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yourmailmanon Show HN: Maximize your profit with dynamic pricing

This makes complete sense and makes you wonder why a company like this doesn’t already exist. Seems like this company could help startups and unicorns (need scale) that are stuck due to broken pricing and unlock serious value

yourmailmanon Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers

It's called the power rule (Pareto distribution) and it's not news

yourmailmanon Replacing My Kid’s College Fund with a “Start Something” Fund

Silly if you think they are mutually exclusive

yourmailmanon Move Over Kickstarter, Crypto-Equity Is the Next Frontier

Note people, these laws are not yet in effect and are still liable to change. Equity Crowdfunding for the public (non-accredited investors) is ILLEGAL, unless done through a intrastate crowdfunding exemption.

yourmailmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

Accredify - Miami (remote possible to start) - CTO

Accredify is the leading verifier for Accredited (and soon non-accredited) investors based on new SEC regulations as presented in the JOBS Act.

We are looking for a CTO to build out our API's and develop a dashboard to manage your equity crowdfunding investments online. This is an opportunity to architect an amazing platform that requires working with the major equity crowdfunding portals that exist today.

We are a fun, early stage startup looking for someone with experience in REST/JSON, C, Javascript, Python, SQL, Ruby.

Above market salary and equity stake within the company guaranteed, as well as lovely weather and good looking people, because hey, it's Miami!

See: http://accredify.co/jobs/

yourmailmanon Ask HN: how do you invest?

Since your using Euros, check out equity crowdfunding. Crowdcube.com lets you invest in startups. My recommendation is you take that 10k and put into into 10 different investments and hope that one is a banger.

yourmailmanon Ask HN: Bitcoin vs USD - which is better to drive donations to a site?

A/B test it and let the data decide

yourmailmanon How much money are you earning from your software products?

Always charge and set your price high unless your running a freemium model. Its much easier to lower your price than raise it. And if your customers pay and are upset you can always refund them.

yourmailmanon Ask HN: Why would or wouldn't you do a marijuana-focused startup?

Fair point but the point has actually been addressed. The federal government will take no direct intervention in the two states so long as the proposed state laws are followed.

yourmailmanon Bacn is the New Spam

The product can be accessed from the blog roll under Glider Home.

yourmailmanon Bacn is the New Spam

I will try and get you that data :)