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by wmboy 15y ago
India is definitely a country to watch. With China's one-child-per-family rule, it could very well be India that becomes the new super power in the next 20-50 years...
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by wmboy 15y ago
As Google has become THE search engine, Facebook will be THE social networking site (which it already is). I don't think it will get bigger than being a social networking tool, and on the other end of the scale I highly doubt it will end u
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by wmboy 15y ago
Or you could be getting consumers who are already buying tickets to buy more tickets. For instance, I average one international flight a year. If I could get flights for cheaper that number would most probably increase...
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by wmboy 15y ago
I like it a lot! I use Omniwriter on my Mac, but there are lots of computers I need to work on that aren't Macs and where I can't install desktop software. @richcollins there are tons of good minimalist writing apps out there, but they are
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by wmboy 15y ago
That's true but it doesn't mean potential investors with deep pockets aren't keeping an eye on listings.
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by wmboy 15y ago
This is very big for Square. The main issue with their flagship product is security. When every other country in the world is moving fast to accept chip card transactions a United States company comes out with a so called "innovative" prod
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by wmboy 15y ago
Hmmm fair point, also looks like Instapaper isn't registered as a trademark, 'Insta' is probably too generic, and paper is definitely too generic to trademark. Perhaps I should stand corrected.
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by wmboy 15y ago
This is actually a really good idea. I use Read It Later and saving videos I want to watch later just doesn't work. Big problem: Copying the "Insta" prefix just isn't going to work (unless you're Instapaper). You're using their branding a
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by wmboy 15y ago
Can you get to another country and reside there while working remotely? 37Signals is just one company that has proved remote workers is possible.
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by wmboy 15y ago
Just because someone else is doing it shouldn't be a reason to ditch it. In fact, it could validate your idea as it proves there is a market and if your idea is better and your vision greater you could have a success on your hands (just lo
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by wmboy 15y ago
Lifehacker came out with a 'Learn to Code' series a few months ago ( http://lifehacker.com/#!5744113/learn-to-code-the-full-begin... ) and used JavaScript as the language for the same reasons that imechura has given above.
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by wmboy 15y ago
Sure, setting false expectations will obviously do yourself a disservice. Not quite sure what your comment means with regards to building buzz and doing pre-launch marketing?
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by wmboy 15y ago
Maybe for speed readers that's the case. IMO though, life is too short to read mediocre books if there are better ones you could be reading (same is true of mediocre music and movies).
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by wmboy 16y ago
You should be able to carry the buzz through for a while, if you have to delay shipping. i.e. keep people updated via your blog/email list with promises that the wait "will be worth it" etc...
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by wmboy 16y ago
There are no cons, only pros (that is, if you want to maximise the number of users that sign up)! Building buzz is nothing more than a part of marketing, something which every business should be doing. You can think of building buzz as the
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by wmboy 16y ago
I assume you mean in regards to entrepreneurship? How about Pursuit of Happyness in the drop in center where he's fixing the last X-Ray machine in the middle of the night, long after the last light inside has automatically switched off. (s
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by wmboy 16y ago
One option is Clickbank. No need for a merchant account and they easily handle affiliate commissions (if that's something you want). Downside is that people will see Clickbank.com on their credit card statement, not your merchant name (but
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by wmboy 16y ago
Cool story. My question is, if you were going to do the same thing, what skill would you try and master?
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by wmboy 16y ago
Agreed, just take your customers' pricing advice with a grain of salt! $10 to install on unlimited domains and unlimited updates? If you want to offer quality support you'll need to be charging more for the product...
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by wmboy 16y ago
Mixergy interviews are great to listen to. Not sure if they're still available on iTunes, I simply download the mp3's from the website as I like to pick and choose. Note - most interviews are about an hour long so you'd have to listen to t
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by wmboy 16y ago
I've got a 2 year old son and a 7 week old daughter. For your first born you can forget about the first 2 weeks - that's time to devote to becoming a father (sounds cheesy but that's the way it is). Once a routine is formed it is still ver
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by wmboy 16y ago
Brazil sounds good, but that's a huge country to become a hub. It would surely need to be a city within Brazil like São Paulo or Rio. Of course it's not really something you can engineer, if it was I'd suggest New Zealand =D
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by wmboy 16y ago
It gets complicated the more things you want to be involved in. If you have no girlfriend/wife, no responsibilities, don't care what your few friends think of you and have no ambitions to add value to the world (other than through your sta
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by wmboy 16y ago
Which of the ideas do you already have potential paying customers? Ask around, pitch both of the ideas and find out which one people are more inclined to hand their credit card details over.
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by wmboy 16y ago
I agree. I think the apprenticeship model would work far better for programming than the lecture/assignment/exam model. Solving real world problems and learning on the job under the eye of a mentor would be invaluable. The person/company
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Jack Dorsey needs to decide which company to run...(chrisheaslip.com)
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by wmboy 16y ago
> If the State gets our of control, a roll-back function could be implemented But who decides when it gets out of control?
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by wmboy 16y ago
There was an article about this on Lifehacker written by Clay Johnson; "...there's an optimal number of pixels you need to complete the tasks you need to complete. Worry about that number, not the number of monitors you have. That optimal n
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by wmboy 16y ago
Host the video file on Amazon S3 and then use something like JWPlayer to show the video on your website.
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by wmboy 16y ago
Once the app is big and famous your lawyers will sort out getting the .com for you. ;-)

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