noahc

50 ms·

391.
Amazon.com launches Kindle textbook rentals with up to 80% off(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by noahc 15y ago|0 comments
392.
by noahc 15y ago
No, they didn't. I think they should have though. I went from working basically 6 to 6 to 8:30 to 5. It was pretty obvious. Someone wrote on my employee review that they could tell I wasn't passionate about my job and it shows sometime, but
393.
by noahc 15y ago
Here's how I handled it. I went to my employeer and said, "I'm unhappy here and I'd like to move back home anyway" and he asked how I was unhappy, and I explained I didn't really like my job and I tried some different things inside the comp
394.
by noahc 15y ago
Look into Micro Opportunities b http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/10/startup-micro-op... To keep something going you have to make it news again. In some ways this is easier, because it already was news and this is more of an update.
395.
by noahc 15y ago
The main thing to do after this is leverage this and get written up again and again. You can google search for "How to contact a journalist/blogger." Basically, you want to appear everywhere within two months of the first major news story.
396.
by noahc 15y ago
So, you've got coverage already. Awesome! Use the stair step technique. Who is slightly bigger than your college's website? City/State Paper? And then build from there!
397.
by noahc 15y ago
I grew up relatively poor, in a small town (800 people), didn't do that great in college, went to a no-name college in the midwest. I used to think like you "How will I ever compete" And then I started to meet people the exact opposite of w
398.
by noahc 15y ago
I would avoid a market sector with no competition. If you have no competition, you're probably creating a problem to solve. Sometimes competition is a bad word to use though, and it is better to think of as alternatives. For example, the fi
399.
by noahc 15y ago
Uh, He doesn't even have a product to sale. This is basically the equivalent of an information interview that he then writes about on his blog. He even addresses this with: "There were a few skeptics on the phone that wanted to know what I
400.
by noahc 15y ago
The only way to make this work is to offer small businesses a 'package' solution and not consulting. Small business consulting sucks because of 1,000 reasons, but mostly because you aren't paid anything, aren't paid on time and are viewed m
401.
by noahc 15y ago
I worked for a company that allowed their 'white collar' workers unlimited vacations. It wasn't uncommon for people to take six to eight week vacations, but they almost always were working vacations with cell phone and laptop in tow. It wor
402.
by noahc 15y ago
So theoretically, being in the midwest with super cheap electricity, I should always be able to make money because my cost of power is about three times cheaper than a place like California?
403.
by noahc 15y ago
Would have putting this project into its own LLC (or other business structure) have been beneficial in anyway?
404.
With 50,000 Cat Videos Online, How I Get Anything Done(noahc.net)
1 points by noahc 15y ago|0 comments
405.
by noahc 16y ago
I'm tired of this 'ideas suck' meme on hacker news as well. For that you get the up-vote. But, You're getting it wrong in that one idea is better than another. That's not really the point. The point is that your STARTING idea sucks, while o
406.
by noahc 16y ago
It is interesting that you point that out. I had typed that out and then deleted it. Basically, Google is starting backwards with gmail being used by everyone and then trying to build what a particular niche wants. I think the problem here
407.
by noahc 16y ago
It's hard to know what will disrupt them. But, it seems there is a formula. 1. Pick a niche (college kids) 2. Build what they want 3. Let it trickle down (high school) or up (grandma) or out (businesses) to gain mass. So while we can't pick
408.
by noahc 16y ago
Currency Diversification. The point being that at the end of each day/week/month you can cash it out for dollars/euro/yen. That's the idea anyway. I'm not sure how practical it is!
409.
by noahc 16y ago
It appears as though they weren't in demand. The demand is for good programmers (school isn't relevant). These weren't 'good' programmers for a number of reasons. 1. They didn't have a degree. Technically, they weren't MIT programmers at th
410.
by noahc 16y ago
The real take away use supply and demand to your advantage. They took a supply of MIT programmers who weren't in demand and leveraged it. I think this is a huge take away for startups trying to get attention online. Imagine you post your st
411.
by noahc 16y ago
I think you're missing a few key points: 1. It helps to get started out right with no bad habits to unlearn. For example, I started playing disc golf and I got on a forum and everyone said "Start with a putter and nothing else." Two years l
412.
by noahc 16y ago
Pg, Is it possible that building on a 'broken' system isn't enough to fix the problem(s)? The reason I point this out is that I think its possible that as a community grows the assumptions about the community become a part of the code and t
413.
by noahc 16y ago
Please add value in your future posts. You could have made a valid point or given great advice with a bit more effort. I see you're new to the community so welcome and I look forward to seeing you add tons of value in the future.
414.
by noahc 16y ago
I have the exact same issue with noah.clark@gmail.com and noahclark@gmail.com I've probably gotten HUNDREDS of e-mails for noahclark@gmail.com (I can tell by checking the to field) in my noah.clark@gmail.com. I know where he lives, what typ
415.
by noahc 16y ago
I down voted you and the reason why is that I think your thought is a fair thought to have but you're not adding anything to the conversation. Please expand on why you missed the awesome bus, or tell us more about your experiences so we can
416.
by noahc 16y ago
I like this idea as well and I think it supports how a digital community actually works. For example, some people are great at finding awesome, relevant, high quality articles to submit. They should be encouraged to do so by earning a parti
417.
Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market(theatlantic.com)
4 points by noahc 16y ago|1 comments
418.
by noahc 16y ago
Someone further down suggested that 71,74,75 might be a combination to a padlock. I think in any case this points to it being directions of some sort. PRSE is probably a verb of some sort if those are infact directions.
419.
by noahc 16y ago
When I comment my goal is to have the most Karma per thread. In some ways its very Karmic in that my goal is to maximize all users Karma over my own individual Karma. I get really excited when a comment of mine results in multiple 20+ Karma
420.
by noahc 16y ago
You sound exactly like me. What I've found useful is getting in front of as many people as possible. I know that if I sit down and talk with someone I will be hired to do something. What I would do is find people to talk to, listen to their

More ›