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Don't show points? | swombat: I'm not so sure. How do you know that groupthink is the problem? Perhaps the problem is instead that the new users fit in a different groupthink pattern than the old users. In that case, you want to encourage groupthink when it leads to the correct behaviours. |
Don't show points? | almost: I think this is a very good idea, but for a slightly different reason.
The whole points-for-posts thing creates a meta-game of accumulating
points above the normal game of participating in discussion. This
leads to those annoying meta-disucssions where people complain about
being down modded and all that goes w... |
Don't show points? | babo: Good idea, that could be an easy way to prevent the absurd up- or down-voting phenomenon. |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | ralph: pg, please re-visit the decision to have the post's text in gray-on-gray. It's awful for long initial posts like this one. No doubt I'm not the only one that selects the text to get it the slightly better yellow-on-black. It makes me less likely to bother reading the text through no fault of the writer. |
Don't show points? | jules: Maybe we could do an experiment with randomly upvoted/downvoted new posts and see how much more likely the posts are to be upvoted/downvoted? |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | ojbyrne: I don't think it's harder to manage remote people. In fact a random Jim Collins (ugh) quote applies - "If you have to actively manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake" - people who have a history of working remotely are much more likely to be self-driven and disciplined. |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | iuguy: Yes it can be done. We have a setup like this, but we try to spend 2-3 days in the office a week and a minimum of one (Thursday) for everyone.The key thing has to be communication and the ability to maintain motivation. We use Google Apps Premier to handle most of the comms, motivation is maintained through elec... |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | Harkins: Check out the book "Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It" about the "Results-Only Work Environment". It's mostly a case study of how Best Buy implemented a workplace culture that made office hours optional.Maybe also the books of Ricardo Semler, a business owner who did similar things. |
How to you create and manage passwords? | myav: I like an very simple approach, which allows me to avoid using password managers.For all accounts which are of little importance to me (in other words, for ones which can be recreated without any problems) I have got the one easy-to-remember password. "foo87b@r" is the good illustration of what I mean. There are ... |
Don't show points? | 10ren: Seeing the scores doesn't affect my opinion! I'm impartial!... except that a few times, I've observed my attitude towards a comment change when its score changed. What is a little frightening is I have also witnessed a struggle within me between what seems to be true to me, and fitting in with the group's opinio... |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | seed_funding: Hi,I am trying to do the same thing. Does anyone have any good recommendations for online collaboration solutions? For example I currently run a virtual private server to serve my email, wiki, website, git etc. I think it's still good for these things, but I might switch to say, Google Apps for email + th... |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | pjhyett: GitHub doesn't have an office, nor are we in any hurry to get one. We work out of our apartments and 1-2 times a week we'll hang out at a cafe and get dinner/drinks afterwards to discuss broader ideas. The company was built with the sort of people that can work autonomously, so while we stay in constant commun... |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | sarvesh: If you have a team already there is some sort of management going on. What exactly do you mean by bringing in with someone with management experience. Can you elaborate on why this idea came up? Are you looking for someone to manage the product lifecycle? Are you looking for someone who will market you product... |
Time tracking | scorpioxy: Echoing on what @mkuhn said, i would normally like to use a stopwatch mode when i would be doing something for a long period of time. For example, half a day's work for project A and then switching to project B or something like that.Otherwise, i tend to just use time slots and fill then in at the end of the... |
Favorite Technology Company Superbowl Ads? | sarvesh: The Apple 1984 commercial is my favorite www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8.Unless you are releasing something as significant as the Macintosh I think it's too much money. |
Favorite Technology Company Superbowl Ads? | DanielBMarkham: Note: a 30-second ad this year is running somewhere north of $3 Million |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | abalashov: Is there some particular reason a lot of you recommend Campfire over, say, running an internal Jabber server? |
Favorite Technology Company Superbowl Ads? | donna: I LOL and i still remember their name, so money well spent.Super Bowl Ad (2000) E*Trade - "Out of the Whazoo!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_tfoTTGOQ |
Time tracking | chris11: I've just been keeping a time log for the past few days. I'm not sure how long I will keep doing it, but right now it works so I just my cell phone for the time, and a piece of paper to write down what I'm doing throughout the day. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | eisenkr: There's a negative stigma about "managers" in the startup world because the word manager is associated with pointy-haired bosses and TPS reports. A manager can, however, be a very positive force when the technical leads on a team are spending a lot of time on management related tasks like meeting with investor... |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | mkuhn: I think a StartUp needs management from the beginning.Maybe its because I'm a business student, but I think if there isn't someone with a perspective on strategy, finances, marketing and management in general the StartUp will fail because of lack of direction and the costs involved in changing direction later o... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | JustAGeek: Real-time stats, that's really something I miss a lot!
