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It's because nobody really thinks about it until the last minute. That's kind of as it should be, since there are usually more important things to worry about. I think the "back in…

I agree in a practical sense. I doubt Mailchimp has a problem with the case I've described. I just think the wording of their AUP is too vague. If taken at face value, it invalidat…

For the people debating the "If it's bulk email, why not just use Mailchimp?" question, consider the Trello use case: Someone updates a ticket and there are 4 people subscribed for…

I'd recommend not worrying about it. You can't plan for everything and the time you spend being redundant for this (very unlikely) case is probably better spent somewhere else. Sen…

I’ve lost friends because they thought I was crazy to try to build my own company. Huh? What kind of friend tosses you aside because you decide to start a company? That makes absol…

From the bio: signalgenius.com [founder & growing] fourthsegment.com [founded & failed] ryanangilly.com [blog] mypunchbowl.com [employee & still going] messagesling.com [founded & …

I'd love to see the CPM they get that beats $24/yr from an infrequent user like me. I use it as a storage site and visit it extremely rarely. Maybe I'm an outlier.

Not sure exactly what the story is here, but I just sent them a spreadsheet for my kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252020431/obsidian-porta... They ship the t-shir…

Happy paying customer for 2 or 3 years now. I'll probably be downgrading to free because it definitely supports my needs with these upgrades. This is a strange view of business: Ta…

Including SnapChat in here is interesting. I would consider it a perfect example of the novel interface and interaction being discussed, but it's also a perfect example of the pote…

You'll have to do a retrospective and let us know how this promotional campaign for microha.us goes.

Exactly. Mailchimp has a very specific userbase, probably much closer to Basecamp than Facebook. If you're in that camp (serving ads, tracking biz finances, time tracking for freel…

My point is that the OP is looking for examples of real businesses telling real stories. In the story I linked, PoF is selling the same old "I fell out of bed into a pile of money"…

Plenty of Fish is one of the worst offenders of what the OP is calling business porn . They've been pushing the "overnight success with zero effort" story for a long time. http://w…

That first sentence really took me by surprise... Our US State Sales Tax system was written by a Shopify employee?!?!

I worked for a time at a startup whose claim to fame was "We almost got bought by Google before they chose YouTube" YouTube wasn't alone. They just won the lottery and nobody remem…

Imagine two people working hard, doing their best. Imagine their boss, also working hard, too busy to stop and think about the future. One day, one of the workers asks the boss for…

I'm going to guess that KS will be sending a C&D. It's a cute site, and I like the idea, but the style is way too close to KS. They have to be concerned about people stumbling onto…

A bit of a fluff piece just promoting Gaglers, but the underlying assertion is worth thinking about. A per-seat license model has definitely pushed me away from certain products, w…

From what I can find, this is the author's company: http://openfi.re/ "A crowdfunding platform for long-term, socially valuable projects." Perhaps the author does not mean iterator…

Email has identity built in. Email is identity. I'm no security expert, but my understanding is that email is pretty flawed when it comes to establishing the true identity of the s…

You're right that I'm using reductio ad absurdum, but my goal is to call into question the idea that productivity is all that matters. If we're going to argue things based solely o…