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by ookblah 15y ago
Hmm, I think posting the value of the card affects the data points. I understand why it needs to be done, but my thinking is that if nobody knows how much is on there it leaves it less prone to outright abuse. If the card suddenly gets a $
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by ookblah 15y ago
1. This is good, as long as these local business are being educated on the benefits/risks vs just being told it's good overall. 2. Groupon deals are used as a marketing tool to (hopefully) attract long-term customers/develop buzz. Mercha
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by ookblah 15y ago
I think maybe some of you are trying to make the analogy fit exactly and missing the general point... There is a lesson in this especially for startups. I took "burning your boat" as a way to take that first leap and not look back. Someon
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by ookblah 15y ago
"There is nobody that cares" hahahahaha. I feel sad now.
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by ookblah 15y ago
Do you think that us living in this time period would help mitigate that? I mean back in 2000 I was too young to understand all that, but was the bubble partly due to misinformation by of the public? I feel like with all these stories abou
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by ookblah 15y ago
I don't think you should be quite ready to throw in the towel. Have u launched yet? You said you were headed to profitability. What about the original idea as others have mentioned here? Here's another one: Plan to dedicate more than 7 mo
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by ookblah 15y ago
I would say a combination of luck and your own projects. You have to make up for your lack of industry experience with your own personal projects and show that you have the skills or the initiative to pick up new things quickly. My short
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by ookblah 15y ago
i think this is a big factor that people tend to overlook. when you're in a convo w/ someone in person, you can look around briefly, pause to think, etc. i feel like in video chat you have to be very comfortable w/ the person you're talkin
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by ookblah 15y ago
I'd be curious to see if there are stats on failed companies vs. the equity split. At times when I read these articles a lot of it seems very anecdotal, and I'm inclined to just be like "whatever the hell feels right" lol. I think the mos
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by ookblah 16y ago
I come from perhaps the small subset of a being good friends w/ my co-founder, having a 50/50 split, and being the technical one ....so that sets up context for my thoughts. I resonate w/ this article a lot because to me, the appearance of
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by ookblah 16y ago
I'd be interested in hearing your approach to it. Sounds something like Aloha Editor, and it's a PITA problem to solve w/ all the cross-browser inconstancies.
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by ookblah 16y ago
Getting a bunch of session errors
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by ookblah 16y ago
Not quite sure the implementation you have (whether you iframe it or pull content in and redisplay it), but thought of a few suggestions: 1) inject the style tags w/ javascript and it will refresh the CSS content without doing a page reload
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by ookblah 16y ago
This is the batman sonar tech becoming a reality. Yessss.
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by ookblah 16y ago
I found this aspect of it the most interesting...and I hope that this is one of the use cases. Instead of needing to see pictures of things immediately around me, I'd want to see pictures of everything happening around Friend A, City B, Eve
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by ookblah 16y ago
So their solution to #1 is just to not let you use it? What. Also, that last picture in the article had me loling. "Take photos together". I'm sure in the near future we'll all be standing 10 ft from each other taking pictures of the same
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by ookblah 16y ago
Uh, maybe this guy was in a special math class because when I was in college all the other majors had their own jokes around their subject matter.
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by ookblah 16y ago
I've randomly thought about this and one thing i can say is that if you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women haahha. that means making it easy for them to filter, having a safe place where
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by ookblah 16y ago
I'm on month 8 w/ my co-founder (okay, that's a lie, we've been friends for about 5 years or so), but that "honeymoon" period wears off quick and little things start to creep up. Communication is key, and so is unity in vision. If you ever
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by ookblah 16y ago
just some feedback... i would drop the registration process for new donors, or at least make it optional (ie put it at the end of the donation process where all they do is just enter a password or something). i really dislike these things o
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by ookblah 16y ago
is this for real?? i feel like it's a really nice special effect. and i can't stop cracking up.
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by ookblah 16y ago
Like most everything... I think IT DEPENDS. I don't think you need to hire more people in order develop your startup, but I think there are some key things you can do w/ the right people. 1) Iterate faster. If you have 2-3 devs working on
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by ookblah 16y ago
ok i feel like a dummy but this doesn't make sense to me. they just relabeled the old large -> new medium but kept the price points the same? so if a medium 12 oz. was $2, and a large 16 oz. was $4, the "medium" $2 cup is now 16 oz. d
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by ookblah 16y ago
Even going from college -> work it's clear that your high school/college achievements mean jack after some work experience. I've seen (and personally experienced) a few people "wise up" in college/entering the workforce and excel in th
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by ookblah 16y ago
I am chinese and grew up in a strict household when it came to academics, but what a bunch of ego-stroking crap written in that article. I am thankful that my mother would push me and for not letting me always take the easy way out, but th
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by ookblah 16y ago
I have to half-disagree with this, you CAN "sell" something that doesn't exist and sometimes it's a good way to test interest and ideas. You don't want to sell complete vapor (as in get a lot of interest then be like, oops now wait 4-5 mont
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by ookblah 16y ago
This is just my $.02. I believe the best way to learn is by imitating. Go on every CSS/Design Inspiration (dribbble, forrst, ilvdsgn) site you can and see what is appealing to you and then try to duplicate it in your own time. Analyze on
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by ookblah 16y ago
if only they put this level of attention to use on their adaptive payments checkout flows
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Ask HN: Distribution Channels and "Traction"
1 points by ookblah 16y ago|1 comments
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by ookblah 16y ago
yeah, because laying out facts in a sterile and objective manner is going to compel you otherwise? don't confuse being presented truth with a guilt trip, sometimes we need a wake up call and it's not always comfortable.

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