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JackHerrick

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About JackHerrick

I'm Jack Herrick, the founder of wikiHow. In previous incarnations I was also one of the entrepreneurs behind eHow, BigTray.com, and Luminescent Technologies. You can contact me here: http://www.wikihow.com/User:JackHerrick

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    wikiHow ( http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Jobs ) - Palo Alto We're "Wikipedia for how-to". We have over 40 million monthly users, but only 5 engineers. That's 8 million users per en…

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    I thought this was an interesting lesson for entrepreneurs who are always wondering if they should be entering new businesses. Here is a company that operated successfully doing th…

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    Fantastic work! Wish Instagram had offered this option from their launch. Imagine how many great photos we would now have in the commons .

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    Palo Alto or REMOTE in PST timezone wikiHow Software Engineer wikiHow is the world's how to manual. Think "Wikipedia for hot-to instructions". Over 30 million users a month. Here i…

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    Fantastic. I do 90% of my hacker news reading from a mobile. Can't stress how worth $5 this app was for me. Nice job! And thanks also for releasing it under the free BSD license to…

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    A good read for entrepreneurs learning their way around Sandhill Road's alphabet soup.

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    I actually have a lot of faith in Google to do the right thing for their users. After all they mostly walked away, or at least severely hampered their business in China. They will …

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    True on the best hack being to actually DO referencing. That said, I thought the non-intuitive hack here was the trick about contacting the references and asking them to call you b…

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