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by morisy 16y ago
Incredibly honest interview. $2 million in seed funding, three to four million dollars in expenses, and single digit subscribers . It sounds from the interview, though, that one of the major problems was they came from an enterprise backgr
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The End of Verifiable.com(eagereyes.org)
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Actually, I think the author meant "Google's hit" as in "successful".
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As a journalist, I agree that many of the problems he points out are endemic, although I'd go farther to say they typify almost all news. I liked the approach that http://scienceblogs.com/ , though apparently they've had some harsh times
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Terms of Service, done right.(outright.com)
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I had the same thoughts, though my co-founder and I had been looking for a clear explanation of this tricky topics for months before the movie. I'm glad it came out, pushed by popular culture or not. As for the factuality of the movie's dil
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We're going through this right now, too, and we've finally found our first paying* customer. What I found helpful was introductions, and in this case, even introductions made through a cold call. I'd been pounding away for weeks, signing up
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Groupon in Retrospect(posiescafe.com)
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Offline community is such an important part of building online community, and Patron captured this well, but the part I really liked about this post was how they looked at the typical available options (hosting parties at a bar) and then to
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I would argue that people need to stop making generic social networks. But take a look at sites like StackExchange: It is definitely a "social network", even though it doesn't have friend requests, only recently added photo uploads (and o
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I feel like there has got to be a gotcha or two in there, but if not, this is great news. I wonder how much the proliferating netbook market is to blame for it?
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A friend of mine was actually in almost the exact same situation recently. He was offered 8%, vested over four years, plus about a quarter salary with promise of full salary (or at least full-er salary) on a second funding around. For the
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by morisy 16y ago
Lies, damned lies and visualizations. A great article, and a good backing for why visualizations (even in the form of damned PowerPoints) are so important when selling an idea, strategy or action, but not necessarily for the build up to mak
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Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News(mashable.com)
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I dunno, I'd hardly call CarbonMade's users "Normals": Concept artists? Fashion Stylist? Photographers? Instead, I'd call that a good old-fashioned "target market." They don't seem to be targeting the 99% SpencerFry calls out as "normals" o
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by morisy 17y ago
Only slightly related, but a number of media outlets are currently talking about cartelizing their web subscriptions. I think that Michael_Dorman's largely correct on this issue, however: If they do find they can even legally follow on your
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by morisy 17y ago
Great point. I would add the caveat that "online ads as they currently exist simply don't ...". Jeff Jarvis ( http://www.buzzmachine.com/ ) has been pushing papers to jump into marketing packages that go beyond the ad/CPM model. It requires
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by morisy 17y ago
Interesting analysis, but with 80% of the profit going direct to the journalist, I have a hard time imagining how they give their sales staff a decent commission AND cover their overhead. In such sales-driven industries, the commission alon
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by morisy 17y ago
"Most importantly, know how to answer the following question: 'What do you want to do if I hire you.'" Great advice, and not just for startups. I think every major internship I had, the hiring manager asked me that. A few times, I had no re
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by morisy 17y ago
An "obfuscation" wall, if you will. The rule is, if you come from Google, the answer is hidden at the bottom of the page, behind a bunch of things that say you need to sign in. But if you don't come from Google, the answer is hidden unles
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by morisy 17y ago
"SO makes money and the StackExchange platform makes money." If StackOverflow was really profitable , they probably wouldn't have been messing around with Google Ads and Amazon book affiliate links. Those things make 0 money, even Jeff's o
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by morisy 17y ago
Thanks for including the original link, dsplittgerber, because the actual article is rather misleading, attributing the underperformance to "vanity" via some ancient Rome anecdote without real evidence. He ignores the paper's own author's h
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NPR and WSJ Building iPad-Only Websites(readwriteweb.com)
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We're not an amenity: How an entrepreneur grew his deluxe fountain sales(latimes.com)
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Fortune's 20 Best Companies to Work For in 2010 (Graphic)(mint.com)
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by morisy 17y ago
I'm sorry to hear about that chegra84. Hope things are more on track now. I don't know of pithy sayings, but something along the lines of "going through the proper channels" is deeply ingrained in a lot of people. Following that advice has
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by morisy 17y ago
I didn't mean Apple was uninterested in Android at all. Quite the contrary. What I meant was that they're uninterested in the lower end, lower margin feature phone market that Android is successfully wading into with partners like HTC and M
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Ah, I knew I was missing that! I was shocked when I couldn't recall that. And it's exactly the "social media" feature phone I was talking about. Thanks :)
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As Timthorn mentioned, a high growth rate from a small base isn't really impressive. Last year, it was on one U.S. carrier, and T-Mobile at that. Now, everyone but AT&T has it. Aside from that, however, Android's tackling a range of dev
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I was rather shocked when some of my friends went to go work with the big networks about what's staged and what's real. It's not an uncommon, for example, to interview someone with the camera on them 100% of the time, and then the interview

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