sdpurtill

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by sdpurtill 18y ago
Very interesting read if you have the time :) The best part is of the article is how Denton turned his biggest competitors into his heaviest source of traffic by writing trash about reporters and scandals at the big publishing houses in NYC
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History of Gawker(nplusonemag.com)
1 points by sdpurtill 18y ago|1 comments
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
collegeotr.com seems right on. ivygate.com is similar too -- the big thing these people need to work on is distribution strategy. Gawker had a great one - write trash about other media companies (NYT, Conde Nast, etc) because the reporter
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Idea for a media startup(31fps.com)
10 points by sdpurtill 18y ago|7 comments
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
oh it's been done - you just haven't heard about it because the team of hackers didn't have 3 pr reps!
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
Simple answer: big companies haven't switched to FF. If they started switching, their employees would go home and switch too. Until then, it will be hard to become a majority.
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
working more than 80 hours a week isn't sustainable over long periods of time, if anything it will just hasten a huge burnout. anyone can work 80-100 hours a week - it doesn't mean they're going to get more done. work in bursts when you are
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
when we launched younoodle we hit NYT / techcrunch / venturebeat within a few hours. me and the other engineer slept through it and the site didn't go down once - it even stayed pretty fast throughout that day. btw, techcrunch doesn't send
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
luckily i have an understanding boss here at younoodle ;)
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Explosive productivity(31fps.com)
38 points by sdpurtill 18y ago|13 comments
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
microsoft thinks yahoo is worth $33 with msft execs, yahoo thinks they're worth $37 with their own execs, the general public thinks they're worth... uh... well before the msft news broke, around $19. either yahoo execs have huge egos and th
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by sdpurtill 18y ago
http://friendfeed.com/sdpurtill
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by sdpurtill 19y ago
I'd give Jared 500k any day
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by sdpurtill 19y ago
Yeah, seriously... I was rejected at YC like 8 months ago (didn't want single founder) and we are doing just fine. I really respect all the advice and connections that YC has, but just because you are rejected doesn't mean anything. My com