Please don't take this wrong way, but: GAAAH my eyes!
The text is way too big, the margins way too wide, and the letters way too run-together.
(Readability ftw!)
How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the last point: anything dealing with ISO, Quality Assurance or auditing for big bisnesses will sell well. It is a massively underdeveloped market.
I used to be a manufacturing engineer, and from the perspective of a potential buyer I always thought it was a massively saturated market.
Depends which area your looking at. But for, say, ISO9001 qa and other auditing there is a distince lack of lean, usable tools. Esp for smaller businesses.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats exactly what I mean. Jason may or may not have a million - but he understands how to make wealth. This is possible to scale to meet the timeline as required.
what? It means everything. Selling lemonade from a stand can be profitable, but the skills required for that to be successful in no way transfer to running a company that sells to every grocery store in america.
Those are just the two extremes; the effort required to scale from one to the other is probably a bit too steep in that case.
But if you read the post a lot of the same skills are there.
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#54Thanks for editing your comment and posting it. It's much nicer to read. And... > Raise Revenue, Not Funding Thank you, thank you, thank you. > Look For Something That Is Required Or Subsidized By Law I'd like to add that you should be careful about something that requires you to need constant permission from a third party. The iPhone market is a good example. While I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't develop for t…
>> Raise Revenue, Not Funding
> Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Why "thank you"? Are you looking for the truth, or just something that repeats what you wish were true?
Re: How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years
#55Please don't take this wrong way, but: GAAAH my eyes! The text is way too big, the margins way too wide, and the letters way too run-together. (Readability ftw!)
> letters way too run-together
Keming!
Re: How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years
#56> Smart people whom are successful usually got there by doing the same and have an innate desire to help those do the same. Most smart people know not to overuse the dative form.
There's no need to be obnoxious, you can just tell him that he should have used who instead of whom. If you wanted to be extra neighborly, you could have provided a cool rule of thumb for gauging when to use which, suggest as "Try substituting him or he; him corresponds with whom whereas he corresponds with who."
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to be a manufacturing engineer, and from the perspective of a potential buyer I always thought it was a massively saturated market.
Depends which area your looking at. But for, say, ISO9001 qa and other auditing there is a distince lack of lean, usable tools. Esp for smaller businesses.
Most lean small businesses avoid that sort of ISO* stuff for that reason
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends which area your looking at. But for, say, ISO9001 qa and other auditing there is a distince lack of lean, usable tools. Esp for smaller businesses.
Most lean small businesses avoid that sort of ISO* stuff for that reason
Possibly. But it's becoming less and less possible to do that; we are a lean small business and we are now having to achieve ISO accreditation to get contracts.
Even a large corporation is looking at 10's of thousands of pounds to pay a consultant to do the ISO work.
This is not just idle observation BTW: we are currently beta testing some tools to do self accreditation of ISO standards within the firm. So far we are looking at reducing those astronomical fees to "something additional for your admin staff to do".
The software has only been testing in about 30 companies and we already have about 50 word of mouth sales. This is a huge market.
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#59Your font isn't very easy on the eyes...drop it down a few notches in size
until then you can use Readability bookmarklet
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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#60Just a quick semi-meta comment: if you have a comment which you put a lot of time into and which resonated with people, strongly consider blowing it up into a blog post. It may be irrational, but the perceived authority of 500 words wrapped in an attractive Wordpress template murders the perceived authority of 500 words appearing at the third level of indentation on this page. I like to think that I've written some f…
Another meta comment: Let me start by saying I do not think you have deliberately abused the HN point system. You already have a high score and presumably don't care about the number growing.
That being said... this is an interesting way to game one's HN score.
Comment on stories. Once it became obvious that a particular comment is popular/well-received (200+ points) clarify it a bit and post it to your blog. Then submit it as a story back to HN and get another (200+ points).
I found your original comment really interesting and the formatting on your blog way easier on the eyes than HN comments so I'm not complaining or anything.... just thought it an interesting (and inadvertent) example of how to abuse the HN point system.