha
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by maxklein 16y ago
Those are not hosting the same languages as Herouku, so there is no direct competition.
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by maxklein 16y ago
But making money is one of the most fun and meaningful games out there. You can make many people happy with the money you have, you can make your life better, you can travel to new places. If you win your fantasy football league a million t
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by maxklein 16y ago
Why play monopoly? Or play Call Of Duty? After you pass a certain income, you realise you don't really need what comes after that. But you're just enjoying the game. You're enjoying the winning. Games are not meaningless, they are fun. Th
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by maxklein 16y ago
What I'm saying is that the numbers don't add up. There are not 10 herokous or similar - platforms are a winner take all game. The market is also much smaller than consumer goods. It's not clever to think there is more opportunity in sellin
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by maxklein 16y ago
I believe you miss the point of the analogy. The analogy is not about people selling services to the gold diggers, it's about selling tools to the gold diggers. The services market would be akin to the people who sell food to the miners
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by maxklein 16y ago
Facebook Ads targeting people who are 'single', then offer those people free 'pro' upgrade if they refer 3 more of their facebook friends who are single (via a facebook share link).
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by maxklein 16y ago
The problem here is simple: The people buying pick-axes are much smaller than the people buying gold. If there are 1000 people buying gold, there are 100 people mining for gold, and 10 people selling pickaxes. So the pick-axe market is quic
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by maxklein 16y ago
All sound very complicated apart from the first two. I'd use the first two, but only if they were free. As soon as the app launched, I'd get rid of them too.
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The one thing Apple can add to the iPhone to change the world(maxkle.in)
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by maxklein 16y ago
Is this not blazingly obvious? There is no such thing as inherent beauty in the world - there is just the human perception of beauty. And we find other humans beautiful, not for some random reason, but because they will make better and fitt
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by maxklein 16y ago
70% are free I think, and drive traffic to the other 30%.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Your dogfood can be in the back-end analytics systems you build.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Think about this rationally: How much software do you actively use on your computer? I use perhaps 20 types of software. In total, I may have used 50 or 60 different software in my life. In contrast, I have about 4000 songs. One conclusion

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