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Similarly, one of the most important words I was taught never to use was "guarantee".

Meh... who cares? Bubble, recession, natural disaster, war, whatever... there is never a "perfect" time to start a business. If you have a good idea and a repeatable model with an …

This article is very interesting. However, while reading, it sounded like a late night infomercial. There may be real value in this style of teaching Math, but as my first introduc…

Here's an "Elevator Pitch Builder" from the Harvard Business School: http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/ In addition to Mark's presentation grader, these things can really hel…

Really? We're surprised by this? Camera phones with video recording capabilities are almost ubiquitous. More then that, they're cheaper and solve the primary usage case better then…

Thanks for releasing the invite codes here on Hacker News, Dave.

Hmm... yeah, after about a half hour clicking the buttons, I don't think that I'll use your app more then once. It really is a nice way to cull my followers. I'm trying really hard…

I like this - a lot. Please give me the option to see a long list containing all of the people that I follow. Showing me the users follow to followers ratio as a percentage would b…

The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate. A few people might see your product and stick a…

Google Trends monitors search terms, not traffic. The Google Trends graph is relative to the total search volume for the keyword Quora. Web traffic is a very different thing. It's …

The argument presented in the article blames MySpace's decline on "staff, architecture, and business plan". While I agree that these things are contributing to the decline in MySpa…

Something I learned from business and retail: Groupon and their clones only need to pull these types of shenanigans to scale. If they refine the model to compete largely with thems…

"we're only 2 devs and one business guy!" You're in Waterloo? I'm local. If you'd like to chat x@y where: x = rob.brown and y = gmail.com

You need to get rid of this error: https://img.skitch.com/20110209-rtu2pqwq6kqjqrdeuf34y6p2ep.j... I like the idea. The execution was well done. Clean, simple, easy. Your initial l…

In a similar vein to what Fred is saying... Free software, paid support, amass users, then... Watch and listen to what features are missing and what solutions the software isn't pr…

I wondered about this exact same thing and wrote in length about it this morning: http://robisit.com/mahalo-version-4/ "If you remove the video revenue sharing scheme from Mahalo 4…

I wonder how many people who run WordPress think it's pretty simple to check for malicious Javascript or PHP code in a theme?

Wordpress themes aren't the only ones guilty of this. Shady plugins also contain hidden code. http://www.themelab.com/2009/12/08/stop-downloading-wordpres... TAC (Theme Authenticit…

I haven't had this problem and I've owned Blackberry's since they were blue. Charged thousands of times - MicroUSB is an easy connection. That being said, I really like the magneti…