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by RBr 15y ago
Similarly, one of the most important words I was taught never to use was "guarantee".
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by RBr 15y ago
Meh... who cares? Bubble, recession, natural disaster, war, whatever... there is never a "perfect" time to start a business. If you have a good idea and a repeatable model with an output that costs less to produce then to sell... start the
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by RBr 15y ago
This article is very interesting. However, while reading, it sounded like a late night infomercial. There may be real value in this style of teaching Math, but as my first introduction, this Times article feels like the sponsored hooks us
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by RBr 15y ago
Here's an "Elevator Pitch Builder" from the Harvard Business School: http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/ In addition to Mark's presentation grader, these things can really help.
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by RBr 15y ago
Really? We're surprised by this? Camera phones with video recording capabilities are almost ubiquitous. More then that, they're cheaper and solve the primary usage case better then the portable Flip cameras do. Flip cameras provided bett
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by RBr 15y ago
Thanks for releasing the invite codes here on Hacker News, Dave.
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David S. Rose from Angelsoft discloses which blogs early stage VC's read(quora.com)
1 points by RBr 15y ago|0 comments
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by RBr 15y ago
Hmm... yeah, after about a half hour clicking the buttons, I don't think that I'll use your app more then once. It really is a nice way to cull my followers. I'm trying really hard to keep my Twitter account topical and interesting. Howev
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by RBr 15y ago
I like this - a lot. Please give me the option to see a long list containing all of the people that I follow. Showing me the users follow to followers ratio as a percentage would be useful data. If I could sort the long list based on this
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by RBr 15y ago
The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate. A few people might see your product and stick around, but I think that the brand confusion (and potential
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by RBr 15y ago
Google Trends monitors search terms, not traffic. The Google Trends graph is relative to the total search volume for the keyword Quora. Web traffic is a very different thing. It's how many people actually visit a site. Here's an estimate
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by RBr 15y ago
The argument presented in the article blames MySpace's decline on "staff, architecture, and business plan". While I agree that these things are contributing to the decline in MySpace's influence and traffic, the underlying problem is the en
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by RBr 16y ago
Something I learned from business and retail: Groupon and their clones only need to pull these types of shenanigans to scale. If they refine the model to compete largely with themselves, in the end, the company will win. In order to do this
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Blogs report iPad 3 before iPad 2 is released. Will this hurt iPad 2 sales?(businessinsider.com)
1 points by RBr 16y ago|1 comments
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by RBr 16y ago
"we're only 2 devs and one business guy!" You're in Waterloo? I'm local. If you'd like to chat x@y where: x = rob.brown and y = gmail.com
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by RBr 16y ago
You need to get rid of this error: https://img.skitch.com/20110209-rtu2pqwq6kqjqrdeuf34y6p2ep.j... I like the idea. The execution was well done. Clean, simple, easy. Your initial landing / signup page needs some work. You did a good j
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What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week(quora.com)
164 points by RBr 16y ago|66 comments
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by RBr 16y ago
In a similar vein to what Fred is saying... Free software, paid support, amass users, then... Watch and listen to what features are missing and what solutions the software isn't providing... and charge for those.
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A Case Study Examining Online Product Itteration(robisit.com)
1 points by RBr 16y ago|0 comments
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by RBr 16y ago
I wondered about this exact same thing and wrote in length about it this morning: http://robisit.com/mahalo-version-4/ "If you remove the video revenue sharing scheme from Mahalo 4, you’re left with a ballooning group of in-house staff me
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by RBr 16y ago
I wonder how many people who run WordPress think it's pretty simple to check for malicious Javascript or PHP code in a theme?
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by RBr 16y ago
Wordpress themes aren't the only ones guilty of this. Shady plugins also contain hidden code. http://www.themelab.com/2009/12/08/stop-downloading-wordpres... TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) isn't a bad place to start searching for malic
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by RBr 16y ago
I haven't had this problem and I've owned Blackberry's since they were blue. Charged thousands of times - MicroUSB is an easy connection. That being said, I really like the magnetization of the macbook power connector and would happily trad
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by RBr 16y ago
There is a good amount of demand for software jobs in T.O. Between the GTA, Waterloo and Ottawa, we're seeing a good surge of tech in Ontario centered around Toronto. It's got to the point in the past few months where finding available, g
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by RBr 16y ago
I'm not a huge Rose fan. However, I think that this is a really good idea. I would much rather pay $4 per month for exclusive content, so I'll likely wait until it's free. However, this resurgence of e-mail newsletters (of sorts) is timely
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by RBr 16y ago
Whitelabel - do it now. This would be an easy sale to large companies, HR SaaS apps and especially the gambit of job search sites (Monster, etc). The job search sites can instantly turn this into an up sell. I want this. I'm in Toronto.
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by RBr 16y ago
I've thought that Groupon is important because it has created a new online sales niche. Creating new niches is extremely rare. This seems almost too simple to be correct. However, Groupon has created a niche / vertical / category that ena
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by RBr 16y ago
I was at a Toronto event in November that revolved around this exact topic. http://www.aspectgraphics.com/ACCTO/A_TO_invite.html Basically, it was a room full of startup folks, a couple of people with money talking and a few lawyers. It
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by RBr 16y ago
Deals like this are a double edged sword. They really are great for people who have been sitting on the fence. But new customers who recently signed up... those new customers all feel shunned and wish that they had of waited.
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by RBr 16y ago
For me, one of your points seems to be on the money: "Do you require them to register each application with you?" For quite a while, Governments have wanted to accurately classify and throttle traffic / consumption for certain services. Fo

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