truthseeker

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by truthseeker 14y ago
There are many who peddle stuff which is not their primary source of wealth. Suze Orman became wealthy not by saving for 401k and 'paying herself first' as she preaches. She became wealthy by selling her books, shows and other stuff. Many a
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by truthseeker 15y ago
It depends on what you do at the startup. If you are coding away just like you would at the electronic trading firm, you wouldn't learn much about running your own startup. Are you involved in customer development, talking to investors, mak
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by truthseeker 15y ago
I do not know if wakemate made any improvements lately but after giving it a try several times after I got it, I gave up. It sits in a box alongside old power adapters and other cables. The main problem for me was when I toss and turn at ni
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by truthseeker 15y ago
I find Rand Fishkin incredible in sharing all the details of SeoMoz. It takes guts to do that. Balsamiq, Bingo Card creator and a few others on HN are transparent when it is not a great deal of money. (I haven't seen Balsamiq post detailed
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Thank you for the awesome and detailed response. Those are pitfalls I can definitely try to avoid for my venture. Lot of what I am learning from entrepreneurship are things I read over and over again but you don't own the advice until you
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by truthseeker 15y ago
* But we relied too much on others' self-assessments.* Can you explain? Do you mean customer development brings in everyone's biases into the picture and not the truth? What do you think is a better way to do customer development?
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Right on with your logic though I am not sure if anyone is willing to give up even 12%. 6 to 8% seems to be the high numbers I have seen or heard. I hope your post will show the people who are not experienced with the startup equity world a
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Next up on HN: Blog post from housekeeper of Mr. Steve about how exacting he is on some occasions and how kind he is on other. I think Steve Jobs and his contributions to the tech world are extraordinary. I wish him well and hope he lives h
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by truthseeker 15y ago
This is exactly the reason why I've never been interested in working for a startup. Learning experience? Yeah, I've got that working during the dotcom boom/bust cycle. Your reasoning is spot on but the numbers get even more unappealing once
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by truthseeker 15y ago
In my view there are multiple things at play. 1. They raised exorbitant amount of money which set quite high expectations from them. 2. The app didn't take off as expected (at least the vocal early adopters hate it). 3. Peter Pham (the desi
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by truthseeker 15y ago
The backend of the operation is a hookup with a manufacturer who will supply them to us. They are not major brand names like Nike or Steve Madden but quite nice. I have the responsibility of driving traffic to the website and get sales.
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Ask HN: How would you market an online shoe store?
2 points by truthseeker 15y ago|3 comments
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by truthseeker 15y ago
YC or techstars see you as a point in time. Fixed and whether you are right for their model or not. However, you are not fixed. you evolve, grow, talk to customers, pivot, refine business model, etc. They don't see all of that. Or probably
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by truthseeker 15y ago
You said it... responsible for something that someone cares about . Find that out first if it is something someone cares about. If not you could be spinning your wheels for a long time.
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by truthseeker 15y ago
How did you find a business mentoring program in your city? Are there any resources that you are aware of? I am in the US and would love to be part of such a program.
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by truthseeker 15y ago
May be you should have provided context? like 'I've dealt with similar things and if you are interested download the book I wrote?' I am not the one who down modded you but your posting came off as self promotion. HTH
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Are confusing Americans and American politics? I haven't been to many countries but I find Americans the kindest and helpful people around. May be there are some advantages to a 2 party system but it left the whole country divided and there
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by truthseeker 15y ago
The biggest problem I face is finding the initial set of users whom you can interact with to identify the product/market fit. Lets say your customers are small businesses. - Do you cold call them about an online product/webapp? - Adwords i
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by truthseeker 15y ago
May be a partnership with web hosting companies will drive traffic? Affiliate marketing in those area probably will help.
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by truthseeker 15y ago
I agree with you. I totally believe Eric Ries knows what he is talking about, I love his presentation style and he seems like a really genuine guy. I follow him on twitter and find the sales pitch for the past several months way too much t
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by truthseeker 15y ago
I've looked through and tried to follow some tips on psdtuts. Most of them are over my head too (unfortunately). I started looking for courses in community colleges around my area but haven't found any that are geared towards web designers.
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Ask HN: Learning photoshop for web design
7 points by truthseeker 15y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Who are the great designers of this generation?
3 points by truthseeker 15y ago|0 comments
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by truthseeker 15y ago
plus they are used to epic winning
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by truthseeker 15y ago
With all these articles, I got large doses of Groupon S-1 wisdom from HN. I recently had lunch with an ex-colleague who invariably dropped the idea of building a coupon site together. Everyone is doing so well, we could do even a smaller sc
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by truthseeker 15y ago
See that crew of criminal alien hispanic landscapers? Are you being serious or are you having a bad day? I would be scared to be around someone like you who makes such sweeping generalizations.
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by truthseeker 15y ago
I didn't see any advice there. I agree with your point about not taking advice from successful people about everything. It irks me whenever Einstein is quoted on God. Einstein himself probably never intended the quote to be abused the way
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by truthseeker 15y ago
fyi, there is no contact info in your profile.
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Absolutely correct. As a developer, I am willing to work with idea guys as long as they can show their previous work. Success or failure, it doesn't matter as long as they hustled enough to get something done. Just like I am willing to show
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by truthseeker 15y ago
Most users don't mind paying for services with their time. eg: watching tv programs with ads in them vs HBO subscription. The cases where you see people paying for services is when the service will provide them with value/convenience/time s

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