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Ask HN: How do you get a user forum off the ground?
11 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|3 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
Facebook will eclipse MySpace for largest percentage of bands with a presence soon enough. ben - i'm with you. can't believe how fast MySpace has fallen off. Dug this article up: http://gigaom.com/2005/08/06/why-murdoch-bought-myspace/ D
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
Facebook will eclipse MySpace for largest percentage of bands with a presence soon enough. ben - i'm with you. can't believe how fast MySpace has fallen off. Dug this article up: http://gigaom.com/2005/08/06/why-murdoch-bought-myspace/ D
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
MySpace is done. They've been done. They tried to reestablish the brand with a general focus on entertainment, but nobody was buying it. I'd say up until the last six months, they still had 80%+ of the artist market using their service. You
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
it's amazing how many project management tools allow you to rate your priorities...but what does that really accomplish when you end up with 90% high priorities? you need to go a step further to differentiate the priorities. that's where li
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
I think 2011 will go down as the 'Year of the B2C IPO' The article mentions LinkedIn and Zynga trying to beat Facebook's inevitable IPO. I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora did the same in Q2 or Q3.
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How to Pick the Perfect Brand Name(fastcompany.com)
3 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|0 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
paul - it sounds like you don't like to be the original investor going in with an unknown commodity -- that an accurate assessment? if not YC, what are other filters for you?
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
all great points. the sales cycle is absolutely one of the most important considerations. for example, we think our latest venture has as enormous potential in government, but between the potential sales cycle and the pain that comes with d
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Ask HN: Startup Launch Events?
2 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|0 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i'd love to know if there's research that's been done on how each additional field reduces conversion? thanks for passing along the related link. don't doubt checkbox can be useful in certain situations. A/B testing could surely help, but t
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
force yourself into a routine, and it'll make it a whole lot easier. i also believe proper sleep cycles are especially important for those who are/have battled depression.
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i think you bring up a great point. it's all about forcing yourself to get up & do something...anything. when I had my really bad bout with depression, i just kept reading until i worked my way out of the funk. Give yourself a thirst fo
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Ask HN: What is the optimal sign-up process?
20 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|6 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i might concur with that sentiment...but i think facebook is not the best example. their upside is still tremendous, as they haven't fully exploited their ad revenue (which is better positioned than google imo)
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
100% agree. the core community needs to scale with the number of pages that are added every year.
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i get a kick out of these multi-million dollar packages that are strikingly similar to the signing bonuses that professional athletes receive. it's about time professional startup-ers get the same treatment. we're stimulating the economy as
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The Best Albums of 2010, As Voted On By You (+ free streams)(gorankem.com)
2 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|1 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i had a feeling he was going to put these together in some comprehensive form. tons of great info that's relevant moving into 2011, esp from a business financing perspective. if fred went back and further tagged the posts, it would be a gre
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
great book. get your highlighter out ;) lots of memorable quotes. stuff that makes complete sense, but until somebody phrases it a certain way, it just never clicks...ya know?
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
agreed. the way i interpreted neil's quote was that a startup has a certain trajectory in mind, but once they release and start collecting feedback (surve.io anybody?), then the inspiration for the pivots will come from the users of the pro
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
no surprise this topic comes from yipit's founder as i think it's pretty ironic that so many of the daily deal startups started as something entirely different. plenty know about the groupon story, but who remembers when livingsocial was em
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
"I generally try to fall in love with problems before an idea (solution). When the idea comes before the problem, its been disastrous. Customer Development helps, but its still a rough ride." i think that's a great way to put it...the probl
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What’s Going to Be Big in Venture Capital in 2011?(mashable.com)
5 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|0 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
ha, that's great. had seen the other promo videos, but missed that one. i went to the conference this past april...prob my favorite one to date. b/t jason & david's 'keynote' interview, cameron moll's incredible preso on UI/UX and dan m
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i think it's a shame how many people think coffee will make up for <7 hours of sleep on a regular basis. i wish a chart like this was more publicized. if i get less than seven hours, it always throws the rest of my day off. on the flips
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An industry challenge: build “MicroSXSW” to bring back fun times at SXSW(scobleizer.com)
3 points by thewordpainter 16y ago|0 comments
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
i'm almost ready to abandon press releases. imo, they were meant for journalists...not bloggers. bloggers want to hear from YOU. craft the story for them & build a rapport with the ones that are your domain's tastemakers...don't try to
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
if you got the IT skills, you'll be just fine in a tech hub like austin. check out all the startups crunchbase has within a 30mi radius: http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/companies/596363 i get the impression @joshuabaer is one of
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by thewordpainter 16y ago
"our roles and interactions with government. I realized that not much has changed despite the surge of Internet users over the last decade." --> a variety of inefficiencies that will be corrected one of these days...maybe by a number of

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