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by pud 10y ago
Me too. Hi. If an entrepreneur is worried about "Work Life Balance", I think he/she is in the wrong business.
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A20 – a pain from the past(win.tue.nl)
9 points by pud 10y ago|1 comments
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The Music Industry Isn't as Fucked as They Say(medium.com)
2 points by pud 10y ago|0 comments
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by pud 10y ago
Fuckedcompany founder here. :)
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by pud 11y ago
DistroKid founder here. When people generate fake streams on Spotify (ex: put a 45-second track on repeat all week, volume on zero, for the purpose of fraudulently extracting money from Spotify...), said people are actually stealing from l
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by pud 11y ago
Founder of Fuckedcompany here. Thanks! I wrote a book, too: http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flame...
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by pud 11y ago
Founder of TinyLetter here. Cool article! Glad TinyLetter is still going strong & a successful acquisition for MailChimp.
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by pud 11y ago
You rang?
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Product/Founder Fit(medium.com)
10 points by pud 12y ago|0 comments
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by pud 12y ago
You can also just be yourself, all the time, wherever you are.
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by pud 12y ago
I worked at Radio Shack. I was in high school and lived with my folks. I had almost no expenses. It didn't occur to me until much later what a bummer it all was. - You get paid commission, something like 1% per sale. Commission was poi
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by pud 12y ago
I made an iPhone app that does kind of the same thing, but converts letters to their upside-down unicode equivalent. It's fun for sending upside-down texts. Free and ad-free, just a fun project: https://itunes.apple.com&#x2F
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The Recording Industry Should Never Have Existed in the First Place(medium.com)
1 points by pud 12y ago|0 comments
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by pud 12y ago
People ask me all the time to bring it back. Was fun when it was happening and I tried to be funny and good-spirited, but now I have more of an appreciation for entrepreneurs and how hard it is to build a business... so I won't bring i
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by pud 12y ago
Here's a book I wrote that covers 150 failed internet startups from the late 90's. http://amazon.com/FD-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flameouts... I think many of them could be successful if relaunched today.
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How to Figure Out Your Competitors’ Revenues in About 70 Seconds (2013)(saastr.quora.com)
175 points by pud 12y ago|50 comments
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by pud 12y ago
Nice. Now just give me an iPhone app where I push a button and it sends me the cheapest, closest car from any of those companies.
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Competitor slammed me in the press, said we couldn't scale. So I responded.(medium.com)
5 points by pud 12y ago|1 comments
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A founder I look up to (but now compete with) basically slammed my company(pud.com)
3 points by pud 12y ago|0 comments
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by pud 12y ago
Glad to hear it. - DistroKid founder
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by pud 12y ago
Sometimes wifi is great in one room, but the signal doesn't reach another room. I HAVE A DREAM that, one day, people review the wifi of different rooms in the same hotel. I'm so glad someone built this. I've been wanting it (
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Let's Not Schedule Phone Calls Anymore(pud.com)
2 points by pud 12y ago|0 comments
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by pud 12y ago
This'll make some people switch from cable, back to dialup modems (sort of). Which is funny/cool.
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by pud 12y ago
If anyone wants to snooze email without auth'ing your Gmail account, here's one I built in 2008 that's still going strong. http://hitmelater.com/ It costs $30/yr for the high-end service but send me a no
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by pud 12y ago
Marc said in an interview once, "being CEO is basically a constant stream of bad news." I love that.
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by pud 12y ago
I started my first company while employed as a project manager at a web design shop. I started a (smaller) web design shop. While employed, I spent some evenings and weekends trying to find clients. I quit my job when I got my first paying
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How I increased conversion on my checkout form by 60%(pud.com)
13 points by pud 12y ago|6 comments
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I gave a Syracuse University commencement address, talked about entrepreneurship(youtube.com)
1 points by pud 12y ago|0 comments
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by pud 12y ago
He should rename them to the LA Clippys. (I know I'm risking downvotes by posting this. But c'mon.)
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by pud 12y ago
I was a huge user of Google Website Optimizer. It was so easy -- you just put Google's JavaScript in your site and it shows your users different versions of the page. When Google shut it down, I tried Optimizely a few times. It was so

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