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Love silly twitter bots like that. This is adorable!
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.
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It's in his profile: http://www.searchtempest.com/
Ha, ya, although I left out the get-rich-quick aspirations in my profile! At the time I was a poor grad student and was shopping for a portable AC unit to survive the summer in my sweltering apartment. There were about 5 craigslist sites within driving distance, and I was checking all of them, since saving 20 bucks was easily worth an extra hour of driving at that point. :) Figured a simple thing to learn some basics…
Any way I can get this half decade long question answered? :)
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Ha, ya, although I left out the get-rich-quick aspirations in my profile! At the time I was a poor grad student and was shopping for a portable AC unit to survive the summer in my sweltering apartment. There were about 5 craigslist sites within driving distance, and I was checking all of them, since saving 20 bucks was easily worth an extra hour of driving at that point. :) Figured a simple thing to learn some basics…
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? :)
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I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you claiming that they're losing in every single other market? At least in Portland, I've never taken a taxi in my life, but have taken probably a dozen Ubers.
>At least in Portland, I've never taken a taxi in my life, but have taken probably a dozen Ubers. Which is one reason why Uber is winning. You do not even bother to check taxi fares. I checked Uber rates to get to the airport. Not cheaper than taxi - about the same.
Did people stop tipping cabs?
Maybe you meant Ubers were 20% more expensive, or maybe people don't tip cabs anymore, I don't know.
Honestly I'd pay more than cabfare + tips just to have the price be explicit. Tips basically become a tax on nice people. I'd much rather everyone was paying the same price.
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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.
In the SF Bay Area it's still way cheaper to take Uber than a Taxi.
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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?
Predatory Pricing. Something Uber did, which is illegal, but they will likely never get fined for it.
But Tew was the first to do it, which left a lot of people wondering why they didn’t think of it first. Lots of people thought of it, but discounted it because it was a dumb idea, missing one crucially important ingredient: page-views. Anybody can put up a web site, it's getting people to look at it that's hard. And once people are looking at it, it's easy to sell ad space. What no one could have known, including Tew…
Lots of people thought of it, but discounted it because it was a dumb idea
BBC uses an iStock image in their article, complete with watermark? Seriously?
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.
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It's in his profile: http://www.searchtempest.com/
Ha, ya, although I left out the get-rich-quick aspirations in my profile! At the time I was a poor grad student and was shopping for a portable AC unit to survive the summer in my sweltering apartment. There were about 5 craigslist sites within driving distance, and I was checking all of them, since saving 20 bucks was easily worth an extra hour of driving at that point. :) Figured a simple thing to learn some basics…
Anyways, keep up the awesome work, and I'm glad it has all worked out for you!