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by sachinag 17y ago
We use Mint and GA. GA for goals and long-term trend planning and all that stuff; Mint purely to see the source of traffic spikes and search keywords that are driving traffic. I've been told that there's good stuff in Peppermill, but have
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by sachinag 17y ago
I remember filing in New York State in 2000 or 2001 or thereabouts where the state actually went after use tax. The form actually had a line - you could calculate your use tax or just give up and give them 38 bucks, which was their average
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by sachinag 17y ago
Wait, why would you guess that? There's a rational reason for a higher number of sales in the Valley - there's a concentration of acquirors - but profitability generally has very little to do with proximity to paying users/advertisers, exc
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by sachinag 17y ago
Tee hee - this is pretty much the Eric Ries/Steve Blank outline in a decision tree format.
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by sachinag 17y ago
http://daringfireball.net/2009/05/diary_of_an_app_store_revi... This wouldn't have gotten the love it did if it didn't ring all-too-true to all-too-many people.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The iPhone is a terrible platform for the vast, vast majority of developers. The process of getting on board, promotion, and success is a total black hole. First movers such as ngmoco and Tapulous have done well; people with better apps -
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by sachinag 17y ago
Well, from my experience, I don't have any particular experience, insight, or ability to screw people over. Seriously, if you take a napkin and say 50/50 on the napkin, it'll hold up in court. But I'm a Democrat, so I'm not evil. :) I tr
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by sachinag 17y ago
I can't find my source (I only save stuff that directly impacts Dawdle), but I've repeatedly seen that 95% of registered Etsy users are female and 67% of visitors are female.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Again, that's the government's fault for not setting communication protocol standards. Free markets != absence of regulation w/r/t public airwaves. Of course, it could be worse. We (the U.S.) could be Canada.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Or, you know, find a business guy as a partner. People from investment banking, consulting, venture capital, and private equity backgrounds have years of experience dealing with $50M - $10B companies and know markets (hey, look, the first
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by sachinag 17y ago
I don't use an ad blocker. I found that they're more hassle than they're worth. EDIT: In response to the "why don't you?" my answer is that I've found that it messes up layout on many sites, and it fucks up my experience on certain video-h
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by sachinag 17y ago
Also note that the AMA is in favor of additional payments to doctors, and therefore want to see more McAllens. (Both parents are docs, both are AMA members, both don't care/know about the organization's politics. sigh )
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by sachinag 17y ago
And you thought the NIMBYness of cell towers was bad.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The problem is that the Linux folks haven't indicated that they'd be willing to discuss a payment option. Sure, C&Ds are often just a beginning negotiating tactic - but only when the other side expects it. Otherwise, it's just scary
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by sachinag 17y ago
The presser's going out tomorrow, but hey, you're on HN - we'll take your listing: http://www.dawdle.com/search.php/1/1/Platform=iPhone
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by sachinag 17y ago
Does Apple sell a CDMA-based iPhone anywhere in the world?
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by sachinag 17y ago
You know, I submit that lateral transfers are probably one of the highest possible signals there could be. Now, if that was a part of the formula, they schools would game it. So you'd probably have to sit out a year, like players in Div.
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by sachinag 17y ago
For someone who's looking to SEO their site, this tool is exceptionally useful just for that reason.
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is about as useful as Yuil was - i.e. very. Sure, it turns out to be a little self-serving for the person's employer, but you have to acknowledge the brilliance of the effort and the fact that the results themselves appear to be on th
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by sachinag 17y ago
It's impossible to overstate how much this game became the talk of the press lounge on the last day of E3. People are rooting for this game the way they rooted for Katamari and Portal. There's a lot of love for the depth of the database,
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by sachinag 17y ago
First thing I did as a good SEO nerd/startup CEO was to see how Bing treated http://www.dawdle.com - and I have to say I'm mildly impressed, but disappointed overall. On the plus side for Bing, the hover-over shows the information we want
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by sachinag 17y ago
But even ostensibly open conferences can be difficult - I'm going to E3, and I made sure I could get dual credentialed as press just to make it easier for other people to talk to me. Some places are conferences just for the cool kids, but t
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by sachinag 17y ago
Work, social life, sleep: choose two. Every day is different if you're the "business guy"; if you're the "tech guy," the mechanics are the same, but the problems are different. How different are they? Depends on how good you are - the fas
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by sachinag 17y ago
It's not hard - just ask someone. Seriously. The mechanics aren't particularly hard, and if you act in good faith, the vast majority of mistakes are fixable. Step one is by far the hardest (assuming you're including "selling it to custom
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by sachinag 17y ago
Perhaps today. But in the past, General Motors was so threatened by him that they sent hookers to seduce him. His settlement with GM funded Public Citizen. Ralph Nader was a total badass once upon a time.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Sadly, no. I saw some tweets from the Bootcamp, but that's all I got. Lawyers I've talked to have gone both ways - some say equity's enough, some say that doesn't count. Hence, the "apparently."
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is apparently illegal. The EFF covered this at their conference - the way out of it is that most early employees are founders and just choose not to sue.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You're kidding, right? No, seriously, you're kidding, right? They're predicated on "protectable IP" and only go to established companies - i.e. your side project doesn't qualify unless you've already incorporated. I could go on, but I al
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by sachinag 17y ago
No, and this is where most people make the mistake. The winner of any auction is the last and highest bidder. Whether or not it is rational to bid more than retail is irrelevant to determining the winner of an auction. People conflate
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by sachinag 17y ago
The taurine would have long killed you by this point.

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