rgraham

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by rgraham 15y ago
I'm a native speaker. I read a lot. Fiction, nonfiction, literature, etc. I've got a master's degree in CS. I'm a published author at multiple respected conferences. I've been learning Spanish as a second language for ~2 years. I scored abo
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by rgraham 15y ago
My goal was learning through interviews. I don't have anything to sell. Perhaps in an abstract sense I hope to sell them at some point in the future. I used 'conversion' because I converted them from cold prospects for interviews to intervi
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by rgraham 15y ago
It was pseudo caution. The finance industry saw that investors wanted to (in some cases, had to) buy conservative investments like AAA paper. They sold them a fantasy of conservative investment. It was so compelling that the utterly ridicul
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by rgraham 15y ago
See tptacek on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768921 A lot of regulation tells big often state-based institutional investors like retirement plans and university funds that they have to invest X% in AAA rated investment
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by rgraham 15y ago
I didn't read it that way. I think he was speaking more to the systems that have evolved around us. He tried to fit a theory to the data of observations in behavioral differences in men and women. I don't think it's relevant to him if those
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by rgraham 15y ago
This is a good idea. Promise them reviews on yelp/google/urban spoon. Promise them a write up in a small local paper or neighborhood publication. Get creative.
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by rgraham 15y ago
I feel like the first bit is an argument over semantics. Does conversion mean I sold something? Does it mean I got someone to perform a desired action? You're right on the next part. It is a significant time and effort investment. The theor
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by rgraham 15y ago
The blog in question is fledgling (~ 6 months old). It has little traffic, but is growing quickly. The industry is wildlife management. None of the business owners I spoke with even asked about traffic. They aren't (usually) technically sop
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by rgraham 15y ago
I'm not selling them anything. I do write a blog in their industry. Honesty is important to me. I'm establishing relationships and trying to understand people and the problems they may have with their business.
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by rgraham 15y ago
That is a fair point. I debated about that phrasing specifically, but a friend of mine in outside sales uses 'response rate' for a cold call to simply mean he got to make a pitch.
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How I got a 100% conversion rate cold calling prospects for customer dev(whitetailsoftware.com)
123 points by rgraham 15y ago|23 comments
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by rgraham 15y ago
I think 'start the next Apple' is just as constrained as what you're dogging. What about just getting married and raising a great family? Or starting a mechanic shop that lets him fish every afternoon? Living a happy life that they choose a
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by rgraham 15y ago
I don't think your claim of most people working for large companies is quite true. Maybe I just feel it is misleading. http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/7495/8420
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Startup CRM Solutions
12 points by rgraham 15y ago|5 comments
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by rgraham 15y ago
This is a circular argument. "Assets used in the commission of a crime can be seized regardless of if you are charged or even found guilty of that crime." If you don't have to prove there was a crime then how can you claim that the assets w
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by rgraham 15y ago
The authors recognize that. The problem is that line extended products don't connect to the things you have associated yourself with in the customer's mind. If Dial makes body wash...line extension is probably acceptable. If Dial makes toot
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by rgraham 15y ago
So if you eliminate the commodities that are rising against the dollar (or insert currency here) and that everyone has to buy you can assert that there is no inflation? Is core inflation defined as the things people don't buy that are not c
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by rgraham 15y ago
This reads more like a cautionary tale than a sensible way for things to operate. Doesn't that mean something?
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by rgraham 15y ago
Your statement about CrossFit encouraging a lack of proper form is patently false. That is a common, and false, criticism of a great fitness program. CrossFit encourages you to work fast because intensity is correlated with power and result
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by rgraham 15y ago
Me too. The other day I was looking across the room at a box with a dark-colored top flap and I felt deeply claustrophobic and acutely oppressed. I shed a single tear in mere contemplation.
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by rgraham 15y ago
This is true and smart. There is a quote in 'Cooking for Geeks' about this phenomenon from Michael Pollan. The idea is that Americans could fix their diets by eating smaller portions, but the simplest way to get people to eat smaller portio
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by rgraham 15y ago
Are they just thumbing the nose at rackspace/slicehost here? I'm amused either way. They should offer a credit or discount for switching right now. I think it'd convert like mad.
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by rgraham 15y ago
I think you missed the point. If the pain is to a higher purpose that in itself provides for a greater good (like riding a bike) then the net effect is a better world. The operative idea being that pain and struggle allow us to become bette
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by rgraham 15y ago
It's not quite that simple. If you're holding dollar denominated assets and you want to 'suddenly' switch to Euros you'd better be happy to sell/exchange those assets for pennies on the dollar. Flight from an asset causes prices to crater.
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by rgraham 15y ago
If you choose to believe that the world was created by an all-good, all-knowing God then you must believe that the world God created is the best possible of all worlds. God would be capable of nothing else in that scenario. Whatever your be
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by rgraham 15y ago
I wasn't crazy about not being able to edit the Tweet. It certainly was spammy-sounding and far from my own style. That said, I trusted Patrick. I figured the content quality in a production with Andrew Warner and Patrick would be high. The
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by rgraham 16y ago
I don't think there are a lot of these in the world nor is there room for everyone to devote themselves to something quite so theoretical. I'd probably rather go fishing with Joe the Plumber than Nigel the Physicist. The point is that the w
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by rgraham 16y ago
Further academic education is useful for a subset of individuals. Many people would have a larger positive effect on themselves and others with the addition of skills (a trade, electrician, plumber, mason, ...) and experiences you rarely se
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by rgraham 16y ago
And as you might learn in 'The Millionaire Next Door' many doctors and lawyers have nothing but debt and the appearance of wealth. Or in Texan: "Big hat, no cattle."
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by rgraham 16y ago
That depends. Do agricultural subsidies count as control?

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