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by tapp 13y ago
Kickstarter is kosher, precisely because as the parent post said ""Kickstarter is not a store, it's just a website where you give money and get stuff in the mail later." It's the fact that it's a donation, not the pre-purchase of a physic
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by tapp 13y ago
A lot of people don't seem to realize that it's also prohibited by the Visa and Mastercard TOS. You can't bill people's credit cards for a product that doesn't exist yet.
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by tapp 13y ago
Is that for both B2C and B2B companies? PG's article doesn't say, and I have a difficult time envisioning how most seed-stage enterprise software companies could generate a 5-10% w-o-w revenue growth rate. It tends to be much lumpier than
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by tapp 13y ago
No - this is not universally true. e.g. Google Apps for Business is a PAID product that is not advertising supported. The sales literature says "Count on our 24/7 customer support" - http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/b
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by tapp 13y ago
Depends on what you mean by "access to support." My company, and several of my customers with whom I've discussed this issue, spend a significant chunk of money on Google Apps and related Google services. We do get a customer support #, bu
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by tapp 14y ago
Slightly OT: I am surprised to hear this sentiment on HN as often as I do. It seems to imply a somewhat Luddite-like fear of technological advancement, versus the generally positive interest I would expect from hackers. Am I off base? I'm
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by tapp 14y ago
This is cool as far as it goes. However what I'd really like to see (though it would obviously be a lot more work) is an analysis that tracks the deals through to consummation. I've read that a very high percentage fall through before f
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by tapp 14y ago
Writing this quickly because I'm about to run out the door, so please excuse the incomplete answer. In brief, aside from simply recognizing it intellectually (which alone helped me a lot,) I'd start by literally following the advice I wrote
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by tapp 14y ago
From the blog post: "Almost every Sunday night I mourn another blown opportunity to catch up" The author may also want to consider removing the notion of "caught up" from his vocabulary. Although it's not covered in the Now Habit, it's di
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by tapp 14y ago
Wow, that seems like some pretty serious brand dilution. I'm curious - does anyone know if TED charges any sort of fee to the local TEDx licensees?
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by tapp 14y ago
He's promoted it on his verified Twitter account and his blog as well; I'd say it's the real deal.
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by tapp 14y ago
Completely agree on both counts. As designers and developers it will be difficult to resist the urge to replicate this all over the place purely for the visual impact, but I hope we don't. The use was so fantastic here precisely because th
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by tapp 14y ago
Seems to be going around. Stanford did something similar just recently as well: http://www.change.org/petitions/stanford-university-bring-ba...
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by tapp 14y ago
Many of the "e-discovery" software suites out there now include digital forensics capabilities that will scan for signs of tampering.
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by tapp 14y ago
Slightly OT, but could someone tell me what, exactly, "acq-hire" means? I thought it referred to one company acquiring another purely in order to get access to talent. Facebook did not acquire any Carsabi assets according to the linked TC
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by tapp 14y ago
I think it's more a matter of simple customer segmentation (same principle behind outlet malls: charge price-insensitive customers a premium, without losing the price-sensitive but hassle-insensitive customers who are willing to schlep to
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by tapp 15y ago
Would those of you who object to this tactic also object to collecting website analytics (which in my experience many normal users, including members of my own family, do not understand either.) If not, why not? This isn't a rhetorical que
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by tapp 15y ago
> If you know someone in the space, we would love an introduction. I do - my email address is in my profile. Let me know your preferred method for getting in touch?
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by tapp 15y ago
I'm not sure it is. To the best of my knowledge, Amit hasn't found a donor yet - they've just found several possible matches. If so, then the next challenge will be getting one of those matches to donate. Per article on HN yesterday, "mor
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by tapp 15y ago
No API yet, but they do send you an email notification.
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by tapp 15y ago
My experience is primarily back-end development, so I'm a complete UI design dummy. I have a stupid question that I always mean to look into "when I have time" - - given topic, perhaps someone on this thread can answer. Why does the font i
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Details for North America /// Internet Traffic Report(internettrafficreport.com)
2 points by tapp 15y ago|1 comments
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by tapp 15y ago
> It seems like he is ready to finally leave TechCrunch, but doesn't want to frame it as a simple matter of leaving TechCrunch to become a full-time investor I wonder about this. Even if you accept the premise that his priority is now
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by tapp 15y ago
> It's a shame they don't scan things besides books It sounds like they do. Homepage says books/photos/business cards/documents/greeting cards.
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First life: The search for the first replicator (newscientist.com)
6 points by tapp 15y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 15y ago
> Our deficit is $14.6 trillion. Just in the interest of precision: it's actually our national debt which is approximately 14.6 trillion. Our deficit this year will be closer to 1.5T. http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12039 Not tha
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by tapp 15y ago
> I just wish biomed paid better wages -- I much more than doubled my income by leaving a wetlab and doing advertising instead. It's a lesson in what our society really values. This bothers me greatly. I don't want to threadjack, but a
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by tapp 15y ago
Your comment re: multiple identities is exactly right. I don't understand why people seem so surprised to hear this sentiment coming from her, though - Mark is already on record on that topic: “Having two identities for yourself is an exam
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by tapp 15y ago
> The story here is that people are doing things that in most jurisdictions are illegal. Agreed; I believe the problems posed to AirBnB's model are more severe that most commenters seem to recognize. Further, the countermeasures many a
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by tapp 15y ago
This. The product description is extremely appealing to me - it tackles exactly what I find to be most wrong with current social network software. If I could, I would begin using it immediately and would probably get 60-80 people in my ne

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