taprun

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   by taprun 10y ago

   The usual method in the US is to require clients to prove that the are 501(c)(3) organizations.
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   by taprun 10y ago

   This reminds me of agile. Look at the short term, do what you need to achieve those objectives. Oh, the long term matters now. Ooops, I'll add get some "20-years experience guys" to the next sprint.
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   by taprun 10y ago

   So, let's say that you call yourself a specialist in crunching data about agricultural matters. You go up to farmers and say "I have lots of data about estimating the ideal amount of phosphate to use. It could save you big money
4. 124.▲
   by taprun 10y ago

   I coded my site in PHP.
5. 125.▲
   by taprun 10y ago

   If you did that, a handful of people would be responsible for a huge number of votes in the electoral college. That might be interesting.
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   by taprun 10y ago

   My whole site [0] is dedicated to pricing and monetization. Noteworthy items include: a free email course on pricing [1] a 30 page teardown of Safari's pricing page [2] a list of common revenue models [3] a compendium of some common mi
7. 127.▲
   by taprun 10y ago

   I used http://leandomainsearch.com and found a six letter domain that was made up of two English words. The name has nothing to do with my offering, but it's short and easy to pronounce / spell without any confusion.
8. 128.▲
   by taprun 10y ago

   Encrypt both, but only advertise the higher tier as being encrypted. Customers that place a high importance on encryption will buy the better plan. Those that don't will buy the lesser one. You have minimal benefit for not encrypting
9. 129.▲
   by taprun 10y ago

   The Booker is a prize for quality. Many publishers are looking for the ability to sell. As such, this makes sense.
10. 130.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    Here's a project for you: Let me input a list of small companies' career pages. Send me a daily email when a new job is added to one of those pages.
11. 131.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    I'll just add this link[0], because I'm sure someone is going to mention it. [0] http://contrastrebellion.com/
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    by taprun 10y ago

    The more specific your audience, the less likely that a big company will replicate your solution. Building a faster database? You're going to get clobbered. Building a better system for managing small postage stamp collections? You&#
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    by taprun 10y ago

    Whatever you read, you should keep a healthy dose of skepticism. Many economic theories are great as mathematical models, but humans don't always act as you might expect.
14. 134.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    Can't you just use an RSS feed reader?
15. 135.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    My phone isn't telling my rental car anything. I turned bluetooth off.
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    by taprun 10y ago

    Phones can be cheap - I have a $30/month prepaid cell phone with 5GB, unlimited video/music. Paired with a google voice number, it's effectively unlimited everything. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tmobile-
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    by taprun 10y ago

    I'd like to see some examples of the summaries. If you've performed a few already, it's literally no additional work to post them. You might want the units you charge by the word summarized. A possible issue might be highly
18. 138.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    Isn't a venture capital firm (even a good one) a business investing in mostly failed projects?
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    by taprun 10y ago

    Just because you don't think it's revolutionary, doesn't meet it might not sound revolutionary to someone else. Try getting some press from some news outlets that report "Young scientist builds new 3D printer technolo
20. 140.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    Could you talk to them, maybe show them some screenshots and see what they say? Actual pre-payments will be worth more than vague promises to pay in the future. Being able to demonstrate real and specific value to potential users will be h
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    by taprun 10y ago

    What's really odd is to think that there are some animals (whales) that had fins, evolved them into feet and then evolved them into fins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans#Early_e...
22. 142.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    I think you meant http://feinternational.com right?
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    by taprun 10y ago

    I'm not an OS X user, but Wikipedia says that the latest release is 10.11.6, last updated 34 days ago [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X
24. 144.▲
    by taprun 10y ago

    Have you thought about either selling ads directly to businesses, or selling your own products? You'll get a bigger slice of the pie that way.
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    by taprun 10y ago

    I went out of my way to connect with recruiters because it extends my network. Two benefits: 1) It makes me a 2nd level connection to lots of people I probably do care about. 2) It ups my visible number of connections and makes me look
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    by taprun 10y ago

    Here's a challenge: discoverability. There are a lot of unknown but talented people in crowded fields (fiction writing, software engineering, cooking). Write some software to make them easily found that can't be taken over by spa
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    by taprun 10y ago

    I've switched from Google's search engine to a combination of Bing and DuckDuckGo (usually in browser incognito mode). Google's results are increasingly full of low quality spam sites, so the switch really wasn't painful
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    by taprun 10y ago

    Ask about some of the technical challenges that bit them unexpectedly. It's usually a good way to get them to open up.
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    by taprun 10y ago

    How is cornering the market outright illegal? And in which jurisdiction? There are plenty of examples where one company has a strongly dominant share. Diamonds are an obvious example, search engines are another.
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    by taprun 10y ago

    I have a todo list. I write down what I have to do, then I do it. Anything more complex will just be a means to delay action.