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by rwhitman 15y ago
Re: elderly parents. My elderly parents (my dad turned 80 this weekend!) moved to one of those semi-suburban retirement villages a few years ago and it changed their lives. They went from being depressed, lonely, TV-obsessed hermits to havi
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by rwhitman 15y ago
Of anything said here THIS is the advice to listen to. He speaks the truth.
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by rwhitman 15y ago
I've been in a very similar situation. Lesson learned: humility. Go take a 9 to 5 somewhere. Anywhere. Doing work you would look down on. Start all the way at the bottom. Save money. Pay off your debt. Deal w/ that first. Chances are if you
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by rwhitman 15y ago
New York, NY OpenSky is celebrity curated daily deals. I'm looking for a frontend hacker / designer to replace me in my current role working on marketing projects. Particularly someone with talent in CSS and jQuery. OpenSky is on a serious
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Yes. I've been following each of these for a few years (except for the big & threatening thing, I'm pretty short) and no client has ever completely escaped payment on me. Everything stated here is the gospel. If you run a consulting bus
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Very cool. I could see myself using this. Really hope an android-native version is on its way
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by rwhitman 16y ago
That seems like an awful lot of work for something that would only be viewable for a radius of a few miles
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Marketplaces often flop when the people who build them don't fully understand the market they're facilitating. I think the exercise in the brokering of selling newsletter ads, even on a small scale of one or two customers, will be truly val
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I don't know if I'd call those worst-case scenarios. Everything he describes there is pretty standard issue
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Agreed, its not like the designer was doing some sort of high-detail pixel art or anything. Favicons can take a really long time. They are an art. However, this one is not even that good of a job. Its a little off center, the font isn't ver
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by rwhitman 16y ago
The fact that they were ready to supply an honest answer to the inquiry is pretty cool. Regardless of how steep the cost of that favicon was, I'm impressed by how they can be held accountable for it
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Techcrunch also tends to greatly exaggerate acquisition prices when they don't have access to any real figures...
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Buying users used to be a reason to acquire a product, but not anymore. Users are cheap. And Groupon already has one of the best email distribution channels out there Its about the product and the team. Hipster is Quora meets Yelp, and the
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Hasn't this existed for over a year now?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So people can't adapt? Once you've worked in one place, you're stuck that way forever?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
"The certainty of failure". I like that.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Is there an example of the sidebar you're talking about that we can look at?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Aggressive spiders are a pain in the ass. I'm with them on this.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Agreed. I can't imagine many people are going to be willing to stake much effort on an idea they aren't excited about. An exciting idea doesn't have to be a good idea. A lot of dumb ideas seem like good ideas until you're half way through
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Hmm... Industry = "Group Buying", Location = "Chicago", Valuation = ">$10B" I'd say Groupon pays pretty darn well, huh?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
The problem is the landlord-tenant relationship is asymmetrical. As a tenant you want to live in a particular place, whether its for location, or amenities, or price etc. When you lease an apartment, the landlord's record of customer serv
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So basically what you're saying is this tool actually solves the tenant's problems, and not the landlord's...
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by rwhitman 16y ago
On the one hand, I'm 100% inclined to agree with you, but on the other I think he might be ok. My last landlord added me as a friend on Facebook when we signed the lease, and was actively attempting to use email and smart phones to facili
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I think this is great. I've been dreaming of a day when I can do online billing with a landlord. I once had a landlord where I was doing online bill pay from BofA, and they would mail the landlord physical checks, but the landlord wouldn't
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Why not? People already trust FB with all their intimate details and relationships. I don't trust them either, but I'm pretty sure plenty of other people would. Of 500M+ users even if a tiny fraction adopted it, it would become a huge deal.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Why the downvotes? Was this not a constructive comment? I'm not endorsing their currency, just saying they have the muscle power to thrust their virtual currency into the forefront. Its not like I'm saying I want it that way, just that it
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Good point, but keep in mind they have 500M+ users. Almost everyone willing to buy into virtual currency is already on Facebook
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Its not hard to imagine FB could become the primary virtual currency for everything within a very short timeframe.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
There's a really good comment on there I'd like to quote: "I'd only add that, from my own experience, it is more fruitful to avoid emulating the larger team mentalities when you're a single soul company. Specifically, don't aim for MVP, whe
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I honestly think the current tech bubble will be sunk by how overly picky most startups are these days about hiring

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