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How much is our family domain really worth?
Hello HN,

I have been a long time lurker and fan of HN. This is my first post.

I would love you guys to give me some feedback regarding a domain.

Over the last twelve months we have ranked first on all the major search engines for local construction work in our area (700k people). It has generated almost £400,000 worth of quotations in those 12 months for our company (its a family built company, generations old). Obviously, financially, it has been a game changer for us and we're struggling with the transition of coping with more work than we've ever dealt with (I taught myself SEO early last summer as a hobby, I think our website design gives an edge too).

We are not looking to sell the domain but are merely curious - what would it be worth? the domain contains the company name, would that strip further value? is it worth anything?

Generally, our assumption is that it brought in £400k of quotations so it must have some value to another company (also, we spent 4 months not being on page one so hopefully this will rise)

Thanks HNers.

(PS. I really don't wish to submit the domain name nor would we ever sell it. Not sure whether I'll get much feedback but its worth a try!)
How is your site structured?

1) You want to move static data off your system onto another site like s3.

2) You want to do whatever you can async. ie. if somebody shares data, you don't have to make it available immediately. Just place it in a queue and have a second system go through and deal with it.
Not really. A film camera needs a lot of setup but once you've got it built each morning then switching in a new battery or film magazine takes about a minute, startup is a couple of seconds. In some contexts, a mechanical setup can be more robust and efficient. For that particular film, using a RED would have been like using a Ferrari to do the job of a pickup truck.
While it's probably true, this horse has been beaten to death many times over.

Best part:

Every time you tell someone your idea they will voice their opinion. That's great, because it allows you to keep sharpening your idea based on the opinions of real people instead of the voice in your head.
Which is why I like to be able to download a SlideShare item and then view the PPT as a pdf.

But this one DLs to an OmniOutliner doc ?!? Unfortunate. And author's site (nathanmarz.com) does not even mention this presentation. Can you help us out Nathan?
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I'd still take the position that a hairdresser could be a Startup (as well as a startup). There are a few well known brands that I expect originated in that fashion(!) and there's always room for further innovation.
I don't think that's quite comparable. Contrary to platforms like Google App Engine or iOS, the core infrastructure AWS offers is sufficiently open and commonplace that you wouldn't have such a hard time moving away from them in the unlikely event that they'll throw you out. This is simply a case of a much more classical business dilemma: a big company decides to build a product that competes with your small company. The somewhat strange thing about this case is that the big company is also providing the infrastructure for your small company so they win regardless of whichever product wins, but not at the cost of the small company's ability to build a better product.
This doesn't make sense. This isn't like Facebook or iOS where you are a sharecropper working their platform and they can pull the rug from under you at anytime. The platform here is the web, Amazon doesn't own the web, any company you build on the web could attract competition from anybody else. Building your business on top of Amazon's top-notch infrastructure doesn't give Amazon any advantage if they decide to compete against you. And nothing would stop you from moving off of their stuff if it did. I don't know why anyone would have the "understanding" that Amazon wasn't going to compete against them. Amazon's cloud actually evens the playing field, there's nothing stopping you from building a bookstore and competing against Amazon using their own servers against them.

In short, your complaint doesn't make sense.
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Huh? http://www.red.com/experience <-

From my experience with RED, foundry's rolling shutter gets rid of the errors quite easily http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/rollingshutter/

and everything I've ran through flame or smoke that was shot on key with red had no problem (related to camera).

REDs are a great tool. And cheap. ARRI Alexa is better, from my experience, but it comes with a premium.. and panavision you can rent only, of course. TBH, camera is the least important factor in shooting a feature/commercials quality look, as long as it's not a DSLR (no matter what popular belief is among prosumers). If you get cooke S4 lenses or other high quality lenses onto RED, Alexa or any other similar camera, you won't notice much of a difference, and each prime lens costs as much as camera alone.
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The thing is, I can't imagine that. My grandma never touched a computer. But she still is part of our society.
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Yeah, there is a certain flare of 'it feels organic' hipster thinking going on... but there is another thing to it, you might not be aware of.

When shooting on film, DOPs and directors go to a telecine facility or a film lab where they wait for their stock to get scanned and then grade it live with an operator... I suspect most of the 'i shoot only on film' directors and DOPs are actually shooting on film because of they way they are used to work in grading/DI process with a certain operator or a few of them... it's that process that they are comfortable with and don't wish to abandon.

sure, there is digital grading, and it's done - but with film it's more of a ritual, where with digital footage it's more like sitting in a comping booth... I don't know how to explain it otherwise, it's a big deal to DOPs and directors (especially directors on commercials, not so much on features).
I have a question.

