paul

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by paul 20y ago
What is your startup?
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by paul 20y ago
One reason this works is because the established players will be afraid to compete directly with you because that would mean undermining their existing business.
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by paul 20y ago
Raising money from big-name investors gives you a lot more credibility. This will help with hiring (I would rather work at a Sequoia backed startup than a NoName backed startup) and partnering.
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by paul 20y ago
Accepting credit cards: a Tactic, not a Business Model Obviously "free" is not a complete business model, but how blind do you have to be to keep repeating these silly anti-free arguments despite the overwhelming success of many businesses
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by paul 20y ago
Exactly. Even with micropayments, I would still have to think about it, and I don't like having to think. This is part of the reason why the most popular micropayment system on the web is Google AdSense. On the other hand, I regularly send
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by paul 20y ago
It's not a Segway. It's better. http://www.tlb.org/scooter2.html
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by paul 20y ago
It's important to understand that there are a lot of non-monetary costs associated with paying for things, such as entering payment info and deciding whether it's actually worth paying for in the first place.
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The Thinking Machine: Jeff Hawkins's new startup, Numenta(wired.com)
4 points by paul 20y ago|3 comments
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by paul 20y ago
A demo shows that you can at least get something done. Even if the idea isn't good, a good demo still has a lot of value.
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by paul 20y ago
Only if they are really dumb. If you are worried about pagerank spammers, just use the nofollow attribute. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
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by paul 20y ago
Which one will you learn the most from? Choose that one.
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How news is made (a quick intro to PR)(dilbert.com)
2 points by paul 20y ago|0 comments
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Google: Not trapping users' data = GOOD(mattcutts.com)
3 points by paul 20y ago|0 comments
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by paul 20y ago
It's true -- search _wasn't_ a business. Fortunately some people were smart enough to see that it could _become_ a business.
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by paul 20y ago
If you don't already have a good co-founder, perhaps you are not yet ready to start a company. Try joining an existing startup instead. If it succeeds, that's great, but either way you've learned more about startups and hopefully met some p