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by ivv 4y ago
Spending more time outdoors makes it less likely the child will end up needing glasses. Learned that one too late. Also, people carry their childhood experiences with them for the rest of their lives, and these experiences are shaping a lot
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by ivv 6y ago
Little Caesar was a co-founder’s nickname.
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by ivv 7y ago
Logitech has (or had) a Skype camera that you’d clip to a TV to do a similar thing; it’s been around for years.
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by ivv 7y ago
Maybe residents would place beacons where they want the drones to land?
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by ivv 7y ago
Since WSJ didn't bother to link to the study, its title is "Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis," you can see it on Google's Scholar. It's not about whether the cookie is "enabled&qu
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by ivv 7y ago
Probably child care / private schooling for the two children. Don't see it itemized in the table.
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by ivv 8y ago
I'd select 10 random users who abandoned the app and offered them $10 in Amazon ecards for 10 minutes on the phone with me. Then, I'd ask them what they had hoped for when they signed up, and what went wrong.
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by ivv 8y ago
Romanian
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by ivv 9y ago
The "mail-merge" the article refers to is also known as "spinning". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
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by ivv 9y ago
I work in one of the data-related verticals that has a fair number of startups selling to companies like ours.
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by ivv 9y ago
When talking to startups as their prospective client, I feel I can often tell which ones are from a Y-combinator batch; they are nice, responsive, and thoughtful.
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by ivv 9y ago
Looks like you don't need to pay to unlock the emails. Click on the YouTubers' usernames, their contact info is on the About tab.
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by ivv 9y ago
I think he is implying (correctly) that in the absense of a robust secondary market for cars, the prices for new cars would drop -- there would be less demand for new cars people knew they couldn't resell. It's a bad analogy, thou
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by ivv 9y ago
Makes sense. The clickstream data that ISPs are now free to sell would be a goldmine then.
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by ivv 9y ago
Here's another place where I remember reading about 5 users, took me a couple of days to find it: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
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by ivv 9y ago
They could be, no disagreement there. Now I'm curious: what is the commercial value in the aggregated email content that would make someone want to pay for it, besides the purchase and receipt data that Slice is already providing (plus
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by ivv 9y ago
Slice sells aggregated order data for categories of goods by brand, calculated by looking at email receipts. Things that are useful for calculating overall demand, seasonality, market share, etc. I don't know about selling the actual e
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by ivv 9y ago
From personal experience of doing a bunch of interviews and surveys over the years, after about 6, you'll start hearing patterns. If you are new to the subject you are researching, doing some reading and talking to about six people wil
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by ivv 9y ago
Maybe I can answer the question "where to find people to talk to." I'm in consumer research; here's what's worked for me. If you need b2b: LinkedIn, conference and trade show lobbies (you don't need a ticket to
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by ivv 9y ago
Advertising is a symptom not of excess consumption but of excess production. And all communication is a form of mind control.
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by ivv 10y ago
Not sure if there's a difference, but I've always thought that her site is SciHub, not Libgen?
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by ivv 10y ago
People trust UGC photos -- says the company selling UGC photos.
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by ivv 10y ago
This is what gyms have become for many. I remember seeing a graph showing the decline in church attendance coinciding with the rise in gym memberships.
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by ivv 10y ago
Could one think of Soylent as a baby formula for adults?
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by ivv 10y ago
Bernie is a good counter-example. Huge rallies, way behind in votes.
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by ivv 10y ago
What would be an example of a more usable market that doesn't require some level of domain expertise?
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by ivv 10y ago
That's how supermarkets work, too. They get a cut of the sales price, and if you want your product to stand out, you pay for a more prominent placement.
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by ivv 10y ago
If Unilever wanted to get into the shaving business they would've bought Dorco and not the distributor. The $1b is for the mailing list to which Unilever can upsell Axe and Dove for Men.
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by ivv 10y ago
One way to read it is "people are increasingly preferring video over text, so that's where Facebook is going". I think what it really means is that Facebook sees more ad money in video than in text, so that's where they
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by ivv 11y ago
Because this seems like a publicity stunt. The guy is a genius who turned the orgy into international coverage and a movie deal offer: http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-make-the-most-out-of...

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