justinmares

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by justinmares 2y ago
This is just not true - corn/soy/wheat are the most sprayed crops in agriculture.
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The Great American Poisoning(justinmares.substack.com)
33 points by justinmares 2y ago|41 comments
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Why Ozempic will be a public health disaster(justinmares.substack.com)
5 points by justinmares 2y ago|3 comments
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Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners(impossiblehq.com)
260 points by justinmares 5y ago|192 comments
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Is Beef Bad for the Environment?(justinmares.com)
8 points by justinmares 5y ago|8 comments
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Is beef bad for the environment?(justinmares.com)
3 points by justinmares 5y ago|0 comments
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by justinmares 6y ago
Nope, we did not do this. We invested a ton in the business and didn't take a dollar out (besides small salaries) for 2.5 years. More context here - https://microconf.gen.co/justin-mares/
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by justinmares 6y ago
Exactly
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by justinmares 6y ago
This is almost exactly correct. Though what's crazy is they charge fees on the notional - aka the amount they're "insuring". So if you have a 4b portfolio, they're charging fees on the 4b.
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by justinmares 6y ago
The 3600% return in March is sort of misleading. The returns are on the premium paid for options (or margin), not the notional (which is where fees are paid). That $4bn fund is counting its performance on only $40 million of invested capita
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by justinmares 7y ago
That's on the roadmap! Starting with restaurants as that's the world I know best right now
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by justinmares 7y ago
You can type the name of the city you're searching for on this page - https://givelocal.co/search Great feedback though! This is definitely something we pulled together quickly over the last few days.
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by justinmares 7y ago
Crazy. Over the weekend my friend Brent and I built something to help - https://givelocal.co/ Basically, a site that helps you buy gift cards and support your favorite local restaurant through the COVID pandemic. Would love
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by justinmares 10y ago
We built Fomo to make it easy to display recent actions (Github pushes, reviews, recent purchases, website visits, etc.) on your website. We're launching version 1 today along with our API that allows you to pass any data into Fomo&#x2
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Show HN: Fomo – API for Instant Customer Testimonials(usefomo.com)
3 points by justinmares 10y ago|2 comments
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by justinmares 10y ago
Investing in spaces you don't know or don't have strong hunches is difficult. I'd recommend just putting money in index funds unless you feel really, really strongly about an investment and/or have some special knowledge
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by justinmares 10y ago
Yeah, still incredibly volatile.
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by justinmares 10y ago
Best investment (outside of investing in myself) was buying into Ethereum when they first announced it. In the 2-3 years since, that's been up nearly 50x.
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by justinmares 11y ago
Basically because we were 1st-time authors. We hired a professional editor and paid him to edit our first draft. Then, we shared that draft with readers and it just wasn't good enough. So, we had to go back, re-edit the entire thing, a
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How We Sold 37,000+ Copies of Our Self-Published Book (and How Much We Made)(medium.com)
18 points by justinmares 11y ago|2 comments
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6 Ways to Solve California's Water Shortage(justinmares.com)
1 points by justinmares 11y ago|0 comments
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Death in Texas: Analyzing the Last Words of 478 Death Row Prisoners(jonmillward.com)
2 points by justinmares 12y ago|0 comments
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by justinmares 12y ago
Honestly, no. One post to reddit, one to Growthhackers.com and the rest has all been organic.
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by justinmares 12y ago
I'm around $5500 a month total from 2 Udemy courses and a launching Traction book. It breaks down like this (all links below): My SQL for Marketers course on Udemy does about $1500 a month, and has been pretty steady since launching th
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by justinmares 12y ago
After having a product - Traction (book) - hit #2 on PH a few weeks ago, I can say that PH drove more and higher quality traffic than several other well-known blogs we were mentioned on. PH is great and Ryan is awesome - really excited to s
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by justinmares 12y ago
In the book we talk more about offline channel tracking, but basically you can tie them to online activity (e.g. discount codes, unique URLs, etc.) or via the "how did you hear about us?" questions. For beating chicken and egg pro
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by justinmares 12y ago
Or go here - http://snip.ly/5Wwo
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by justinmares 12y ago
Sign up for the email list (small text at the bottom)
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by justinmares 12y ago
We have no power to discount on Amazon, but you can get the first 3 chapters free here - http://snip.ly/5Wwo
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by justinmares 12y ago
Great to hear it!

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