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JetBlue Unlimited Flights Travel Sale Brings Crazy Stunts(abcnews.go.com)
5 points by fallentimes 17y ago|0 comments
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by fallentimes 17y ago
It's the PG microblog.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
I don't like that idea. Part of what makes Hacker News great is the forced absence of comment self-promotion/signatures and a extremely high focus on what's being said rather than who says it. Anecdotally, if I find myself particularly inte
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by fallentimes 17y ago
So it's like saying Sequoia paid $2 million to come to YCombinator's demo days?
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by fallentimes 17y ago
> What I hadn’t seemed to realise (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), is that this fourth day is where angel funds and VC’s pay upwards of £50,000 to attend (no kidding!) £50,000!? Can anyone else confirm this?
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Great run down, but this part is inaccurate: > They have a small number of employees, strong revenues, no funding, and apparently consistent operating profits. Funding: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Redorb already covered that before me so I didn't. Besides, Twitter will eventually make money; it caters to too many of the seven deadly sins not to.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
One creates their own linkbait, the other their users do it for them.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
> killed somewhere around 20 people through fear alone. Do you mean without even biting them? How do the people die? Panic attack/heart attack?
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Not true on both accounts. They rank for over 125,000 keywords. Source: http://spyfu.com/Domain.aspx?d=4637578045168633002
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Persuade xor Discover(paulgraham.com)
148 points by fallentimes 17y ago|107 comments
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by fallentimes 17y ago
It's like a more civilized version of 4chan.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Because they get tons of traffic.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
This more of a case in point than a because of. 37s has always had very very responsive customer service.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
I'm not complaing, just making fun of :). It probably worked in terms of sales. But unfortunately it has the unintended consequences of all these people trying to coin unnecessary gobbledygook words when simple English will suffice. Now som
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Yeah but the whole O'Reilly empire sells books, conferences, webinars, etc. all bearing the Web 2.0 scarlet letter: http://search.oreilly.com/?q=web+2.0&submit.x=0&subm...
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by fallentimes 17y ago
The guy sells books and conference tickets :).
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by fallentimes 17y ago
It's marketing/douchebaggery and demonstrates a lack of creativity. "Web 2.0" was coined by a dude trying to sell more books.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Well in that case apology accepted. And to your second remark I agree with you - I'm genuinely against built to flip companies. I just don't think Mint was one of them.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Their support is brilliant too.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Perhaps, but calling yourself a revolution is kind of like calling yourself insane or weird or unique or a celebrity; it's just disingenuous. If you have to call yourself something... It's out of context because I wasn't saying to be "selfi
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Their linkbaiting is brilliant.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Sure, out of context. And that doesn't mean it wouldn't be awesome :) You throw out a lot of insults and blanket statements without a lot of backing. Also, you're insinuating that it's selfish (and perhaps wrong?) to sell a company, which i
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by fallentimes 17y ago
How's it selfish and short-sighted? And certainly that's better than making blanket statements about the next generation or having the gull to think a company is sparking a "revolution". That word is starting to become more overused than th
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by fallentimes 17y ago
That's just not true as the CEO himself admits and as their job postings and SERP rankings reveal. Mint were absolute masters of SEO and PR: http://spyfu.com/Domain.aspx?d=-3624320565025573542 http://www.onecubicle.com/page/jobs/job/4581
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by fallentimes 17y ago
That's what it does mean.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Eh even when you're doing a startup you're still working for your investor :). Ha I never said their families would starve. My point was most people are beholden to many debts, people and obligations that prevent them from doing X.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
You can obviously still work (as I mention), but the point is you can work on whatever you please for whoever you want (including yourself). And most importantly, it doesn't have to be monetizable - that's one of the biggest limiting factor
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by fallentimes 17y ago
That's partially true, but what also made them popular is exceptional PR, SEO and marketing. Yodlee has some features Mint does not and vice-versa.
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by fallentimes 17y ago
Even if it's true [1], lottery winners are a completely different group of people than startup founders who built massively successful companies. Here are some more examples: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney...

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