Esp. considering that it's available in other stats tools... |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | sachinag: In every successful startup, even ones founded entirely by engineers, someone wears the pointy-headed hat. Unless one of you wants to take on that role, recruit a pro. A pro will cost you more, and there's no guarantee they'd be better at it than one of you, but you get to focus on the technology that way. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | dangoldin: I'd like a simple way of looking at individual visitors.Every GA report I looked at has it aggregated somehow. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | critke: I think it's not so much a question of whether you need management or not- it more about assessing the core competencies of the founders and then determining what's missing. And also whether a new hire fits in with the team - not just in terms of what knowledge they bring to the table, but also whether their va... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | sachinag: Honestly, it's just not intuitive enough for me. That said, some suggestions (technical feasibility disregarded)* Show me referring URLs, not just domains
* Click a day on the graph to see that day rather than having to reset the time period on the drop-down menu
* Weighted averages: sorting by Bounce Rate i... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | abalashov: Have an API so I can pull the data out and use it elsewhere. |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | suhail: You will fail, especially if it's your first time. Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world failed 6-7 times before they figured it out.The best thing about failing is learning why you failed. If you're afraid of failing, you should give up now because you're not cut out for this thing.Depending w... |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | inerte: Since day one. Someone has to manage, because there are resources and efficiency involved.The hacker founder might not think of himself as a manager, because of the PHB stigma. But there's always management to be done.I understand you didn't ask exactly this. You want to know when a "pure" manager should be bro... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | hopeless: The ability to add notes to explain traffic spikes etc. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | fortes: This is quite simple, so I wouldn't be shocked if it's been done before, but providing an RSS feed for stats/new referrers, etc. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | teej: We can all admit that Google Analytics has a few failings. Maybe there -are- lots of companies who find it doesn't meet their needs. Personally, I feel like the issue isn't one of features, it's one of communication.There are a large number of companies out there with websites, but very few of them have the tim... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | tom_rath: Add an 'exclude weekends' option for reports on a given date range. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | sounddust: I'd like the ability to share part or all of my data to anyone, privately or publicly. And in the case of data I share publicly, I want it to be available on a page that is indexed by Google and doesn't require someone to login with a Google account.Also, I'd like to see Google rank sites in a similar manne... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | markessien: Email me when unusual traffic spikes happen. Send me a daily email with my largest referrers and how much traffic they sent in. |
Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic? | MoeDrippins: The company I work for was, until recently, completely WFH, with ~20 or so people. (In the US. In Europe, its HQ, there was always an office, and in other satellite offices.) One of our WFH US locations is, in fact, Atlanta.It works fine, IF you can find the right people. Not everyone can work from home... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | pg: What you're feeling is the reason even people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs needed cofounders. I'd recommend finding one. It will also greatly improve your chances of succeeding. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | albertsun: An API or some way to feed it other statistics and visitor information.For example, you could hook it up to sliding door sensors or something like that and track flow of people entering and exiting a store. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | swombat: "Manager" is such a vague term that it's hard to give any useful advice here.I'm going to make an assumption that what you mean is not "product manager" or "project manager" or any other kind of specialised manager, but a "general manager", aka a managing director or CEO of some kind.I read somewhere that star... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | raffi: At the end of Feb, I will have gone one year without a job. By choice. I spent that time finishing grad school and working to get some things off the ground.I used to have cold feet and sometimes I really hated my own guts for throwing my savings away for what felt like "spinning my wheels". I was also afraid... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | EGF: I currently use two providers for my analytics and stats - GA and SiteMeter.As many have mentioned here the ability to have real time information is key to addressing possible traffic spikes and commentary that are happening about your site elsewhere. 24 hours seems like a short period of time, until you realize ... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | zain: Visitor paths; i.e. "user A went from this page to this page to this page"Visitor paths really help you see what pages are confusing your users. For example, using SiteCounter, we found that a lot of people would click the "login" link, and then would click the exact same link again, indicating they weren't sure ... