rrival

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   by rrival 18y ago

   Having been linked from both Mashable and TC, TC drives >10x the traffic. This is worth considering when announcing a launch. It's short sighted to not consider that a blog like TC wants to be the first to cover something; there's enoug
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   by rrival 18y ago

   http://www.centernetworks.com/internet-week
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   by rrival 18y ago

   PayPal ftw.
4. 214.▲
   by rrival 18y ago

   Or if 33% remained the same weight. And the other 33% lost 10lbs.
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   by rrival 18y ago

   "... Additionally, many carriers have sold their tower assets to third party companies ..." you can lease space on these towers ( http://www.cellreception.com/towers/ )
6. 216.▲
   by rrival 18y ago

   Craigslist?
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   by rrival 18y ago

   Wrt to the "why" of the market, without speculation, liquidity is far lower. Take a look at the Chicago Climate Exchange's (CCX) price fluctuations compared to a fall expiring wheat contract on the CME/CBOT - you can move the CCX with a sma
8. 218.▲
   by rrival 18y ago

   I have a Series 3 (futures/forex) license and worked in that industry for about 6 months. It was like the bad parts of Boiler Room. I left when I realized the shop I was working for had no problem ripping off retail clients and allowing the
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   by rrival 18y ago

   They're not pain points. Solving them doesn't improve convenience.
10. 220.▲
    by rrival 18y ago

    Translation: Should an invite from your service (for ex, Evite) be sent from @evite.com or @gmail.com if your friend betty@gmail.com is sending someone an Evite.
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    by rrival 18y ago

    switches LinkShare address to Chicago from NYC & reapplies
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Edit: yeah: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/13/facemash-returns-as-wha...
13. 223.▲
    by rrival 18y ago

    Was it TechCrunch that recently pointed to Zuckerberg's original notes on his pre-Facebook project as the source for uLiken's inspiration? Comparing the harvard kids in the facebook to farm animals on something like hot or not?
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    by rrival 18y ago

    "The companies who say 'We did not understand our consumers' were bound to fail from the start. This is because if you are not your own consumer, you cannot create a successful product. You won't have the focus, energy or drive." This is so
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    by rrival 18y ago

    1) ICANN & ICANN accredited registrars. 2) Market forces are stopping them from doing that (fortunately), though Network Solutions is still selling them at $35. Domain tasting was the really annoying thing - that's fortunately been elim
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Just get the auth id from him, make sure he unlocks it and initiate the transfer from the registrar you like. Name.com makes it easycheese and is also $6. I have 300+ domains on there (all transferred the same way, either owned by me or oth
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    by rrival 18y ago

    I was following his twitter ( http://twitter.com/theinquisitr ) - the current tweet is "Jennifer Aniston Finally Has a Man!" I'm not sure how long I'm going to keep following =)
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    by rrival 18y ago

    To spin this in a slightly different direction, there are different req's on NASD/AMSE wrt market cap (this comes up when cos get delisted). I'd be curious to know what it takes to get onto the OTC/BB (pink sheets), b/c those tend to be sma
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    by rrival 18y ago

    It's a funneling thing - 10000 people see the ad, 100-300 people click through, 2-3 people complete a transaction. A/B testing on ad copy and landing pages can fine tune the process. Check out AzoogleAds.com, ShoeMoney.com, etc.
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Nothing says reputable like a domain registered a month ago!
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Would enjoy your feedback - PriceAdvance's beta launched here in December. We've been building in support for additional merchants, developing the IE version and polishing the Firefox version (which is now out of mozilla's dev sandbox). We'
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    PriceAdvance Launched out of Beta (now supports IE, too)(priceadvance.com)

    6 points by rrival 18y ago|3 comments
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    by rrival 18y ago

    It's way too fast for whois. They're probably using the COM/NET/ORG Zone files in a nicely indexed db. I'd be interested to know more about the back end - they get points for responsiveness.
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    by rrival 18y ago

    I wonder what Rockstar would do with a persistent GTA universe a-la WOW.
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    by rrival 18y ago

    We're using twitter as a microblog for the latest info about priceadvance ( http://twitter.com/priceadvance ). The twitter widget is sitting on priceadvance.com. Easy way to keep users up to date without installing wp or something custom.
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    by rrival 18y ago

    ah, HSA = Health Savings Account ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account )
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Completely agree, but not moving out of the US =) http://tinyurl.com/6973da
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    by rrival 18y ago

    Good call. I think I'm going to look into increasing my deductible.
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    Ask YC: What do you spend on health insurance?

    11 points by rrival 18y ago|65 comments
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    by rrival 18y ago

    We took a long look at CakePHP, Symphony and Code Igniter during the first month of http://tinyurl.com/3amqf4 (democratic development = fail). We determined that Code Igniter is a cleaner MVC framework, handles more requests/sec etc. htt