BobbyH

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by BobbyH 2y ago
I run Google Ads professionally and this has also happened to me. I was never unable to fix it directly. One time, I had a Wordpress site that Google Ads claimed was a compromised site. I migrated it to a landing page provider (Unbounce), a
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by BobbyH 3y ago
This is actually the plot behind Larry Niven's Ringworld! A gigantic civilization has created a Ringworld (a rotating wheel artificial world), until a superconducting plague ( https://news.larryniven.net/concordance&#x2F
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by BobbyH 5y ago
I work in the bankruptcy niche, and I wanted to tweak your statements... Chapter 13 bankruptcy is deleted from your credit report seven years from the discharge date, which comes 3 to 5 years after you file (because there's a 3 to 5
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The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills – Brooklyn’s Hottest Ice Cream Company(marker.medium.com)
2 points by BobbyH 6y ago|0 comments
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MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60B-Dollar Woman(marker.medium.com)
6 points by BobbyH 6y ago|0 comments
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GaryVee Is Still Preaching the Hustle Gospel in the Middle of a Pandemic(marker.medium.com)
4 points by BobbyH 6y ago|0 comments
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Indie.vc: Unicorns Are Out, Profits Are In(marker.medium.com)
181 points by BobbyH 6y ago|113 comments
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How A Hot $100M Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight(marker.medium.com)
10 points by BobbyH 7y ago|0 comments
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The Surreal and Emotional Experience of Taking Redfin Public(marker.medium.com)
4 points by BobbyH 7y ago|0 comments
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Why So Many Entrepreneurs Hoard Secret Stashes of Domain Names(marker.medium.com)
4 points by BobbyH 7y ago|1 comments
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The Secret Alchemy of Co-Founders(marker.medium.com)
2 points by BobbyH 7y ago|0 comments
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Was WeWork’s Business a Copy/Paste Job?(marker.medium.com)
2 points by BobbyH 7y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 10y ago
Taking a step back, it seems like you want to present a perfect solution to your boss that he can just adopt. I mean this in a friendly way, but that's not your job. Your job is to tell your boss what you want. Your boss's job is
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by BobbyH 10y ago
It sounds like you and the CEO both want something, which is often the basis for a reasonable compromise. You want to be let out of the strict non-compete clause, and you want your back-pay and ideally a raise. Meanwhile, the CEO doesn&#x27
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Michael Dell: How I Became an Entrepreneur Again(inc.com)
3 points by BobbyH 12y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 12y ago
I take your point. It's just that if those four loans default, you will be down 16%. If that happens, you will lose your principal and also not earn interest on those defaulted loans. So even though you charged an 8.4% APR, you will on
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by BobbyH 12y ago
mfheretic, you're counting "active loans" as cash in the bank, but I think you have some active loans that are likely to default and cause losses... This is the account I looked at: https://www.zidisha.org/mic
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by BobbyH 13y ago
It would be awesome if you could "close the loop" between analytics and SERPs! For instance, say that you return a SERP with 2 results. Using your analytics and some conversion pixels, Swiftype would know that for that search, the
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by BobbyH 13y ago
I think this behavior comes from the webcam, and not Skype. I have actually seen this exact behavior with the Microsoft LifeCam, which often auto-changes the width of the video stream. The larger width will show "people on the sides,&q
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by BobbyH 13y ago
All the famous entrepreneurs mentioned in this story have very light accents. I found YouTube videos with these entrepreneurs speaking, and none of them have "accents so strong that you have to interrupt the conversation to ask what th
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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship(inc.com)
61 points by BobbyH 13y ago|5 comments
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by BobbyH 13y ago
Good luck! In the spirit of your post, here are four reasons that I think the opportunity you are currently pursuing will fail. First, you are not making something that people want. The primary customer you have to satisfy here are fashion
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by BobbyH 13y ago
This email was likely unearthed during pre-trial discovery ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law) ) when Macy's sued Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) for breach of contract when MSLO decided to start selling its formerly-exclu
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by BobbyH 14y ago
I also grew up in Northern Virginia. I now live in NYC. I hadn't considered the broader effects of this sort of migration, until I recently read "The Big Sort", a brilliant book written in 2009 that describes how like-minded people are "sor
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Eric Ries: Inc. Magazine cover story(inc.com)
4 points by BobbyH 15y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 15y ago
Yes, enterprise value (EV) is equity market capitalization (stock price times # of shares) plus the market value of debt (this can be lower than the book value of debt). Financial analysts often prefer to calculate something called "Net Ent
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by BobbyH 15y ago
I think what georgie is saying is that employers don't care about your skill set and knowledge, per se. They only care about what your skill set and knowledge can do for them . Also, I second georgie's recommendation of How to Win Friends
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Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here’s The Story Behind Its Success.(mixergy.com)
2 points by BobbyH 15y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 15y ago
Yeah, that's it! I just read Little Bets today. Actually, I was talking to somebody about lean startups this afternoon and I found that "make little bets" is a better way of expressing the lean startup approach than "test your assumptions".
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by BobbyH 15y ago
One clue is that a 404 page (e.g. http://color.com/asdf ) says the webserver is "powered by Jetty": http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/ Jetty "provides an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container". Here is the wikipedia page fo

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