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by wellboy 13y ago
Will this be able to make $100M/year in revenue within the next 3 years? If it won't probably be able to make >$10M rev/year, you're not super passionate about it and they want to buy it for $3M+, I'd go for it.
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by wellboy 13y ago
The crux is that this blog post compares Everpix with 55,000 users to Snapchat with 26M users and them having been around for the same amount of time. See the crux?
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by wellboy 13y ago
I've been in it since the first bubble in April and it's surprising how resilient Bitcoin has become to negative news such as the seizure of 5% of all Bitcoins recently. There was a drop of 20%, but it had recovered from that afte
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by wellboy 13y ago
Github for writers is big though dude. Get some traction and everybody will lick your toes!
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by wellboy 13y ago
Hey thanks! I think you can monetize pretty early with your model, so once you rake a few thousand dollars in per month and show that it will be in the ten thousands in three months, you can easily get Angel investment. Once you have decent
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think if you want to get into YC you have to fulfill one of the three criteria: 1. You are hugely changing the world 2. You can completely disrupt an existing industry 3. You can be a billion dollar company Good apps do fulfill all the th
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by wellboy 13y ago
Mattermark will probably do that soon, should be interesting.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Australia would be swamped :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
You have to pay taxes of 48% for everything above 52k€ salary. If you earn 60k€, you have to "only" approx pay 30% taxes.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Yup
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by wellboy 13y ago
Yup, however his blog post actually had some valuable insights instead of just hollow words.
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by wellboy 13y ago
If you tell a graduate engineer about the great mathematical problems there are to solve and that solving them will protect the American people, it's quite easy to get a strong workforce behind you. And if they were just engineering sm
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by wellboy 13y ago
Great hustle Greg, great hustle. Make a startup out of this, launching with tech conferences with your awesome notes and expanding later into other verticals. Bam. This is your launch^^
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by wellboy 13y ago
Berlin is 3 times cheaper in terms of rent & food than San Francisco.
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by wellboy 13y ago
That´s very exciting. Introducing restrictions like Twitter with 140 characters is very powerful. How to get users apart from PR? Spend $500 of Facebook ads per city, that gives you around 300 users. Done. Prove for one city raise Angel Mon
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by wellboy 13y ago
Also upvotes by YC peeps, probably have 3 times more weight than normal ones.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Good point, it's probably that no one is there anymore who cares about the long-term mission of Linkedin. Reid Hoffman is rich now anyway why would he care. The reason for that is probably also though that Linkedin is not a passion pro
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by wellboy 13y ago
That's an excellent description, gradual escalation. For that reason, there need to be very strong company values. Further, every engineer needs to be very reflective and have very strong values themselves, because most companies don&#
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well if Rapportive was acquired by Linkedin, Linkedin will have had a big influence on this project.
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by wellboy 13y ago
You'd think so, but it took a decade until Snowden was the first one of these 10,000 engineers to speak up.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Stir the debate, escalate it to management, make your co-workers aware of the wrongdoing. If it's shoved under the carpet, leave, maybe write a blog post. However, most people care more about their job than their values and for that re
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well you know there are also really great/impressive ways to growth hack, such as Noah Kagan who grew Appsumo with his really cool emails that people loved or the guy who made Dropbox go viral by giving 250MB additional data for each n
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well done Jordan, this is a good example of how insincere company culture, which endorses email spam and dark design patterns, WILL backfire. In a company with great culture, this kind of project would have been caught by the various stakeh
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by wellboy 13y ago
Correct, which makes "Intro" and all other third party apps, which reroute entire communication channels, untenable ones.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Why do the billion dollar companies just not get that people can see through double speak now. Let´s look at the double speak here, which intends to give a statement weight even though it has zero weight. On the left side original statement
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by wellboy 13y ago
How to get rich by being intelligent? Answer: Tech
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well Bezos is interested in controlling the media.. :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
What about Amazon instead of Google.
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by wellboy 13y ago
That´s a good example.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Yeah the only innovative ones are Soundcloud and Gidsy. Then there is www.workhub.com, they are awesome and awesome founder, but they are still in beta. ResearchGate is also big, but they are more a data startup. Wooga and Hitfox are the ot

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