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by yoseph 16y ago
Thanks for the advice! I went through TheStreet.com's IPO prospectus and they pointed to the number of online brokerage accounts as proof of the growing number of individual investors. A real gem. As a result, we're going to use the current
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Ask HN: How do you determine potential market size for a web app?
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by yoseph 16y ago
Here's the best tip I could give you: Hire a designer. Personally, I don't see a business here. I even tried to bid for fun and it wasn't fun. I guess you're trying to create a new form of gambling?? The thing for me is that it sounds like
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by yoseph 16y ago
A couple great quotes: "I had seen at close range the injustice of sentences one hundred times more severe for crack cocaine than for powder cocaine, a straight act of discrimination against African-Americans, that even the first black pres
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I think he is now. http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/shawn-fanning-finally-gets-...
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"As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. If the employees fundamentally trust the CEO, then communication will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building t
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Jerry Maguire.
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Not sure if this has been done but.. The idea is TwitterNews. The site would basically scrape Twitter to find the most linked-to news articles. Eventually, you could build a system to tell if the news article was being mentioned positively
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Agotterer, I LOVE the simplicity of your design. Well done!
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> Startup is just your job. I disagree with calling it a "job". It makes it sound like something you don't want to have to do. IMHO, I think you should be passionate about your startup. It shouldn't feel like a job but something that's
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Great quote: "Startups are primarly competing against indifference, lack of awareness, and lack of understanding — not other startups." Couldn't agree more.
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"Trading" is not the answer. "Investing" is. Read The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, both by Benjamin Graham; and F Wall Street by Joe Ponzio (His website fwallstreet.com also has a number of gems. Particularly, his post about
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by yoseph 16y ago
Couldn't agree more re increasing shareholder value. Also, a share buyback signals to investors that the company believes its shares are undervalued.
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Derek, I think what you've done is great and I wish you the best of luck. I have just one little piece of unqualified advice. In the last couple paragraphs, the blog post felt a little too much like marketing spiel. I get that you're a non-