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First, I just want to say that building anything and getting paying customers is never easy so it's impressive to see what these guys have done. While there is definitely a large m…

I dont think OP is suggesting buying their oil to somehow impact the price, and is instead saying that the cost US oil companies are paying to extract oil themselves is more than i…

This is true, but it is very, very unlikely that anybody would pay 8x yearly revenue for it

Would your earnings teaching English in Japan cover living expenses and debt? If it would, the go for it. If it wouldn't, figure something else out. If you do go for it, and don't …

Without touching on the other examples, insisting that you stay for a full day isn't unreasonable, let alone abusive. While it would have been nice for him to be a bit more empathe…

If that 1 out of 50 was picked by random, then that might be correct, but the article makes it seem as though that isn't the case. Since most of these autopsies are conducted when …

I don't think its fair to say FB ads dont work as well when your audience is not ready to buy. If you try to run an Adwords style campaign on FB, then you are right, that isn't ver…

What did you do to get those first 1,000 customers? What are you actively doing now to try to get the next thousand?

What are you doing to market the product? From the outside, it seems likely that you have the common developer mentality of "If I build it, the customers will come." If a business …

Why the hate for consultants who write books? If they dont provide value in the material then sure, that sucks, but if it is worthwhile information why should I care if they use it…

In the author's first letter to Christopher Knight, he told him that he was a journalist

Bill Gates is older than Steve Ballmer, they were friends, and his stint at Harvard was not short

This misses the point of the article. The author's premise is that you burnout because you do not spend time on the things that truly fulfill you, whatever those may be. It is very…

>>There's gotta be an official name for these. That skinny page with varying font sizes of text images or embedded youtube videos encouraging you to buy/ act now / sign-up for thei…

Exactly. It is the same story when people say "Facebook ads don't work" or whatever the new ad platform is. If you could simply hand $X to an ad company and reliably return $2 X or…

Give me a break. Cuban is the first to admit that he got lucky in terms of his valuation, but it wasnt his first exit and his extensive writing on business should show that his suc…

Yes. Your value as a consultant is dependent upon being able to deliver value to clients. From the sounds of it, you are a reasonably skilled programmer, so the difficulty is not o…

If they are shipping items that require a prescription without verifying a prescription, then they are illegal, regardless of what the items are

Wondering how to get your first client as a consultant for a non-technical role? Creating something as thorough as this is probably a good place to start. When people talk about cr…

Will serious companies actually post the money to an escrow? I dont have any experience with this directly, but cant imagine any company with say >100 employees would respond favor…

You should never negotiate by giving a range. AT BEST they will give you the bottom end of that range. If the highest they can go is $60k, then start at 70 and dont counter below 6…

What other specifics could he have included? He showed his methodology in finding a problem, the way he found customers [including the copy in his ad], how he structured a email co…

I agree that your free trial was at the very least much too long, and that the money back guarantee makes a lot of sense for a bootstrapped SaaS company [Jason from WPEngine strong…