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | DenisM: Ability to exclude registered users and zoom in on non-registered users. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | davidw: I use antirez' visitors:http://www.hping.org/visitors/It's quick and simple. Sort of the opposite of analytics. But it's a nice way to quickly see what's happening. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | russell: As others have said, you dont need managers to do what you are doing. You probably do need executives, not managers, when you get to the point where you need serious skills outside of engineering.HR, legal, administrative: just outsource it to an administrative firm.Raising money: get a CEO. You will need to... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | andr: Don't think about the worst case scenario if you start a business. Think about the worst case scenario if you don't do a startup.You are 40. Every day you work 9 - 6 at the BIG firm. Even after getting promoted several times, getting the corner cubicle in the process, you are a relative nobody amongst the other 1... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | smwhreyebelong: Thanks for the prompt replies, everyone ! I do understand the importance of a co-founder and am in talks with a couple of people I worked with before.A couple of reasons why I am hesitating are :1. I feel like I should get some experience in a startup before I start my own.2. I know the idea has merit b... |
To porn or not to porn? | joshuarr: If you don't want to be associated with porn, why would you want to associate with people who associate with people associated with porn?In other words,If you don't want to be associated with porn then don't associate yourself with porn. |
To porn or not to porn? | tjic: > I frankly dont want to be associated with pornHere's some business advice:What exactly is your secret sauce that's going to make your site better than (or even halfway as good as ) all of the thousands of competing sites? There's no free way to make money.Here's some moral advice:Don't spend your time doing t... |
To porn or not to porn? | alexquick: I've always been under the impression that there's no shame in work done well.Just do good work, then. |
To porn or not to porn? | nostrademons: I personally wouldn't do porn.As for whether I'd do business or be associated with someone in the porn industry: it depends a lot on circumstances, and the particular organization I'm working on behalf of. As a programmer, I don't care, and porn might actually be a plus on your resume because it tends to... |
To porn or not to porn? | vrs: I hope things work out for you without you having to start a porn site. There are enough of those already. Plus if you "frankly dont want to be associated with porn" maybe you shouldn't get into porn business. |
To porn or not to porn? | intellectronica: You should judge this using the same criteria you use for judging any other business idea. Do you feel passionate about it? Do you have something new to contribute to the market that you feel excited about giving to users? Will you be proud and happy working day and night making your product the best t... |
To porn or not to porn? | geoffw8: Register via whois proxy and don't tell anyone... |
To porn or not to porn? | hotpockets: If somebody sues you your name will be outed anyways. |
To porn or not to porn? | ericb: Because of how you feel about it, you should not take this route. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | codegenerator: Here is my picks :- more vars (pageTracker._setVar, currently only 1 allowed)- credentials for specific reports- more goals (currently 4 allowed)- mouse movement capture (see http://www.clicktale.com/features/watch-your-website-visitor...)- api- real time at least for the pages/views etc- its corollary :... |
To porn or not to porn? | staunch: Porn is not some magic industry where all you exchange is your willingness to be associated with it for riches. You're going to end up working your ass off to be successful whether it's porn or not. If your other startup attempts targeted consumers try switching to doing something that goes after small busines... |
To porn or not to porn? | cpr: Don't do it. Porn degrades the people who perform it (especially the women) and the people who use it (mostly men, who are conditioned to see women as body parts for their own enjoyment). |
To porn or not to porn? | axod: "still gets tons of traffic...basically, Traffic is not enough to make any real money."What sort of traffic are we talking here? And what sector? If it's the right traffic, you don't need much to make lots of money... |
To porn or not to porn? | mixmax: I think that in ten years porn will be much more mainstream than it is today. Here in Scandinavia, the first place in the world to legalise porn, it is already becoming socially acceptable with ex-porn stars becoming main stream talkshow hosts, etc. The US. is probably a few years behind in this trend due to th... |
To porn or not to porn? | DaniFong: From my perspective, porn varies from positive and affirm to degrading and disgusting. I think that is some sense, we are our actions. At least they long outlive us. Make sure that your actions are consistent with your values, and not just a quick way to turn a buck.From a practical perspective, I doubt that ... |
To porn or not to porn? | dpifke: Funny story: when I first decided that I wanted to work for an "internet company" in 1996, nearly all of my interviews were with porn companies. I was a young kid with very little formal experience, so it follows that folks closer to the fringe would be more willing to take a chance hiring me.One of my most me... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | moe: Did anyone else here feel the same way when starting their first company?Yes. I'd go on a limb and say that everybody feels that way when starting their first company. I'm on it right now and feeling it most certainly.I convince myself by reminding me that I believe in the business model and in my skills, I honest... |
