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by webwright 12y ago
Nope. If that's your goal (which is a good, but again could use a marketing brain), it's pretty easy to make a list of what needs to exist/happen for that goal to succeed. To me, it's hard to argue that "try a radi
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by webwright 12y ago
You should read: http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/10/startups-miracles.html I think you're shooting for two miracles here - the core idea PLUS the idea that open work is the best way to create a consumer/fac
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by webwright 12y ago
Inspiring service (once I figured out what the heck the post was talking about and managed to make sense of the home page). This post and the site's homepage scream for the attention of a person who has a head for marketing. I think P
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by webwright 12y ago
My favorite thing about retention is the leverage it gives you. My favorite analogy is the "leaky bucket": You have bucket with holes in it. It's not holding water. You can pour water in as fast as you can and you might b
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by webwright 12y ago
I own two houses and I agree with you. If you're in great financial shape and you'd be happy buying a house, buy a house. The vast majority of folks (americans, anyways) AREN'T in good financial shape, however, and often ove
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by webwright 12y ago
"You can do that when you own as well. You have to sell your house. " This is so incredibly wrong. Selling a house can be a massive and expensive undertaking. Assuming agents are involved, you can expect to pay 6-9% of the value
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by webwright 12y ago
PGs essays ring very true to me, but not this one. "So if intelligence in itself is not a factor in popularity, why are smart kids so consistently unpopular? The answer, I think, is that they don't really want to be popular."
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by webwright 12y ago
There is some stuff that is difficult (drywall) and high risk (plumbing, electrical), but much of it you could do yourself (assuming friends help). Flipping a house is pretty challenging, depending on the market. Note that when you sell a
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by webwright 12y ago
Literally everything is explained on the web/YouTube-- I learned this when I remodeled my house down to the studs with virtually no experience. Need to repoint a chimney? Trim a window? Hang a door? Tile a shower? You're a sin
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by webwright 12y ago
If you're incorporating with the purpose of eventually raising money/selling stock (which means a C corp), it's non-trivial... I assumed that's what they would do given that the OP was talking about raising $. But yeah
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by webwright 12y ago
I'm not a huge fun of going thru the time and expense of legal formation every time you want to explore a potentially lucrative side project... I once rapidly formed an LLC because someone wanted to buy a side project of mine. But you
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by webwright 12y ago
I don't think being excited/passionate about something means "messy and can't complete projects" - that means they are perhaps excited about the wrong thing. Some plumbers actually like plumbing. The act of creatin
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by webwright 12y ago
"Does that make it a negative if you're time away from work involves family, outdoor activities, DIY projects, etc?" Absolutely not. There's a full spectrum here. But if some of your hobbies/leisure time relates
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by webwright 12y ago
I'll disagree with the last one. Whanever I hire for, I always look for "passion for the craft" - whether it's design, code, marketing, or whatever. A great question is "What's the last book or blog post you&
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by webwright 12y ago
Really? Do you think people are good at selecting a path that makes them happy? I don't. Related: https://twitter.com/webwright/status/451934942357098496 I'm not supporting this particular book, but t
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by webwright 12y ago
In the case of race, I don't think it's mostly about aspirational choices-- it's about who audiences relate to. There are some pretty good studies that show you inherently trust people more if they look like you (skin color,
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by webwright 12y ago
I feel like I remember PG telling me that large founding teams (more than 3) were highly correlated with failure. If I were to guess why: The more relationships you have on the founding team, the more likely you are to have ONE of them blow
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by webwright 12y ago
Startups are often about finding money machines. Ideally these guys are constantly asking questions like: 1) What is the lifetime value of a user? 2) What is the lifetime value of a property owner who lists with us? Once you start to be ab
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by webwright 12y ago
Ugh, the fact that many of these charts show raw # of deaths versus deaths/100k really masks how much things have improved. In 1968, the population was 64% of our current population... So a flat line is actually a pretty massive impr
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by webwright 12y ago
If the CTO is a pro, he had the support of the CEO and the investors (board of directors) before he ever brought it up.
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by webwright 12y ago
Founder shuffling is not uncommon. Founders aren't always (or even often) great managers, leaders, or recruiters-- which is what you need to transition into if you're going to stay with the company. I'd encourage you to try
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by webwright 12y ago
"The visual design, the interaction design, the writing and reading experiences, the social incentives, the notification system: all of it is top notch." I SO disagree here. It's a mess. It's 10x more complex than it n
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by webwright 12y ago
First off, Compete.com is a JOKE (I've regularly seen it off by 10-100x). Second, investors care about growth more than traffic-- do we have any data on Quora's growth? Third, Quora's founder/team is pretty bankable--
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by webwright 13y ago
"It is starting to seem like many progressive groups are trying to vilify an individual's freedom of speech/thought." No. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. If you're pro-rape, you&#x27
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by webwright 13y ago
Add'l data on how carousels don't convert. "Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad" http://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-...
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by webwright 13y ago
Christianity. There were plenty of racists back in the day who used the bible to support their views: https://www.google.com/search?q=biblical+support+for+racism Though you could step beyond my/the parent comment&#x2
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by webwright 13y ago
Unsolicited feedback: The way you disagree is pretty disrespectful-- I've seen this in a few of your comments. Don't refer to people's arguments as "silly". Civil unions or legal gay marriages are still not possibl
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by webwright 13y ago
Is a racist hateful? My grandmother was a racist and was a really good/kind women who dedicated much of her life to helping others (including people of color). She didn't treat other races hatefully, but she did have warped beli
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by webwright 13y ago
A boycott is meant to inconvenience the target of the boycott. If your goal is to nudge the Mozilla Corp into action, Firefox downloads is really the way to do it, as that's pretty much their sole source of revenue. Source: http:&#x2
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by webwright 13y ago
Today, it's being anti-gay-rights is acceptable to lots of people. 50 years ago, being a racist was acceptable to lots of people. Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs w

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