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841.
by vaksel 16y ago
with affiliate marketing I stuck to white hat methods, which is why I wasn't making a lot.
842.
by vaksel 16y ago
the point is to show that most companies have done shady shit in the early days and that's one of the main reasons why they managed to survive long enough to turn legit
843.
by vaksel 16y ago
yeah that's why I said that they should use a throwaway account if they are worried.
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by vaksel 16y ago
people have different levels of what they consider unethical. as far as keyword stuffing...google considers that blackhat so you can get banned when they find you
845.
by vaksel 16y ago
only a little, make about 1-3K/mo from it.
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by vaksel 16y ago
the point with the "235 users online" would be to get the user to signup...then once they are signed up and in your database, you can a) tout that you have X users...which will get your coverage + more users b) can eventually email them bac
847.
by vaksel 16y ago
it is to some people...a) you are breaking the ToS b) you are stealing their content to resell/republish it as your own
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Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?
158 points by vaksel 16y ago|122 comments
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by vaksel 16y ago
there are different levels of being unethical. 1. where you stretch the rules a little, break the whole "please respect our TOS" thing. Might include spamming a few blogs to get backlinks. Might include posting on HN with 2 accounts. Might
850.
by vaksel 16y ago
I'd rather be not fair to 10 people, than waste 6 months chasing an idea that doesn't work. Except the dry test won't tell you anything. Cart abandonment rate means that the numbers you get don't mean anything. Your actual sales maybe 10 ti
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by vaksel 16y ago
And I'll bet every single one of these bootstrapped entrepreneurs stretched the truth a little to get customers, coverage or funding. Or maybe they spammed a little to get ranked in Google, or maybe they scraped another website for info.
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by vaksel 16y ago
frankly screw being fair...this is business...you have to want it. It's simple market research. Would you rather spend 6 months hacking together a product just so you don't offend 10 people? if you always play by the rules you'll never make
853.
by vaksel 16y ago
you won't build muscle on a vegetarian diet. You need protein to build muscle, so you'll want eggs and meat. Alternatively you can try some of those protein shakes...but they aren't as fulfilling
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by vaksel 16y ago
who said anything about taking credit card numbers? 1. You don't save credit card numbers...in fact you don't transmit anything from the form...just clear it out without saving. 2. You don't tell them "sorry we are fake"...you tell them "Th
855.
by vaksel 16y ago
if you are going to do this, make the checkout form look completely functional(credit card, email, address etc). Why? Because there is something like a 90% cart abandonment rate...and this way you get the real numbers.
856.
by vaksel 16y ago
i think you can still do it. Just seed your initial site with curated istockphotos. Those sites have so many photos, that if you search for a simple phrase, you'll end up with 15,000 results. And if you look at the first 200 pages or so, yo
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by vaksel 16y ago
yeah live your life at the fullest,,,everything eventually works out. And if worse case scenario it doesn't...and you are broke at 55-60....go rob a bank. If you succeed you get some cash...if you fail you get free room, food and health car
858.
by vaksel 16y ago
because at that point it's very easy to get complacent...and building up to $100K for a niche business still takes time and money.
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by vaksel 16y ago
because a lot of these niche $100K/yr products...hit the ceiling at 150-200K. So you have no security like you do when you have 5-6 million in the bank. Anything can happen...Google might slap your adwords account, someone might release a c
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by vaksel 16y ago
I think after you get fuck you money, your goal should be to create a lifestyle business. Something that can more or less run on autopilot and generate money for you to live on. If you are a web guy, you can create some software product(or
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by vaksel 16y ago
there is no sense to plan for scaling when you are small. you are wasting valuable resources for things that might not happen. Just spend $10/mo on a shared host and you'll be good to go. if your product is in such a high demand, that it cr
862.
by vaksel 16y ago
your site just screams scam to me...not only the actual business model, but the actual design too
863.
by vaksel 16y ago
yeah def has a feel of communist Russia
864.
by vaksel 16y ago
he can't be that good of an online marketer...if he didn't leave his url in the blog post.
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by vaksel 16y ago
frankly I'm a little surprised at the number of people that just plain don't hold government accountable. Collateral damage video? No outrage over killing the civilians, Full outrage that they dared to add labels to a video. This thing? No
866.
by vaksel 16y ago
it's probably just a video of the wikileaks staff offering the person a job.
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by vaksel 16y ago
that's just the front page though. Reddit has a ton of subreddits...which people subscribe to. When they do, the stories from that subreddit show up on your main page.
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Russian scientists have created a breed of domesticated foxes (costs $6K)(sibfox.com)
115 points by vaksel 16y ago|54 comments
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by vaksel 16y ago
the fact that they have HN as having 2.4 times more referrer traffic than reddit makes me question this. Look at the numbers, HN is a top 3,000 site, reddit is a top 300 site.
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by vaksel 16y ago
there is only one cure. Just do it already. Entrepreneurship is something, where you'll always have to learn on the job.

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