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because Paypal has a history of shutting down accounts for no apparent reasons. Then it takes months to get your money out.

isn't there? From what I understand Quora has been pretty stagnant. It failed to go mainstream. Sure the valley people know of it's existence...but most people? not so much

Digg didn't collapse because of hardware or headcount...they collapsed because they trashed their product with unnecessary changes and pissed off their user base Sure, the fact tha…

yeah you'd think with the VC investment they'd be going for that

yeah, YC should have a page on their site with a list of all the funded startups sorted by batches. Maybe a small PR blurb by each startup to describe it.

there are actually a ton of costs for them. They have to pay for infrastructure, they have to pay for customer support, they have to pay for fraudulent transactions and on and on. …

because when you go up and up the ladder, eventually you end up with 5-6 huge companies that control everything...not too surprising when the companies end up with similar pricing.…

It's probably a bit misleading. The car is pretty eye catching: http://www.vibe.com/sites/vibe.com/files/styles/main_image/p... So it gets attention...and most accidents happen whe…

Facebook does analytics...they aren't some tiny startup...surely they track the quality of their traffic...so they know that 70-80% of their ad traffic comes from bots. So Facebook…

yeah if they only cared about protecting consumers, instead of fines, they'd let you pay a few bucks to get your house inspected.

if you actually read all the rules of the municipality...every single person in town is guilty of something. It's just a way to enforce rules without looking authoritative. We aren…

yeah, something shady must be going on. My guess is that you'll find similar people on Digg's and News.me boards. And this was just a way to a) write off Digg as a permanent loss o…

not having to drive to the store is huge on Amazon you just search, compare, read reviews and click buy. with brick and mortar stores, you have to drive to the store, park, then ro…

someone needs a reality check. if he considers that kind of life "failure", he is going to lead a very depressed life unless he wins a few lotteries

facebook is really desperate to find a business model...seems like they are throwing the kitchen sink at the wall and seeing what sticks. that's fine for a startup...but for a comp…

if people care so much about craigslist features, then just build something and offer them the code for free. but that's not what this is about...it's about people complaining that…

to do sales, you need to really know the product...I don't imagine an off the shelf sales guy will be all that effective. And I'd imagine cost is also an issue. With your own sales…

yeah it would make much more sense for them to just use the % cut. Get a bunch of developers tied to their platform...and get that market share

you don't get karma for self posts on reddit

Padmapper should offer to be acquihired by Craigslist their service is 100% dependent on Craigslist so they'd have trouble selling to anyone else

the thing with marketplaces, is that the ui itself doesn't matter...what matters is having buyers. sellers will post where the buyers are, and it doesn't matter if UI is crap. So c…

is this partners where you just give them the title. or is this like what you have with law firms, where they have to buy their way in as well?

you don't need to add forum, in Google click more on the left side, and then select "discussions"...and it'll limit the results to just forums/message boards etc

craigslist could probably eliminate a ton of spam by simply editting out the urls that go thru it's email system. i.e. if someone includes inside the email body, simply unscramble …