vaksel

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by vaksel 14y ago
because Paypal has a history of shutting down accounts for no apparent reasons. Then it takes months to get your money out.
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by vaksel 14y ago
isn't there? From what I understand Quora has been pretty stagnant. It failed to go mainstream. Sure the valley people know of it's existence...but most people? not so much
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by vaksel 14y ago
Digg didn't collapse because of hardware or headcount...they collapsed because they trashed their product with unnecessary changes and pissed off their user base Sure, the fact that they had a huge headcount, meant that they had to take mor
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by vaksel 14y ago
yeah you'd think with the VC investment they'd be going for that
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by vaksel 14y ago
yeah, YC should have a page on their site with a list of all the funded startups sorted by batches. Maybe a small PR blurb by each startup to describe it.
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by vaksel 14y ago
there are actually a ton of costs for them. They have to pay for infrastructure, they have to pay for customer support, they have to pay for fraudulent transactions and on and on. I think most credit card companies have something like 10%-1
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by vaksel 14y ago
because when you go up and up the ladder, eventually you end up with 5-6 huge companies that control everything...not too surprising when the companies end up with similar pricing. I mean take credit cards for example. You have Visa and Mas
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by vaksel 14y ago
It's probably a bit misleading. The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p... So it gets attention...and most accidents happen when people don't pay attention. Once these become more commo
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by vaksel 14y ago
Facebook does analytics...they aren't some tiny startup...surely they track the quality of their traffic...so they know that 70-80% of their ad traffic comes from bots. So Facebook is knowingly profiting from this, and they have the resourc
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by vaksel 14y ago
yeah if they only cared about protecting consumers, instead of fines, they'd let you pay a few bucks to get your house inspected.
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by vaksel 14y ago
if you actually read all the rules of the municipality...every single person in town is guilty of something. It's just a way to enforce rules without looking authoritative. We aren't telling you that you can't do X...but Article 294-984b, s
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by vaksel 14y ago
yeah, something shady must be going on. My guess is that you'll find similar people on Digg's and News.me boards. And this was just a way to a) write off Digg as a permanent loss off the books and b) transfer those assets cheaply to the oth
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by vaksel 14y ago
not having to drive to the store is huge on Amazon you just search, compare, read reviews and click buy. with brick and mortar stores, you have to drive to the store, park, then roam the store to find what you are looking for, then hope tha
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by vaksel 14y ago
someone needs a reality check. if he considers that kind of life "failure", he is going to lead a very depressed life unless he wins a few lotteries
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by vaksel 14y ago
facebook is really desperate to find a business model...seems like they are throwing the kitchen sink at the wall and seeing what sticks. that's fine for a startup...but for a company that has IPOed it's just plain sad.
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by vaksel 14y ago
if people care so much about craigslist features, then just build something and offer them the code for free. but that's not what this is about...it's about people complaining that criagslist isn't allowing them to make money from craigslis
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by vaksel 14y ago
to do sales, you need to really know the product...I don't imagine an off the shelf sales guy will be all that effective. And I'd imagine cost is also an issue. With your own sales team you can just hire people to work on commission...and h
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by vaksel 14y ago
yeah it would make much more sense for them to just use the % cut. Get a bunch of developers tied to their platform...and get that market share
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by vaksel 14y ago
you don't get karma for self posts on reddit
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by vaksel 14y ago
Padmapper should offer to be acquihired by Craigslist their service is 100% dependent on Craigslist so they'd have trouble selling to anyone else
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by vaksel 14y ago
the thing with marketplaces, is that the ui itself doesn't matter...what matters is having buyers. sellers will post where the buyers are, and it doesn't matter if UI is crap. So craigslist wins on that by a huge margin. Add the fact that i
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by vaksel 14y ago
is this partners where you just give them the title. or is this like what you have with law firms, where they have to buy their way in as well?
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by vaksel 14y ago
you don't need to add forum, in Google click more on the left side, and then select "discussions"...and it'll limit the results to just forums/message boards etc
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by vaksel 14y ago
craigslist could probably eliminate a ton of spam by simply editting out the urls that go thru it's email system. i.e. if someone includes <a href> inside the email body, simply unscramble it and show the full link. And on the botto
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by vaksel 14y ago
I think you'll have traction problems on the developer side. Doesn't matter what kind of job it is, you can be pretty much 100% guaranteed that the job will be listed on the company website without any of the extra hoops to jump through. Re
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by vaksel 14y ago
they should be hit with punitive damages as well
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by vaksel 14y ago
I disagree completely. Unlike other jobs, you need to always update your skills, learning new languages. And there is no safety, since your position can always be outsourced by an MBA who wants to save the company a few bucks. And thanks to
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by vaksel 14y ago
it's up to you to define your product line. nothing is stopping you from just limiting the products. Normal Accounts? Max 5-20 users. Enterprise? Unlimited Users no real difference between the products except for a single value
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by vaksel 14y ago
Easy...both. Keep the $10/mo plans for consumers. And offer the $1,000/mo enterprise plans for enterprise. That way your cheap customers will drive a lot of your high end sales.
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by vaksel 14y ago
are you talking about competing on the job market or in YC application? If the former, you'll need to show a bunch of examples of your work. So do a lot of projects that you can show(+the source code). If you are talking about YC...once aga

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