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mikesimonsen

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About mikesimonsen

I'm the co-founder ceo of Altos Research. We do real estate data for people who care about such things. I blog on the housing market and our company at blog.altosresearch.com also twitter.com/mikesimonsen.

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    Anmol - you're building an information business. And at scale, IMHO, they're fabulous. Health information seems like a massive market, and this seems like unique data. (Think about…

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    Comment #1549008

    I love the irony of a pot site that took too long to build. Like any review site, you'll have to work hard to make sure that it isn't a ghost town when people arrive.

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    Comment #1495774

    "Stealth Mode" when used properly, is an effective marketing tool that leads to a big launch event. We're building, working with initial customers, and when we launch it'll be huge…

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    Comment #1403111

    Rand - It sure seems like you're recruiting sophisticated application engineers, you're not recruiting SEO engineers. That is, this is a recruiting problem (yours) not a perception…

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    Comment #1359564

    Sure, you can have a "successful" business that grosses $250k / year. If you can do that with no employees and go surf every day, there will be a lot of jealous surfers out there. …

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    Comment #1359395

    I'd suggest you set your sites higher than $1k/month. $10k/month is a start. $100k/month is a business that pays you and your employees. And there are zillions of them out there to…