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by pstack 15y ago
This seems like an idea that could only come from Portland or San Francisco. Disregard for property and a brief personal self-esteem boost for tossing a ball of dirt and seeds somewhere, so you can feel like a game-changing rebel on your wa
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by pstack 15y ago
Of course you can pursue a startup or a business or an idea at any age. Just don't necessarily expect the same attention or opportunities to be thrown your way in your thirties as you would get if you just had a good idea and nothing else i
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by pstack 15y ago
You outsource that part of the job to Epsilon, of course!
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by pstack 15y ago
Eric was actually talking about this the Rick Emerson Show (rickemerson.com) some time last week. I don't recall which day it was, but he shared the experience with the whole internet reaction to the email snip he posted that AOL subsequent
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by pstack 15y ago
He'd probably continue the confusion he's caused with the existing TWiT network by rebranding it "This Week In . . . Cinema". Unless he could find a way to do some namedropping in the rebranding, too.
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by pstack 15y ago
I work for a company with well over 100,000 employees, but if I gave my salary, title, and years experience (and as someone else noted, especially if I added my location), I wouldn't be anonymous. To my employer, at least. It would be trivi
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by pstack 15y ago
If you ran a small service website and some person randomly sued you, it would be enough of a hassle and expense to respond to that through the legal system, as it is. Doing so as an individual with the full force and might of one of the la
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by pstack 15y ago
I know my comments questioning the background of parents for young startup successes was roundly criticized here a few days ago, but I can't help but bring up those points whenever I see articles like this which substantiate my assertions.
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by pstack 15y ago
Dealing with ads seems like a small price to pay for someone who could truly benefit from the device and not otherwise own one, but if you can afford $114 for an e-reader, you can probably afford $139. If it was free (and once they get enou
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by pstack 15y ago
Because, it'll eventually have enough sponsorship that it can be free and once it's free, public schools can utilize it and even get discounted text books for the students. This chapter of General Earth Sciences is brought to you by Monsant
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by pstack 15y ago
I held the top spot for search terms relating to my service and site for more than a decade, until I shut it down. I never spent one second of my life worrying about SEO. I focused on usability, generating word of mouth (far more valuable -
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by pstack 15y ago
I know that it's entirely irrational and counter-productive, but I can not bring myself to do this and find out things I'd rather not spend the rest of my (hopefully not too short) life obsessing over. I'm already busy enough focusing on th
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by pstack 15y ago
Oh, sure. I'm sure we used to say that about the bison, too. :)
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by pstack 15y ago
How far will anyone make it through watching them, before they all start showing "Available until a date two weeks from now ", like 20% of my queue almost always does?
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm no astronomer or physicist, but isn't the mass and weight of the moon sort of vital to maintaining stable life as it is now on Earth?
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by pstack 15y ago
Looks like we were doing the math at the same time (see my post elsewhere, here). You'd be looking at 15 of these servers, but then I have no idea how much the expense of maintaining them would be. That's also the cost of storing their curr
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by pstack 15y ago
This isn't my area of expertise, but when you factor in redundancy, you're looking at a petabyte of data just for what you have now. You'll need it to failover plus have at least one full backup at a separate location. Commodity hardware al
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by pstack 15y ago
If you told me the idea, I'd say it was needlessly entering an already crowded market, but when you actually see it laid out -- it's fantastic. You have a great concept and a slick presentation. If I ever have multiple people working on one
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by pstack 15y ago
What an important point to note! Money is good, but you can work around financial needs much of the time. It is almost impossible to place a real value on advice and connections, though and it's difficult to know what you don't know (if you
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm sorry for responding to such a simple question with such a long ramble. I got carried away. This isn't something I've really ever discussed before and while it's not exactly germane to the overall topic, maybe someone out there will get
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by pstack 15y ago
I enjoy watching other people's startups, but have never applied at YC, because I assume I am outside of their accepted demographic. I'm in my early thirties. I'm a solo-entrepreneur (I would love to have a partner, but I don't know a sin
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't see how it's any less relevant to the discussion of "they should charge so the service is smoother". If we're going to have that conversation, then it's important to acknowledge that they already have a business model that addresses
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by pstack 15y ago
Google already gets paid for Gmail. It uses Gmail as a platform on which to serve very targeted advertisements on every page. Likely a greater overall value with their number of users than if they did away with the ads and charged for the s
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by pstack 15y ago
It's kind of a vague description, too. I'd be curious to know what is so unique about kiip. It sounds like just another advertising service that is essentially taking the mechanics of Farmville (which are all about advertising Farmville to
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by pstack 15y ago
So what is this guy's story? I always have to question young success stories like this, because so often they seem to be the result not so much of some kid in high school striking out on his own as a kid with the benefit and resources of ei
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by pstack 15y ago
Come on. Everybody knows that having a server and a bit of coding skill isn't enough to do anything . You have to sign a lease to an office in a trendy part of town and stock it full of free soda and Aeron chairs and hire an HR department
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by pstack 15y ago
No sleep is a feat I could pull off regularly when I was younger. It was no problem to go 48-72 hours without more than just a catnap or two. That was a decade ago. In my early thirties, I struggle beyond the sixteenth hour, except for rare
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by pstack 15y ago
Or, like every religious book, we could round them up and stone them to death. I could go with either option, so lead the way!
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by pstack 15y ago
If Facebook's messaging service was just their version of Gmail or Hotmail, I wouldn't see an issue with it. Providing a way to use the Thunderbird interface as a substitute to other interfaces for existing email protocols is fine. But prov
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by pstack 15y ago
I think the more valuable lesson is that you don't need to white-wash history to paint a figure as better than they were (especially if they were not particularly good at all in some cases), simply to uphold the value of the things we assoc

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