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by bmr 12y ago
Even kids who go to law school don't learn how to practice until they arrive at a firm, so this is not an obviously inferior method of training. If you aspire to BigLaw this will never get you there, but if you want to be a consumer-fa
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by bmr 12y ago
I don't think the holding turned on the number of antennae at all. Nor is oral argument very important in appellate practice.
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by bmr 14y ago
This thread has turned me off HN for st least six months.
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by bmr 14y ago
1957: Future NBA superstars are unlikely to be black.
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by bmr 14y ago
Sometimes I wonder if we should all just take a walk outside.
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by bmr 16y ago
We laugh at people "on the lower half of the bell curve" who use the "length equals strength" heuristic to evaluate long-form letters, but the same thing happens in these comments all the time.
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by bmr 16y ago
Three months into my own (exhilarating) journey, I think the best answer may be to become one yourself.
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by bmr 16y ago
I wrote about a grubwith.us-esque dating site in an Ask HN submission a little over a year ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878657 The challenge with this model is that extracting money from users requires repeated action on their
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by bmr 16y ago
Sure, I was just curious if paid traffic could have been profitable for you. With $8 in profit per shirt and a conversion rate of 0.5%, it looks like anything over $0.04 per click would have resulted in a loss. Your site was gorgeous, and t
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by bmr 16y ago
I seem to remember you saying you had a new visitor every 4.5 seconds for 48 hours (can't find it again though). That works out to about 38,000 visitors. So the conversion rate was 200/38000 = 0.5%? Or am I missing something?
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by bmr 16y ago
I've seen it mentioned here a few times, but if you haven't heard of the permanent portfolio, check it out here: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...
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by bmr 16y ago
Thanks for being open. I think the most interesting part will be about how many hits you got and what kind of conversion rate you were seeing. Some of my personal curiosities: How many people abandoned the purchase when confronted with the
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by bmr 16y ago
Groupon's real "dirty secret" is that they've brilliantly navigated the seedy world of affiliate marketing. As far as I know, Groupon uses the same affiliate networks as Acai scam artists (as opposed to say, building their own a la Amazon)
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by bmr 16y ago
Maybe not, but those things may still wield pretty heavy influence. Advertising is a strange world of subconscious desires and difficult-to-rationalize preferences (colors and shapes of buttons, for example).
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by bmr 16y ago
Obligatory exercise your cat with a laser pointer patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html This was always included on the first day of any patent class in law school.
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The Earnings Equation(honkhead.com)
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by bmr 16y ago
My unused CA S-Corp has been the bane of my existence lately. From the $800 fee to the documentation required to stay in good standing (small, but easy to forget when the company does nothing), it's more pain than it's worth. If you're some
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by bmr 16y ago
Grellas, any idea how a "SLAPP-back" suit would fare for any of these defendants?
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by bmr 16y ago
One curse of gifted children is that their work life is significantly more "regular" than their academic achievements. Even if they become doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. there will be plenty of people with the exact same title - many of
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by bmr 16y ago
In their early days, they were paying affiliates $2 per email submit.
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by bmr 16y ago
Those first three paragraphs make up one of the best explanations of entrepreneurship I've ever read.
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by bmr 16y ago
I thought the same thing, but not having a lot of experience hiring designers, I am curious what type of numbers we are actually talking. 1-5k? 5-10k? More?
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by bmr 16y ago
-startfatendskinny.com -startfatendfit.com
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by bmr 16y ago
I came here to say this. Ignore the silly title - it's one of the best marketing books I've ever read.
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by bmr 16y ago
This smells contrived, as if TechCrunch will somehow be cooler if it rebels against its parent a la Reddit v. Conde Nast.
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by bmr 16y ago
This is a little rosy. Some issues with bars include: (1) 90% of your revenue comes from two nights a week; (2) Given all the cash, employee theft is a real problem; (3) Lose-it-all liability. Think about all the ways drunks can die/serious
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by bmr 16y ago
The fact that many "performers" are somewhat unfocused doesn't mean that planning is overrated. These people would likely do even better with a little more discipline. It just that big successes more often come from people with lots of idea
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by bmr 16y ago
Nobody likes a grammar Nazi, but second paragraph, last sentence. Perhaps they should have learned from Groupon? :)
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by bmr 16y ago
This particular quote is not newsworthy, but has anyone started to wonder if Google might have to cut ties with Schmidt at some point? I started using bing this week in no small part because I find Schmidt creepy.
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by bmr 16y ago
I don't like it either. I think it falls into the category of technically impressive, but real-world silly. The small decrease in search time is completely offset by feeling like I'm having a seizure.

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