scottkrager

It's stuff like this that gives SEO such a bad rap.

No data to back up the claim. Not even a visual.

I ate a burrito for lunch today and traffic is through the roof! Must be the burrito!

Sigh.

The power of the internet...always finding a way to really get stuff free. Thanks.

It frustrates me when something is labeled "free" but I have to tweet to my friends to get it.

Social capital isn't free.

Enterprise plumbers?

Put a bird on it.

As far as gigs/jobs, check out:

http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/

Salaries are on the lower end, but so is cost of living here. Lightbox to avoid SAD not included.

The Portland Seed Fund is launching this summer, which might bring some sexiness to the startup scene. COLORlovers just got 1mil and so did ShopIgnitor a few months back. So there is some action here for sure.

Portland is a big digital media agency town. Webtrends is here and lots of SEO/online marketing shops. GetClicky is here as well (go analytics!).

Not sure about interview questions.

I just hired a PHP dev strait from school at 50K/year. Hope that helps. Good luck.

For some reason I pictured a bunch of sysadmins at a cocktail party with their phones turned off swapping business cards. Then I read the article.

Don't forget Living Social. I've seen better and better offers from them this year. Seem to be doing well.

Car costs actually vary quite a bit depending on what part of the country you purchase in.

Also, with no sales tax in Oregon, a BMW is significantly cheaper in Portland in total cost.

Are you glad you ended up raising that much?

I always thought TOS fans are usually called "trekkies" and TNG "trekkers"

Oh dear gosh I hope my wife doesn't know I know that.

They need to remove all ads from this domain, otherwise BofA can easily take the domain for trademark infringement.

Never had an iPad before...hope it's worth the wait!

I know nothing about programming. I'm good with SEO.

What should I do? : )

hint: the answer might be the same!

So....who else held out on the first generation and is planning on buying? I'm in.

Wow really shows how Y Combinator values co-founders...

No co-founder....no soup for you!

To be fair, they did get accepted based on having the whole team.

Do you think you would have been excepted if you applied as just yourself?

3.5% is insanely high right now.

I'm 100% sure that is a promotional rate.

Rodgers is going to win his first of many rings today...

If your idea or business is good enough...the VC's will figure it out for you. Go ahead and pitch them, the age issue can be overcome!

Try something like: http://www.smartypig.com (online savings accounts goal oriented) or http://www.mint.com (nice goals feature)

Bad experience? Well, if you find the right IB, it can make all the difference. (from my experience)

If we are talking anything 7-figures or above...find an investment bank/broker.

Sure you'll end up paying them a hefty cut...but you won't get screwed.

Plus, if you're getting interest from one large company, there are probably others interested as well and a good broker can run an auction for you to get a much better deal than trying to do it alone.

Selling your company isn't something you should do by yourself in my experience.

So how do you combat that?

#1 reason: Not listening to your customers.

That's interesting because I think that is a psychological problem more than anything else.

Getting your product or service in front of a 3rd party (not your mother or buddy) is scary for many people...myself included!

Link: http://www.algonaut.com/

I'm pretty sure Amazon recommendation service does this. Or you could login to your account to tweak it show this happens.

I appreciate the openness, but I would be careful about saying "Our Competition Sucks" when your video mostly highlights good features of your competitors.

Plus saying, "they suck and we won't" isn't the most convincing argument to sign up.

I wonder if this has more to do with media relations than anything else.

Schmidt had some major media slips & blunders in 2010, it just doesn't seem to be his thing.

I think this is a situation where the votes this story is getting ARE the data.

I imagine many men voting this story up have noticed this trend in their own lives.

It's not hard data, but it shows a trend.

Heck just yesterday I rode an elevator up with 2 parents and their maybe 3 year old kid. The kid had been out in the rain and I made a comment directly to the child about the rain. The parents looked pissed just because I was talking to their kid.

I was just trying to make awkward elevator conversation a little less awkward.

This is a secondary offering. Local.com is already a publicly traded company. Not a good sign.