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   by wensing 16y ago

   It's important for bootstrappers to understand the mass traffic that's needed for advertising to fuel growth. $20 eCPM means to have just a $200k/yr. business you need 10 million impressions per year. $0.10 eCPM means you need 2 billion.
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Let's boil it down to eCPM. What is your eCPM going to be? Multiple that by impressions and tell me how you're going to support N employees on that revenue.
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Refreshing, honest, well said. This part caught my eye, though: "we were honest with them. We let them know that implementing that would mean addition cost for us , but would still do it if they were ready to pay a subscription fee". That
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Stormpulse has around 5 million uniques per year and the ad model still isn't viable without destroying the user experience. In other words, you need more traffic than most people can fathom.
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   Achieving a profitable product/market fit(wensing.tumblr.com)

   32 points by wensing 16y ago|2 comments
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Distribution and convenience.
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   Introducing Kindle Singles(amazon.com)

   46 points by wensing 16y ago|36 comments
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   by wensing 16y ago

   This is why I think the golden goose of web optimization tools is going to be the one that automagically segments a user base into population/profiles based on their repeated behaviours and their origin IP (consumer/biz) (provide a klout.co
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Stormpulse has recently shifted from B2C to B2B. Pricing is so completely different there's no A/B test you could use to determine that. Say you were selling tickets to hear Lang Lang play the piano. You could try selling those on the cor
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Keep in mind that this is secondary to finding the market that puts the greatest value on your product.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Andrew Warner is giving the keynote. If you are going, where are you staying?
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    Are you going to Startup Riot 2011? (startupriot.com)

    6 points by wensing 16y ago|3 comments
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    WakeMate Warns Users Of Major Safety Issue(techcrunch.com)

    71 points by wensing 16y ago|8 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    haXe + FlashDevelop. http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Feature... Lightning fast compilation and IDE plus a language that can target multiple platforms = major time savings for a bootstrapped startup.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Findler was my Intro to CS prof. http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/uc-courses/ Great teacher.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    I think his point is that at some point it isn't right to call it spam. Double opt-in mailing lists for a product or service that you enjoy isn't spam.
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    Ask HN: How does Netflix restrict login sharing on the iPhone?

    2 points by wensing 16y ago|1 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Hoping to make it to StartupRiot as well (assuming I am accepted to present). Andrew Warner and others (like me) are hoping to have an HN meetup of sorts.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Please let the Heroku folks create an interface for Salesforce that doesn't feel like enterprise Java.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    60mo is the one I'm going to try. Looks perfect actually.
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    Ask HN: Startup accounting for SaaS model?

    4 points by wensing 16y ago|4 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    After building iTunes libraries on multiple computers in a single household, multiple iPhones, iPods, and now an Android phone, I can say that I honestly miss having music on a CD that I could rip/play anywhere and I felt like I really owne
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    "The Greatest Discovery Since Fire" (inventing and marketing the microwave oven)(americanheritage.com)

    1 points by wensing 16y ago|0 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    As a startup based in South Florida: thanks for choosing Miami. Typo: SuperConf is in Miami, Beach! You mean Miami Beach.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    My brother-in-law played Star Wars at Ground Kontrol for 54 hours, 10 minutes. http://www.groundkontrol.com/archive3.php
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    Creepy things Eric Schmidt has said(digitaldaily.allthingsd.com)

    23 points by wensing 16y ago|18 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Fred Wilson was the first one to clue me in to the "Valley of Death" phase. He expands on it here: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/from-hopes-and-dreams-to-the... I also like to advise entrepreneurs to take advantage of the financing en
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    by wensing 16y ago

    can only be a good thing Not really. What it could mean is a downward spiral, which is what's been happening in the newspaper biz. Fewer people can't do as much work, which means lower revenues, which means fewer people, which ... The d
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    by wensing 16y ago

    I don't like it when 'Save' is greyed out on Google Docs. I'd rather have it auto-saving and removing an asterisk that indicates changes have been made. Then I could see that I don't need to save, but still get the satisfaction of mashing
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    by wensing 16y ago

    I think you're giving away too much for free. How about 1 mockup for free, not 5. Or how about you just let me pay you $x for 3 months of usage (which will coincide with Project Y that I'm working on). If you let me do 5 mockups for free