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  1. ilrein

    Live Rent Free in Multiple Countries

    NOTABLE! REAL ESTATE 
    @GlobalWealth such a beautiful dream. Expect some PMs in a year or two :P
  2. ilrein

    BigCommerce Rest In Peace (Alternatives Re: Price Increase)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Software has by far got to be one of the most difficult products to bring to market. A group of oversea coders @ ~$10/hour against a company where half of the executives are massively accomplished engineers and employ over 300+ people since 2013. Best of luck.
  3. ilrein

    Twitter on the Deathwatch

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I think that Twitter fills an important need -- and we know well here, that so long as a need exists, their is a market for it. The true value of Twitter is the ability for news to spread wildfire style. This massive communications platforms has made it very difficult for oppressive regimes to...
  4. ilrein

    BigCommerce Rest In Peace (Alternatives Re: Price Increase)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I certainly think for as far as off the shelf solutions go, Shopify is a monster contender.
  5. ilrein

    BigCommerce Rest In Peace (Alternatives Re: Price Increase)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Truthfully, I think the right answer is a fully open source solution that uses APIs to handle processing, for example: this guy. You would pay nothing for the code, your only fee is hosting and the domain name. You only pay a credit card processing fee when you make a sale, and the tradeoff is...
  6. ilrein

    BigCommerce Rest In Peace (Alternatives Re: Price Increase)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    @Vigilante @biophase and I discussed some of the merits of Shopify versus WooCommerce here. We both found it to be an unattractive long term option, because of hidden transaction fees. Otherwise a solid platform, but really greedy. I think it's good to start off with, but too expensive in...
  7. ilrein

    The Bitcoin: A New World Currency?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    @Jake You obviously see the value that the blockchain technology brings. I agree completely -- there are huge advantageous with using a decentralized architecture, in that there is no one source of power to manipulate and abuse the system. I believe Bitcoin is struggling because of the issues...
  8. ilrein

    The Bitcoin: A New World Currency?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    @Jake What are your thoughts on Michael Hearn, core developer who left the project? Do you think this version of Bitcoin has mass consumption potential?
  9. ilrein

    The Bitcoin: A New World Currency?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Bitcoin WAS a promising project -- it's dead now. But you know what? Artificial Intelligence went through two winters -- where no private investor would touch anything labelled AI, where all the promises of life quality improvements never materialized, except in small, isolated test...
  10. ilrein

    [AMA] SEO and Digital Marketing in 2016

    HOT! MARKETING 
    One of the key things I got from this is that SEO is very much still a big deal, the difference is now you can't get away with low quality content/backlinks. I imagine machine learning applied to natural language processing would be just one mechanism employed to determine content quality and...
  11. ilrein

    I Can't Make Money Doing What I Want, So I Better Go Get My Masters

    MINDSET 
    I've heard this so many times as well. And then I laugh. I try to share the merits of building a business instead of school, and I'm met with responses of (I have obligations, I have no time, I have no money). Yet none of those will stop you from becoming a dropout, AGAIN. You can lead a...
  12. ilrein

    I think I should learn how to code. What's the quickest way?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Where do you live?
  13. ilrein

    Fastlaners and MJ kicked my a$$ into gear..

    RANT 
    @punkcityrocker I take it the dream job you were describing was teaching English overseas? TEFOL style? It was also something I was considering quite heavily, but I saw the numbers and knew with plane tickets you pretty much ain't making shit. Great job on the progress!
  14. ilrein

    A Lottery Contrarian

    @Yoda Reminds me of a conversation some of my friends were happening. And I'm all I could think -- this conversation depresses me. That statement of "I can dream what tomorrow might be like if I won". I just feel the same thing. This horrific combination of pity and depression. Where is...
  15. ilrein

    Pinterest valued at 11 Billion

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    @hellolin thats true of TECHNOLOGY, not companies themselves. Just because I say my company is "tech" doesn't automatically mean I get any benefits from Moore's Law. The value of social networks is exponential because of node-connections ala Metcalfe's law.
  16. ilrein

    Pinterest valued at 11 Billion

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    @Empires Excellent question. Difficult to answer. This clip explains the essence much better than I could
  17. ilrein

    Pinterest valued at 11 Billion

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Then the question, why give VC to such a company? The answer is this: a social network's value is in how many nodes are able to be connected. Two dots and a line make a node. Two people connected on a social network is one node (two dots, one line). Three people connected is three nodes (3...
  18. ilrein

    The Profit, entrepreneur business turnaround show on CNBC

    HOT! 
    Gotta wonder if Marcus is picking clowns who make for good TV. Then you realize -- no shit sherlock.
  19. ilrein

    Taking A Software Business From $10k To $30k Per Month

    EXECUTION 
    @selfmadebm Read the whole thing. Thanks for sharing!
  20. ilrein

    Ayn Rand and Capitalism

    MINDSET 
    @ChrisJTurner This is why I dislike speaking about philosophy. Where exactly did I hurt your feelings? Saying you might not have the whole picture? And then offering to expand on those points and discuss them? Shrug. Another one.

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