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That is a very succinct summary, thank you for that. I was actually asking about this from the opposite person's perspective. I didn't catch the "in sales" part -- did I just miss …

Interesting links. I'd never heard of Mr. Ringer, or his theory before this. My simplistic understanding of his 3 types theory is this: "In summation, I realized that no matter how…

My roommate is a doctor, and I've been having some discussions on this topic lately. The biggest concept is to use technology to support the existing dr's workflow. This can vary, …

It does a good job of being brief and describing what uberzet allows me to do. However, it feels fairly sparse, and it doesn't tell me what uberzet is. Is it a web app? Is it a pag…

Can you help me understand the contempt you have for the Zynga games? I don't play, myself, but I do understand that the games exploit (negative? compulsive?) psychology, and they'…

On the other hand, equity compensation in a startup is also based on the riskiness of the equity. Even if an employee is not that "valuable", they should still not have the origina…

From the Ars Technica article it sounds like this evidence was introduced in defense of Hotfile. You're most likely right -- hotfile doesn't have the resources to pursue this as a …

You could make sure that the requesting page is on your domain.

I 100% agree, when you're talking about the ads that are aired a hundred times a day on syndicated television. Then again, the shows are terrible, so I suppose it's fitting that th…

You are right -- there are some neat aspects to this model. However, it also tends to devalue the work invested by the analysts. They are doing the work for essentially a lottery t…

One other use case is if you have significantly different weather conditions a short distance from one another. I live near the coastal mountains; a 20 minute drive could take me f…

If you are really concerned about raising prices (I wouldn't be; I think you should raise them across the board), you could try just charging new clients/users the higher rate. Add…

One aspect of self service that I particularly like is the alignment of incentives. I'm incentivized to bag my groceries / deposit my checks quickly, because I want to get out of t…

Agreed, 100%. I've actually bundled a Wordpress install with the necessary plugins and libs (google analytics, basic survey abilities, a/b testing harness). This makes it super eas…

It'll be interesting to see how foreign laws (specifically, EU laws regarding privacy) affect taxes. Will future facebooks decide to not incorporate in the EU in order to avoid the…

Make a hypothesis, let the market validate it. I would say if you're spending more than 1-2 months on designing, developing, and testing (on real cusotmers) your MVP, your cycle is…

I did miss that link in the article, thanks for the reply and answer.

This is a very interesting article, as I'd heard references to SPDY before, but didn't know what it was. However, I am bothered by the fact that this is a piece on performance yet …

I think it has to develop. You can't slap it on like it's a feature, because authenticity is one of the most important components of personality/voice. I basically try to avoid squ…

I personally know this to be false. Over 2 years ago, I deleted my facebook account. Approximately 6 months later, I accidentally got auto logged in by LastPass when I clicked a li…

|The traditional adage is that when you dress for success, people take you more seriously. I'd like to believe that this particular industry is beyond that, which may or may not be…

I use google apps to host my email for my company, with all emails backed up to our server. Why is that foolish?

You cannot guarantee or expect search result placement. Period. In addition, rankings are always in flux, and require additional work to remain well ranked. Do you expect the provi…

I don't think he's talking about being rich, although he does reference money a lot. I interpreted the money references as a simple way to keep score (and one deeply ingrained in m…

What if it's not a binary (advertising works/ doesn't work)? In my view, part of Google's success is they allowed advertisers (as well as self serve businesses) to better measure t…