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Calm seems interesting, though not something I'd want to do with my phone (even though I get the appeal of it being everywhere). Wouldn't mind an AndroidTV app so I can do it at home, sitting on my carpeted floor, in the relative darkness, in front of a TV.. rather than squinting at a phone
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> Sell $1 bills for $0.90. That worked really well for Uber. It can work for you too! Huh? What's the story there?
It's mostly sarcasm, but Uber is one example of several companies whose business model was to disrupt an entrenched industry by providing more value than they were charging for, capture market share, then raise prices. Basically, initially it was cheaper to take an Uber than a Taxi. Currently that's no longer the case.
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This is incredible, I've been using your site for 5 years and I've always wondered "i wonder how much this site profits per month" Any way I can get this half decade long question answered? :)
Glad you like the site! It makes enough that I can keep investing in improvements, while support my family comfortably and saving for a rainy day.
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I'm not sure that nobody has it. It's basically a matter of hacking the system to get cheaper CPM than what you can get with ads. If ads are the market index fund, you are trying to beat it by exploiting some oddity in the system. Once you do so on a large scale, the market adjusts and the oddity either goes away, or becomes useless. But I can think of a few ways to do this: - Produce awesome content. Remember the Ol…
I'll tell you one way a lot of indie fashion brands, mobile apps, and bedroom music producers are doing it right now. There are people (mostly teenagers/early 20s) who set up catchy Twitter accounts with endless streams of funny photos or videos along various themes. They cross promote and cross retweet these accounts (often retweeting each other's posts for just 5 minutes, then unretweeting again to remove the trace…
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I feel the same way about the kind of art that "a 7 year old could do". The part I admire is their ability to get funding.
I think the success of some naïve art is the audacity of the person making it. "I could have done that" "Yes, you could, but you didn't" http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kk-61u6leYU/UrB3Cfg6x1I/AAAAAAAAEO...
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That's amazing. What's the actual business?
It's in his profile: http://www.searchtempest.com/
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Thanks, I appreciate it!! They're a lot of fun to create as well, you never know how people are going to interact with them. And I really hope that some day Terence's campaign really takes off without me really noticing it.
What's the story behind the staying low from the "twitter police"? https://twitter.com/helpterence/status/774672966961561600
And also the fact that there is a billion dollar mindfulness industry.
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Predatory Pricing. Something Uber did, which is illegal, but they will likely never get fined for it.
Predatory pricing is only illegal if you are a monopoly, or part of a price-fixing cartel. Simply selling something for less than cost is 100% legal, although as a business strategy it requires deep pockets, and if or when you raise prices you risk alienating your customers...
My understanding is that these cases are usually very hard to prove, unless you have 'smoking gun' evidence of some kind.
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The watermarks are also on the other images that they've licenced from Getty, and the unwatermarked image is credited to the photographer. I'm not sure that there would be all that much value in creating new images for the story though, if a cheaper stock image can communicate the same thing.
My point is that they should either have real, relevant photos or no photos at all. Not just filler garbage that has nothing to do with the article.