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I agree with you Larry. I do like to enjoy life as well. There are the type of people who are so passionate about their work that they would love to stare at a computer screen 16 hours a day. When I was younger, I had the time to read, grow and get better at my work. Nowadays, I have a fiance and a marriage to plan so hence I have MUCH less time to learn outside the job. However, I still try to sneak in as much as I can in my outside work hours ;)
That's a really good observation. I am also launching a free service geared towards a specific niche audience and we are trying our to acquire more and more users. I think that in addition to getting some press on tech blog like TechCrunch, we should probably target industry specific bloggers more since that is where our true customer may be.
This is absurd. I am working on my internet startup as we speak and reading news like this really disappoints me. Why is our country all about a quick buck or fast cash rather. We move from Internet bubble in late 90s to Housing bubble in the '00s back to the Internet bubble... is housing bubble next?
Great read. Thanks
Exactly. I really don't know what the news is... Also, having Disqus is better since users can still do anonymous commenting
It's definitely risky to do something like this. You have to be that sure and believe in yourself that you can pull it off. I am trying to do the same exact thing... move from a regular, steady job to starting my own thing. Thus far I have been working on it on the side but at some point I want to make a full switch to working on my company full time and support myself + family.
I really enjoyed the quiz as well. The look of the site is very professional rather than consumer friendly. It could look a little more "fun". As for the question answer part which is probably the core part of the site, I didn't enjoy it as much as the quiz portion. Try to tie these two together.
That's a good question. I don't know myself. Do you have other competitors in this space?
Agreed! I've been using a bunch. I wish you could view all twitter profile functions natively rather than the browser
I agree with olivolive. You have a nice layout but the only thing that is lacking is not clearly showing who the product is for. Maybe have two big tabs visually that shows how it works for customers and businesses.
Ditto.. there is no point trying to prevent certain bots, etc from scraping your content. It's a never ending battle. Just like all the others said before me, if it's your content, you should be fine.