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by wilfra 14y ago
Performance would then be similar to a native app or similar to running on the mobile browser?
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by wilfra 14y ago
Finally! This is the beginning of the end for Zynga. Quality will now drive users to new games, not news feed spam and who has the biggest userbase to promote to or the biggest marketing budget. Bravo Zuck! Though I suspect Zynga's declini
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by wilfra 14y ago
This was in part a talent acquisition but a huge part of the sales price was definitely for Draw Something. A more appropriate/typical TA price for OMG would have been in the tens of millions.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Good list. Another big one: Don't preface your question with a thirty second ramble about you and your background/career/company...nobody cares.
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by wilfra 14y ago
The domain was purchased in 2008. The startup that failed was launched only a year ago. So the $500k spent on this domain could not have been used for the daily deals venture because it didn't even exist yet. However you are correct if a st
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by wilfra 14y ago
Exactly what I came to post. Where is the part where he wasted money on the domain? If he had bought startup-deals.com for $500k that would be a waste. What he has now is a prime piece of very valuable real estate that is currently occupied
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by wilfra 14y ago
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-... That is a pretty great article for this topic from the cofounder of Buffer who is really good at gaming the tech media. Here is the condensed version I emailed to a friend wh
728.
by wilfra 15y ago
Using the term lottery and pointing out that 60%+ don't break even makes a very inaccurate assumption: that all of those apps are equal in quality of production and marketing. They aren't. High quality apps which are combined with a high qu
729.
by wilfra 15y ago
They have a valid point on the CEO but when they call out a director for saying she had a degree in 'marketing and economics' and she actually has a degree in 'business administration' they make it pretty obvious this is nothing more than a
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by wilfra 15y ago
If they really felt like they were 'the peoples company' and cared about the little guy they would have made this a central part of the IPO from the beginning, like Google did with their Dutch Auction. The only reason they may be considerin
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Hacker forced largest poker forum offline on April 26th - still down(forumserver.twoplustwo.com)
1 points by wilfra 15y ago|0 comments
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by wilfra 15y ago
"I can't understand how anyone would bet against Facebook in the first few weeks." Shorting the other recent internet IPO's (LinkedIn, Pandora, Groupon and Zynga) would have resulted in a profit in each instance. I did a blog post on this b
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by wilfra 15y ago
That's exactly what he said.
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by wilfra 15y ago
Came across this awesomeness when searching for rooms in SF.
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Single bed in a lively hacker house(airbnb.com)
2 points by wilfra 15y ago|1 comments
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by wilfra 15y ago
The lesson to be learned here is if you can do something different and get people to look at and talk about your posting, more people will apply because more people will see it. If the place all of those 'more' people see it is a place freq
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by wilfra 15y ago
I bought a mini-site that monetizes with AdSense and made over 300% more than the previous owner by making the ad units ugly. The only reason I did it was because I didn't know how to customize the ad units to match the rest of the page lik
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by wilfra 15y ago
It's a fair a point but baby steps are required. A group of women founders doing women-y things is far better than no women founders. These will open the door for others in the future.
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by wilfra 15y ago
Google has been annoying me lately. I'm willing to give this a shot. Good luck DDG. Resetting Chrome default search engine now.
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YC W12 messaging - Pair, Carsabi, 42floors, socialcam, Exec + 26 more(franceschine.com)
2 points by wilfra 15y ago|0 comments
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by wilfra 15y ago
I don't know which is the next dropbox but shoptiques might be the next Etsy. That company is going places.
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by wilfra 15y ago
Their Trojan Horse is working out. I wish them all the success in the world, if only to coax Apple into making the iTV.
743.
by wilfra 15y ago
The term is quickly loosing it's meaning. Obvious gaming is obvious.
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by wilfra 15y ago
Cool got a couple of votes :) If people like this I'll do the rest of them tomorrow.
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YC W12 messaging - PlanGrid, medigram, Zillabyte, HireArt, Flutter(franceschine.com)
28 points by wilfra 15y ago|7 comments
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by wilfra 15y ago
I read Sean Parker say awhile back that this is the 'cure for loneliness' and somewhere else it was mentioned as chatroulette done "correctly"
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How to buy domains like a pro(franceschine.com)
2 points by wilfra 15y ago|0 comments
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by wilfra 15y ago
Google didn't buy YouTube because they didn't want to build YouTube, they bought it because everybody was on it and they couldn't gain traction with G Video. Same with Microsoft and Skype. Same with most acquisitions, including Draw Somethi
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by wilfra 15y ago
Fair enough. I could have made the same point with better wording. I removed that sentence. fwiw I was talking about the investors/CEO etc, the people who made the decision on the sale. Not the employees.
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by wilfra 15y ago
"They deserve recognition for sticking to their vision and eventually finding one that is a hit" They absolutely do. But they are now the latest example of what not to do the second you finally gain traction. As I said in another comment, F

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