jvanderwal

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by jvanderwal 7y ago
The same exact thing is happening with businesses on Amazon.
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The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups(medium.com)
3 points by jvanderwal 7y ago|0 comments
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by jvanderwal 7y ago
A few years back Wendy's had an offer where if you got a medium or large drink there was a coupon on it. 32 coupons got you a one-way flight in the continental US, 64 got you a round-trip flight. Being a poor college student at the tim
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Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect in Search Data(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by jvanderwal 12y ago|0 comments
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Researchers find treatment that kills every kind of cancer tumor(nypost.com)
2 points by jvanderwal 12y ago|0 comments
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
My friends and I got a few round trip plane tickets once. Wendy's had a deal where their largest drinks had coupons to cut off their sides. I think 60 coupons got you a one-way domestic ticket on AirTran and 120 got you round trip. We
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
I've just used vanilla extract before.. it doesn't take much, treat it like cologne. It smells much better than bug sprays and you don't have any weird residue.
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Any iPhone can be hacked with a modified charger in under a minute(geek.com)
39 points by jvanderwal 13y ago|27 comments
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see which company Google's autocomplete ends up suggesting when someone types "Moz".. right now it's Mozilla, but with SEOmoz's abilities I wonder if that'll change.
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1981: First Version of Online Newspapers [video](wimp.com)
7 points by jvanderwal 13y ago|1 comments
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
I wonder if there's any sort of somewhat even distribution to the winning tickets. If it's entirely random, there's shouldn't be. However, I knew a guy who worked at a gas station and he'd watch whenever people bought a bunch of tickets. If
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
We use TVEyes.com in our news monitoring product and it's very close to real-time. It does make mistakes sometimes, but I'm not aware of any perfect transcription software.
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
I was just looking for this kind of information the other day. Is there a way to give it a budget?
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
I'm actually looking into this a little right now since I happen to work for a media monitoring company. I can tell you there is a definite correlation between them, but haven't been able to determine if it's a leading or lagging indicator.
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
I had never heard of these "atmospheric rivers" prior to this article and started doing a little reading. "Atmospheric rivers are typically several thousand kilometers long and only a few hundred kilometers wide, and a single one can carry
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by jvanderwal 13y ago
He's right.. even seasoned sales people don't understand their own pipelines a lot of the time. Try coming into a sales-person oriented company with the job of building a marketing/lead gen system for them, and then introducing them to thei
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
UniKey is doing the "iPhone door opener" idea. Very cool tech - can't wait until it's available. http://www.unikeytech.com/
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
The beauty of golf is people spend a lot of money on it. I'd charge people a premium to use it. Couple recommendations: Lose the pop-up for Facebook sign-in. Optimize it for mobile (you're probably going to use this while you're in the cart
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
I would be very interested in seeing some traffic stats once this is over.
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
>>In other words... I'm still not convinced that tablets or phones are very good for "coloring" or "painting" for children. My personal experience has shown they can be very beneficial. My little sister has Down Syndrome and never d
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
A friendly fyi: simplyhired.com might make a case that you're infringing on their trademark.
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
Thanks, I'll have to look into the third-party tool option. Mostly I've been running ads with external links and it would only let me do CPC, but I did do it all thru fb's dashboard.
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
With a click-through rate of about 0.051% on Facebook ads [1], I'm not too surprised by this. They also made some changes over the past month to their ad payments, in particular removing the option to manually set your CPM (which is the onl
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by jvanderwal 14y ago
My email is down, but gchat in the same tab is fine.
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
How about another one.. "Takes too long to get to the interesting parts." i.e. learning Obj-C and taking until the very last chapter to give even a cursory intro to apps. By the time they get there a ton of people will be burnt out / disint
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
I just interviewed with them and they stressed very heavily that they do not guarantee any sort of job.
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
As a business, I like TwitterContests. On a personal level, I just got done with a long road trip and had been thinking it would be nice to have something along the lines of Re:Trip. Maybe an interactive map of the route with pictures I too
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
I'm very interested. One question: Do you have some place to put people up in, or would we be responsible for lodging, food, etc?
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
Maybe have points become visible after you upvote a comment? That way there's no influence on which comments to upvote, but you get some validation.
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by jvanderwal 15y ago
Looks like this is a common problem and Amazon's starting to take it seriously: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/amazon-cracks-down-...

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