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by pitdesi 15y ago
Not too dissimilar from the BBB, which is a total scam/protection racket... You have an "F" rating... now pay us $1000 to "rate" you again and review that rating. 3 days later Boom you have an A. More: http://feefighters.com/blog/the-bbb-i
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I like that... Can you elaborate, or is it hush-hush? Also, what happens when the other person doesn't redeem? (I tried to send myself the free $5 but found the process cumbersome so I didn't redeem). There will be a lot of breakage on this
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Sentences That Win Nobel Prizes(scientificamerican.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Chicago, IL (remote possible) - FeeFighters - Rails Intern (during the school year, as many hours as you'd like) Are you a smart programmer who would like the experience of working on a real-world rails backend for a hot funded startup? Fee
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That's interesting... I wonder why there is no GAAP measure for accounting for pass-through revenue. I can see it both ways (this problem exists for Groupon as well, who counts the full amount of the voucher as revenues even though they pas
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Square, like all other merchant account providers has to pay interchange fees, which are ultimately sent to the banks that issue credit and debit cards, and assessments, which are how Visa and Mastercard make their money. It is possible tha
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Privately, Investors Admit There's Big Bubble In Tech Startups(businessinsider.com)
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LivingSocial CEO: Groupon is a copycat(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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My guess is that atleast some of those people will be involved in building out a sales and marketing team and going after larger corporate customers. While their current product is mature, they have a long way to go in adoption (though it m
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by pitdesi 15y ago
For the lazy: The answer is Best Buy, circa 04-05
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a lot of spammers post their website to HN, so that doesn't work either!
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Kleiner Perkins report examines the US govt as if it were a business(kpcb.com)
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Apple Has More Cash Than 39% Of Companies In S&P Combined (And $413B Less Debt)(zerohedge.com)
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Google acquires PittPatt, to add facial recognition(pittpatt.com)
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Nice Hack to Quickly Expel Hot Air from Your Oven-Like Car (lifehacker.com)
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Larry Summers Learned One Invaluable Lesson While Running Harvard(dealbreaker.com)
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This is a really tough sell... There is no screening for planes smaller than 10 passengers if there is no "sterile" area at either airport. This means that they'll have to fly into smaller airports, which (often) means you're further from t
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Strangely the article references both 9 passenger and 14 passenger planes... "fly just below the TSA’s radar – using 9-person planes to dodge under their screening of any plane carrying over 10 passengers." then: "14-passenger planes organi
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Creator here (I put together the data for FeeFighters, and KissMetrics designed it)... I DO have the view that we're not in a bubble at the moment, but I went into this exercise without much of a view on it... I didn't cherry pick the data
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by pitdesi 15y ago
This is a very worthy cause, but I think they might be overdoing it. The issue is major - the number of people without access to toilets is roughly equivalent to the number of people with internet access... last chart of this infographic:
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Any idea how much one of these single letter .co domains costs? BTW - in case you were wondering, the other single letter .co domain names that are taken are t.co (twitter shortener), o.co (overstock), x.co (godaddy shortener), a.co,k.co,z.
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Should'a, Could'a, Would'a(fastcompany.com)
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Could A Monkey Photographer Lead To A Copyright Revolution?(huffingtonpost.com)
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Terrafugia Transition flying car cleared for landing in US, next stop - Europe(news.com.au)
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We've been fortunate to have a bunch of startups we love and respect try us out, and most have become our customers. When I see them on our signup dashboard, I typically reach out to them individually, telling them that we use their service
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The Underground Promise Of Turntable.fm(techcrunch.com)
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Thanks, I hadn't heard of http://sparked.com Also look at http://catchafire.org/ (something similar)
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Notes on Spotify from a Napster exec(facebook.com)
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GM and UAW are hacking American automaking with their new factory in Michigan(nytimes.com)
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I would strongly advise against Quickbooks because of how terrible Intuit is to work with... I can't support that company at all - they have evil business practices. In our business, Intuit locks Quickbooks customers in to their extremely e

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