Nick_Smith

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Anybody have a spare Amazon EC2 account?
1 points by Nick_Smith 20y ago|0 comments
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Anyone have any hands on experience with this?
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Who would you suggest emulating?
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
I'm not much of an expert on this stuff... what do you all think about their chances?
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Since the NYT demands your info: THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we cant find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. Thats a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
50 percent of their traffic is for their mail service at this point, according to Alexa. If they ever get beaten on that, it'll be lights out for them.
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
This seems like a great time-waster idea. It would probably be very addictive if it ever got critical mass. Naturally I think it will be impossible to monetize on its own, but it will be awesome when a profitable company buys them out.
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Inside Myspace.com - (great info on how they scaled)(baselinemag.com)
35 points by Nick_Smith 20y ago|9 comments
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
I bet YCombinator must feel a bit strange having this as the highest voted story ;)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - full story of a 1720s startup(etext.virginia.edu)
9 points by Nick_Smith 20y ago|5 comments
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
1. Because nobody can start a car company without hard knowledge and expertise, whereas any idiot who can talk can con VCs into funding a me-too and blind them with hype. 2. Because the Net moves so fast that the me-toos are ready just as t
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Perhaps you have heard of www.craigslist.org
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Oh WOW. This is an absolute gold mine. Case studies of dozens of them. They even have the CEOs of Rotten Tomatoes posting there in response. This is great. Thank you so much.
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
This is a pretty cool site to keep track of, thanks.
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Amazingly, Kaleil is now selling business advice at his personal website. http://www.kaleil.com/ Aardvark sounds like an interesting doc -- so far can't find it online though. Indeed, they had no product... and 233 employees.
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
It is free for people to distribute, it's just that you have guilt about it, but feel free to live within your own code.
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Startup.com - the movie(torrentportal.com)
11 points by Nick_Smith 20y ago|7 comments
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by Nick_Smith 20y ago
Nothing with such a dumb name will ever catch on but it might be good buyout-bait.