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Such a true statement. The sad part about this john is that many people leading the charge have no recollection of ACT 221 and they write off the people like us that do as haters o…

I remember going to Denali in high school and the mosquitoes you have up there in Alaska shouldn't even considered in the same genus as the mosquitos most people deal with.

Why not just post the original site instead of embedding the video onto your own website? http://cainesarcade.com/

Cool story but the word profit is not the right word to use in this case. You generated revenue which is much much easier to do than turning a profit.

We bootstrapped our company as well and did not get (couldn't afford) health insurance for the founders until about 1.5 years in. By that time I was too embarrassed to go to the de…

This is the unfortunate entropy of any online community. I've seen it in the community I managed as well. First you have the founder(s) of the community and the early adopters. The…

One thing I don't understand is why didn't the buyer just contact the seller directly and try to return the violin for a full refund? Was it sold under the terms all sales final?

Happy New Year from Hawaii! (not 2012 yet, but will be out and about then)

This is actually a very solid insight, the value of the problem you're solving with your app can be determined by the amount of time someone will complain to you about it, especial…

Cognitive dissonance. Dan ariely talks about it in "predictably irrational". It's the same reason people don't often change dentists because changing dentist after putting up with …

100% true. You don't really need tech blog press if your market is not tech blog readers.

I was just discussing this with my wife last night. My 2 friends and I bootstrapped our company for $300. Knowing that all the success we are enjoying now came from our hard work a…

This is so true, especially in areas outside of the hot tech scenes. Social media is such a buzz word these days you have people coming out of the wood work to cash in on it. These…

As was said once by Tim Feriss, in China they have a saying that roughly translates to "If you can fool them, fool them". This saying was confirmed by a few people that I know that…

The irony of this post is that Jason would most definitely not want you in his company. In a startup, which his companies are, there really is no room for people want normal jobs a…

I run a site with fairly high traction with teenagers specifically teenages from california and tumblr is very popular with that demographic. From the outside looking in, they seem…

As a former GoDaddy hosting customer, let me tell you all that these attacks are not new business. There was a point in May where our sites were attacked weekly with massive damage…

I've had many unsuccessful start up experiences, however it's hard for me to call them failures. It takes a lot of effort to truly fail, most of these times I just quit. I quit bef…

It still takes dedication and drive to make it to have the thousands to piss away. There are tons of business owners who piss away their earnings too.

Don't sleep on these hip hop guys. They're born hungry. Look at Russell Simmons, Diddy, Jay-Z and 50 Cent, and (technically not a rapper) Usher. They all have pretty impressive bus…

The basic problem is that these new-media companies don’t really have customers; they have audiences. Starting a company like Digg is less like building a traditional tech company …

The AirBnB cereal boxes is more genius than desperate. I consider desperate things like the Zappos story where Tony literally sold everything he owned to keep the business afloat.

What percentage of the sales are you guys taking or is there a monthly fee?

A method that worked for me but might not work for all. We had a friend in a graphic arts program at the local university. We asked him if he wanted to do our logo for a project.