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by ssharp 9y ago
Any previous period data to compare to?
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by ssharp 9y ago
Lyft grew 25%; Uber grew in mid-teens. Growth percentages are useless. I could start a ride sharing service, have my mom as my only customer, add in my dad, and I've grown 100%! The more important numbers are market share and share of
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by ssharp 9y ago
It seems like the midwest much prefers B2B software and health industry-focused startups. I'm assuming because they become profitable much faster and don't need the explosive growth and capital needs of moonshot SV companies. Fewe
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by ssharp 9y ago
> Wayfair: The home goods e-commerce company was profitable from its first month of operation because they skipped brand advertising and bought up hundreds of domain names that were exact matches for common search terms. I remember buyin
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by ssharp 9y ago
This is a very smart way to do things in certain industries. This scales fairly well with local businesses because what you did for one homebuilder in Topeka, you can do for another homebuilder in Billings and not run into too many conflict
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by ssharp 9y ago
I have a 98 C2500 and it has all three. I recently replaced the tape deck and AC. AC compressor replacement took less than an hour to replace on that truck vs. my 2010 sedan that took several hours for the same job.
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by ssharp 9y ago
In most cases, flying a plane yourself will result in more negative damage than having a trained pilot fly you.
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by ssharp 9y ago
Interested in further thought here.
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by ssharp 9y ago
I work in marketing for a specialty P&C MGA and can attest to distribution challenges, at least compared to other industries, but Zenefits could have (and currently does) operate legally, they just chose not to. Zenefits was allowing un
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by ssharp 9y ago
If you could analyze the old ga.js and figure out a way to accurately duplicate the way the old utmz cookie was created, you could probably make some money off your effort. I've yet to see a great solution to this.
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by ssharp 9y ago
Several major podcast producers have taken VC investments, so VC's supporting other VC's!
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by ssharp 9y ago
There isn't much evidence that EDM is much more than a passing fad, either. Rock music has held fairly strong on over the past 60-70 years and has been able to accommodate and integrate fads, shed them, and then reincorporate them in t
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by ssharp 9y ago
I've done this exact thing before -- writing a Monte Carlo simulation where stats and algebra would have given me the same answer. I think it was less phobia and more that I'm completely out of practice with math and stats by hand
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by ssharp 9y ago
In my experience, the A/B tests that are most likely to win are the ones where you make UX changes designed to make it easier for visitors to do what you want them to do. These not only improve your conversion rates, they are also less
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by ssharp 9y ago
I'm assuming Netflix has a pretty detailed contract with Amazon, assuring them service levels and preventing Amazon from doing anything nefarious. Still, I'm sure Netflix has contingency plans in place.
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by ssharp 9y ago
For someone buying something, authorization is all that matters.
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by ssharp 9y ago
I have a 2008 MBP and everything runs great on it, except web browsers, which is sort of funny, tragic, and annoying all at once.
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by ssharp 9y ago
I evolved this way, though I'm far from gifted. Starting out, anything I made was driven by whatever sounds I was noodling with. Now, I almost start on the piano, compose the outline, and then pick the sounds that I think fit it. The f
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by ssharp 9y ago
I'm not a fan of hockey, so I'm asking this question out of pure curiosity and ignorance. I'm assuming advanced analytics have made their way to hockey. Have the analytics supported this?
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by ssharp 9y ago
Having to fill up 24 hours of daily airtime, across multiple channels (how many do they have now? four -- espn, espn2, espnu, espn classic?) has to require thinning out the content. I'm mostly like you. Sportscenter is largely useless
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by ssharp 9y ago
Maybe. It's not clear that these TV rights deals are unprofitable. If those deals are the drag on ESPN's financials, the leagues will take a big hit. Those deals are longer-term though and the leagues have lots of existing and eme
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by ssharp 9y ago
Some skeuomophic design makes more sends in DAWs, especially the mixer where you might be controlling it with an external controller. That said, a lot of plugins and virtual instruments never left that world of design after most others move
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by ssharp 9y ago
"Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time." How much can you simplify the interface and still make it do everything producers want to do? Garageband simplifie
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by ssharp 9y ago
"Dropbox is just one of the best examples out there of everything that makes a software product solid: do one thing, do it well, don't bother the user, and be profitable." I hate to be cynical here, but they're EBITDA pr
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by ssharp 9y ago
There has to be enough nostalgia over Tecmo Super Bowl to warrant such a thing. People organize tournaments all over the country, a car company based a commercial on it, and stuff like the NES Classic shows a lot of interest in throwback ga
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by ssharp 9y ago
PHP made it way too simple to go from a basic installation -> serving web pages, just using it's standard library. You're right -- that was it's intended use-case and while it made for a dead-easy user experience, it also
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by ssharp 9y ago
If "moderate success" is achievable without extreme fortune, then that's a perfectly acceptable target to aim for. I agree that trying to become a billionaire is a fool's errand but if you're trying to become a mill
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by ssharp 9y ago
This shines a light on what is, most likely, a policy that is not in the interest of passengers. In my experience, the airlines offer a decent incentive for taking a bump and they do this before boarding. I know delays have been crazy the p
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by ssharp 10y ago
> #1. Chase is claiming performance hasn't been affected, but it has only been a couple days since they made changes. With display you can't measure performance in only a few days. It could be that neither display strategy was
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by ssharp 10y ago
1-5% click through rate on display ads? You're missing a decimal point!

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