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Fuca

183 karma · joined November 2, 2007

"A man just can have 2 friends: his dad and a dollar on his pocket"

http://www.mexautos.com http://www.freeusedcarsads.com

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Fuca··on Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them
It is amazing how the crowd thinks in waves good or bad, everybody kills for an ipod, everybody hates or loves the same things, we belive more in general opinion than in our own opinions.
Fuca··on Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
I think I just came up with a solution for the dating site, and will give it a try.

What I have not solved is I live in Mexico, and this will require an office or staff in major cities.

Fuca··on Ask YC: Do I have a chance?
When asked what would be the main factor for someone to succeed, Bill Gates answer was how young they start their first company, Warren Buffet who really is smart and was sitting next to him agreed.

Go for it, if you start now I guarantee you will have your life fixed by 35 yo.

Fuca··on The Numbers Are In, Live Video Online Is Blowing Up
Finally the computer reaching their full potential: a TV
Fuca··on Ask YC: Review my startup
Money?

/ great idea, if you do not get into legal issues

Fuca··on Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
cool site
Fuca··on Homeowner vs. Renter: Why Should You Ever Buy a House (at all)?
Renters definitely lost over a short period of time the secret is they do it for the long run, now the article kind of makes logic for your first house.
Fuca··on Xobni: Our Path from ‘Wrong Product’ to Killer App
I think these guys will make money, but not as much as the 20m they just turn down.

In a year these features will be developed in every email client.

Fuca··on What is the minimum budget to promote a site?
used cars ads, it is by google ads, and an option to add photos that cost $4 - freeusedcarsads.com
Fuca··on Those Xobni guys are ballsy
I would have sell, MS can just get someone to work on those widgets.
Fuca··on VC Funding Spelled Backwards
Why MS just not go ahead and copy Xobni? it is not like they would need to get users, they are already there.
Fuca··on Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL
Congratulations Dude, I picture you in Cancun with a margarita now, but hope you have the chance to answer: How much of your success do you think is thanks to good SEO?
Fuca··on Quit your job
I was just amazed of a good idea I just saw: they charge you 10 usd a month for being in the front page of about 50 small search engines, so the result is that you get a good amount of traffic and these guys have a mini adsense and probably making a decent living.
Fuca··on I'm meeting Jeff Bezos tonight-- what should I ask him?
What is minimum amount of money for a startup today?
Fuca··on Top Lessons I’ve Learned From Starting My Company (So Far)
I am in freemium in the used cars ads, the big dogs charge money, but without a name is hard even when the ads are free. But my sites brings some bucks at the end of the month, just to go catch a movie, but anyway is ok.
Fuca··on Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs
I think in part because the ad agencies want to overspend the money because of commissions.With the cheap (and effective) costs of internet ads, they would soon be gone.
Fuca··on Articles, Ideas, Books and/or Concepts that have changed your life
Tao te ching, Shakespeare, and the pharse "Your will only have 2 friends: your dad and a dollar in your pocket"
Fuca··on Octopart Traffic
Great idea. I will wish you luck, but you do not seem to need it anymore.
Fuca··on How to ensure your startup will fail
"Take a look around the net and make certain that you don’t have another huge player operating in the space that you want to move into." BS, That is how you end up selling hats for iguanas, dont be afraid of competition just make sure to do something better.
Fuca··on Parable of the Shoe Salesman - Capitalism rewards wealth owners, not creators
There can also be another morale: always be a owner.
Fuca··on 10 quotes against work
Fuck Yeah! Well said all of them.
Fuca··on Scott Adams: Connect citizens all over the world with a pen pal website to prevent new wars
I spend a year in the USA and I can tell this will work, the feeling for that country gets very close as home or your native country.
Fuca··on Ask YC: I just quit Microsoft to work on this product full-time. What's your brutal feedback?
There is a lot of money in that market, good luck

I think the bottom line is us (publishers), use Google ads because we want to be in good terms with whoever is bringing the people, if you work around that you will make it big.

Fuca··on Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think?
Good Idea, I think you will make it. Useful tool mostly for people on sales, and by that I mean everybody.
Fuca··on How much time should be given to a start up to succeed?
The thing that really amaze me is to see the site have no growth but still it seems a some people return, how is this possible? You have a site that manages to have users visit again and also get some users from search engines, but at the end of the day you still have the same total of users as the day before? it is not logical! (It is a site about cars).
Fuca··on Major layoffs at yahoo (20%)?
It is not even international.
Fuca··on Major layoffs at yahoo (20%)?
It is amazing that Yahoo has yet to copy Adsense, I mean they know is giving billons to Google, and you wait years and have not even complete a decent copy of it???
Fuca··on "An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget about money."
Amen to that.
Fuca··on Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites
No. It's true, it also happens in craiglist, ugly = success, it may be because is less scary without design to the masses?
Fuca··on Ask YC: Is there a solution better than advertising?
It is not a question if it is wrong, but if it will work or not.
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