It seems like they perform better when they are two than one.

I.e. when it's only one QC it lost the ball quite quickly.

Is this telling of something or is that just coincidence?
That's more than a bit creepy. "Disclose your files ... as we determine is necessary" means they can basically use it for whatever they want.
Peter Jackson/WETA bought 30 EPICs... if it's good for them, it's good for everyone.
Do the keys look somehow special or impressive? $10 for a pretty unique keychain doesn't sound too bad.
Because if they establish a reputation of watching what people are building on their platform, then copying it and driving those businesses out of the market, they'll alienate their developer community.
To steal Steve Blank's terminology, that's a business model, not a business plan. Every business has a model explicit or not. Not every business needs an explicit plan.
Photosynthesis stops above a certain temperature due to quantum effects anyway, so there's a natural governor. And I assume plants' vascular system also does some cooling.
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What compelled you to move there?

(honest q, I've taken the cable car a couple of times, but never actually went into Roosevelt Island..)
Keep in mind that even 'burst mode' on a high-end DSLR only runs at 3-5 frames per second (not 30), and still requires a few seconds between bursts to process and write to disk.

No.

My 4 year old consumer level Nikon D80 will hit 3FPS. Yes, that's with a buffer, but in practice if I turn the JPEG quality down a touch, it'll run for a long time at that rate while pushing out 10MP files. I've no idea what it'd do at even 2K resolution but it'd be fast.

I forget exactly which SLR is the fastest at present but 10+FPS is very doable in a device costing a few thousand on 10-15MP files, far below the price level of a RED One.

Also....

Film not only shoots at 24 frames per second (or more), but the final picture has to play on a screen that is literally two stories high. The scale is unforgiving. Things that would fly on television get suddenly ugly - especially if you're only starting with 1080 lines of resolution.

Toy Story 1 was rendered at 1536x830 and upsampled to 2048x1108 in post production. You really don't need as much resolution as you think.
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She's probably an actress. Someone has obviously put a lot of thought and effort into this.

If she's not an actress and is in fact the mastermind, I apologise, kudos to her.

EDIT: Thinking about it, even if she is an actor, kudos to her regardless. I certainly couldn't keep a straight face doing that...
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Hey guys,

I have been working on an online service for almost a year now and it is nearly done, and I want to start approaching VCs and angel investors. but not sure if I should do that before or after having a trading license and sort this stuff out. what do you think?

Thanks.
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Not that I believe the idea that defense lawyers are pro-murder in the first place, but sharing files and murder are hardly equivalent. Further, I don't think it makes sense to conflate criminal and civil law, and because it is civil, the burden of proof is lower. Sharing is natural and victimless, and while I guess there would be little (if any) debate over whether murder is wrong, I would guess there could be great debate over whether file sharing is wrong.
That C++ doesn't impose, but does permit these runtime features is what allows it to adapt to such a wide variety of constrained environments. Baking those features into the language can certainly be much cleaner, at the cost of versatility.

We need system level languages and C++ currently stands alone in its combination of powerful abstractions, low level control, and ecosystem size, though it certainly has competition in these aspects individually.

I don't doubt that a language could be everything C++ is and much cleaner too, but that is a big challenge that relatively few language designers want to take on.
Follow the Inspiring Stories under Getting Inspiration - most are not tech-startup focused. Also look at 'About Us' and read the bios. I'd argue that 'startup' for the government relates to any new small business, not just a tech/web focused one.
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As rwmj mentions below - avoiding the sums that sanity check the business could be an expensive mistake. Doing the sums is easy (and if you can't make up rough numbers, you ought to ask if you really know your domain).
I'm not advocating a full on business plan at the start - just a day spent roughing out the key numbers. Are there enough customers? What do they pay competitors? How much must you sell to break even? Do you know where your customers hang out?
That said - if your business has a significant cost of failure (e.g. buying big plant equipment, renting a lease, manufacturing, big design costs etc) then not doing planning is probably rather foolhardy.
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Completely agree. I saw this site and my first thought was "they don't get it". I don't need help, I need them to get out of the damn way. I guess Government is just accustomed to providing 'help' and generally interfering when actually they can be more useful by withdrawing.

