sixtypoundhound

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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Why not Upwork? Or investing some time in studying up on digital marketing and building your own products? It isn't easy but you should be able to clobber $5/hour. Two questions which my customers have never asked me: - What schoo
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
When the axe finally fell, My boss walked my resume over to a sister company in the same private equity group. Had an offer within a few weeks. He gets maximum internet good guy points. However, in the meantime, I wound up speaking with a d
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Commercial ads aren't perfect but they represent a decent middle ground for content creators. And have a powerful moderating effect on webmaster behavior. If you want a nasty experience, look at any non-sp
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
I'll be in touch (sorry, wandered off to deal with life)
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Yup. But it was more than that one guy, the whole model was crap and they kept selling more units... https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/brief-his...
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
And ability to execute consistently across the chain. That's the real miracle here. Everyone else is hit or miss. I don't think I've ever seen a bad Chick-fil-A...
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Sure - and franchises are actively marketed, by a commission sales force and any number of people who get a 'finders fee' should you happen to sign up through their channel. There is an active push to herd people into franchises.
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Uh...this is a common conflict between owner-operators and franchise groups. Also a common area of abuse. There was a sandwich shop chain in the US where this got very ugly a few years ago...
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Politics aside, the food is awesome, fast, and polite. And generally better for you than the major chains... I'm not really sure what MacDonald's actually serves anymore... much less any of the others...
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
This is a secret weapon. Most organizations lose 30% - 50% of their "mojo" with each layer of separation from an "engaged stakeholder". Generally meaning someone with equity or substantial profit sharing. I'd also b
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
I love it - any restrictions on setting up an ad program on my blog and feeding candidates into the process? (I've got a relevant audience, so not spam)
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
That is what is politely referred to as a "cost of doing business"....
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Get ready for ads to get more annoying. The hidden benefit of using personalized data to target and track prospects was an advertiser could use "soft sell" to build a brand over time. As that market gets shut off, we're back
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Whoa there... you've got a blessing in disguise... use it wisely before you scamper off. I've had two of these in my career - extended stays in a role which is "naturally prestigious" but had minimal actual challenge or
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
I think we need to work with people to encourage more of the critical thinking skills to create their own jobs. The average American is considerably less creative than their forefathers were in being able to "figure out" sources o
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
What jumped out at me about this data was many of these businesses have robust contribution value per customer. (Not just relative to acquisition cost, like in low-end B2B but successfully adapting the model to go after bigger fish)
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
You had me at privateer... where do I apply?
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Honestly, I hope the employees involved file a massive class action suit against the CEO, head of HR, and the board for creating a hostile environment. Burn the place to the ground. Somewhere along the line in the past 20 years, HR and seni
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Wait. Pause. I read the verge article. They put people through that kind of bullshit in NYC for 40 grand a year? Are you kidding me? (yes, well aware that many people make less than that. But sheesh... it's the Devil wears Prada update
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Indeed. From what I can tell, it sounds like an e-commerce company is bifurcating into: - A B2C Shopify store, with the former traffic / audience - Some kind of e-commerce platform (not yet a business) To your point, if they were not a
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Actually, there is a market for used underwear. Look up the rag trade - industrial rags and the like. They shred old fabric for use in workshop and industrial applications. The more you know...
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
I'm sorry. NO. Just No. Speaking as someone who not only invests in websites but authored some early studies on the fair value of micro-sites (back in 2012) that deal is utterly bogus. The value of the business is in the traffic and au
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Speaking as someone who runs a bunch of large websites - out of my own pocket, for profit.... I'm confused. How did we get from 60K users to 10K per day expense? For comparison, I serviced millions of users per month for years from a s
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Both are nice to have but ultimately irrelevant to your success in life. Means nothing in the long run. Just do you. And work to get to a level of accomplishment where you don't need to worry about getting accepted / funded. Succe
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Agreed. That being said, you need to separate Manhattan from the outer boroughs. There is tremendous inequality in NYC.
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
That's a big privacy issue if you start doing IP address based targeting on a residential address....
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
"Invest more in education" seems to be a bad pattern. We need to invest in job creation; a lot of those newly "educated" people have only raised their fixed costs while competing for the same jobs (that don't requir
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
So after several rounds on both sides of the table... (being fired and getting laid off / "selectively eliminated"): - Communicate the bare minimum and hand the person off to an un-involved third party (HR or admin type) to h
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Agree with minimalism. The older I get, the more I value mastery of few things over a superficial grasp of many. In some cases, this can feel a bit regressive. Stepping back to a bone-head simple pattern with fewer moving parts and less dep
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by sixtypoundhound 7y ago
Actually, a smaller provider with effective canary policies....

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