uurayan

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by uurayan 12y ago
Such a true statement. The sad part about this john is that many people leading the charge have no recollection of ACT 221 and they write off the people like us that do as haters or non-believers.
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by uurayan 13y ago
I remember going to Denali in high school and the mosquitoes you have up there in Alaska shouldn't even considered in the same genus as the mosquitos most people deal with.
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by uurayan 14y ago
Why not just post the original site instead of embedding the video onto your own website? http://cainesarcade.com/
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by uurayan 15y ago
Cool story but the word profit is not the right word to use in this case. You generated revenue which is much much easier to do than turning a profit.
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by uurayan 15y ago
We bootstrapped our company as well and did not get (couldn't afford) health insurance for the founders until about 1.5 years in. By that time I was too embarrassed to go to the dentist and put it off for another 2 years. Worst decision eve
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by uurayan 15y ago
This is the unfortunate entropy of any online community. I've seen it in the community I managed as well. First you have the founder(s) of the community and the early adopters. These people all are like minded, and all appreciate the missi
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by uurayan 15y ago
One thing I don't understand is why didn't the buyer just contact the seller directly and try to return the violin for a full refund? Was it sold under the terms all sales final?
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by uurayan 15y ago
Happy New Year from Hawaii! (not 2012 yet, but will be out and about then)
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by uurayan 15y ago
This is actually a very solid insight, the value of the problem you're solving with your app can be determined by the amount of time someone will complain to you about it, especially busy people. Sound so simple but its amazing how many "en
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by uurayan 15y ago
Cognitive dissonance. Dan ariely talks about it in "predictably irrational". It's the same reason people don't often change dentists because changing dentist after putting up with all the pain and discomfort that comes with a dentist means
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by uurayan 15y ago
100% true. You don't really need tech blog press if your market is not tech blog readers.
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by uurayan 15y ago
I was just discussing this with my wife last night. My 2 friends and I bootstrapped our company for $300. Knowing that all the success we are enjoying now came from our hard work and that no one else can take any claim to our any part of ou
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by uurayan 15y ago
This is so true, especially in areas outside of the hot tech scenes. Social media is such a buzz word these days you have people coming out of the wood work to cash in on it. These "experts" take advantage of the more traditional companies
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by uurayan 15y ago
As was said once by Tim Feriss, in China they have a saying that roughly translates to "If you can fool them, fool them". This saying was confirmed by a few people that I know that grew up in China. However, the big elephant in the room is
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by uurayan 16y ago
The irony of this post is that Jason would most definitely not want you in his company. In a startup, which his companies are, there really is no room for people want normal jobs and want to work normal hours. Startup life is a very fast pa
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by uurayan 16y ago
I run a site with fairly high traction with teenagers specifically teenages from california and tumblr is very popular with that demographic. From the outside looking in, they seem as excited about it as I was about friendster circa 2003, l
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by uurayan 16y ago
As a former GoDaddy hosting customer, let me tell you all that these attacks are not new business. There was a point in May where our sites were attacked weekly with massive damage done. We would perform all the fixes they recommended yet t
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by uurayan 16y ago
I've had many unsuccessful start up experiences, however it's hard for me to call them failures. It takes a lot of effort to truly fail, most of these times I just quit. I quit before I gave these ideas a real chance to grow. Growing a real
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by uurayan 16y ago
It still takes dedication and drive to make it to have the thousands to piss away. There are tons of business owners who piss away their earnings too.
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by uurayan 16y ago
Don't sleep on these hip hop guys. They're born hungry. Look at Russell Simmons, Diddy, Jay-Z and 50 Cent, and (technically not a rapper) Usher. They all have pretty impressive business portfolios.
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by uurayan 16y ago
<em>The basic problem is that these new-media companies don’t really have customers; they have audiences. Starting a company like Digg is less like building a traditional tech company (think Apple or HP) and more like launching a TV
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by uurayan 16y ago
The AirBnB cereal boxes is more genius than desperate. I consider desperate things like the Zappos story where Tony literally sold everything he owned to keep the business afloat.
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by uurayan 16y ago
What percentage of the sales are you guys taking or is there a monthly fee?
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by uurayan 16y ago
A method that worked for me but might not work for all. We had a friend in a graphic arts program at the local university. We asked him if he wanted to do our logo for a project.