One thing I'd add is that Government could make it easier for people to live on lower income. For instance, raising the nil band of income tax which they seem to be working on but it feels like that's more Lib Dem pressure. The Cons seem to just want to talk about the 50% tax rate, which means nothing to me. This will become more important as interest rates rise and those with mortgages are further squeezed.
You would use it because it makes encrypted traffic on the network the norm. It makes it impossible to decipher your traffic without an active deliberate security attack instead of a passive sniffing session. It means when a traffic sniffer happens on your traffic they will get (plain text, encrypted data) and they won't know whether the encrypted data is 'good' or 'bad' and will have an easier time with the plain text - the "just have to run faster than the other guy" approach.
Normally, I'd jump at the opportunity .. but I'm conserving energy for my research .. while a wide world of possibilities awaits :)
A pretty shitty sauce. Shipping before you have any idea whether anyone wants what you're building is a recipe for building stuff nobody wants.

Coding should be done quite late, after validating the market need, that people are willing to pay, etc.

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The products I mention are things like Cloud Monitoring tools, Management services for your AWS instances, and other things specific to Amazon Web Services. One of my products, for example, is a service that runs detailed reports on the usage logs that Amazon generates for Cloudfront and S3. Amazon could wipe it out completely with a feature that wouldn't even make the front page here.

They've deliberately stayed away from those areas that have products in them. You're right though that this is one area where "AWS" wasn't a necessary component for the service in question. That could help explain why they're comfortable doing it.
One obvious point - startupbritain is about general startups (there's no requirement for tech-only startups on their site). @jot's jfdibritain has a decidedly tech focus, it doesn't help with e.g. manufacturing (when someone wants to make something physical), retail (regular selling/buying like most of the country are used to) or other conventional routes.
Maybe the sites aren't trying to achieve the same thing?
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For all her posturing, does this founder not realize how horrible this will be for the environment?

Packaging air in glass jars takes up an enormous amount of space and weight for shipping them around the globe (she hasn't mention how wide the distribution model will be).

Though this air is being marketed as a substitute for travel and and opportunity for new sensory experience, I can envision a future where it becomes a commodity product, scaled up, its value cheapened, and sold as a staple rather than a luxury item.

The obvious parallel is bottled water—a ubiquitous commodity sold half way around the world—except this has absolutely no utilitarian value and is even more critical to life.

I can imagine, when this is a billion dollar business, huge freight ships loading shipping containers of air for the privileged who feel like the air they have polluted is below them; socioeconomic groups will be defined by the very air they breathe: the poor will choke on the smog filled haze, while the rich will breathe their bottled air from the few places where it is still clean.
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I don't understand why you would limit yourself to just doing an ebook. If it's such a great book, why cut out a huge chunk of your market (those who do not want/like ebooks)? It seems like it would be trivial to convert an ebook to a printed book.

By choosing the ebook route, I think you also cut your profits massively. This is just my own opinion/feelings so I may not be aligned with how others view it, but I don't value an ebook the same way I do a paper book. I won't pay the same, for example. I expect to pay 25% less at a minimum.

If your book does what you say it does ("describes solutions to business intelligence software problems (namely, prediction)"), then I'd think the lowest I'd consider for a printed copy would be $60 and the highest I'd think for a printed copy would be $400. Settling on somewhere in the middle is tough but I'd probably choose $75 and start with that.

But this is an ebook. I'm not paying $75 for an ebook. I'd pay $40 though.
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The fact that there is a question mark after the title tells me a lot about the state of mind we're in.
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That said, I have to say I'm not convinced of the business model.
However, I think I am going to invest in this founder anyway. If we can connect her with a good technical cofounder I can see great things in the future.
As everyone says, invest in the team, not the idea.
I am certain that we are now witnessing the birth of Web 4.0. If there is a bubble, then I am sure 'Share the Air' has already captured it for sale.

Brilliant.

This is a lot like my idea to buy up meat from endangered animal species and keep it on ice until the species reach extinction. Can you imagine how much I will be able to charge for extinct animal meat?
And does not that 'norm' worry you at all?

The Supreme Court has declared that corporations have many of the same rights as individuals. We fleshly individuals, however, do not have the same power as mega-corporations, nor does our 'free speech' have the same same power as 'free speech' promulgated/backed by a $100B corporation, nor will my campaign contribution have the influence as a corporation's (left-wing, right-wing, whatever). Is it inappropriate to be worried?
You have to be pretty cunning to execute that strategy. Otherwise you might find that that PHB ignores you at funding time...
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