sunnybunny's comments

I wish people would start focusing their efforts on "ideas" and start focusing on solving problems people are willing to pay for. Every StartupWeekend I coach at, I see a handful of ideas that people work on that solve no problem, and no purpose. They don't have a shot because they have no reason for existing.

So maybe if this were to be adjusted so that it was more of a place to talk about problems you wish people would solve. PG wrote a good post where he briefly talked with problems, and he wished people would solve them. Why not structure it as a place for people to complain about inefficiencies.

I'll start right now with a complaint of my own:

Startups are best started by people who can build things themselves. Unfortunately, people also tend to work on problems they know really well. As a result, a lot of startups are focused on tech-focused problems, and completely ignore broader world problems. Create a place for regular people to complain about issues in their business they wish worked better, and you'll allow builders of technology to understand problems they never would have encountered.

Great, another product to screw with human biology. If spray adhesive and spray paint is bad for humans to inhale, I wonder what a compound like this would do inside human lungs.

But hey, I suppose if it does in fact waterproof your iPhone against... um... swimming...

Saying that it's possible to nail a business that has been tried and failed before is fine, but you had better understand why things are different now.

What happened to those original teams? Bad team? How was their execution flawed? What new advances in technology (or your secret sauce) will make things different now? Not enough money to jumpstart the market? Bad timing, and an opportunity has opened up now?

Been waiting for somebody to explain how that could be possible.

Why were the laws enacted in the first place?

I love simple games like this, reminds me of the good ol' days. =)

Not bad. I hope more people will pursue different careers and passions after they've spent 10-15 years in one area.

A friend of mine has a neighbor that used to be a software engineer, and now makes sausage. It's honestly some of the best sausage I've ever had, and you can't hardly find it anywhere because it sells out so fast. Well, I know one place I can get it but I'm not saying where.

I hope he truly enjoys making cakes and I hope one day I'll embark on a different professional journey again.

Already going the way of Microsoft...

Why not just set up a skillshare class and find out exactly what people want directly? They would take care of the distribution for you, and so you can just figure out the content of the experiment.

Well, the treatment is moving to Stage 1 Human trials, these people should clearly get in touch and volunteer to be a part of the trials.

This feels like an overly strong assertion based on one piece of anecdotal data. Saying that you played with this and got good results in one case is different than saying you've done experiments for multiple different startup marketing pages and consistently those pages without a logo at the top perform better.

Google is one of the most intensive A/B testers in the technology space, and on every logged out page of Gmail and Google Drive and Google Calendar, guess where the logo is?

Edit: I would add though that the argument around communicating the "Why" is more important off the bat than the "who". That said, having a minimalistic logo in the top right or left won't likely distract them for very long - unless there's evidence of that?

Wish it could be my new google reader... but alas, no rss feed input...

Looks like it's back up under an MIT license?

My first thought on this was, "Awesome!" And then my second thought was, "Could this guy go to jail for that?"

It's so sad that a guy doing something as innocent as this could be faced with fines or prison because our legal system is so screwed up.

It would be a mistake to assume that readers are all the news sites optimize for. Don't forget that they get readers to get impressions, and impressions to get ad dollars.

By increasing the real estate focused on creating more clicks, they increase the chances they can get somebody's attention, send them to a new page, and thus create another impression, and more money generated.

It's the same reason that news sites will have a "Top 10" article with images and divide the content up into essentially 10 sections you have to keep hitting Next to see more on. More page loads = more impressions = more $$. Simple

Additionally, pages rank higher for SEO in SERPS when they have social proof that the content is engaging. So yes, the social sharing is necessary.

So while I agree your comments on how to optimize purely for readers are valid, you may be forgetting to take other things into account.