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15y ago
What "the hell" should he have done? There's only 2 possibilities here - 1. They didn't see the emails or 2. They saw them, but chose to ignore them. Either way, his choice boils down to killing his idea or launching it and seeing what happ
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15y ago
Personally, I'm looking forward to moving to India. The food is tasty, the women are beautiful. ...and the bureaucracy and corruption are out of this world. Good luck.
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16y ago
Oh come on. Scandal? Really? It's a bunch of self-indulgent ppl arguing over semantics. Scott acted like an idiot and the ppl blowing this out of proportion are even bigger idiots.
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rumpelstiltskin
16y ago
Re: making NYC a startup hub equivalent to Silicon Valley - "Problem is, Wilson himself isn’t doing nearly as much on that front as he could be." Where's the evidence for this statement? If anything, all the evidence in the article seems to
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16y ago
Whats stopping said person from setting up a quick C-Corp or LLC and have the option grants be paid to the company?
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16y ago
Hell has frozen over.
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16y ago
use http://domai.nr
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16y ago
Re: the last paragraph in the article Considering this can potentially ruin Brown's reputation, shouldn't they wait to get solid confirmation before slapping him with the 'insider trading' label?
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16y ago
Any ETA on when WePay is opening up to take payments as an alternative to paypal? I'm sure your engagement will be magnitudes of order higher with that announcement :)
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16y ago
Can you give some examples/use cases of how a small business, say an auto garage, would use this?
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16y ago
Anyone know a good IE 9 emulator?
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16y ago
Great design! How are you taking payments?
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16y ago
Still doesn't help individuals selling products online and are stuck using paypal and risking having their accounts frozen.
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16y ago
Jason "will do anything for ink" Calacanis recently gave an about face speech claiming people need to step away from the content farm business model, and in doing so admitted that roughly everything he said about Mahalo over the past coupl
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16y ago
That makes perfect sense. Thanks.
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16y ago
$5.45 is the tipping point where the 2.75% accounts for a larger portion of the fees than the $0.15. (EDIT: added to original comment) There are merchants who do a small # of transactions a day w/ each transaction being significantly high
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16y ago
This is a gamechanger if your transaction price is lower than $5.45 (EDIT: the tipping point where the 2.75% accounts for a larger portion of the fees than the $0.15) . The further above this price you go, the more negligible the $0.15 sav
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16y ago
Relevant comment from the article - This seems to be a textbook "AOL Way" article that Paul Miller was talking about. Beatles? Popular. iPad? Popular (Bonus points for featuring FOUR of them). Lady Gaga? Popular. Turnaround time? Few minut
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16y ago
Are they also working on a tl;dw? P.S. Justin Rosenstein? Co-founder of Asana?
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16y ago
What virality plan?
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16y ago
Sorry if I put you on the spot, my main reason for asking was my curiosity regarding the cost of your CDN :) I figured that must make up the lion's share of your expenses.
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16y ago
Congrats on the growth! Can you elaborate a bit on the numbers? Specifically revenues, margins etc
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16y ago
I disagree. If anything, it's school that can wait. Especially considering you can get a decently comprehensive CS education w/o paying mid-5 figures a year in tuition. Rather than giving all that money away needlessly, spend a fraction of
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16y ago
Have you tried facebook? 3 yrs ago, when I first started out as an affiliate marketer, 90% of my ad spend was in adwords. At this point, my ad spend has tilted obscenely in facebook's favor over adwords. I remember the hours I used to spend
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16y ago
A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to fi
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16y ago
Can you please let users sign up with their email? Not everyone has a facebook, google or twitter acount.
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16y ago
If they put johnchow.com on the list, they must be doing something right.
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16y ago
Close, but wrong.
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16y ago
0.001% would be around ballpark.
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16y ago
Any chance for a transcript?
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