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by rrival 19y ago
Ebooks.com has ... ebooks. I thought http://safari.oreilly.com/ was the place to be.
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by rrival 19y ago
What do I win for all 10? Brilliant: "most people will tell you $50 million, and you know they’re lying. I’m already discounting it because I’m a venture guy just like you are.” And they’d say, “Yeah, but $18 million just isn’t interesting.
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by rrival 19y ago
Significantly more. I've had ~630k absolute uniques since launch, currently ~2k uniques/day waiting for the Wii to be in stock. There are conversion rate considerations, click through rate considerations, etc. When it's in stock on Amazon (
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by rrival 19y ago
Anyone want to buy some old dot-com business models?
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by rrival 19y ago
I'd love to know how many uniques news.yc is getting from Colorado and what that trend is like. I realize it's not sv, arrington suggested !sv = you're not serious about your startup, it's beneficial to be in sv statistically, Boulder is o
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by rrival 19y ago
If you limited it to accredited investors it might be possible, but that'd be extremely low volume/traffic - this is definitely something for lawyers to figure out.
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by rrival 19y ago
Yes - and prior to May there was an AdSense 728x90 in the top frame (fun with auto-refreshing CPM rev =) ).
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by rrival 19y ago
RefreshThing.com : 58,434,725 impressions, 19,730 clicks, $3,083.27 rev, Nov 06-Present. Dropped AdSense from most of the content last May to simplify the design. This is AdSense only, not affiliate (CPA) revenue.
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by rrival 19y ago
Good thing Web 2.0 companies don't need profits!
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by rrival 19y ago
It's not inevitable. I'm not sure how long you've been lurking; there is a shared desire to perpetuate the level of discourse in a way that benefits the community. We've also got the "don't say something stupid, the natives are very smart /
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by rrival 19y ago
Like these: http://binaryfreedom.info/node/312 (scroll down)
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by rrival 19y ago
Having observed Digg and Reddit devolve, solving this problem has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. This is more about addressing Eternal September concerns (brilliant reference by someone yesterday). History will repeat itself until
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by rrival 19y ago
Love the Aeron. I've had mine break a number of times since 2000 (the seat, the ball bearings, etc) and no matter where it was (Cambridge, Boulder, Chicago) they repaired it free and more quickly than I'd expected.
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by rrival 19y ago
I'd be curious to see if they really care -that- much - it seemed pretty open last time I was there. Walking in like you know what you're doing might work, and if the last one is any indication, people tend to stay on after the event ends a
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by rrival 19y ago
I'll be there wearing a Mashable schwag shirt ( http://tinyurl.com/2xs7c2 ), black jacket. I look like this guy: http://tinyurl.com/yw4bet It's upstairs. There's a circular bar in the middle, a wall of windows on the east wall. The elevat
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by rrival 19y ago
$1.31 for 24 hours! Do you freelance?
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by rrival 19y ago
Or use a freelance designer. And keep your equity. Unless they were materially part of the conceptual process. Or you really, really can't afford it. Respect equity. If you haven't read Felix Dennis "How to get Rich" you should.
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by rrival 19y ago
These days it's all about friendship bracelets. And ball bearings.
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by rrival 19y ago
netcraft will do it (netcraft.com)
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Ask YC News: Measuring Popularity / Awareness
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by rrival 19y ago
Having worked in local shops, the phrase "We just don't have time" is a very popular excuse. Reusable / easily maintainable code = fewer billable hours - it's the clients that aren't savvy enough or are too budget conscious to make it a pri
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by rrival 19y ago
One could split hairs here indefinitely, especially debating the nature of what being useful means and to whom.
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by rrival 19y ago
There are a lot of useless, passionate, dedicated people running around (misguided != talented). I prefer to avoid them.
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by rrival 19y ago
Funny =) Article says 90% aren't home runs - I'm curious: what's the expected rate of profitable exits (non-loss exits)? Is there enough activity in the vc-backed space / volume in the startup space to classify investments in tech startups
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by rrival 19y ago
I think those rates are quoted hourly
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by rrival 19y ago
There's some overlap, but I don't think either company would suggest that, unless they did so in the broad sense of competing for a user's time on the internet. I'd be interested to see stats on dating on FB though.
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by rrival 19y ago
Since when is plentyoffish a facebook competitor? You should read his blog - his insights are valuable.
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by rrival 19y ago
I love the idea of variable increases in cost as resource requirements increase. I massively over-deployed in the dot-com era. Oops. How have S3/EC2 affected funding and acquisitions - is anyone aware of an example of either? (I know jtv us
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by rrival 19y ago
This is going back a little ways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirsky's_Worst_of_the_Web
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by rrival 19y ago
It's part of the vernacular: "Did you get the evite?" - "Send me the Evite!" "Did you get the upcoming link for the event?" "Did you get the 'going'... " are both awkward. Renkoo is another. With all respect, if I'm having a party, what am

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