badclient
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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
They've existed for 7 years(barely). Most of their investments would be way too early to tell the results of.
Comment · 12 years ago
When you build a free product, the end user is not a customer, they are the product. I wonder how many farmers like being the product and not the customer.
Careful because the other extreme has its own problems: my company only has paid customers who prepay for the entire year. While this has helped us pay the bills and cover cost, it has been detrimental to building a great product because we aren't getting as much feedback as we would if we had 10x users. I'm finally reaching a stage where I may take up a job just so we can give away free trials and not have to rely as much on near term revenue to pay the bills.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm amazed that Google did not buy godaddy when it was purchased by private equity.
Comment · 12 years ago
Is it just me or is there a lot of spacing in between lines? Every time I hit return, it feels like I've hit 3 returns.
Overall, impressive! Would pay for a quality and light one of these.
Comment · 12 years ago
Interesting. How did you know he was suicidal? If I am convinced he is suicidal, it is easy to have a conversation. But I feel there is so much gray area and the last thing I want is to make someone who is just feeling a bit down in life from thinking about suicide.
Comment · 12 years ago
Good for you! You make your kids' life so much easier You and your kids are both lucky!
Comment · 12 years ago
If you know someone who is suicidal and you care about them, spend time with them. In person. Suicide is almost always committed when one is alone.
100%, although I wish we talked more about the challenge of determining that someone is suicidal.
Here's what I wrestle with the most about this. I fear that if I "misdiagnose" someone as suicidal, that I might have now given them the idea that there is such a thing as suicide and it may now become an option, completely backfiring against my goal of helping them.
I wonder if there is best practices although it seems a bit silly given we are basically trying to read someone's mind - something that even they(especially them) might not have clarity about.
Comment · 12 years ago
At least in your case, you not only stopped coding but you stopped being around code or dealing with code. That is very different from not coding for 30%. Good chances that if you coded say 5-10% a week and spent the remaining time thinking about code architecture or code reviews, you'd be in a much different position.
Comment · 12 years ago
Being able to code is very different from coding 30% of your time at work.
Comment · 12 years ago
No heat for you if you don't upload a profile pic. That will drive up engagement I bet.
Comment · 12 years ago
Someone at google is thinking of ways to use Google Plus to fuck up Nest.
Comment · 13 years ago
Would love a breakdown of the AWS cost.
Comment · 13 years ago
Not necessarily. If this guy wrote bad checks, he may well be given an option to make good on it to have his sentence reduced or removed.
A similar thing happened to a guy who scammed me and others. One of the guys who was scammed went to the local cops who took out a warrant. The guy who scammed us was arrested and released almost immediately. He paid the guy through the court and his attorney. I still remain unpaid...and I didn't go to the cops(mostly because nyc cops didn't care much about the case speaking to them on the phone). You can read more here if you're curious: http://cliffkaplanfraud.com/
We should talk about nuances of why startups failed. Otherwise, "lack of product market fit" is just jargon for "we failed." Of course, we already know they failed. And since they are startups, they probably didn't fail with millions in revenue.