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by rwhitman 16y ago
I just got off a gig working for someone who is like the king of customer acquisition. Very successful at it. Very difficult to work with. And this guy is only in his job because he was acquired in a buyout of his startup. From what I've
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by rwhitman 16y ago
"Social e-commerce". I get a lot of project bid requests for variations on this theme. Especially when the economy really tanked every panicking startup tried to pivot their business plan to be shopping related for a while. Very difficult t
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Amen. Definitely been sucked into and subsequently failed at Social Travel big time. I think that's a sexy one, there is an unsaid allure in it of being able to mix travel with running a startup. Such a crowded space, and most fail out the
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I've been caught in this argument before. A situation arose with a client who wanted a male/female binary and I argued in favor of a third choice for those who didn't wish to self identify, as I have a few friends who are activists in this
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by rwhitman 16y ago
South Korea is a very wealthy, well educated country with a very well equipped, well trained modern military and tech thats on par with anything else in the world. And they've been sitting on one of the most volatile borders in the industri
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I concur, StayFocusd is good. Now, if only it could prevent me from using firefox as well...
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I have a suspicion - based purely on speculation - the unspoken thing here is that most of these businesses had awesome products & teams but were hurting so badly financially that they were on their last breath. I wouldn't be surprised
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by rwhitman 16y ago
You win some, you lose some, but you learn every time.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I like the concept of "Digital Heritage" as they call it. I think preserving digital heritage may become an important issue in the next few years. As the world begins to recognize the historic legacy of the web, it may someday become as imp
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by rwhitman 16y ago
As annoyed as I get when I receive downvotes, I think for the most part looking back, the comments were either divisive (and hence got some heated disagreement-based downvotes) or probably justified as downvote-worthy. For the most part the
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So true. Maybe part of the 'problem' is the pool of talent living in places that aren't the Bay Area are discovering that telecommuting can pay the bills and are comfortable staying put (or conversely, traveling the globe as a nomad). I kno
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Moving to Philly is certainly a step up from central PA, but I'll tell you this as someone from PA myself - finding decent work in Philly is a real challenge. If you are unhappy still, I really suggest another relocation to an even bigger t
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by rwhitman 16y ago
With the price fixing the only competition in town is priced at free. Therefore the market should bear somewhere between $10 and free. But not $10. Its still a ripoff no matter what way you shake it. Competitively, paying to download someth
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I do, kinda. Lets just say that I haven't paid for music in quite some time.. and when I did it was always CDs, I've bought maybe one album digitally. Its not the idea of paying that bothers me so much as the price point. I know damn well t
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Most of my personal library is comprised of books I was given free or bought used in the $.50 - $6.00 range. On average I've read about 20% of each. What I can't get around with the Kindle is the idea of paying $10 for a digital copy of som
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by rwhitman 16y ago
YES. Exactly. Though I think the draw to TC is probably more about building buzz for investors than anything else
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how do you go about selling a white-label license if no one knows you're selling it? just curious
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One of the lucky ones ;)
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I totally hear your frustration. I've become incredibly burned out on launching startups / small products that flop. I'd say one thing - Techcrunch is definitely NOT the only game in town for PR. They are very fickle and clique-y. There are
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If such a thing were to become reality, this honestly would be a credible explanation for it.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
A guy I work with a lot just moved to Taiwan and just went through all the hurdles to get an offshore developer office set up there. He claims it should be a great place to start a company, provided he can find the developer talent. There a
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So is this basically Mozilla's answer to Chrome's installable web apps?
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I think getting users to click video play buttons tends to be an effort in futility - video is a time commitment. Its a good supplement to the copy, but I probably wouldn't depend on it as your main tool to explain the product...
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Ok, when I read the copy on the home page and "How it Works" I didn't get it at all. When I watched the video it made a ton of sense and made me really excited. Problem is when I come to a site like this I don't ever click on the video. I w
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I've heard that South Dakota actually has the most favorable business tax laws in the country. But the standard state to incorporate in is Delaware, even if its not necessarily the lowest taxes anymore, its still the state most investors, l
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I think they have it in Mexico, or at some point they imported a bunch of them. In my east LA neighborhood I see them all over the place, they are a staple of junk haulers and gardeners
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I imagine AI is really the last great frontier of computing at this point, isn't it? Unsurprising that Google wouldn't be sleeping on it
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Interesting quote from that comment: "A long, legal way to say this patent is public domain on 10/5/2010 and these guys are probably trying to snag a nickel before it goes out." Meaning the patent troll is trying to turn a last minute buck
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So you were able to tap into SimpleGeo for business listings? I was under the impression their business data layer wasn't that useful for something like looking up a business by name/location and getting the geocoords, name & address et
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm pretty sure both of them were seeded by crowdsourcing.. One good trick is to tap into the Google AJAX API, there is also SimpleGeo, but its more meant as a method to push your checkins to, than being a datasource of business geo listing

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