To porn or not to porn? | TomOfTTB: As a kid I helped a friend’s dad start a porn site (on the technical end) and I’ll tell you two things about it.1. As someone with a decent reputation I get asked to a lot of meetings with people to discuss the "big ideas" of non-programmer types. In those meetings big numbers are always thrown around as to ... |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | DaniFong: I also work in alternative energy. My cofounder and I are physicists and the third principal is an electromechanical engineer.My cofounder has management experience and technical/mathematical chops, and he's been a joy to work with. He has sort of taken a management role, ensuring that tasks are scheduled coh... |
To porn or not to porn? | gravitycop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#Chicago_Options_Ass...[Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, which featured user-generated webrings and that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet." For a time the comp... |
To porn or not to porn? | chris11: It sounds like you are uncomfortable with it. Is it because of your own values, or are you just worried about your reputation? It sounds like you have problems with it because of your own morals, and I don't think you should go against your values just for some money.I personally would not even get associated ... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | alexmac: Whether you decide to quit your job or not, do the startup anyway. |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | markessien: You won't lose anything, because you'll compress a lot of learning into that time. Just be quick to release, because you start learning after you release, not before.Pre release is like building a boat. Post release is like sailing out in a storm. |
To porn or not to porn? | vaksel: I wouldn't do it. With sites like youporn, xvideos, redtube etc growing by leaps and bounds, the amount of paying customers will go down the drain.+ don't forget, there are something like a million porn sites out there competing with you, so unless you pick some sick shit involving grannies in wheelchairs or mi... |
What is up with he submissions on the front page today? | andreyf: How do you get 0 points on a submission, I wonder? |
To porn or not to porn? | swombat: I can only speak for myself, as an entrepreneur myself, so not for VCs and other similar types, but as for me, I would consider the fact that a cofounder or employee has successfully run a profitable porn site a plus. First of all, it'd be quite interesting to find out how that business works. Secondly, as oth... |
To porn or not to porn? | SwellJoe: So, you can't make a non-porn site with tons of traffic pay...but you expect to build a porn site that makes money?I will humbly point out that porn clicks are some of the least valuable clicks in the industry. Sites like YouPorn, with huge traffic, aren't exactly making a killing (they aren't going broke, e... |
To porn or not to porn? | menloparkbum: What does starting a pay porn site entail? Signing up for some sort of porno affiliate link program and just posting previews of other site's content? Or actually buying cameras and lights and hiring people to go to town?I ask cuz I had a friend who was really into this idea about 7 years ago and actuall... |
To porn or not to porn? | davidw: I helped a guy I knew with his porn site for a bit, and I wouldn't repeat the experience:1. It was kind of unconventional stuff - not illegal, but more like "ouch, my eyes" sorts of things. Not fun.2. The people involved in it were pretty sleazy individuals, and also fairly lame in terms of simply being unprof... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | sgupta: "What if the company fails? I would have lost this time."You're going to learn a lot while doing this - more than you would have at any corporate job - so regardless of what happens I wouldn't consider your experience a failure. The financial outcome isn't the only metric involved in success. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | sharpshoot: Kissmetrics is going to address this problem head on |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | shiranaihito: Work on your project for a couple of months, and see how it feels then.If you're feeling good about it, do continue, if not, think of something else. |
What is up with he submissions on the front page today? | quoderat: They seem legitimate to me, at least reference the guidelines for the site.It's not like you have to read them. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | sgk284: Managers are not to manage people, they are to manage problems. Most big companies simply get this wrong. Just make sure any oncoming manager understands this. |
When Does a Startup Need Management? | macco: A teacher for entrepreneurship sais to us, that you should not focus about organisation until you have 50 people working for you. But that does not mean that you don't need management. Actually you are doing managent when you are working on ideas. But if you feel you are not have time for your research then i wo... |
To porn or not to porn? | andrewljohnson: How much traffic does the non-money maker get, and in what market? |
To porn or not to porn? | cabalamat: > Would you do business or be associated with someone in the porn industry?If it made business sense, of course. I certainly wouldn't turn it down on "moralistic" grounds. |
To porn or not to porn? | hardik: During my teens I did build an erotic forum with another partner. It was never intended to be big money but money was good for us teenagers. However, I quit after a month simply because the mind becomes numbed out by sex, you don't enjoy it anymore.
