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by qeorge 13y ago
The end product is great. Very clear and unambiguous tutorials. I think you've definitely hit on a pain point. Making it easy/quick to create walkthroughs for any screen in my product would be very useful. Right now we are making
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by qeorge 13y ago
I've been able to make good utilization of Linode's multiple cores for our Sphinx server ( http://sphinxsearch.com/ ) In sphinx's config files, its super easy to split an index up into 4 parts, and then assign
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by qeorge 13y ago
Dropbox' strategy is becoming the permanent storage for all of our data. But its business model (charging by GBs) discourages the user from using Dropbox for all of their files. For many users, the business model necessarily limits their as
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by qeorge 13y ago
Its intentional too. Rand specifically choose the name SEOMoz to benefit from the brand confusion. From the horse's mouth (Mixergy interview): "Andrew: What does SEOmoz mean? Rand: When we started up, we were looking for a name that was
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by qeorge 13y ago
Very cool, didn't know that. I hadn't gotten around to reading Influence yet, but I'll probably do that this weekend. Thanks!
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by qeorge 13y ago
I have the same goals as you (find the stuff I want, pay for it, and get out), but that's why I seek out the salespeople! I feel that assistants aren't really there to help me; they're there to maximize profits for their employer. Help me
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by qeorge 13y ago
Hey bud, don't worry. You'll get through it. Couple of things: All ideas I have seems already made by someone else This is a good thing! This is validation of the market! And there's something new about your idea, right? Even better - c
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by qeorge 13y ago
Nathan, you're really coming out with some great posts. Please continue. I saw another great post on this topic on the VWO blog recently which suggests reversing your pricing table to show the most expensive test first as an A/B test idea,
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by qeorge 13y ago
1) Use Google AdWords keyword tool to gauge the size of the market. Find something with >10k searches (Local, Exact match type) https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool‎ 2) Build the product. Make a sales page. Offer a 30 day trial on
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by qeorge 13y ago
I highly recommend James Altucher's book, I Was Blind But Now I See. You can get it for $.99 on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Was-Blind-But-Now-ebook/dp/B005VPXXVM Its the story of how he built a web design business, exited for ~$12 milli
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by qeorge 13y ago
Wow, that's a whopper. (the bit about cookie stuffing being normal) As I understand it, they would do something like this: on every 1 of 10,000 page views (to Digital Point's forums, or other sites), they would embed a page from eBay (as th
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by qeorge 13y ago
I've had this enabled for about 2 months, and its been nothing short of amazing. (picked it up from an HN thread somewhere). Cannot recommend this highly enough. Yes, there's the occasional false positive, but its surprisingly rare. I pop i
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by qeorge 13y ago
"Make something people want" may seem obvious, but its still an avoidable and fatal mistake that otherwise smart people frequently make. Put another way: product/market fit is the high order bit. I like simple, profound slogans like "Make S
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by qeorge 13y ago
But those examples are not going far enough to be truly remarkable. They're still not putting the customer's interests ahead of their own. With Citi, how about instead of making giving your rewards to charity an option, make it the only o
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by qeorge 13y ago
Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post. Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.
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by qeorge 13y ago
NNTR is great! Thank you!
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by qeorge 13y ago
I love this. I'm also extremely fond of EOM (short for End Of Message. An email with a short subject and no body). Often I send EOMs to imply a VSRE. For example, "Grill tonight? Have burgers. Off work @ 6. EOM" Very interested in learning
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by qeorge 13y ago
I respect the honesty of this post, but I didn't like that dig at The Four Hour Work Week! 4HWW is about putting systems in place that remove you and thus allow your company to scale. Until you remove yourself you don't have a real busine
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by qeorge 13y ago
Oddly enough it doesn't. For example, you can perform a credit check via this API using only a name + address: http://www.meridianlink.com/creditAPI.asp I have personally used this API, and it works.
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by qeorge 14y ago
In theory, I've always understood that Math is Programming is Math. Or at least I accepted it as true. But I swear, it only really "clicked" for me a few weeks ago. I've been programming for almost 20 years, and I feel like I just joined th
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by qeorge 14y ago
I largely agree with the OP. This reminds me of Loopt. If I were Foursquare, I would use the metadata (reviews, checkins, etc) to build a Yellow Pages site that's powered by 4sq users gestures. But I'd leave monitization out of the consumer
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by qeorge 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER. Remote preferred. Nothing glamorous, but we need a few good folks to help build Wordpress themes. We'd give you sliced HTML, you'd turn it into a theme. If you're interested drop me a line with your rates (george at ill-
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by qeorge 14y ago
Its not a mystery, its the pesticides. Bayer's been leading the "search for the real killer" in an effort that would make OJ Simpson proud. My step-dad is an avid beekeeper, and an organic urban farmer. Its been "known" for years amongst th
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by qeorge 14y ago
Foursquare was started in a similar way. (Google bought and shuttered Dodgeball, founders did their time at Google, then quit and started Foursquare). Andy Rubin has done this successfully as well (Danger, MSFT, Android).
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by qeorge 14y ago
<shameless plug> If you happen to be in the St Louis area and like pie, my aunt is selling Pi day pies today. Fresh made and delivered. http://www.itseasyaspie.com/collections/frontpage/products/p... I can attest to the deliciousn
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by qeorge 14y ago
I have the world's tiniest violin available for spammers who don't want their email addresses published. I especially loved this bit: "I was researching Automattic , Inc. and wanted to ask you if there was any gaps/pains within your CMS and
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Watch As I Desperately Try To Get Support From Stripe(support.stripe.com)
7 points by qeorge 14y ago|4 comments
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by qeorge 14y ago
Is it a foregone conclusion that others can't bring a baby to work? My biz partner brought his newborn in for about 10 months - it was awesome. Given, we are a tiny company and they are Yahoo, but its not obvious to me that its impossible t
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by qeorge 14y ago
Whoa - you need to make it clear that I have to bring my own Stripe account. Nowhere is that mentioned on your page. So the 256-bit encryption you're touting on your homepage is really Stripe's 256-bit encryption? Not cool. Is the "Embedd
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by qeorge 14y ago
I'm missing something. Can you explain this to me as if I were five? I'm really gun shy with anything involving my customers CC data, and I suspect others are too. Some of my concerns: 1) Authorize now but only charge when actually shipping

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