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by sbraford 19y ago
I too wonder how founders who own 30-40% of a company (who want to work 80 hours a week) can expect the same of an employee who owns only .5% or less.
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by sbraford 19y ago
How many people signup for sites like these, and return rarely or never use any of the registration-enabled features? Are those "real" users as opposed to FacebookApp-enabled users? I add an app in my Facebook. If it's popular enough, eve
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by sbraford 19y ago
If this app "takes off" on the world wide interweb, it'll be lucky if it has 10-20k users within a few months. If it "takes off" in facebook-land, it'll be doing OK if it only has 50-100k users after a few months.
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by sbraford 19y ago
The same metaphorical wolf. Not the exact. same. wolf.
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by sbraford 19y ago
I'm guessing from his note at the end that the story was originally told by one of his friends at MS?
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by sbraford 19y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately too. Chances are, the older you get, the average person will have lived through more "failures" than huge mega-successes. This influences how they perceive the world and their expected outcome. So
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by sbraford 19y ago
Mod +1. I wrote an app in rails over a few long weekends (having never touched RoR or ruby before). Idling on the rails irc channel helped me get through some tough spots. These days there are a ton more resources than there were 2 years
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by sbraford 19y ago
think it's even less than that =)
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by sbraford 19y ago
plz post benchmarks from all levels and i'm sure the ruby / ror community would love to help. when X page (a problem page) loads, what exact times and % of the total load time is taking place at: http server ror, broken down into: activerec
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by sbraford 19y ago
Can you share the URL of your site? Just curious - what are your plans going forward? i.e. continue what you've been doing, rewrite in another language, or what? Not that this is your scenario, but whenever I'm in a crunch situation, it alw
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by sbraford 19y ago
Point taken. Just a nit though: how was del.icio.us making money? I never saw one ad on there before Yahoo acquired them, come to think of it, I still don't see any ads on there.
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by sbraford 19y ago
I think his point was that a lot of Web 2.0 companies are launching with the hopes of quickly getting acquired before earnings are really relevant. Did del.icio.us have any earnings when it got acquired? No. Flickr? Barely. Plentyoffish is
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by sbraford 19y ago
Yeah he talks about that in Founders at Work. After all those schemes he tried that were mentioned in the article, he says one of the biggest reasons for his companies' success has been his blog.
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by sbraford 19y ago
They're just using PHP for the front page of the site, not the whole app. Sheesh.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Article also fails to mention he got a boost from adding fake profiles (mostly of women) early on. A forum post of his asking about how to do this is archived on the net somewhere. ... not that I've never done anything greyhat either.
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by sbraford 19y ago
I haven't implemented mass user-generated subdomains in PHP or Python, but it certainly was a snap to do in Rails. User-created subdomains didn't seem like they really caught on until 37 Signals started having huge success.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Great point. I wrote up a whole post about this "John Chow CPM anomaly" over at: http://onwebapps.com/how-to-profit-from-alexa-arbitrage/ Basic summary: if you can start a blog/site geared towards users who probably have the Alexa toolb
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by sbraford 19y ago
Colin's spot on. If they are truly co-founders and not just early employees with a lot of stock, they have to believe the idea is just as much theirs as it is yours. I'm moving to SF soon hoping to team up with some co-founders. But I'm n
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19 Instant Messaging Startups (that Kevin Rose is facing off against)(mashable.com)
3 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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NBC Jumps on the MySpace Bandwagon(mashable.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Chart: Percentage of a Company You Own vs. Acquisition Price(onwebapps.com)
5 points by sbraford 19y ago|4 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
My mistake. I agree, $200k is way too much for a startup founder salary.
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List of Web 2.0 Acquisition Prices(tnl.net)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
Yes, "investors" here is a bit broad. Reading posts like this make it seem really pointless to spend too much time seeking investment. Just go out and build a solid business. Either: A) It will work. You will have profits and/or investors
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Ajaxian acquired by Techtarget for $1M(thealarmclock.com)
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"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy(many.corante.com)
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How LiveJournal Scales [PDF](danga.com)
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MyConfPlan: Pick & Manage Which Conf. Breakout Sessions you Attend(myconfplan.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Latest RailsConf-related Posts for the Rubyists out there (via Technorati)(technorati.com)
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A Great Way to Learn Ruby(clarkware.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments

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