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by orky56 12y ago
In the not too distant future, when water becomes a valuable commodity, we'll have "I drink your milkshake" situations that will get geopolitical very fast.
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Very much agreed. That fact that the consequences hurt his world is why is he wants to publicly shame Snowden as a traitor. If Andreesen can't see past investments and actually into public policy and our rights as American citizens, I&
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by orky56 12y ago
Just curious if there is any visibly transparent process in place to add/remove members to the Board of Overseers?
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by orky56 12y ago
It would be great to add an elective course for Growth Hacking where you can assume the knowledge of data analysis and provide a survey/use cases of effective examples of using analysis and other methods to inform product development a
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by orky56 12y ago
I would not associate the interface with the functionality. Even without a keyboard, a smartphone with a touchscreen allows one to use a virtual keyboard to type in a similar fashion to an actual keyboard with some definite compromises. Wit
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The marginal value of each vote does not equal a whole point, or else we would be looking at a completely linear curve. That would not easily capture the trending effect nor the relative popularity of articles posted at similar time periods
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by orky56 12y ago
The way the author is calculating "earnings per year" is by backward-looking from a valuation, which obviously has many holes. 1) Valuation != Liquidity. Even if your company is worth millions and your share is also worth millions
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by orky56 12y ago
It seems your internal struggle about your perceived inefficiency is burning you out. Rightfully so if you are wasting time on what's not particularly important. Do your managers value the quality of your work as much as you do? If not
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by orky56 12y ago
Having been recently married and with no kids yet, I am fortunate enough to have a supportive wife who is letting me pursue a partially selfish dream of founding a startup. The glamor of the pursuit has long since faded. Execution is my ham
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by orky56 12y ago
AppleTV is pretty similar. My parents use it only when I come home about once a month. At that time, there's an update that needs to get installed. Now my parents have the impression that the AppleTV just takes that long to boot up eve
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Ask HN: How to visualize active record associations
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It's also important to address Customer Success Costs. For single-license model companies, all the costs are front-loaded into customer acquisition. For subscription SaaS companies, the product & overall service needs to be continu
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by orky56 12y ago
You could argue that those stats are a reflection of a mature company with the license model. When they were in a similar position to many of these SaaS companies we are discussing, their license fee and customer acquisition cost were enorm
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New design and upcoming Growth Hacking course(onemonth.com)
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Check out Steli Efti's talk on customer validation & sales. With SaaS, getting a handful of paying customers is the most important criteria for success. Getting it without even having the product built is pure genius. https:/
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AT&T Courts Satellite TV With an Eye on Growth(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Can you please provide screenshots or a video above the fold? Even if the highlight of the product is not the GUI, I'm still okay seeing the product work even in a command line interface. It helps me process the context of what it is.
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by orky56 12y ago
1-2 hours a day. Obviously you are not asking this question as though time on HN is wasted but it's important to know how my time breaks down. 0:45 General browsing: HN is a relevant news source for some subjects that I care about. I a
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by orky56 12y ago
Great job! I'm sure I'll be using this extensively. For now, I've been backing into this type of information by looking at AngelList's Startups/Companies section ( https://angel.co/companies ) and sea
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by orky56 12y ago
By controlling for the vehicle, they can guarantee the comfort (leather seats & space for 6) and the amenities (charger, which usually Lyft drivers are always happy to let you use).
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by orky56 12y ago
Without critical mass, this becomes an asynchronous, location-based messaging tool, similar to what foursquare is kind of about. However you could use this tool/tech to geotag areas, spontaneously create chats for events like conferenc
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by orky56 12y ago
Yikes that's scary: http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/writeup.php?AID=70
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by orky56 12y ago
Here's a great blog post on the 5 genres of music for productivity: http://ryanio.com/2014/music-to-get-work-done/ & here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757
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by orky56 12y ago
Give yourself goals and meaningful/relevant success metrics for various periods (week/month/3 month). Hack the system to constantly push that number up by engaging in activities that are high levered. This will keep you motiv
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How educated is the market on the problem you are trying to solve? How tied down is the market to their current solution? Does your product have sufficient value to justify switching costs? Assuming your product actually is better than what
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by orky56 12y ago
I find it even worse. I often stay at Parc 55 and there's a liquor store about 3 doors down that is a nightmare just to walk by. It's a sad sight to see watching homeless people spending the little money they have on booze in the
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by orky56 12y ago
The sexy, consumer-focused startups are in SF and where people want to be. Down in Mountain View & Palo Alto is where the VCs, unsexy B2B startups (Box), and accelerators (YC/500) are thriving. 20 something bachelors & DINCs wa
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by orky56 12y ago
Union Square is one of the most touristy parts yet with a couple wrong turns you're in some very sketchy areas.
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On mobile, Facebook is looking to own the majority of the apps on your home screen regardless of whether it has the explicit Facebook brand or is under Instagram/WhatsApp/etc. On Android, you still have your first party apps and o
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Google has publicly admitted they did not recognize the emergence of social. Despite their size and resources, their size, culture, and business process prevented them from capitalizing on it sufficiently well enough to prevent Facebook fro

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