waitingforgodel

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   by waitingforgodel 16y ago

   He's using backend in the direct marketing sense... What you do with a customer after you make the initial sale (cross selling, up selling, follow up pitches, customer reactivation, referral drives, special events, etc, etc)
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   by waitingforgodel 16y ago

   It's like seeing an article titled "Online Music Sales Drop" only to have 1/3 of it be about online movie sales. Yes they're related, no that doesn't mean it was a good title.
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   by waitingforgodel 16y ago

   Fair enough. Craigslist posters aren't pornographers either (even according to the article they're engaged in prostitution, not pornography). The writer shouldn't have spent 87 out of 312 words talking about an only tangentially related top
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   by waitingforgodel 16y ago

   The reporter seems confused. 1. Craigslist is NOT a pornographer, so talking about the voluntary (and not for lack of users) removal of their adult section doesn't make sense. 2. I think we all understand that at any time some websites will
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   by waitingforgodel 16y ago

   After visiting a YC dinner and meeting several YC founders, the biggest turn off for me is the cult of personality around PG.