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by zaidf 13y ago
If big tech companies are colluding to depress engineer wages, they're pretty obviously failing. If crooks are trying to rob retailers, I don't see empty shelves at walmart so the crooks are obviously failing. (I don't thin
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by zaidf 13y ago
This is where he crosses the asshole line over to scumbag and crook territory. I say this as someone who respects Jobs deeply for his product vision.
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I still have yet to hear someone recommend a microsoft product in the last 6-12 months I think this is a common fallacy, especially after the Apple phenomenon. We assume that just because people aren't rushing to recommend the produc
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by zaidf 13y ago
Only partially true considering posting to HN can lead to many people reblogging or retweeting.
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You got it.
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Consumer startups with such little traction don't get anywhere close to $1 per user per month. I ran a start-up with a million uniques a month and we were making a fraction of a penny per visitor.
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by zaidf 13y ago
400,000 uniques/month in a consumer play is peanuts. They didn't shut down because they couldn't monetize. They shut down because they didn't get the traction needed for consumer ventures.
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by zaidf 13y ago
By not continuing to work under managers that are shitty.
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by zaidf 13y ago
Could not disagree more. As someone who has been on facebook since 2005, I'm using it more every year than I've ever used before. I think the facebook product is extremely well thought out. For example, I make extensive use of the
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by zaidf 13y ago
This is actually a great milestone. It is hard to build a sustainable billion dollar business on "being cool" because any minute society might decide you're no longer cool and move on to the next shiny object. Just ask myspac
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by zaidf 13y ago
Haha you nailed it. I met with their main tech boss who was an older gentleman who basically kept telling me that the new system they have planned to roll out(from Oracle) will have the features that my site had. My site basically texted st
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by zaidf 13y ago
I thought my school was bad but reading this makes the administration at my school look like angels. When I launched a similar service at UNC Chapel Hill, the IT dept blocked requests from my server to theirs for scraping latest data. They
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by zaidf 13y ago
When I first read their story, I wondered exactly what you wrote: how much was their amazon hosting bill and could they have at least kept the lights on if they went with a smaller provider? I know when I was doing my music start up it woul
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by zaidf 13y ago
We advise a lot of small businesses and are seriously considering recommending the adoption of this if it helps them get likes to their fb page. Capturing fb likes from existing and happiest customers is a challenge for every small business
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I think the problem here is as much poorly-trained sales people than the practice of not disclosing pricing on the website. Smart sales people should be trained to recognize different types of buyers. From the sound of it, you are a buyer w
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by zaidf 13y ago
This is par for the course for many companies that are on a sales-rep model. The best inside sales ops do not allow this because when you do this at scale, you find out that customers will realize the true value of your product over time
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by zaidf 13y ago
Quickest way to lose a sale is to provide pricing to non-expert buyers who are not likely to understand key parts of your product just from reading about it on the site. We have customers who are used to paying $5 bucks/mo for a shit
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by zaidf 13y ago
You can still search rapgenius by using keyword site:rapgenius.com feature
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by zaidf 13y ago
Who violated diplomatic immunity rules?
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The day twitter puts granular privacy options for each tweet is the day I will begin using it 10x more. Facebook has this nailed and I make religious use of this feature. Having your side conversation with your family show up in your prospe
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by zaidf 13y ago
Funny you mention because I just returned from dropping off my Mom at the airport and made the exact same observation.
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It's actually good that you didn't have a contract. If you did, you would probably be sworn to secrecy and not be able to share this story. Sure, with a contract you could take them to court, but you can do that anyway if someon
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by zaidf 13y ago
To me, G+ having a niche audience is a feature. That's not a feature, it's a bug that google is trying to fix by shoving g+ down everyone's throat.
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by zaidf 13y ago
The difference is the angle. The Facebook Close Friends is useful but is made for one to one relationships than organizations. App.net is not advising that you make an alert appear on your fans' phones everytime your band publishes any
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by zaidf 13y ago
Hey OT: I see that you have experience acquiring domains. I had a question related to it but couldn't find your contact info. Any way to reach you? You can drop me a line at zaidREMOVETHISPART@crystalmd.com, as well.
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by zaidf 13y ago
On the topic of top notch commercials out of India, here's a memorable series from Vodafone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDYZHGzGLE
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by zaidf 13y ago
So I'm firmly in the camp of "miss the events and make money". Other will tell you differently. Not that kids whose parents aren't around don't whine or you won't find a kid who has a "rich" parent w
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by zaidf 13y ago
From 1999, I was 12 :) http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?tx...
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by zaidf 13y ago
The vast majority of Googlers do not approve of G+ policies. For me, this is the most critical statement in the entire Google+ saga. Most Google employees do not approve of a strategy that google is betting its future on. Has this ever
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Why Yahoo should acquire the BusinessInsider(zaidfarooqui.com)
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