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by switch11 6y ago
talking to potential customers and users about product market fit is not a given it will work Making a product based on your experience of a market - 25% chance it works out (of which 5% chance it will become a big company) To that, even af
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by switch11 6y ago
This is extremely well put -> You raise money, you build something, and then you have a limited time to see whether your hypothesis about the market was correct. Often, if not most of the time, you fail to get the fit you need in order t
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by switch11 6y ago
can anyone add to that article data on What users saw in terms of response time and perceived response time And what users are seeing after the improvements * We had evaluated spotify for one of our projects and aesthetically it is really
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by switch11 6y ago
very good point very good example
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by switch11 6y ago
this guy writes some of the BEST publishing related articles love that he is discussing this Amazon used to have a sliding royalty scales going all the way up to 90% for audiobooks Then 4/5 years back they made some excuses and changed
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by switch11 6y ago
This is very true what they fear most is Instagram and Whatsapp getting split up from Facebook And then it becoming a contest of FB vs Instagram Vs Whatsapp If they integrate them in, then they get two good side effects (the
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by switch11 6y ago
yeah, it is super funny have to feel bad for the guy he basically was taking over the world And now he's getting kicked out of the biggest market on the planet
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by switch11 6y ago
this is beautifully put: Arbitrary action such as this is a sign of weakness: of economic weakness, and the fear to no longer be good enough to be the single biggest winner of free trade the US was for most of the 20th century.
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by switch11 6y ago
agreed 100% Google revenue is slowly going down Only option for Google is to pretend Internet doesn't exist Anyone who is using Adwords or doing Search Engine Optimization look at what results look like It's 50% to 70% traffic bei
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by switch11 6y ago
This theory scares the heck out of people who currently control media and TV because it is very well structured it asks people to go to (in a weird sort of way) first principles and start from there * Why is bitcoin so scary? Because it c
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by switch11 6y ago
agreed with all your points the author of the article is basically writing - I'm too lazy to use alternatives she is cementing her laziness by taking THE EXACT SAME ARTICLE She wrote a few years ago and recycling it
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by switch11 6y ago
This is a stupid article 1) Many people don't use the tech giants and get by just fine 2) Actual tough stuff is getting by without the currently dominant Operating Systems for desktop and mobile and Office Software THAT takes us some w
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by switch11 6y ago
a conspiracy theory is not 'something that has been proven to not be true' Snowden's leak is a good example of something that proved a lot of conspiracy theories to be true
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by switch11 6y ago
someone needs to give you an award EVERYONE here claiming 'just move your product online' and 'sales have doubled for people who moved online' do not understand the nature of competition online You have to be Top 1% onl
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by switch11 6y ago
this is super true: The parasitic elite (in the US) have CRUSHED the working class by ensuring that entering the middle class is as difficult as possible, while the middle class have largely used property to boost themselves into their own
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by switch11 6y ago
this is an excellent example Wonder what percentage of the people who are claiming 'Google is not in the wrong here' actually read the article/deposition he talks about a lot of stuff
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by switch11 6y ago
agreed 100% We went through something very similar where Google 'disappeared' an entire category of apps from the App Store because one of our competitor/friend companies in the same area as us was growing very fast That guy
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by switch11 6y ago
only caste Ambani believes in is money caste
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by switch11 6y ago
At a superficial level - yes Both grew up in India before migrating to US so understand India very well In reality Sundar Pichai - no Satya Nadella - yes. This guy is a @#$#$ genius. And Indians have a lot of respect for smart people who de
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by switch11 6y ago
support this 100% if you do your due diligence companies like Reliance (Dhirubhai Ambani) are the reason most honest smart Indians are fleeing the country From things like bribing the government at city and state levels, to 'disappeari
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by switch11 6y ago
hats off to Facebook for being absolutely shameless and zero ethics they don't even pretend to be honest (unlike Google) and it's a miracle so far they haven't had to pay damages for all the 'inspiration' they have
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by switch11 6y ago
As you go higher in revenue it goes down I much prefer a company that takes a slightly higher percentage and provides a great service than the @#$# at Paypal who will freeze your accounts for reasons like 'your earnings are growing too
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by switch11 6y ago
yeah, this stuff i don't understand People keeping giving Facebook and Google the benefit of the doubt AT what point are people going to realize these are fundamentally dishonest and deceitful companies
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by switch11 6y ago
Everyone other than Google - no data Google - all the data That's what this is
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by switch11 6y ago
I'll just leave this bit of advice Very few fortunes are lost by spending or excesses, they are mostly lost by bad investments and bad financial decisions * It might be better to take your time and think long and hard before making any
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by switch11 6y ago
anyone who has used Good Reads loves your comment
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by switch11 6y ago
yes there is one other factor that people are missing there are over a million self published authors. They are all sending people to Amazon to buy books Those book pages have ads for other stuff The amount of money coming from that is not
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by switch11 6y ago
some variants had number keys removed later very bad decision
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by switch11 6y ago
Some of the stuff they say are completely inaccurate He claims Kindle as the first ereader to use an eInk screen Sony ereader launched a YEAR before and had an eink screen Also this guy seems to be a worshipper rather than an unbiased or so
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by switch11 6y ago
agreed 100% with you soapdog anyone who works or partners with Amazon sooner or later wants ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with them look back to the hearing (Anti Trust) - Jeff Bezos was telling his people to go after their partners like a panth

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