yourapostasy

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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Someone could ask Namecheap to allow people to "bundle" a transfer to hit their discount levels. Enable customers to get together and transfer all their domains from a single registrar like GoDaddy all on the same day. Customer Foo has 43 d
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Looking over the 7 comments so far on this, I suggest you trust your instincts that this isn't a tremendously well-conceived business. Find someone else whose Rails skills you find are roughly comparable to yours, and say you are too booked
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
The way it was framed might be a tad hyperbolic at this stage. However, managing an online presence if done properly can be a more inexpensive way to acquire new customers than using conventional, bricks-world advertising and marketing chan
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
I'm wondering if everyone enamored of this meme is thinking that software will allow industries to change the very definition of "core". I don't know anything about the bakery business, but scratching my head over your very good question le
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
...but I didn't get that the article talked about every company's core business now being software. Here is a quote from the article where he lays out the Andreessen Hypothesis[1], and links to David Kirpatrick's article that restates tha
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Managers, lawyers, graphics designers, salespeople, the list goes on. For salespeople, sums, differences, multiplication and division of fractions might not be the best example; calculus might be more appropriate. Some of the best salespe
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Very wise. VMWare has established a precedent with ESXi V4 starting out free, then drastically changing terms, conditions, and pricing with V5. Their prerogative of course, but there is no way I would build a business around free beer softw
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Congrats. It is not clear from your wording if you are seeing a tax attorney to handle your business or personal finances, or both. md1515 is correct, there are specialized use cases for an LP for personal finance, unless you start to get i
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Technical people who look down on sales and marketing generally do not realize that just as in coding circles the FizzBuzz test shows a remarkable lack of coding ability in a large population of self-described "programmers", in sales and ma
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Typical buy-out of a small business with a proven revenue stream is 7X annual gross. Source: Bruce Williams talk show. You can also speak with a business broker to feel out a rough rule of thumb with someone who is a middleman for buyers an
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by yourapostasy 15y ago
Sounds like he is bemoaning the technical debt problem, writ large. While you can't resolve this from the gate level on up overnight, you can create your own "technical oases" that are largely free(er) of technical debt than the crud they f