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by vaksel 15y ago
Notch created minecraft...although that's probably an exception to the rule. maybe try getting your game into the next humble bundle to get more exposure
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by vaksel 15y ago
personally I expect the GDrive to be a bit of a failure, and Google will do what it always does...use it's massive cash reserves to buy Dropbox.
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by vaksel 15y ago
the groupon rise and implosion has been pretty spectacular
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by vaksel 15y ago
at least everyone will finally get to see that she was successful with eBay because of luck and not skill
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by vaksel 15y ago
i really doubt he was the one to write it...he probably signed off on using it, but it was most likely written by the PR department
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by vaksel 15y ago
the problem is that Google really doesn't give a crap about any of it's customers(not even paid really). that's why they use bots to automatically suspend accounts...because a real human being wouldn't have cared to do it. Google makes abou
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by vaksel 15y ago
pretty bad, but could have been a lot worse. i.e. like the Sknyliv disaster(really recommend not watching the video of that one)
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by vaksel 15y ago
the problem with Netflix is that over the past year they started offering less and less content on Instant Streaming(what most people tended to use). And the content they do have left is subpar at best. Sure there are a few good shows....bu
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by vaksel 15y ago
No they want us to use their services because they make more money that way. And sure you have the choice of using competitors but let's be honest, Google has the option of always showing their own services in the #1 position in search resu
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by vaksel 15y ago
that title has very little to do with the actual article
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by vaksel 15y ago
East coast VCs tend to invest in finance and drug companies
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by vaksel 15y ago
half of them I never even heard of...just goes to show the lack of coverage for self funded companies
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by vaksel 15y ago
frankly I'm surprised they even had to raise funding with their current revenue levels and profit margins. And an investor might think that the company has peaked already. Everyone knows who they are. And SEO is something that doesn't have
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by vaksel 15y ago
web 2.0 is to make things affordable...but it's almost always subpar to getting 1 on 1 consultation from an expert + it goes down to opportunity cost...sure you could become an expert after spending hundreds of hours...or you can pay the fe
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by vaksel 15y ago
I think it's something that would need to be built from scratch. One thing to focus on, would be to manually verify all members before granting access. Unfortunately, it would have to be made by someone who has the connections to make it ha
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by vaksel 15y ago
Facebook is just facebook Google+ is that and all other services
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by vaksel 15y ago
i'll grant that many of them will be acquired...but a billion is a pretty huge number, and I don't see many of them holding out for a billion. Plus, holding out for a billion limits the # of potential acquires to a few dozen companies
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by vaksel 15y ago
codecademy really needs to buy codeacademy.com...every time I type their name I end up there. Do it fast(by offering to buy the forum), before the guy figures out there is an actual company vying for the name and jacks up the price to 6 fig
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by vaksel 15y ago
my guess is that people don't want to get lost in a sea of startups. Hard to cut through the noise...especially if something big launches the same day(i.e. mint etc)
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by vaksel 15y ago
in many cases you need to start off just being an affiliate, then once you grow your traffic enough to attract bigger partners, you can cut out the middlemen
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by vaksel 15y ago
personally I focus on negative reviews. But then you have to grapple with whether or not the bad review is true or not(i.e a competitor posting it). In those cases it's best to focus on places where the reviewer's reputation can be checked.
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by vaksel 15y ago
the problem with flat fees, is that clients tend to want extras, so you can end up working for minimum wage.
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by vaksel 15y ago
I can say that my site is IPOing for 50 billion...until I actually raise the amount, it's just a dream. Same with groupon...yes they want to raise that much...but it's just a pipe dream at this point
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by vaksel 15y ago
contracts usually aren't worth the paper they are written on. Because even if you win in court, it doesn't mean the guy will pay you...you'll still need to chase after the money.
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by vaksel 15y ago
as far as anyone is concerned Google does indeed have a monopoly on search...Bing spent something like 150 million to bump their share by a few percentage points And it's not like Google's product is that much better than Bing...the differe
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by vaksel 15y ago
I'd take it a bit further, and say that foodies are much more likely to constantly look for new things
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by vaksel 15y ago
frankly with the status of the current stock market, I don't see Groupon actually doing an IPO. I mean today, the market tanked another 519 points. Everyone is busy taking their money out, not putting it in. And groupon doesn't exactly have
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by vaksel 15y ago
that and because I needed to login into verizon today, and was reminded with error messages that they don't allow any special characters in their passwords
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Why don't we have password standards?
9 points by vaksel 15y ago|12 comments
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by vaksel 15y ago
I think it's fine as it is...those stories always end up getting a lot of upvotes.

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