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He is far from disgruntled. He seems like someone who enjoyed his work and his life. Clickbait article but I guess it worked.

Fox News was built by serving the needs of a segment of the market that felt underserved. It’s a very effective strategy.

Matt, Thanks for writing this. I’ve also had a long, slow ramp up with my saas (8 years) and it’s great to read stories/experiences like this.

Yah, it's disappointing

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I know of a small business in upstate NY that gets 80% of their sales from FB ads. Without FB, this business which also has a retail store, would certainly be having a lot more of a rough time. And they are not an isolated story. I know of at least 5 other small businesses that similarly generate from 25% to 70% of sales via FB. It's given these small businesses a way to compete against bigger competitors.

These cuts were made after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut in 2017.

The article cited doctors from Harvard, Brown, Rhode Island, Italy, Dr. Fauci, etc.

It reminds me that we humans are capable of going to great lengths to resist change, even when it creates shitty outcomes.

Batshit crazy? He just turned around Tesla, in an industry, where the last startup to succeed was over 80 years ago. Buy some Treasury bonds instead?

Reading this brought me to tears. Tears of nostalgia.

nostalgia, sad and hopeful all at once, when the familiar and the alien mingle, as when we revisit the childhood streets where our friends are no more, or when we return all alone to the site of some joyful memory.

You make a good point. I wonder how is drug marketing handled in places like EU. How do their doctors learn of new drugs and decide which meds to prescribe?

This article reads almost like a hatchet job.

I love reading stories like these. They are insightful and funny.

Solo founder here. You have to have a growth mindset. It is your oxygen.

I was speaking to an entrepreneur today, trying to learn about his industry and sell him marketing services. The guy kept coming up with reasons not to grow. Even when I asked him, what if you had 20 more customers willing to spend $15K (his dream cust), he said he would have problems fulfilling those customers.

This guy does not have a growth mindset. Maybe that's by choice; maybe he is happy with the current revenue, which is fine.

But as a new entrepreneur, a growth mindset is essential. The best way I know to overcome this is to have a coach or even better a coach who has already built that kind of business you are trying to build.

When Sun bought Marsh Supermarkets, the company had three retirement plans. One for the top five Marsh executives, one for the store employees, and one for the warehouse workers.

Only the executives’ plan, however, was fully funded under the sales agreement: With the completion of Sun’s purchase, Marsh’s top five executives were to be awarded $14 million in retirement payments, according to company financial documents. Among them: CEO Don Marsh at $7 million and corporate counsel P. Lawrence Butt at $2.2 million.

Meanwhile, the other two retirement plans — the worker pensions — were short millions of dollars.

In the short-term, Zuckerberg maybe the CEO, but if he keeps prioritizing ads over product (which he has done with FB prod/privacy), then the long-term maybe dicey.

Just as content is king, so product will always be king. The ads will follow whoever has the best product, and hence user attention.

I agree, it sucks. It needs to be disrupted. There's got to be a better way to maintain professional and business relationships. Facebook has co-opted some of that need via FB groups.

I dislike the interface, it loads slow, almost 90% of messages are spam. They tried to be a content hub, but the only content hubs I read are HN, Quora, NYT and random blogs.

The Chinese government deployed a similar tactic in Sri Lanka, building a sea part that is unnecessary, with easy loans, which Sri Lanka defaulted on, leading to China taking ownership. It then deployed a submarine to the port, alarming both Sri Lanka and India.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lank...

Just curious. What makes you hangout at HN?

I sent 100s of LinkedIn emails saying 'Im a software entrepreneur interested in learning about the problems/challenges in your industry. Would you be open to chatting? I have nothing to sell and only want to learn.'

Then I'd call them up and chat.

At first I'd setup calls only with those who responded.

Then I began calling up people even if they did not respond.

Most people are happy to talk about problems.

I use toggl and love it! Thanks for this article.

1. Did you find that some people were flagging you as spam, and then your legitimate emails were not being delivered? I guess since you sent these emails individually and personalized them, the spam flag did not get hit often?

2. For the content partnerships, what kind of content did you find to be most attractive?

The same cannot be said of manufacturing. If UK based manufacturers lose easy access to the EU market, there is a huge incentive for them to leave. Probably to Ireland.

I like this one - backpack vacuum cleaner. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588177

Tim Ferris, the master marketer.

This chart from the bureau of labor statistics shows where our time goes. Work is the # 1 activity, followed by sleep.

http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/

Conversion is not based simply on an ad and a buy button. Consumers like to read reviews, price shop, check out images, specs, have questions answered, etc. How is a 3 line ad supposed to compress all that? By adding a buy button?!!

This will most likely go the way of google wallet

Edison's response to the critics - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E4D813...

I remember the black bar for Dennis Richie and Steve Jobs only. It would be fitting for Leonard Nemoy too.

Great list of working docs. Congrats Danielle & team.