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by parker 19y ago
So then by this logic, it's the market that's going to tend internet revenus to zero? You're right. And this will lead to a massive market correction at some point. Companies that had the balls to listen to reason (a la 37signals), will b
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by parker 19y ago
I agree. 99% of Google's top-line revenues last fiscal year came from their adwords/adsense empire... every single other web serivce they offer accounts for 1% combined. "Business" is about making money. Let's just agree that without reven
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No More Bubbles(spot-on.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
If PHP wasn't easy to get started with, I would have never started developing for the web, period. Remember, everyone was a novice once. Lowering the constraints to get started can only mean that more great things will be created, not less
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by parker 19y ago
My favourite part about this article is in the comments, where someone estimates CL's hosting costs about about $1 million a year for over 100 billion page views. But you can do that on a page load average of 6 kb. I used to work at a com
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Craigslist Valuation: $80 Million in 2008 Revenue, Worth $5 Billion(alleyinsider.com)
17 points by parker 19y ago|11 comments
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Study: 'Influencers' Possess Less Clout Than Friends(publications.mediapost.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
I 100% agree with you. But Google approached search in a different way than the rest, that turned out to be more effective. Likewise, I think there's got to be a different way to think about selling that can really undermine the traditiona
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by parker 19y ago
Dude, I assure you, no one will ever beat eBay at being eBay ... their network effects are in a different stratosphere. But that doesn't mean it's not a good time to start a sweet company that could someday eat eBay's lunch from a different
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EBay Bans Auctions Of Digital Goods(techdirt.com)
12 points by parker 19y ago|9 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Seriously guys, I know becoming a successful entrepreneur requires taking some risks, but for Pete's sake, stay away from funding your aspirations with credit card debt. If it hits the fan, your credit rating could become ruined forever.
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by parker 19y ago
Also, I read somewhere that launching at a conference means that you're one of dozens of launches over a short period of time, and you have to compete even harder for coverage from press/bloggers. Whereas, if you launch on a non-descript d
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CollegeHumor Guys' Secret Success: T-Shirts(alleyinsider.com)
21 points by parker 19y ago|9 comments
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What PR won’t fix(buzzmachine.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
People that are a bit older have already developed the BS filters to ward off 'inspirational' type of people, aka snake oil salesmen. So that means look for someone younger if you're hoping they're going to drink your kool-aid. Otherwise,
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by parker 19y ago
I don't think you should condemn every company that raises material capital. However, I know first hand that some companies definitely should not have raised capital, and were resting on the laurels of a previous success and a well-known na
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by parker 19y ago
One site I used to manage used to have an unexplained high ranking for "animal porn"... talk about the gravy-train. But seriously, thanks for the article. SEO is definitely one of those areas that hackers tend to downplay in significance,
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by parker 19y ago
It seems to me that the early-stage investment market in Canada is pretty terrible. And getting investment in a consumer oriented internet startup is notoriously difficult here. Most Canadian VC's want deals in lower risk, late stage, high
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by parker 19y ago
I'm working on an online comedy troupe. Basically, there will be a blog that a cast of 7 contributors have authorship access to. All of their contributions are rated by the audience, and a the end of the week, the lowest scoring member ge
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Hey, Sarbanes and Oxley, You Killed Our IPO Market--Are You Happy?(alleyinsider.com)
4 points by parker 19y ago|3 comments
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Opera and Safari beat IE and Firefox to Acid3 milestone(venturebeat.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser(webware.com)
5 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
We've used a hard activation process previously, and only around 40% - 50% of people who signed up actually activated. Think about that ... over half of our users who spent the time getting to know the product enough to sign up didn't even
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by parker 19y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure ideas are stolen as much as iterated and improved upon. Accusing people of stealing ideas can be a pretty slippery slope... itList may have some of the same elements of digg, but didn't put it all together in the same way
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Software Startup Lessons (Part 1): The Basics(blog.lavablast.com)
6 points by parker 19y ago|2 comments
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"If the news is that important, it will find me"(mathewingram.com)
19 points by parker 19y ago|6 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Then it would seem like you have more than a passing interest! Which is fine too. I haven't played too much poker, I kind of missed the fad a few years ago while I was overseas... but it seems really interesting, and it gives me something
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Where Do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia?(weblogs.hitwise.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Before we worry too much about news.YC becoming inundated with smelly vagrants, it's good to keep things in perspective. According to this obviously questionable source, we're not quite at levels of controlled chaos(reddit) or outright buf
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YC vs Reddit vs Digg: Orders of Magnitude of Difference, Literally(alexa.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|3 comments

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