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by wj 9y ago
Some industries have incredibly long sales cycles and you will use up all of your savings and then some getting your first customers. If I were to do it again I would focus on the creating a solution to the smallest subset of the problem I
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I believe it was linked to on Slashdot.
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I was wondering if someone was going to make the comparison to movies as movies are almost entirely crewed by contractors. The difference might be that the contractors in the film and TV industry are all union.
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I think of the Indian subcontinent differently than the rest of Asia.
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Correct. Top of thread first mentioned looking at cities outside of Asia...though I guess technically Mumbai is in Asia.
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Maybe Lagos? Lots of people. Wealth. Corruption. Cyber-criminals. Mumbai could be another dark horse.
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That was one of my biggest annoyances with OSX. Thank you for posting this.
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Try Finviz.
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I definitely recommend watching the videos. If you are interested I did take notes and you can download them here: https://leanpub.com/how_to_start_a_startup
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Off topic but Halt and Catch Fire season three was my favorite yet. There is some drama that the characters mostly bring on themselves (Can and Joe) but after watching some episodes of the show Suits (Scandal has the same issue) the drama i
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by wj 10y ago
Having not went through YC (yet!) I'm curious as to how much the Startup School MOOC will mirror the core process? I imagine YC is more like going from 0.5 to 1--focusing on one or two things such as product or marketing--rather than t
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I'm also not a fan of opinion pieces but I do like analysis (I really enjoy the Economist because they seem to do a better job providing context and analyzing the consequences of news events than most news sources.) I tend fall more on
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For me the distinction is that news organizations do original reporting while blogs usually do not.
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I noticed that as well as I had copied the questions to work on outside of my browser. I seem to remember they had those questions previously (at least the runway question) so maybe they were just accidentally left off at first.
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I up-voted you because I didn't think you deserved to be down-voted and because I believe that there is a problem with including blog articles in news results because I think it waters down the word as few blogs do original reporting.
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I miss Wine Library TV. I thought Crush It was a good book for when it was released but didn't enjoy Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook as much. That felt like a couple of pages of content that was forced into book form. I would recommend Getti
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by wj 10y ago
I'm going to repost from the last thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473 ): StartOpz ( http://www.startopz.com ): Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as t
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I have no doubt you are right about the people who rate online (you definitely see it in restaurant ratings and comment sections) but when I rate movies on Netflix I very, very rarely ever rate something a 1 or a 5. I would imagine that 2&#
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I'm still disappointed they removed their friends feature. I valued my friends' ratings more than the ratings of the Netflix user base as a whole. I have noticed that Netflix tends to be more accurate with the "users like you
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Don't forget state income taxes which very easily can bring you effective rate up to 30-40%.
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I agree that there seems to be a stigma in the startup echo chamber around single founders and as one I find it frustrating. The reason am I a single founder is that while I have always been a computer nerd my friends and colleagues were no
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Ultra-rich protect wealth with spread of 'family offices'(bbc.com)
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That is only true if you don't have a transfer.
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Both Credit Karma and Mint make their revenue by offering financial products that might help you based on your financial profile so I imagine that can be fairly lucrative.
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Congratulations on your launch! My startup also aims to help people improve their finances but from a different angle (a financial wellness platform for 401(k) advisors to use with their participants) so I very much appreciate your efforts
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Weber Kettle grill (love their smoker as well but points knocked off for cleanup). I have always found Microsoft keyboard and mice to be well designed.
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I remember having to use a floppy with custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files to run a lot of games on my 486sx25 with 4mb ram. idkfa made single player Doom a lot easier :)
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There is always some scope for product differentiation and a lot of scope for marketing differentiation. There are hundred(s) of different CRM products on the market and some differentiate themselves on features (specific features/work
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Retirees might need to liquid a percentage of their portfolio each month to pay their bills. Getting caught in a flash crash can have an effect on them. In a general sense though I agree that the behavior shouldn't be illegal but am fi
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off topic: I took a look at his new project( https://www.matterapp.io/ ) and wonder what people think about the method of social proof he is using by showing logos of companies that are not customers but that are transparent

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