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Well, I think it depends on what you define as a success. To become celebrity filmmaker, probably so. But to "start over" and just find a better job like the guy in the tweet is asking should be reasonable to accomplish.


The thing is it is actually worse than that. It is 100% conversion with the assumption that every single visitor would instead use accusing site instead of going to any of the other alternatives.


I understand your goal is to get the best deal for your client but I think the way you test potential vendors may be a little removed to give you adequate information. Consider this company has a lot more information on the recommended path to properly learning their product. Through experience with other customers they may know ahead of time that the basic version is all that is really needed for a non-commercial user.


I think the way you test potential vendors may be a little removed to give you adequate information

In this instance it worked for me, as well I do have pretty extensive experience in negotiating. In one of my start-ups I negotiated our sale to hotels.com as well with another I negotiated our sale to TUI. So I think I do have some valuable insight into negotiations and selecting companies that have complementary cultures.

To each there own, my style of negotiation has served me well and until I learn a more effective strategy it's the best game face I have.


I know it's Wikipedia, but it's still impressive that they can get 50k donations in an hour.


Also, which I think was not mentioned is they get to pay less operational expenses because the bandwidth used is lower.


Like the idea. Here are a couple names that came to mind

hoardsale, hoardbox, tidycrate, shipsold, sendsold, auctionboxx


The mixergy was also very interesting: http://mixergy.com/gary-kremen-interview/


Fun to speculate, maybe clearwire? Or enter a new market and buy whirlpool and make iMicrowaves?


i realize iMicrowave is a joke, but honestly its brilliant. Imagine a line of custom kitchen appliances running iOS. Apps for your oven.


Just one suggestion for your timeline. I would suggest "decided on domain name" and "bought a domain" appear one after the other. I just don't trust sitting on domain ideas if they are available for hand registration.


I also don't think they would want to encourage their patrons to take their phones out during meals. Think this is still considered poor form, could be wrong though.

Think idea number one is the better one.


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