Absolutely. The biggest criticism of KonMari from Japanese is "no duh." Even the techniques for things like folding and arranging clothing so you can see everything at a glance are common knowledge among Japanese. Baffling.
Only looking at lifetime value delivered ignores the competition, much of which is free and easy to switch to.
Also support costs typically go down over time; most support effort is spent in onboarding and getting users up and running. Although now that you mention it, Evernote may have huge technical drag because they have bugs outstanding from over six years ago. Indeed, the only time I reached out to support (I couldn't install PC version because it was incorrectly detecting that I already had it installed) they weren't able to assist. $10 lifetime value may be a bit generous.
I've been fighting this fight for over 17 years now. The landscape has changed a lot - mostly for the better IMHO. In particular, issuers are taking more responsibility for checking the validity of the cards but some of them are hopeless and there is still a way to go.
Criticise me all you like but I still have a blacklist of countries where I will never send physical goods to (unless they direct deposit the money, for one of my sites).
Not sure if it's relevant for "subscription" model businesses but Stripe and a couple of other providers have an option to charge the card immediately or just get authorisation for the amount. The authorisation is only held for seven days, but I have found that this has often been enough for the owner of the card to notice and cancel the authorisation before the charge happens. I haven't checked but this could also solve the "instant feedback" problem for providers that give it as "authorsied" is less conclusive than "charged" for the scammer.
Ironically the 4chan crowd who create most of the world's shareable GIF content are either banned from Twitter because a feminist got outraged or have left of their own volition.
Wow. I feel like an abuse victim that has just had an intervention. Now that you mention it, I've seen this phenomenon at almost every open source project I've peeked into over the years. I need to sit down for a bit.
"Are you seriously using that coupon company instead of Groupon?"
This was the bitchy-voice Groupon sales rep phoning me direct when I used a different coupon service in Japan. I asked whether she was talking about the same Groupon of "Great Osechi Ryori Disaster and CEO's Fake Apology of 2011"-fame and it shut her up real quick.
So many things wrong with this company, failure couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of people.
By virtue of the fact that Atlassian chose not to list in Australia they have sent a message to government. Turnbull appears to be the kind of prime minister who could make Australia more tech-friendly, so fingers crossed.
The best option for a rising tech company in Australia remains, unfortunately, to purchase outright a flailing listed mining company and invert, a la 1999. This is where the "scammy" feel of listed tech companies comes from.
> By early 2014 the three had $4 million in seed funding and had narrowed their focus to Bitcoin apps. But they found that the software tools they needed to build those apps didn’t exist and pivoted to building the tools themselves.
> ON A MONDAY MORNING seven Chain.com employees sit in a circle on their Aeron chairs plotting the week’s plan of attack for various projects. The shoptalk is a jargon-fest of “open assets,” “confirmation time,” “UI,” “sidechains,” “federated chains” and, of course, “coins.” Khosla Ventures’ Rabois, the company’s lead VC investor, says he backed Chain.com because it had a nucleus of “10X engineers,” which he defines as “engineers who have the output and insight that’s ten times better than a regularly good engineer.” Elite groups like these, he says, are essential to build tools “so more regular engineers can build applications” for blockchain.
In The Industry, how common is investing $4 million in a company before they have even "narrowed their focus to Bitcoin apps," based on the unproven potential of the founders? What am I missing?
Absolutely it's about the status. No-one in the industry wants to be the person saying "Um I don't have Bloomberg Chat. Can you email it to me instead?"
Regarding just replacing IBchat with another chat program, Reuters Messenger has been on most trader stations for over a decade now but has failed to gain traction.
The reason Twenty20 was incremental was because it took an entrepreneur like Packer, with connections and money, to prove that cricket could even be changed in the first place.
Cricket is a great example of where disruption created a larger pie for the incumbent. Kerry Packer popularised the One Day International at a time where the (five day) Tests were on their last legs, which in turn re-ignighted interest in the Tests.
Cricket has experienced no other disruption prior or since.
"Finding" a co-founder wasn't a choice for the uncountable husband-wife partnerships over the ages. Sometimes for better or for worse you're stuck with your spouse as your co-founder.
I remained in the corporate world for about five years after making the decision mentally to quit until I had confidence that both the technology and my own skill had reached a point where I could have a good shot at hustling a living with my wife as "co-founder." The article somewhat vindicates my decision.