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by wschroter 17y ago
You're assuming that people are willing to pay for your product up front for 12 months. If your price point is so small that an annual subscription is under $20, then it doesn't really make sense to charge monthly. I was speaking mainly f
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by wschroter 17y ago
Strange that no one is ever commended for preventing a failure, only attacked when one occurs.
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by wschroter 17y ago
that's exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you.
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by wschroter 17y ago
$10 - $30 yearly. Of course if I worked at a company that used this (like a sales organization) I would probably have a whole ton of licenses.
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Ask HN: Anyone building (or have) a calendar suggestion tool?
4 points by wschroter 17y ago|4 comments
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by wschroter 17y ago
I would definitely agree that there is a time and a place to debt-spend your way to profitability. But consider the fact that some companies, even once they have hit the ball out of the park with thier original goal, still have no way to be
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by wschroter 17y ago
Lots of people want YouTube and it is on track to lose nearly $500 million this year. The fact that Google bought it doesn't mean they've created a business. Build something people want. That's not good enough. Build something people will
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by wschroter 17y ago
I always notice people seem to read this book and assume that it's an instructional manual on how to live. It's just making points about the fundamentals of power.
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by wschroter 18y ago
I think it's a travesty that he was beaten down so bad by the negativity that he had to leave in the first place. This wasn't a vacation, it was a retreat - for the wrong reasons.
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by wschroter 18y ago
I love how people confuse "selling to Google" with a viable business. Just because you sell the company (YouTube) doesn't mean the business was successful. It just means you've handed the loss to another company.
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by wschroter 18y ago
The reality is that the Web is so big now that you can start smaller firms for next to nothing in lots of niche markets. That doesn't mean VC is broken, it just means that smaller firms can exist without it. You're not going to start Amaz
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by wschroter 18y ago
Agreed. Part of what I'm wondering is how viable the venture model is when the amount of revenue a category can generate gets quickly reduced from a free competitor that can operate at a fraction of the cost. That's why I mentioned PlentOf
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by wschroter 18y ago
Revenue
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Ask HN: Is the next wave a bunch of sub-$10m Web companies?
2 points by wschroter 18y ago|6 comments
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by wschroter 18y ago
It's true about those who are endlessly fueled by creating something - that doesn't change. You might not do it for money, but I'm not sure that really matters. I sold my first company in 1997 and am launching my 10th in January. It never
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by wschroter 18y ago
This is a very familiar path among hyper growth companies - the point where the expense of growth outstrips their ability to convert to revenue. As long as the site keeps growing and adding users, they will continue to have a strong abilit
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by wschroter 18y ago
I'm just not seeing the ad dollars add up. I know of sites doing millions of uniques per month that can barely earn enough in Adsense (not the best model) to pay the cost of servers and rent. At all of the sites that I've run (Go BIG Netw
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by wschroter 18y ago
This whole line of thinking is great for companies as a whole. If it forces more companies to be more responsible and efficient with capital, I don't see a problem.
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by wschroter 18y ago
Not really the point when discussing the investor market. If companies don't have quick exits, the typical venture investor can't make their fund operate. That said, I do believe building a company that creates value on the basis of sellin
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by wschroter 18y ago
Why not just give the $700b to healthy banks so that they can lend to businesses and credit worthy consumers? If we have $700b to give, why use it to buy up toxic debt? I understand wanting to keep the markets moving, so why not address th
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by wschroter 18y ago
At Swapalease we tried different offer combinations on our payment page including price ranges, price/offer packages, and free trials. Pretty much every price and feature combination you could think of. The point was that we needed to act
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by wschroter 18y ago
I'll stick with my gallardo and continental gt. nothing compares to listening to a v10/12 rip the road apart! although admittedly, I do miss a stick shift.
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by wschroter 18y ago
Why is it so hard to figure out that certain executives command a certain pay? If Wamu paid less, they wouldn't get the guy they are looking for. It's supply and demand. There are a certain number of top executives when it comes to these
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by wschroter 18y ago
This is great - can you drop me an email at wschroter at yahoo so I can follow-up?
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by wschroter 18y ago
If you'd be willing to share more details, pls email me wschroter at yahoo
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by wschroter 18y ago
It's not about why startups are failing - it's about understanding exactly what happens to you personally when they do. When I talk to a lot of people about starting a company, they tend to be freaked out about "losing everything". I try
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by wschroter 18y ago
I've read a whole bunch of postmortems on TC and FoundRead that were great case studies on the biz side, but I wanted to get more info about how the entreps personally dealt with the companies. My experience is that failure is never nearly
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Ask YC: Story for Forbes - What really happens when your startup fails?
45 points by wschroter 18y ago|18 comments
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by wschroter 18y ago
Thanks for the mentions of Go BIG (this is Wil, the founder) but keep in mind you can pick up some other broader searches through indeed.com and simplyhired.com - most of the sites like ours do syndicate those feeds. Also, check out 37sign
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by wschroter 19y ago
People undervalue $1 million (or similar numbers) incredibly. It doesn't mean you don't have to work, but it pays for just about all of the things you end up working the first 15 years of your life for - house, furniture, "stuff". Once yo

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