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nedwin
2,285karma·763submissions·March 10, 2009
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@nedwin
Australian in SF
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Awesome, thanks for letting me know. Time we revisited BTC payments then! :)
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We were looking at adding Bitcoin to our startup but worried about the volatility. What if all our customers paid in Bitcoin and it crashed? The reverse is also true - we might gain upside if the pric…
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What makes up the other 80%?
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Awesome tactic. These notes were great. I shared them around with the rest of the team who didn't make it to the conference as well which became relevant when we started discussing what sales pla…
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This post seems a lot more rational/fair when you read it in PG's voice.
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So you would take on a project if they kept paying you per hour, even if the end result was useless?
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When we launched our startup we took a vow of sobriety - no drinking booze until we get profitable. It took us 9 months, one of the most productive periods of my life to date.
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This is my personal favourite: Gail Goodman on the SaaS long slow ramp of death. http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-... …
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I hope they do a more detailed post-mortem. No doubt there is more to this story - why didn't the business scale, why did they fall out of love with it etc?
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"Your anecdotal evidence is wrong - I want the opposite" "No, your anecdotal evidence is wrong." "My anecdotal evidence is right."
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I really appreciate that he didn't bend the rules to relaunch the game after the server issue. He probably could have justified it but it wouldn't have been true to the essence of the game.
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Highly unlikely.
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Have you had a lawyer send the app developer a cease and desist? Have you contacted a lawyer?
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"they" changed the title.
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Why should you be careful?
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I've been using these guys and they're great. Obviously they're thinking hard about every element of the service experience. While there are plenty of places that do this kind of thing,…
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The conversions on this landing page are going to be close to zero. Not enough information about what it does, what the value is etc before trying to capture email address. I would look to get a mini …
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Great post. Shared it with our support team and everyone appreciated it so thank you! Proud to say one of the guys came back with this: "she should have just written her the first time: here writ…
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I think part of the reason it's bad is that the customer still won't get why you won't get them. It's also bad because the solution was actually pretty straight forward send them t…
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Remember when TaskRabbit launched followed by a hundred clones?
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This site has one of the most obnoxious popup / "paywall" type systems I've seen in a while.
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I would suggest that their self driving car technology is not purely intended for Maps, their goal is for it to be used for industry and by consumers.
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As someone who has moved around a lot this is a great service. Setup one address for all postal mail and no matter where I am I can get access to it. When I move the address stays the same - I can eas…
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