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by nedwin 13y ago
That could be true. The risk is that it prices the low to mid wage workers out with AirBNB not even keeping them in an area. I'd love to see a study on the average income of AirBNB hosts outside of their AirBNB income.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Anecdata: I stayed in NY last January with a guy who had 10 different places from Greenpoint to Williamsburg.
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by nedwin 13y ago
"56% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco said they use their Airbnb income to help pay their mortgage or rent." If these people didn't use AirBNB they couldn't afford their rent. They'd move out or find a cheaper place
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by nedwin 13y ago
The lobbyists were lobbying to get the new system setup in a way that was favourable to them. That doesn't mean the new system is inherently wrong.
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by nedwin 13y ago
To reduce his risk. Now he has a bunch of other smart people who have some skin in the game. They have motivation to help him succeed - which should encourage them to help him grow and eventually to find an exit of some sort. He might be a
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by nedwin 13y ago
Someone has to handle that transaction - like Coinbase. Part of their risk is that Coinbase, still an early stage company, isn't reliable enough to process their volume. They could have issues with how they process transactions, all ki
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by nedwin 13y ago
I think you can find this kind of work on oDesk at the same if not higher rates. In Texas you should be able to at least double the rate as a junior developer, if not triple it - a sure sign that you might be better off hunting around for a
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by nedwin 13y ago
400 customers and $370m in transactions. So average customer is doing less than $1m in transactions a year. Will be interesting to see if they can retain customers as they grow, I guess that's the reasoning behind volume pricing.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Nice! I think our customers would love to use this tool - is there a way we can work together? ned@tweaky.com
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by nedwin 13y ago
I think the moral is "practice makes perfect". Nice work!
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by nedwin 13y ago
Andy Warhol made things for insecure dumb people and sold drugs? I don't get it.
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When SEO Fails: Single Channel Dependency and the End of Tutorspree(aaronkharris.com)
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Simple tweaks that increased our conversion rate(tweaky.com)
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by nedwin 13y ago
Spot on. I worked on three different startup ideas unsuccessfully before moving into an existing business. I learned a little in the unsuccessful startups but not a great deal - it's hard to learn when you don't have a great amoun
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by nedwin 13y ago
This risk is always in every conversation like this. Look at SnapChat turning down $3bn from Facebook and now FB integrating a lot of that functionality into Instagram.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Phil has spoken a lot about building Evernote into a 100 year old company. Maybe that's why it takes so long to fix some of these issues? The app is definitely getting better, and Skitch has come along leaps and bounds in the last 3-6
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by nedwin 13y ago
Why are they doing this? Are there any good resources out there on the split with WSJ?
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by nedwin 13y ago
This article is over a year old. Check out http://hired.com for the rebranded, and still awesome, site.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Do you have many employees outside of the US?
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by nedwin 13y ago
>Ok so 253 extra people will die from obesity. What about the ones that will not die but be disabled. What about those that don't die from falling of the bicycle but get disabled permanently or temporarily. From the paper: "Mod
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by nedwin 13y ago
I can also imagine a lot of the data getting muddled as a result. Do more people click the signup button because you made it bigger and changed the copy, or is it because you reduced the clutter in the footer reducing distraction for the us
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by nedwin 13y ago
Have you considered outsourcing your shipping to a third party logistics company? Slightly added cost but takes away a bunch of the pain as well.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Do you think you could do it again? Are you working on the next thing or happy enough with this success?
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by nedwin 13y ago
Awesome, thanks for letting me know. Time we revisited BTC payments then! :)
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by nedwin 13y ago
We were looking at adding Bitcoin to our startup but worried about the volatility. What if all our customers paid in Bitcoin and it crashed? The reverse is also true - we might gain upside if the price continues to Skyrocket - but how do yo
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by nedwin 13y ago
What makes up the other 80%?
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by nedwin 13y ago
Awesome tactic. These notes were great. I shared them around with the rest of the team who didn't make it to the conference as well which became relevant when we started discussing what sales platform we were going to be using.
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by nedwin 13y ago
This post seems a lot more rational/fair when you read it in PG's voice.
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by nedwin 13y ago
So you would take on a project if they kept paying you per hour, even if the end result was useless?
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by nedwin 13y ago
When we launched our startup we took a vow of sobriety - no drinking booze until we get profitable. It took us 9 months, one of the most productive periods of my life to date.

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