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Growing a SaaS company? Expect to take more money, but higher valuation(interwest.com)
3 points by slapshot 17y ago|1 comments
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How to spend in a SaaS business (hint: customers cost money)(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by slapshot 17y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Are you doing API-based or automated registrations? If so, check Tucows. The pricing isn't the best, but the API integration is good.
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by slapshot 17y ago
This also might reveal why Verizon's continued support of the CDMA island effectively exempts it from having to compete with carrier-unlocked phones. It's frustrating as a consumer that Verizon is incompatible with the massive hordes of unl
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Product placement in iPhone apps: shrewd, inevitable, depressing?(techcrunch.com)
1 points by slapshot 17y ago|0 comments
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Delaware corporations are getting billed for more taxes than they owe(thestartuplawyer.com)
2 points by slapshot 17y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Ajax please.
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Monthly recurring revenue as a way out of tough times (old but good)(37signals.com)
2 points by slapshot 17y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Better: "Vatican admits perfect security is impossible, and the side-effects of pursuing perfect security are undesirable." If perfect security were costless, it would be an easy decision. The problem is the cost of perfect security.
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by slapshot 17y ago
Very fun in that it appears to be alive in some way and allows the user to project feelings/emotions onto it. To me, it looks like the machine is bothered when the user flips the switch and wants to be left alone. Of course, that's ridicul
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by slapshot 17y ago
A good tip to improve around the margins, but fixing your main product/service needs to come first before you devote time to details like this. This tip will increase your revenue 5% once; an improved product might increase it 5% per month
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A mouse for the iPhoine -- why doesn't Apple support hardhack developers?(mobilecrunch.com)
1 points by slapshot 17y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Flipping websites could be a similar experience to flipping houses: fun and profitable while the market is rising, but dangerous and unprofitable while the market sinks. Add a little leverage in there and you have potential for huge ups an
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Ask HN: How many tech IPOs this year?
4 points by slapshot 17y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Writing letters about the fact that artistic snowflakes aren't the same as "real" snowflakes is like writing to complain that the symbol of a heart for "I love you <3 " looks nothing like the human heart. While scientifically correct, h
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by slapshot 17y ago
Wait, we're still talking about DCurtis and SoSerious? How about a New Year's resolution to move past this bit of Hacker-News-meets-RealityTV?
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Ask HN: What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010?
14 points by slapshot 17y ago|16 comments
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Security or theater: no electronics on international flights?(techcrunch.com)
34 points by slapshot 17y ago|59 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
True, but even if you got $200 in NPV in five years (maybe $300 of nominal dollars), you still wouldn't be able to spin up fast enough and would take a massive infusion of capital to scale.
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by slapshot 17y ago
Customer acquisition cost (CAC) versus long-term value (LTV) is one of the concepts at the core of any SAAS (software as a service) or subscription business. Companies like Salesforce.com have made it their mantra to constantly drive CAC d
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by slapshot 17y ago
One of them caused my pop-up blocker to reject 9 popups from the same page. I don't know what they were going to do, but just a warning.
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by slapshot 17y ago
I'm currently building a business. I wouldn't do it for just a chance at $100,000. It takes a lot more to get real entrepreneurs to build a real business.
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by slapshot 17y ago
This has huge bar-bet potential.
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by slapshot 17y ago
Wait -- his mom offered to buy him lodging (and possibly tuition). Is it really "frugal" to turn down a place to sleep, or just shortsighted?
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by slapshot 17y ago
QRcodes (and the wide variety of barcode scanning products) never reached critical mass: - it wasn't worth it for individuals to learn how to use it unless there were businesses that had them, - it wasn't worth it for businesses to insta
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Google mails 2D barcodes to local businesses(techcrunch.com)
10 points by slapshot 17y ago|8 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Holy overhead, batman! NYC rents are absurd as it is. Unless they got a great deal then they are chewing up major funds just on a place to sit.
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by slapshot 17y ago
A different story suggests that he was found with 18 school computers at his house, that he failed to install any firewall software, and that he failed to supervise the rest of the technical team. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/200
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Ask HN: What are you most thankful for?
2 points by slapshot 17y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 17y ago
Law is not software. Remember that and you'll be fine. They are both precise, but in extremely different ways.

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