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This was the best exchange in the interview: Q: Can you share the key metrics you watch on a daily basis? Why are they important to you? A: I have published a variety of stats but I don’t watch metrics on a daily basis because I don’t make metrics-based decisions on a daily basis, and absent making decisions watching metrics is only as productive as playing WoW.
I find this doubly amusing because he used to play WoW.
For all those reading this thinking, man, I could never do this or be successful at my own business, follow his advice, JUST DO IT! It isn't that hard, it is especially not that hard if you approach it like he did and grow very slowly and keep your costs down. I did the same thing with my best friend years ago, starting off while still having a job, then making a leap when things were slightly vetted. Best decision o…
While this was going on, their copy of Bingo Card Creator has been relentlessly polling the server: “Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet?” It does this by passing the same random ID to a web service running on the server. If the transaction has been consumated, BCC will learn the Registration Key, and then automatically upgrade itself to the registered version. This removes a /major/ s…
I thought "Dang, that is great", implemented it, and then started looking for a way to extend it without requiring people to read the instructions for copying.
I find really interesting that patrick build a pagerank on a totally different population than his customer base. He target hackers for pagerank building (and invest a lot of time writing articles who are probably not his first customers), but his customers lands on content created by freelancers (cheap, lesser quality content probably ).
I do take minor exception to the comment about content quality. With the proviso that I'm making bingo cards to teach lessons to school kids, I'm usually making pretty darn good bingo cards. Search for [biology bingo] some time and compare my site to the other options.
For all those reading this thinking, man, I could never do this or be successful at my own business, follow his advice, JUST DO IT! It isn't that hard, it is especially not that hard if you approach it like he did and grow very slowly and keep your costs down. I did the same thing with my best friend years ago, starting off while still having a job, then making a leap when things were slightly vetted. Best decision o…
For all those reading this thinking, man, I could never do this or be successful at my own business, follow his advice, JUST DO IT! It isn't that hard, it is especially not that hard if you approach it like he did and grow very slowly and keep your costs down. I did the same thing with my best friend years ago, starting off while still having a job, then making a leap when things were slightly vetted. Best decision o…
(no offense intended to patio11:)
He lives in Japan and recently left his cushy full-time job I don't think cushy is the word he'd use to describe it.
This was the best exchange in the interview: Q: Can you share the key metrics you watch on a daily basis? Why are they important to you? A: I have published a variety of stats but I don’t watch metrics on a daily basis because I don’t make metrics-based decisions on a daily basis, and absent making decisions watching metrics is only as productive as playing WoW.
For all those reading this thinking, man, I could never do this or be successful at my own business, follow his advice, JUST DO IT! It isn't that hard, it is especially not that hard if you approach it like he did and grow very slowly and keep your costs down. I did the same thing with my best friend years ago, starting off while still having a job, then making a leap when things were slightly vetted. Best decision o…
What are doing in Africa? I'd love to talk to you about it sometime. I'm doing some work there as well construction/water&waste mgmt. We'll soon make some very early stage efforts to enter the energy industry as well. See my profile for contact info.
See this blog post for the whole story of how I got here: http://blog.nyaruka.com/18178694