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by roasm 11y ago
I've seen a slide where 1 + 1 = 2, then the 2 is crossed off, then there's a 3, then the 3 is crossed off then there's an 11. So honestly, after I read that, I thought clearly Hubspot didn't go far enough. That math slid
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by roasm 11y ago
I find it interesting the article uses "exchange for money" instead of "sell". It's as if the author is bending over backwards to make us more sympathetic to the student.
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by roasm 11y ago
Well, this is mostly only true of the high margin, hoping-for-viral-growth so loved by the internet VCs. There are a ton of highly profitable, relatively low margin businesses (at least compared to internet services), like consulting or som
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by roasm 11y ago
For sure not just Westerners. Pork consumption in Asia is huge, and that's an understatement. For instance, China has a strategic pork reserve: http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636507-ch...
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by roasm 11y ago
I generally agree with these points. We ended up with an interstitial the same way I hope most everyone else did: we A/B tested it, and the results were clearly positive on engagement and purchase. We could choose to drop the interstit
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by roasm 11y ago
You're suggesting that you can make something as usable on a mobile browser as you can with a native app. That's just not true; if it were, there wouldn't be any native apps. For many use cases (games, highly interactive expe
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by roasm 11y ago
Somewhat related: Are there any puzzle subscription services out there? I think it'd be a really interesting business to receive an innovative, creative puzzle weekly or monthly that show some real effort and artistry. Maybe it would b
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by roasm 11y ago
I'm the benefits administrator for our startup (ahhh, the joys of being a cofounder) and we started before Zenefits was available. I might migrate there for the ease of management... But I have to say, it really is hard to replace a go
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by roasm 11y ago
Foursquare may have a lot of data, but isn't that data getting stale? I mean, a lot of the location/check-in data is from the particular demographic of user who played the mayor game, and many of those users don't play anymor
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by roasm 12y ago
It's not so much a choice between Smart TV vs. not Smart TV anymore. If you buy a TV today, it is very likely to be "smart". You can just decide to use the features or not (or when to stop using the features).
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by roasm 12y ago
Large movie production houses won't die in the near future, because predicting a financial winner isn't as hard as you make it sound. We currently have a movie economy that is driving the big producers to make big budget comic boo
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by roasm 12y ago
I switch between a Macbook Pro and a Windows ultrabook (long story) and the keys are spaced slightly different on both. After couple days of finger-confusion, my hands just adjust to them easily. The mind/body is amazing that way.
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by roasm 12y ago
It's the ubiquity of the interpreter (every browser), right? You'd be hard-pressed to write anything for the web without JS, and once you're writing in that language, there's a strong pull to use similar libraries/p
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by roasm 13y ago
Point taken, but I highly doubt most investors would roll their eyes at AMZN's numbers. It's not that they can't turn a profit; they're opting not to at this point.
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The Internet is killing the middle class?(mag.newsweek.com)
1 points by roasm 13y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 13y ago
Having worked in management in a large company, I have a little perspective from the other side: Yes, there are laws that prevent you from employing a temp for an extended period of time. It's somewhere around a year; I forget exactly,
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by roasm 13y ago
There isn't just a shortage of ultra-elite local talent, there's even a shortage of halfway competent local talent. I've done a lot of hiring, mostly from colleges, and I can tell you that there are some schools that should just shut down
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Why Tumblr was a massive steal (and why the social graph isn't all that)(allthingsd.com)
2 points by roasm 13y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 13y ago
Homestead is still up and running, though we did start culling sites that had no visits and no logins a while ago. (I was a co-founder of Homestead.)
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by roasm 14y ago
While I'm not an IIT alum, this call to arms is relevant for all of us, the readers of HN. We are (grossly generalizing here) a fortunate group with the choice that we can make our communities better with our work.
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by roasm 14y ago
I've had the Lenovo Yoga for a few weeks now and as the OP noted, the combination of very good laptop and pretty good tablet works very well. I'm surprised how often I naturally reach up to touch the screen even in laptop mode. I now even i
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by roasm 14y ago
Sheer size has to play a major factor here. Comparing the US to city-states like Hong Kong and Singapore or relatively tiny countries like Finland is really suspect because there is so much difficulty in the managing and improving an educat
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Don't hire for "Now"(roasm.com)
1 points by roasm 14y ago|0 comments
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by roasm 14y ago
If you have a company that has good margins, decent numbers, and is not particularly viral, it sounds like your company is a candidate for a business loan, not an equity investment. At the risk of over generalizing, early stage VC are inter