orangethirty

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by orangethirty 13y ago
I stumbled into some weird data as to how startups may be able to use this kind of technique without exploiting people. Yeah, it sounds hard to believe. But you have to understand that every technique out there can be used for good. Anyhow,
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I think there is a group composed of Hispanic Pyladies. Not sure if its active. Go to their site (pyladies site) and check.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Put a price on their advice and connections. Don't hand out 5% just because. They could end up owning your company over the long term. Don't be so quick to hand out equity. Ever.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
There is one point to understand. This greatly benefits Google as it allows to reduce the response rate of competing marketing products, and increase the response of their own. Not that they should care about being fair. Gmail is theirs. T
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by orangethirty 13y ago
As someone who mostly works with user facing web applications: 1. You will always be playing catch up if your growth takes off. Not an excuse to write your system in BASIC, but enough of a reason to forgo efficiency a little bit . Shipping
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Ask HN: Directory of Development Agencies?
1 points by orangethirty 13y ago|1 comments
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I do think it is much more readable. I bookmarked it, and showed it to the SO. She liked the site, too (which tells me it is good).
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by orangethirty 13y ago
We all have to answer to somebody. The lucky ones, answer to other men. The unlucky ones, answer to their conscience.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
It just looks like a bunch of stuff cobbled up together. Reminds me of my socks drawer. Its interesting the fact that you are focusing on future products. Will people be able to pre-order them right there?
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Do you think there might be a way to receive data? Maybe measure the voltage drop from a normally high circuit? Edit: Awesome project. (:
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Is this something like Pinterest but for men? It looks cool, but its a bit confusing to navigate (for me).
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Love this. Its geocities 2.0. Now, where do I find old gifs? Edit Found them. Check out mah page. http://notme.neocities.org
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7 reasons for an online co-working space. (onlinecoworking.tumblr.com)
1 points by orangethirty 13y ago|0 comments
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I really do hope that you package this as a video series. Then sell it to people/teams who are not able to attend a live class. I'd gladly pay the price of the live class for the video series.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Realize that your first presentations will be shit. You will probably not close a sale. Dont get discouraged. Its part of the process. Do develop your pitch in a structured manner so you can later on a/b test it. Think as the pitch as
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Do you put this issue in the same level as the ones github has had?
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I had my first business at 14. Now 34 (20 (?!) years later. gosh...). Have never knocked one out of the park, but have have some good base hits, and a few doubles. Its all about the game, and how you play it.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Has bitbucket had any security issues like github has had in the past?
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by orangethirty 13y ago
- Yes, the whole affiliate thing is iffy to start with. Do agree it is something shaky to base your business on. - Sometimes is very hard to measure how far off you are. Being in the game skews your whole perspective. Experienced or not (
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I've never understood this reasoning. It requires that the grass is always greener somewhere. Its as if people have endless opportunities. They certainly do not. Plus, they took a gamble. Did they lose? I can't say they did. Unless they are
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I disagree. Brilliant would have been renting one for the day, or borrowing it from a friend.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
"Press" coverage does not a success make. It does, however, buy a lot of cheap VC money for later investments. One thing to learn from this is that media coverage won't do much for you if the business model is skewed. Still, there is always
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Think Hedge-funds.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Why is it terrible? Sure, money was lost. But terrible it is not.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
The bet was: Mine - refer.ly would die and a new company would arise. The new company would be about business meta data. Then as she published the blog articles, I modified to state they would be selling data to VCs. I knew the so called pi
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by orangethirty 13y ago
dmor, I just won a $100 bet by calling this. Thank you . Anyhow, their marketing strategy has been very fun to watch and unfold. It has literally been done live on this site and most people did not get up in arms offended. Which is the sma
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by orangethirty 13y ago
You have to learn to let go. People will do what they will do with or without your consent. Do your cofounder a favor and fire him/her.
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by orangethirty 13y ago
I worked on a project (probably one of your competitors) that was an ad network. It also used Python as the language of choice (with gevent to handle all of the requests). It's an interesting choice for such system. Do you have a blog with
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Realize that the move to contractor will depend on your ability to sell your services. Before anything, I would start marketing and then focus on making the jump. Don't quit without doing so, because your marketing could take months to star
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by orangethirty 13y ago
Tell me about your marketing.

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