medianama

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by medianama 17y ago
Gave up after Three and a half months!! There is no magic..it takes time to build a business.. In addition, Never a good idea to build a business based on what newspapers are saying or how the stock market is performing...
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by medianama 17y ago
There isn't much you can do to stop others from copying your work. The only thing that you can do however is to execute better than them... Stay focused and execute better.
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by medianama 17y ago
Good article. I am surprised very few people talk about engagement and quality of traffic on a website. We've always tracked PV/UV ratio as a measure of quality of our product and audience vis-a-vis competitors.
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by medianama 17y ago
Absolutely... I run a small but growing web business (about 500k PVs/month) thats getting very popular in its target segment. I take it as a challenge to grow it without spending money on anything other than web hosting ($40/month). Product
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by medianama 17y ago
I've observed hosting costs to grow faster than revenue :-(
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by medianama 17y ago
First mover advantage doesn't mean much unless there is a strong network effect at play...
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Ask HN: Twitter applications
1 points by medianama 17y ago|2 comments
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by medianama 17y ago
I don't think you have any point to make here... Just a preconceived notion that products businesses are better than services based businesses
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by medianama 17y ago
The objective of a business is to create returns for shareholders... and they did that pretty well. You have a very narrow definition of entrepreneurship if you think it has to be along the lines "startup founders on HN" BTW - I am not a f
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by medianama 17y ago
Thats a very immature point of view. Consulting/Body shop sounds a very easy business on paper but, its a huge challenge to scale it up. Look at their financial statements - Its a very well managed business with high growth rates and very s
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by medianama 17y ago
Join a start-up in Bangalore, India. It'll be a good experience for you. Since everybody speaks/understands English, you'll not feel out of place.
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by medianama 18y ago
At this stage - building the first version of the product is more important than writing a business plan. You don't want to change priorities because of some contest. Successful start up is more important than wining a beauty contest. If yo
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by medianama 18y ago
I don't think you should participate in a business plan contest if you are really serious about that start up. The whole process is a distraction and doesn't bring any value. The downside is that you'll waste a lot of time filling templates
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by medianama 18y ago
Its the other way round in my case New Visitors : 19.15% Returning Visitors : 20.42%
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by medianama 18y ago
or WWW
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by medianama 18y ago
WEB - not sure if its available
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by medianama 18y ago
I think you are giving way too much importance to idea and timing. The reason Flickr, Youtube, Wikipedia, etc are succesful because they could execute better than their competitors and that might not change by going back in time.
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by medianama 18y ago
congratulations guys!
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by medianama 18y ago
You'll get used to it. Its always difficult understanding/negotiating contract for the first few times. I started liking that language after going through that process a few times. Tip: Try to read as slow as you can and don't miss any word
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by medianama 18y ago
Based on this month's data Internet Explorer - 55.06% Firefox - 27.94% Chrome - 14.37% Safari - 1.23% Opera - 1.17% Mozilla - 0.13% Netscape - 0.02% BlackBerry9500 - 0.01%
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by medianama 18y ago
Based on my experience - Revenue share deal with a bigger partner never works out. Unless they invest upfront and their skin is in the game, they'll not too be worried about monetizing your efforts. My suggestion - Ask for minimum guarantee
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by medianama 18y ago
I still don't understand why it should be down voted... Your value system may be different from mine. If the advice doesn't make sense to you, move on, try something else..
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by medianama 18y ago
Great! Now all my comments would be down voted... Just because you don't agree doesn't mean you should down vote me... In fact, you guys are proving my point.
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by medianama 18y ago
Now, Why was this comment down voted?
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by medianama 18y ago
Having said this - even if I have no moral values whatsoever, I don't think I should be down voted...
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by medianama 18y ago
I haven't worked with anyone who doesn't inflate numbers while pitching to customers, VCs, and/or partners. Would you consider them with no moral values as well... How do you draw a line?
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by medianama 18y ago
I didn't encourage anyone to do that. I just stated the fact to prove that journalists have a very short attention span
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by medianama 18y ago
Why is that downvoted?
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by medianama 18y ago
Its not cheating. Relentless resourcefulness is the phrase.
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by medianama 18y ago
Your mail should offer some insight to them. They must feel that your comments/viewpoint adds to the story. I've had lot of success after sending intelligent comments to articles in mainstream media. Journalists respond back, more often tha

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