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by sivers 15y ago
Even if you find this advice pretty generic, I really admire that he takes a little time to do lots of entrepreneur-advice articles and interviews and such. He could brush off these things as beneath him, but it's so amazing that he takes t
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The W3C validator works fine. Please see this example: http://50pop.com/i18n.html Maybe your webserver is not serving your page as UTF-8?
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by sivers 15y ago
Break your habit of converting them to HTML entities. Put them in your source as actual UTF-8 characters. If your page is really being delivered as UTF-8 then it will pass all validation, just using the real characters. (You still have to
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by sivers 15y ago
Thanks for the summary, Marc! All points confirmed accurate.
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I am at the Borobudur temple right now : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur I brought nothing on my long walk but water and Kindle. Stopped for a couple hours. Reading an amazing book, with the temple in the background. Highlighting t
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I met these guys when I was in Kerala this year, and they're really inspiring. Here's the direct link to what they're doing: http://www.projectfedena.org/
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One small change of target market makes 20X improvement in sales(justinjackson.ca)
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by sivers 15y ago
I'm here, and easy to reach. http://sivers.org/about But you'd be better off reaching people through Hackerspace http://hackerspace.sg/ More specifically, the Google Groups discussion board for Hackerspace: http://groups.google.com/gro
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Glad you like that! Yeah I hired 9 translators to translate into 9 languages. If you switch it to Arabic it goes right-to-left. Fun design challenge.
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Thanks! Sorry the French translation isn't great. Turns out the guy that I hired wasn't a native speaker, just pretending, and I've heard from a lot of people that it's a pretty bad translation. Gotta re-do it.
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Yes! I love this. Thank you for telling it in a succinct and human way. I'm going to bookmark this and send people to it often. I get lots of emails from people wanting to know what I think of their business idea. 99% of the time it's a bu
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by sivers 15y ago
I used Wyoming Corporate Services (the company at this address) to set up an LLC a couple years ago, and they were the most wonderful people to work with. (I would only contact them a few times a year, but when I did, the lady on the phone
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by sivers 15y ago
Brilliant! Here's my similar, now animated take on it: Obvious to you. Amazing to others. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCm-u_vlaQ
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by sivers 15y ago
It was a class at SMU that was not about entrepreneurship - probably a management class. I didn't mean to say (& didn't say) that no Singaporeans are entrepreneurial. I could have just as likely been in an accountancy class in Zurich.
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by sivers 15y ago
I edited it out of the post, but I was about to include my Chicago story: Because I also grew up in Chicago, and just assumed that every bar in the world, everywhere that alcohol is served, has a blues band. It wasn't until I moved to Bosto
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Wild! I don't remember ever having read that, but I must have years ago, and the metaphor stuck. Thanks for letting me know. I updated the post to give credit.
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FilmBaby was started by a CD Baby employee. I let him use the name. I haven't talked to him in years, so I don't know if it's part of CD Baby now or not.
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Almost exactly the same experience here. First month = $495 in expenses. $20 for my first month webhosting. $99 for Dreamweaver (I was still hand-coding HTML). $375 for that damn Verisign SSL certificate. First month I made $300, so was
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Would you be up for sharing your experience setting it up? Whether a blog post, an e-book, or whatever - I'll bet there are some people who would love to do the same, but use the experience of someone who's already got it working together
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by sivers 15y ago
At the RubyConf in 2003, I asked Matz (the creator of Ruby) what languages he was impressed with these days. He said only one: Io
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Feel free to email me anytime : http://sivers.org/contact
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Very very expensive. About the same as central London. I wouldn't recommend it at all if you're concerned about that.
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by sivers 15y ago
It was near the top of the list, but failed on two big counts: (1) - the air (2) - Cantonese I've already been studying Mandarin slowly for a couple years, and though I've heard I could have "gotten by" with English and Mandarin, I really w
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This is one way to find out. You've also got my home address and mobile phone# in the public corporate records (see bottom of http://50pop.com/ ) - so I'm not relying on security through obscurity.
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by sivers 15y ago
Home. Working. I prefer solitude. I don't hang out much. http://www.tagbento.com/243/dereks-desk
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I moved to Singapore(sivers.org)
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by sivers 15y ago
I hire on Elance and ODesk a lot, and almost ignore price. I've never hired the cheapest person. Instead, put your attention on getting good ratings from past clients. That makes all the difference in the world. Even consider using their
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by sivers 15y ago
Seems it's a career-long motto of his. Here's my little story from when he told that to a room of record labels in 2003: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/08/say_no_by_defa... == In June of 2003, Steve Jobs gave a small private
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There's a wonderful Linux distribution called Arch Linux - http://www.archlinux.org/ The best thing about it is its "rolling release" release cycle - constantly updating - every day. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchLinux:A
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Real URL without top frame: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/the-future-o...

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