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by rythie 16y ago
I've seen people on twitter with a lot of followers doing the "I'm in such and such for 4 hours lets meet" invitation, though of course that only works for people with a lot of followers. So I think there is an opportunity there.
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't think going college or going on a cruise are that difficult places to meet people. In fact I think that holidays in general and college are easier than every day life since people often have few friends with them and people are more
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by rythie 16y ago
A little while back I wrote about my problems with the N96: http://posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk/dont-buy-a-nokia-n9... (I've recently switched to the iPhone 4)
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by rythie 16y ago
That was to be my last point in the discussion, which ended 11 hours before your post. I get it now, people will pay their own money to help their career, it's technically B2C but if they didn't have that job, they wouldn't buy the product.
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by rythie 16y ago
That's an interesting fact in it's self. From people I know who teach or have taught, it seemed that they had too much to do outside the core hours, so maybe they are trying to get some of that time back?
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by rythie 16y ago
That seems a little odd to me, but I can sort of understand it. Are they using in their jobs? If so, is there a reason their employer won't pay for it? Or do teachers routinely buy stuff with their own money to save lesson prep. time?
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by rythie 16y ago
The costs of those sites is relatively small compared to the overall monetary costs of being in a relationship like eating out, social events, travel, presents, marriage etc. So maybe that's why people don't mind paying.
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by rythie 16y ago
I thought Bingo Card Creator was B2B? Edit: The product is sold mostly to teachers to save them time and help them do their job better, so that would make it B2B I would have thought.
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by rythie 16y ago
I'd agree. On thinking about it a bit, some people like to put the wedding invitations up on their mantel pieces and such and others aren't really bothered.
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by rythie 16y ago
Ultimately the price of the PDF is going to tend to zero anyway, that's why I said in the long run. If you charge for the PDF someone will charge less and someone else will charge even less. I don't think people will want the PDFs since the
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by rythie 16y ago
If you really wanted to be disruptive you'd invite everyone via. Facebook with a stylised HTML style invite and it would be all be free and you'd make money on lead-gen. The world is probably not ready for that yet though.
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by rythie 16y ago
People don't want a quote for wedding invites, they want to know all the prices / price-breaks upfront and do it all online, if that's not already happening there is room for disruption.
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by rythie 16y ago
I would say in the long run you should give out the PDF for free and charge for sending out the prints on proper card/paper. Most people are going to pay for something will want it printed properly. Also, I imagine the main advantage would
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by rythie 16y ago
Given Windows is suggested as an option on their machines, maybe they will write a driver. Either way I'm sure someone will write one for Linux.
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by rythie 16y ago
It seems for every query you really want to have good Wikipedia quality level equivalent page summarizing the best knowledge available. These content farms are trying to fill the gap where Wikipedia won't have a corresponding page, however,
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by rythie 16y ago
Probably, though original story was about an application that got a lot of press from those people. Personally I've had the majority of my traffic from bloggers, though I haven't yet travelled to the U.S. to get more. Several of the success
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by rythie 16y ago
The table should be 100%, updated code: javascript:function hn(){if(location.host=="news.ycombinator.com"){var d=document,t=d.createElement("l"+"ink"),z=d.createElement("l"+"ink"),b=d.body,l=d.location;try{if(!b){throw(0);}z.setAttribute("r
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by rythie 16y ago
Yes, the reason I was saying that is that many of influential bloggers and companies are in the states and meeting them in person is best way to get their attention. In Europe, since there are so many different languages it seems many peopl
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by rythie 16y ago
U.K. Enterpreneurs need to travel to the U.S. to promote their products. I'm not sure how valid the comparison to flipboard is, since founder sold his last business for $800m which is some advantage in it's self.
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by rythie 16y ago
This really is a poor article. It's not stated if that's a new product or an established one they are talking about. Also, whilst they say one product is down, what about the others? If you dig into the bnet article ( http://industry.bnet.c
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by rythie 16y ago
This is app. not really 'bad' or evil as such. It's not like he is breaking into computers, stealing money or defrauding people. All the app. does is something other phones can do like Nokias and Android phones, but Apple or AT&T don't
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by rythie 16y ago
Typically if you get that one right, there is a serious of follow up questions each getting deeper and deeper into the understanding of the same topic.
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by rythie 16y ago
Your assuming he would reinvest the money rather than just keep it a savings account (or several).
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by rythie 16y ago
The risk is, at some point someone will come along and compete and in effect destroy his business. He's relying on the future income stream where as the IPO route ends up with money in your pocket, that can't be taken away. For example, som
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't get how they can get 10Gbps down cat5e over 100m when 10GBase-T requires cat6a to do that.
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by rythie 16y ago
Why aren't the other browsers warning about this? It IS a security problem if people mix non-SSL content into a SSL page.
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by rythie 16y ago
Yes I remember the 90s, I was working for the later part of that decade on and off. I encountered a number of die hard Apple fans during that time who simply wouldn't consider another computer other than a Mac and continued to buy whatever
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by rythie 16y ago
My use of the term 'unfair' was in reference to the way the term was used in the article. I thought this would be perfectly clear to everyone, since everyone would have read the article.
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by rythie 16y ago
Apple's unfair advantage is a massive base of loyal fans who will follow every move Apple makes, track the SteveNote live and buy the products on pre-order (and pay a high price for them). Other companies release products of a similar quali
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by rythie 16y ago
I was merely commenting on the link you posted. However, since they were ahead of their time so pivoting was the right thing for them at that time.

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