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boldpanda

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    Comment #11584896

    Facebook takes a 40% rake from advertisers. Ouch! $2B income from $5B in ad revenue. Hopeful businesses just keep running ads and lining Facebook's wallet. If Mark really wanted to…

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    Comment #10474176

    $12/meal + shipping. Price is obfuscated on the website. I'd imagine that Gobble will struggle with the same things that every food delivery business in the world struggles with - …

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    Comment #10016384

    As a Reddit user and advertiser, I was disappointed when they doubled their ad CPM's in June without notice to advertisers (as mentioned in the article). I can understand increment…

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    Ask HN: How can a SAAS win a chargeback dispute?

    My SAAS business has had over 3000 transactions and only a couple of chargeback requests. In both cases, I provided the customer what they paid for and it was a case of an employee…

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    Tell HN: Reddit doubles CPM and quadruples ad spend minimum

    I started advertising their 2 years ago and it was $0.75/1000 CPM and $5 minimum spend. Now it's $1.50/1000 CPM and a $20 minimum. Most of the increase in prices seems very recent.…

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    Ask HN: Web design a depreciating asset?

    High-priced web design seems like a bad investment to me. Decent designers ask a minimum of $100/hr but no designer wants to be held accountable or be compensated on the basis of d…

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    Ask HN: Closest thing to productized version of Dropbox referral program?

    All the referral software out there looks clunky or overpriced.

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    Ask HN: What is the most attractive, valuable, and learnable skill?

    Attractive defined as increases your mate value. Valuable defined as increases your income. Learnable defined as fluency in 2 years or less.

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    Comment #8567126

    Yes, can be used when you have a larger list. Quality will be better than average because it will be only topic interested subscribers.

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    Ask HN: How many email subs must you get to make writing a blog post worth it?

    I've got a startup that solves the content dilemma: http://www.listhike.com You spend hours writing and formatting a blog post but have no guarantee that'll generate traffic, email…

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    Comment #8230039

    So Google, Facebook, and Apple are bad because they come to secret agreements to not poach each other's employees and now Uber and Lyft are bad because they'll do everything in the…

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    Comment #8183241

    I must be getting downvoted by Facebook employees.

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    Comment #8182399

    Instead of complaining about Facebook and their ads, use it as a competitive advantage in your life. And by use it, I mean don't use it. Just as gambling is a tax on the ignorant, …

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    Ask HN: Are PPC ads just legalized gambling for business?

    With FB & Google raking in billions and no "odds & payout" disclosures required on their advertising services, they are just cleaning out advertisers IMO. And yes, FB & Google are …

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    Comment #8039438

    What do you mean by "Traffic is dirt cheap if you know where to look" Are you talking about where to go find traffic for your website? Do you mind sharing?

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    Ask HN: What's the quickest and cheapest way to de-risk my startup?

    I have a little startup doing $10K+ MRR and I've done nothing on the legal front in terms of having a lawyer review the business or my site. I haven't written a terms & condition o…

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    Comment #7473542

    I don't think we should pile on these tech execs. It happens elsewhere. I'd speculate it's rather widespread. I worked for a Fortune 500 market research / consumer data company and…