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by symptic 16y ago
Sell t-shirts and mugs with some of the more popular facts. Github was able to sell out of tees and mugs with just their logo on it, so I imagine people would want them with interesting content rather than just a logo. Additionally (or alte
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by symptic 16y ago
I'll be more than glad to answer any questions or comments!
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PriceKnock: Got Some Lean In Our Cup (Lean Challenge)(blog.priceknock.com)
5 points by symptic 16y ago|1 comments
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by symptic 16y ago
Pride. Sounds to me like everyone knew what they were signing up for and fighting to make the accomplishment goes a long way in building the group.
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by symptic 16y ago
Check out http://www.qbn.com/ and http://www.behance.net/ .
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by symptic 16y ago
The company originated in 2005 and has raised several smaller rounds of capital in the past. They're not a startup anymore; they're a full-fledged business.
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by symptic 16y ago
See Zynga.
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by symptic 16y ago
Ninja rockstar awesomeface.
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by symptic 16y ago
Typical conversion rate is 1-2%. That's at least 40,000 paying customers. At $10/mo (that's the maximum revenue per subscriber) that's $400,000 a month, or $4.8M a year. The key here is they are a growing, revenue-generating company.
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by symptic 16y ago
The losers are the waiters and employees of the featured businesses. I know plenty of people in the service industry who dread the days their restaurants or shops offer discounts on Groupon. Sure it makes money for the company, but in many
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by symptic 16y ago
100,000 at $1 CPM = 100,000 * .001 = $100 If you are just throwing up a generic banner ad network, it's probably close to $.10-.25 CPM. Then multiply by how many ad units displayed per page (networks usually don't allow any more than 2-3).
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by symptic 16y ago
Industry self-regulation. Affiliates need to in most cases, to preserve "traffic quality."
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by symptic 16y ago
I was referring more to the black hat tactics many affiliate employ successfully. That as well as how many affiliates can easily shark a product with negative smear campaigns and SEO tactics to remove their competition from top Google spots
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by symptic 16y ago
In most cases, the only reason an affiliate will send a viewer to a landing page is AdWords' strict rules about arbitrage, or some other rules set by the affiliate network. Google wants to provide its users with as good of content as they c
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by symptic 16y ago
I used to make a healthy living designing landing pages for affiliates. Several of my clients were making several million a year (all made a "healthy" living) and I was bringing in several hundred a day from just designing landing pages. I
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by symptic 16y ago
The problem isn't that college-aged kids are performing poorly. The problem is that we've raised kids in an educational system that is dying and underfunded at the early levels. We cut physical education, art, music, cancel recess, and expe
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by symptic 16y ago
His portfolio should be relative to what he wants to do in the future. If he intends to do full-scale designing, then of course he should focus on getting that into his portfolio. But if he intends on doing quick, small design deals, this i
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by symptic 16y ago
I wonder how much these changes correlate to funding.
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by symptic 16y ago
"And admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin', then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'."
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by symptic 16y ago
Most of the icons on the site are part of an icon set which is easily found. Been using IconFinder for a short while and it's a great service.
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by symptic 16y ago
What makes sense for one company may not make sense for every other. Groupon is great at what it does, so I don't see a point of being critical of something that isn't an expense unless the company opts into it. From my experience, Groupon
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by symptic 16y ago
Nothing.
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by symptic 16y ago
What Rowe is saying is that without those people, you wouldn't have the freedom to "follow your passion." I don't see why you're so critical of what he's saying. Manual labor is rewarding. It may not scale, but my guess is you'll feel a lot
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by symptic 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words Jon. Didn't expect to see you around on HN. :)
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Ask HN: Looking for hacker/entrepreneur roommate in Austin, TX
5 points by symptic 16y ago|2 comments
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by symptic 16y ago
So that's why the Gulf has been so brown my whole life...
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by symptic 16y ago
Seems to me they do it to continue innovating. A company who stops innovating is one who then can only grow through conservation and focusing on efficiency. Now whether or not they are spending time innovating in the right areas is a debate
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by symptic 16y ago
Can almost see my building from there!
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by symptic 16y ago
I can verify that Infochimps has had this in the pipeline for well over a year. I met with Flip Kromer a long while ago and he was excited about it then.
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by symptic 17y ago
That makes you look an insufferable ass just the same.

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