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samson

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    I don't get this feeling often, but I felt dirty just reading this post.

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    Comment #724910

    Well it worked for me. So all I can think to say is thanks.

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    Ask HN:What are user and customer acquisition strategies (minus press)

    I getting close to launching my own startup soon with a product I've developed, and I'm curious to know what are strategies that have worked for others in acquiring users either fo…

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    Comment #695710

    Yes, but what is rational can be dependent on the environment which you operate in, especially when dealing with economics which is not yet a science. I'll give you an analogy of a…

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    Comment #656113

    From my point of view the internet needs advertising, because if there wasn't Companies like Google orYahoo wouldn't have been able to take on Microsoft with subscription based ser…

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    Comment #625398

    axod, I'm starting to think you've got a vendetta against TechCrunch. Did they give your startup a bad review?

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    Comment #624133

    wasn't that what newspapers were for?

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    Comment #616181

    Okay so if this is the model that their going with, and I've been hearing this one for while. It would seem that they are trying to go after the same market that yelp, uservoice, a…

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    Just to elaborate from what I gathered from the audio. They shipped the product in 2004, and achieved $10m revenue by 2007. Still impressive, but that quote seemed a bit misleading…

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    Comment #557736

    Additional recognition. Sometimes an 8-20 character long name may not suffice.

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    I think thats an unfair assessment of a good book. I was probably seventeen when I read the book, and have all but forgotten most of those laws, but I remembered many of the storie…

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    I was thinking the same thing as well. It would be great to see more of these done in different languages for various topics.

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    Comment #446551

    I've only just recently released stable version of my service (like a day and half ago), but my startup goal at least for th early part of 2009 is gaining some traction. Particular…

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    A "newbieish" perspective can sometimes help even the best professionals in whatever industry to become more aware of flaws or improvements that they may have become to accustomed …

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    You need to get over whatever that emotion you want to call it that is causing you to react like this, and come to the realization that regardless of what you think of the design o…

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    Comment #380866

    Yahoo's market cap right now is hoovering around $16B. So Microsoft wants to pay $20B for their search business?

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    Yea, I think thats the route i'll end up going, I've already started developing a pattern system, and overnight I thought of a few ways that might make that easier to get the title…

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    I would say rather to your current self to live and work in such a way that the person you were a year ago would be proud to shake the hand of the person you are today. And every y…

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    Ask YC: Blog parsing (WordPress,Typepad,Blogger)

    I'm trying to develop a crawler that knows when the page being sent to it is the actually a Post page, and not the index,search,tag,calendar(November 2008) page. I want these pages…