Except of course, there was a big famous example -- Friendster. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/business/yourmoney/15frien...
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The Business of XKCD
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The startups who turn down acquisition offer do better thing might have a bit of reporting bias. ie. the ones that fail, we never think about.
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I Quit My Job
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And you are getting 3G and GPS.
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surprised to see this on HackerNews. I run macrumors, and have plans to try to improve on this in the near future. Right now it runs the same as it has for years, which is based on a running historical average with links to recent rumors. (I know this will sound strange for anyone who follows the site, but I'll finally be quitting my day-job at the end of this month, which will give me a lot more time to work on this and other projects)
- I think the iPod predictions are a little off right now, I think they probably are not going to be updated until September, so not sure if it qualifies as an "updates soon" - Intel transition didn't really change much, except we have a better idea what processors are coming for the next refresh |
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I probably don't have a "passion" for medicine, but few people do. I personally don't know any doctors that truly have a passion for it. (I doubt, for example, that many would continue to do it if they won the lotto.)
I felt like I was good at medicine and enjoyed it day to day, but given the choice of doing it vs being able to just do something I was doing for fun anyway and spending more time with my family, I think the choice became easy. The flip side to that, is I do have a passion for what I'm doing now. If I won the lotto, I think I would continue to run MacRumors, and still try to launch some other web projects I've had in my mind. |
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related: Atari 2600 Pac-Man code in one big poster. http://benfry.com/distellamap/
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seriously, Digg just spends too much money. I guess that's fine and all for expansion when the VC money is coming in, but they spent $10.4 million in the first three quarters of 2008? Doesn't that figure seem insane for a company like digg?
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I find this comment ridiculous. I don't think anyone, including Apple is worrying about the iPhone cannibalizing Laptop sales. A Laptop and Cell Phone (even the iPhone) are complementary. People will buy both, not one or the other. The iPhone is capable of doing quick mobile browsing while you are standing in line or at a bar, but there's no way it replaces anyones laptop in its entirety. arn |
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I found it interesting for a few reasons
- makes money on merchandising rather than ads - generates a lot of traffic (80 million pages views/mo) - he thinks only a couple of dozen web comic authors actually make a living off of it. - believes this sort of niche comic is only successful because of the internet. in that he never could have gotten published traditionally. (that being said "tech/geek" isn't really a small niche for internet audiences) |