If you do decide to go ahead with this, I would suggest you tr... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | ahoyhere: By "no safety net" do you mean no savings? That's how I read it at first. In which case, run, don't walk, away from the startup until you have some in the bank.BTW, our "startup" is earning money after the first month we shipped. We made $1500 on the first round of 30 day trials. (Now we're up to about $2000,... |
To porn or not to porn? | cantsay: Hello,
Thanks for all the great response.. I truly appreciate it.
I dont have a "moral" problem with Porn or even prostitution if all parties involved are over 18.that said, most people I know and deal with on daily basis are against porn in general... the society for the most part is againt porn or hide the f... |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | brandonkm: I would love it if the analytics script was much less bloated. Seems that the extra time it takes to download what is basically a rather large javascript file could be seriously cut down by minimizing the script in some way. |
To porn or not to porn? | ahoyhere: Hard advice you're not going to like:If you can't convert your traffic, maybe you should spend time investigating how to get people to convert, how to make products that they want, how to market & sell & reach people effectively, etc.Don't just give up on it and flip to the next project, which you won't fully... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | brandonkm: Having a cofounder != an increased chance of success for your startup. Having the right cofounder that is as excited about your product and is as determined as you are to make something thats awesome will be the difference between failure and success. |
What do you wish Google Analytics would do? | andrewljohnson: Track individuals... tell me all dimensions on someone who looked at a piece of content... more intensive stats like WebTrends used to have. |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | jacquesm: Keep that feeling, it's your biggest asset. The moment you lose it is when you should be looking out real hard for trouble because it is bound to happen.Insecurity at some level is one of the biggest drives to succeed, even if most successful entrepreneurs would never admit to it.There is no such thing as a '... |
To porn or not to porn? | joubert: Competition in the p0rn industry is stiff. |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | danielrhodes: You don't have a safety net? You'll find you don't need much of one. If you have money saved up, reduce your expenses and figure out a time-frame for it to work. By the end of that time frame you can decide what you want to do. You would be surprised how well you can scrape by if you really want to.What i... |
Time tracking | cheekysod: I use TaskTrack:http://www.bushsoftware.com/TaskTrack/TaskTrack.htmlno setup required, and it tracks exactly how long you spend on each document during the day; so all you have to do is group the documents into tasks and you have the total time spent.its actually made this stuff a heap easier than it was for... |
First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | wheels: When I was talking to one of the local luminaries in the startup scene he said something that seemed really "on":"It's uncertain what the worth of your startup will be. However, you can be certain that your personal worth will grow enormously."If you approach your first startup as one of the foundational perso... |
Why don't you use email encryption? | quoderat: Reasons I don't use it:1) I'm not terribly concerned with anyone reading what I send, because I've never personally observed any negative consequences from that happening, so that concern is external to me, even if real.2) It's another complexity added to my life that I don't need.3) Since others don't use it... |
Why don't you use email encryption? | jdabney: Another question along the same lines is the question of email signing. As a sysadmin I receive large amounts of email asking me to change something on various systems and almost none of them are signed. How am I to know that the real person wants some configuration change or not? I see it as a big security pr... |
Why don't you use email encryption? | mixmax: I actually tried a few years ago since I routinely sent patent applications, business plans and other sensitive information in e-mails. Unfortunately I couldn't get anyone to install encryption software at the other end (PGP) so I had to give up. Not even our patent attorney seemed to think that it was worthwhi... |
Why don't you use email encryption? | tptacek: We do, for obvious reasons, but I get why people don't. Email isn't going to be encrypted until email encryption is automatic and transparent.There's also two conflicting standards now; S/MIME and PGP. We have to use both, since roughly half our customers are married to each. |
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