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by grantph 9y ago
> And to keep making money in these markets — already a ridiculous $27 in ARPU for the last three months of 2017 — they need us to give more time and attention to them. And that there is the Achilles' heel of both Google and Faceboo
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by grantph 9y ago
> How was Google making a living before advertising? It wasn't. Every search engine at the time had struggled to make money. It wasn't until Google "borrowed" pay-per-click auction bidding from Overture that advertisi
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by grantph 11y ago
BUT the ideas are easy. The problem is market testing each idea to see what works. ProductHunt is going in the right direction - but unfortunately the products are already built with little or no market testing so I predict a high failure
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by grantph 11y ago
It sounds like Andy Hunt has finally discovered ISO 9000. Plan. Implement. Measure. Review. Improve. The pattern I keep seeing is the IT community's need to re-invent the wheel and give it names like 'agile', 'scrum&#x27
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A Superior Startup Model to Fixed Percentages(grantph.com)
2 points by grantph 13y ago|0 comments
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by grantph 13y ago
I usually start by writing comments first in plain English based on a variation of psuedocode. That way I'm focused on process first without distraction. Comments are the plan. Clearly articulated steps like any good cookbook. Easy t
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by grantph 13y ago
I'm enjoying the interesting analogies. I rather view the internet as a party where everyone is invited. The social networks are the loud attention seekers yelling "look at how cool we are". People are wow'd and sucked
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by grantph 13y ago
I ALWAYS quote fixed price projects regardless of scope. Some software engineers would say that's highly risky. For me, it tends to be highly profitable because my estimates are usually accurate. If anything, I've learnt to over
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How would you hack Bitcoin?
1 points by grantph 13y ago|0 comments
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by grantph 14y ago
Does PickFu allow inplace split testing like Google Analytics? It seems to be more an independent polling service. My idea of split testing is to always be inplace so the user doesn't realize they're being tested.
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by grantph 14y ago
A good tagline is like much most marketing. Lots of experiments with split testing of multiple taglines to see which one the market responds to the most. As for the comments regarding branding, branding should be always done in-house withou
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by grantph 14y ago
Google releases maps and their evil behavior is quietly swept under the rug... brilliant timing! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915206
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by grantph 14y ago
I disagree. If you're using Java properly then your data structures should be similar to that of C++. I've programmed assembly language, byte level machine code, C, C++, Java, C#, etc. They're all fundamentally the same. You can always use
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by grantph 14y ago
So Larry and Sergey don't want Google to be evil, but Eric certainly does and wants it known that he's an evil overlord. Now I understand their holy trinity! I think the UK government will enact some clear laws that hurt Google as a result.
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by grantph 14y ago
Definitely search advertising like AdWords + Yahoo + Bing. Capture the people looking what you are offering. Therefore, they will probably search and be willing to pay. Think about search terms. Worth every cent if done right! And don't bel
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by grantph 14y ago
I should also add, polling is why I'm with the late Steve Jobs on HATING flash. Way too many Flash "designers" have NFC when it comes to good code, so they poll rape the CPU which is NOT good on mobile devices for battery life! Evil, evil F
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by grantph 14y ago
It's usually far more complicated than a choice of language. Most of the problems I see are related to poor technique. Especially related to accessing resources. "Browsers" are a good example of that. Often it's not the browser but networki
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by grantph 14y ago
Except it's wrong. It should be... Experiment. Learn. Repeat. There's too much emphasis on failure. If you keep focusing on failure, you keep thinking about failure. I prefer to think of learning experiences. Learn. Learn. Learn. Eventually
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by grantph 14y ago
Is it really worth saving?
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by grantph 14y ago
holychiz, I'm interested in your experiences as a parent with Bing. Any chance we could meet up to chat? I can be reached on grant@criticalyears.com Thanks in advance!
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by grantph 14y ago
Agreed. Most companies seem to be oblivious to the reality that they spent money to get people to like them on Facebook and they own nothing as a result. I believe this is called insanity! A direct email campaign would have been cheaper (Ma
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by grantph 14y ago
Okay... 2004 and now it's 8 years later. I'm curious to know what PG thinks of great hackers after 500 startups and plenty of exposure to would be hackers. Surely his thoughts have matured? Paul Graham, care to oblige us?
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by grantph 14y ago
Here's some insight which I had with a senior partner at a "big 4 consulting" firm and their attitude to age. The buy up highly educated people in their 20's because they're cheap and eager to work. In fact, they're cheaper than most people
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by grantph 14y ago
In an iterative industry, I think there is too much emphasis on "launch". From day 1, you should have someone interested in your product/service. If you haven't got at least one early adopter, someone sold on the idea, why bother? The real
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by grantph 14y ago
I prefer a hybrid solution. 99designs to weed out a good designer. For me that tends to mean good comprehension, a knowledge of how to use their tools and their unique style (each designer tends to certain styles). A contest on 99d is simpl
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by grantph 14y ago
I have major issues with the entire article. 45 "healthy" students in an MRI is hardly solid evidence of anything. It's too small a sample to be meaningful. Presumably they were all students of "higher education" which may not represent soc