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by taprun 12y ago
I always wonder if these "female only" conferences, awards and events are beneficial for women. Many folks might (mistakenly) see them as an admission that women can't hack it on a level playing field. Such thoughts would on
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I would like a more powerful search.
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Without knowing more about your site, it's hard to say. My first suggestion would be to start collecting email addresses and sound out interesting jobs from sponsoring recruiters. I created a free book of revenue models that might hel
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The way to think big is to think small. You can't go head to head against Amazon all at once. You need to pick a very small area and specialize. Can you be the best site for selling pewter figurines, plumbing supplies or bowling equi
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by taprun 12y ago
I find it hard to believe that no one would figure out how to game the system with shill buyers, once commissions moved above 100%. Could you point such a program out? My google skills have failed me.
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Pricing Teardown for a Y Combinator Company (YC '14)(taprun.com)
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by taprun 12y ago
I built my own. It's very handy because I can make my blog do all sorts of customized things very easily. Plus, I'm a tinkerer at heart.
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I may be reading too much into your question, but it sounds like your existing customer base is too small to support your development activities. Have you thought about seeking out a trade association and selling them the rights for their m
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by taprun 12y ago
People will download it if and only if: 1) They find your app 2) They want your app Posting on relevant message boards, forums, twitter and the like well help with #1. For #2, you have to frame your description and talking points to the pa
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by taprun 12y ago
Reading books won't help as much as practice speaking and tailored feedback. Why not join a Toastmasters club? They're pretty cheap and will make you much better at both ipromptu and prepared speaking. http://www.toas
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by taprun 12y ago
Repeat after me: I am not selling training. I am selling a more capable, more efficient development shop. If you're teaching a group of twenty developers and you're going to make them just 10% more efficient, then guess what. Yo
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I would think the first thing to do would be to figure out what "unfair advantage" you'd have as an online incubator. One option would be to to find an affluent geographic area without a big tech community and then be "
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by taprun 12y ago
I picked a very narrow problem, set myself a tiny budget ($50), forced myself into a tiny schedule (7 days) and am blogging about the process on reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments&#x2F
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I would like to receive an email every time someone writes a post on hacker news that matches the following expression ((software OR startup) AND (price, pricing, "how much can")). That would be awesome. If you let other users c
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I would imagine that items that are very important and have short deadlines would be the least likely to be farmed out by a company. Certainly, they would be the least likely to be made available to companies with no shared history. If I w
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by taprun 12y ago
I feel like I can speak on the subject, since I just wrote a book on pricing software. First, it's often a very bad idea to simply take a competitor's price - both Timex and Rolex would go bankrupt trying to match the other's
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Pricing Teardown: Beacon Reader(taprun.com)
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Pricing Teardown for a Software Consultancy(taprun.com)
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by taprun 12y ago
Even if three other companies are working on the same idea, it doesn't mean that they're going after the same customers. Does Ferrari compete with Toyota? Does Levi Strauss compete with tailors creating bespoke suits? Does a mou
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by taprun 12y ago
Rather than thinking about which one is "better", think about which story will accomplish your goals. The ycombinator folks are probably just looking for stories to help figure out a) who is smart, b) who is creative, c) who gets
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by taprun 12y ago
Hackathons promote the fact that your coding style should change depending upon the constraints of the programmer. Having spent most of my career in R&D, I am constantly amazed by the fact that most folks keep the very same methodology
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by taprun 12y ago
Might not apply, but if you have a free legacy account at Google, you can host multiple domains on that account.
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I think it would be easier for developers to just form small companies. All the advantages of a union with none of the disadvantages.
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I think that such a thing would be very difficult to apply to all startups. When assigning percentages, it should be based upon value provided by each party. I've seen startups where the prototype is something that any developer coul
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Go to meetup.com - Type in the name of your city and search for groups involved in "programming". I live in a technology backwater, and I'm attending two tech events this week.
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So what? Isn't it more important that their employees are doing a piss-poor job? Managers should be concerned with what salaried employees produce, not how much time it takes them to produce it.
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If you're burned out, try to find some tasks that are really easy for you and are relatively short in duration and well defined. For instance: setting up google apps for small companies.
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Pricing is a big interest of mine (30,000 words into writing a guide on it). Understanding your ideal pricing depends upon understanding your customers and your value proposition. We need more information before we can tell you what to cha
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I get the feeling that this product would be really good for people who are moving about quite a bit - delivery folks, plumbers, surveyors, etc. Are you going to call out specific types of people who would be best served by this? Also, min
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by taprun 12y ago
Almost certainly. The entire economy is running on smoke and mirrors. Take a look at this article that describes how companies are borrowing money to buy stock in themselves in order to push up their own share prices: http://www

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