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hojoff79

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    Comment #8089761

    No I understand and certainly agree with what you were saying. My question was more when you've come to this realization that the site making you $500 / month is not going to go mu…

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    Ask HN: End projects with revenue b/c it wasn't enough to quit your day job?

    How many people out there have abandoned projects that were generating revenue / cash because they were never going to be big enough? How much revenue / cash were they generating? …

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    Comment #7705099

    Your condescending sarcasm aside, there is no reason for them to over market themselves or pursue pedestrian projects here (again, I agree this is a good business, but just relativ…

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    Comment #7704680

    Is anyone else slightly disappointed about this coming out of Google X? Don't get me wrong, it's a good business idea, bringing together otherwise disparate data sources, capturing…

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    Comment #7463545

    Not a financial startup or related to my specific product, but in terms of skills someone with that background is expected to bring to the table: 1) Experience with evaluating mark…

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    Ask HN: Hiring Former Private Equity Employee for you startup?

    Does anyone have any experience hiring a former private equity employee? Seems their background would give a good mix of evaluating industries / business models, as well as financi…

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    Comment #7065973

    One underlying assumption the author seems to be making here is that he is discussing B2B businesses rather than B2C. I actually think this message is much more applicable in the B…

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    Comment #7031452

    I disagree that these are simply "books" and cannot supplement courses. There are many college students who simply attend lectures, turn in homework, ask a few questions and take t…

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    Comment #6776574

    The sentiment below is correct, there should not be a real concern here for Mozilla. Here's how you should think about it from a business perspective. Most (but not all) companies …

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    Comment #6492002

    The title of this article should read "Instagram is now a business". Seems like adding non-seamless adds for this platform is not the best way to utilize the product they have. In …

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    Comment #6369126

    This is worth 500 to 5000 in the same way that the Winklevoss twins should own half of facebook

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    Comment #6365441

    What was the invoice amount for? You list all those reasons why "it's not worth a lot" is not a good argument...so what are you arguing it is worth? I have to say, your "I was goin…

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    Comment #6042638

    Thanks, that list of online courses is a helpful starting point (although I would argue no complete, just after doing some quick searching). I think there are definitely enough cla…

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    MOOC Course Lists / Degree Guide?

    Does anyone know of a site that aggregates all available MOOC courses? Additionally, are there any sites that take a stab at helping you create a degree equivalent out of MOOC cour…

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    Comment #5822871

    Is anyone familiar with the legal implications of scraping sites? Just for things that are easily viewable to anyone with a computer, such as Tweets, a stores prices, descriptions …