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by mediaman 17y ago
Sorry, please see comments rule 1: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." I assume that, in their presence, you would not make insulting comments about othe
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by mediaman 17y ago
$300 isn't very much when you look at the loaded costs of setting up and running a coop. Offices are expensive. And if not an office, I'm not sure how one would ever create a 24 hour coffee shop. A typical Starbucks lives off of customers w
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by mediaman 17y ago
Indeed, what's so curious about this article is that Starbucks was the poster child for selling the experience versus the coffee, and has been used in many case studies to demonstrate exactly that point.
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by mediaman 17y ago
The standardization of words permits their quick understanding. The further fractured a language becomes, the harder it becomes to process.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Doing pseudocode tests and such would probably weed out the worst offenders. The toughest part is how companies that do not already have internal programming competence select employees and contractors for positions requiring coding experti
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Ask HN: Sales Letters
2 points by mediaman 17y ago|2 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
Spoken like someone who's been there. My first business had fantastic NPVs and enjoyed great economics. Only problem was that it took 6-8 months payback period. That put some serious hurt in our growth. The business is doing nicely and make
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by mediaman 17y ago
I've been using the Mac for some time and didn't know about this feature. Thanks for the tip. I'd been missing a way to do this behavior as well.
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by mediaman 17y ago
I recommend VirtualBox as well. I haven't used Fusion but have used Parallels, and VirtualBox has become my default VM. Being free and GPL doesn't hurt at all.
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by mediaman 17y ago
This is true, particularly for direct marketing agencies, but many traditional agencies are focused more on brand-building than CPA/CPL. Selling to direct marketers is much easier than traditional agencies for this reason. There's a million
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by mediaman 17y ago
I'll ignore the question of IQ as it relates to its relevance to anything. Humans suffer from a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. It means that if facts contradict what they believe to be true, they will invent reasons why the facts d
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by mediaman 17y ago
Interesting. Is what you might consider "real content" (i.e. longer form, more substance, not popcorn ideas) lost on the web? Or is there still a place for it? I notice that when I write shorter articles it's much easier to get coverage for
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by mediaman 17y ago
I do run a company. It grosses a few million a year, so I'd be in the position to "get the gist". These posts may be helpful for people who've never done a startup before, or are very early in their current one, but are not useful for peopl
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by mediaman 17y ago
I agree. People should write more about specific challenges they had, and how they overcame them. Talk about the tough bank negotiation. Or when your biggest customer threatened to leave. Or didn't pay. Either something controversial or, be
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Startup Finance: How to Boost Cash Flow for Growing Companies(markenomics.com)
2 points by mediaman 17y ago|0 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
I think it's OK to have some ads on there to defray your costs. No annoying ads, of course, but I'm sure a Valley law firm would be happy to sponsor it. And I think people would be happy to use it as long as it's well-moderated. The only pr
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by mediaman 17y ago
Best advice. It has to hurt people when they type in their credit card details. If it doesn't, it's too cheap. You'll make far more money turning a few cheap customers away while capturing the surplus of people who actually have a serious p
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by mediaman 17y ago
Nice catch! Very misleading title. I thought they had $5mm in sales until I read your comment and looked more closely. I think Warner does this a lot with his articles -- he's full of hyperbole. A proper editor would not have put that in th
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by mediaman 17y ago
But what if you can organize a carpenter company such that it can do twice as much construction work as before? Does that not give you two houses whereas before you had one? Why should you ascribe value to the first house, but not the secon
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by mediaman 17y ago
This is powerful, and I believe that the revenue stream will ultimately make up far more than one third of the firm's total sales as the article suggests. Peer to peer commerce relies heavily on social networks to guarantee quality of goods
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by mediaman 17y ago
Zimbabwe, above, is actually correct in that she does not ignore the situation. Rand looks down upon such monied-without-effort people, but offers no useful solution. Also, I don't understand how people so readily apply vast utilities to ca
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by mediaman 17y ago
There's three factors here: (1) What does "rich" mean? If it is net worth of >$1bn, it is more common to have taken investment at some point. At $50mm, it is far less common. (2) What does "investor" mean? If it is VC, it's not true at
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by mediaman 17y ago
For some reason I interpreted this title as a role playing game in which one has the opportunity to be a financial compcontroller in a corporation. The implied premise of a game in which one prepares financial statements, tells vendors that
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by mediaman 17y ago
Your comment about a low appetite for risk reminds me of the entrepreneur Bob Reiss who wrote the book "Low Risk, High Reward," which was all about controlling and offloading risk in a startup. His central thesis was that good entrepreneurs
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by mediaman 17y ago
Find advisers and mentors who have run and scaled small businesses. Talk to them casually and ask if they'd be willing to offer advice on occasion. That's how I did it, and I built to 15 employees while avoiding many (but not all!) of the c
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by mediaman 17y ago
I read through your notes on the Dale-Krueger study and found them educational. I was not aware that their study's results indicated the opposite of the general conclusion it's often cited to support -- particularly when measured against tu
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by mediaman 17y ago
The present value of math skills is not just Q-N, because there are confounding factors. For example, do smarter people gravitate to quantitative careers? Do more ambitious people select quantitative careers? Do people with a better startin
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by mediaman 17y ago
I say don't lower your price. What you want to do is segment the demand curve for ER services and slice out those who are willing to pay more to avoid wasting hours of their time. It seems lowering the price would gut your revenue but you w
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by mediaman 17y ago
When you are a stockholder in a company -- LLC or subchapter S corp -- you prepare a K-1 for the owners in the firm, who each pay taxes on the passthrough income. In order to calculate personal tax due, the form includes the percentage owne
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by mediaman 17y ago
10+ years are common for more mature businesses. Usually the leases I've signed are 3-5 years (three is the shortest they usually come for commercial space). Most leases are 7-10 years; bigger or more established companies will do 10+. Some

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