arkonaut

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by arkonaut 12y ago
Agree here - That has always been one of the thorns in accepting PayPal on any decent scale. At least with chargebacks, you can fight them and win about 50% of the time with the right docs. PayPal barely entertains dialogue.
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Agreed. It's the technical knowledge and the institutional web that, until something causes it to weaken, only gets stronger and stronger each year. I lived in NYC and they said these same things for about three years... And now they&#
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Don't know how you'd quantify this, but I imagine people have a subliminal response to the smile whether they know they see it or not. Like pleasant chord construction in music. I've also heard it's the reason watches in
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Agreed. Really wish this was more of the story.
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Where can you find affiliate arbitragers like this? Totally get that he/she should be doing this, but how do you find the people doing this effectively? I'm all for paying when someone has figured this out, because the installs I
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Agreed that this should get quite a bit more elaboration to put it in perspective.
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by arkonaut 12y ago
Mattermark and their rankings are going to be looked back on as just as useless as a professional blogger. There are hints of positives for you to take away (and make wide sweeping bets across companies with - if you're an investor), b
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Who has ever gotten that? Zach Braff and Veronica Mars brought their own audiences.. Similar stories for friends that have done KS. Something like Coin however was able to implement a pretty viral referral system that could get your card fo
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Not problem free or 'now' problem free? Would love to know if this solution works. Thanks!
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by arkonaut 13y ago
What will the payout time be for it to hit the debit card? Is it instant? This is awesome by the way.
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Why is this ironic?
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Yeah, I've been following Crowdtilt for a while (interviewed there), and their use case has never really been about the Kickstarter type of crowdfunding. It's more of a bite-size type of crowdfunding model (with A LOT of retention
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Does it provide a community effect? I know they say that, but they've never really released convincing data that it exists. Over 50% fail, and the average raised for successful campaigns is something like 105%. As for the funding trans
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by arkonaut 13y ago
This point isn't very relevant though, because the artist wasn't releasing different media for different devices. The cd release still came with a cassette release, etc.
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by arkonaut 13y ago
I so want this to be the case.
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by arkonaut 13y ago
Everyone be slightly careful about anything they read on history.
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by arkonaut 13y ago
um, this logic is false. you can give money to whoever you want -- this is not the same as hiding a convicted criminal in your basement from the legal authorities. i can send a $1,000 check to bradley manning (who has actually had charges b
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by arkonaut 13y ago
$200k in revenue a month for one of the consumer services alone (estimated Lyft rev on 120,000 rides/month) suggests they're solving a big problem/providing a lot of value for consumers...
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by arkonaut 13y ago
I've actually tried DropBox for photos, and it's actually pretty awful on this front. Our company just switched from Box to DropBox (because of DB Teams issues), so I have little reason to stay on DB outside of my photos... Someone will com
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by arkonaut 14y ago
This could be really cool for this post from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5141995
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by arkonaut 14y ago
There's no guarantee of getting your money back if a project fails on Kickstarter though... http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarte...
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Wordpress?
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by arkonaut 14y ago
i agree with this ^. if you're going to launch a project that you hope builds the momentum to fund +$100,000 of your capital needs, it might be worth putting aside $5k or so for strategic PR or hiring a PR person for the launch of your own
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Um, what?
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by arkonaut 14y ago
This post can be added to the pile of why HN discussions are getting more and more pedantically lame. The post adds so little. And even in the post, it acknowledges this, yet has so many words/syllables/phrases to read through just for ever
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by arkonaut 14y ago
also really interested in this ^^.
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Or kills people that aren't aware that it can be extracted.
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by arkonaut 14y ago
You've crowdfunded an album on Kickstarter, a bus tour across the country on Indiegogo, and a billboard with friends on Crowdtilt. Nice :) I don't know if many have used all three like you have - Which one was your favorite? Or least favori
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by arkonaut 14y ago
If you're netflix, I'm sure you have staff/engineers at the office 24/7 during this time of year specifically. At least, I would hope they did.
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by arkonaut 14y ago
I've heard this over and over, but the reason it won't become a "trend" in terms of people around the nation talking about it, or even people in tech-early-adopter capitols like SF and NYC, is that founders might try to pattern match what's

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