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It's entirely dependent on the product, the price it will sell for, the market, the amount of work needed to complete a sale and the total potential earnings.

Any salesperson worth hiring is going to want to know these things and know that they've got a good shot at making lots of money.

Anyone who doesn't ask is either really inexperienced or is just throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks. If there's real potential to make more than $100k in a year then it's probably something an experienced salesperson will look at. Some residual revenue is always appreciated by not necessary in reality. It depends on how much work the things I listed above will be.

If you were to ask me to sell your product I'd want to know these things:

1) Who are your customers? (I want to know if you know who they are or if it's my job to figure it out)
2) What's the competitive advantage of your product? (Basically, what pain point did you choose to solve and why is it different from everything else)
3) What have the objections been from the customers you've talked to? (What are the deficiencies in your product and strategy? How long is it going to take me to overcome those.)
4) Who are your competitors? (I need to know who I'm in the race with. Lame ducks or marathon runners?)

With answers to those three questions it would be easy enough to figure out if it's worth continuing. B2B sales cycles are typically longer so an experienced rep would probably flesh it out pretty fully before committing. 6mo-1year sales cycles are not uncommon. Knowing that it could take that long to make any money they'll probably want to know that there's potential for high earnings and a very large potential market (Can easily fill a funnel of prospects worth more than $1MM).

In my experience it's best to find someone that knows your market really, really well and make it worth their while. There's no specific formula for % commissions (My splits have been all over the map), just make it reasonable for both of you.
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At the risk of going off topic here, with some of the new things Qt is planning (getting away from its C++ roots), maybe it would be best if Qt 4.7 (which is in my opinion one of the best platforms to dev Windows programs, never mind cross-platform) was left as it is, and put into an open-source maintenance mode instead of trying to innovate.
Just Google information marketing how to and you'll get tons of resources on how to go about doing this. There are lots of information marketers out there who make a good, if not great, living by selling e-books, DVD's and whatnot via their website. Their MO is simple. Build a landing page, offer something for free (eg. a free report) to your visitors and get them to opt into your mailing list. Then upsell, upsell and upsell. It's harder than it seems and is a full time job. A simple website with a nice landing page and an opt-in form will do just fine, but getting traffic to it is another matter altogether. You would need to do SEO, Affiliate Marketing (eg. through ClickBank), AdWords, Article Marketing, Press Releases, Guest blogging, YouTube videos etc. to get decent traffic and build up the mailing list. The list then becomes your potential customer database and then you have follow the usual sales process to get them to buy your product.

There are some very good training courses out there on information marketing too. Of course they follow the same MO and you'll have to become a paying customer to learn how to do it. :)
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No offense, Aaron, but I would be interested to know what VCs may think about you given your public opinion and battle with Facebook.

E.g. I would be very interested to know if you had been blacklisted or black-sheeped at least, given your history and vocal public statements on matters.

Personally, I am rooting for your success - I jsut really want to know what back-room whispers may be saying about you, and people like you, who dont blindly worship the facebook.
That would be an easy bluff to call.
Some developers prefer one monitor, some prefer more than one. Some managers understand the needs of the people they manage, then again, some don't.
I'm ignoring the 990 sites it didn't have to check because it wasn't relevant to the quote I was discussing:

>Bloom filter allows Chrome to use precise verification service practically only when the user actually goes to a malicious web site.

This is saying that most of the time the Bloom filter returns a positive (and therefore Chrome needs to use precise verification), it's a true positive. That's clearly not true.
$190k[1] before Kickstarter took its cut (5%, plus an estimated 3-5% from credit card fees[2]), which conservatively puts it at more like $175k.
Also, that was a full year ago. If the guys decided to pay themselves a year's salary out of that (and there were no taxes and other fees to pay), that's ~$44k/person.

1. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p...
2. http://www.kickstarter.com/start (bottom)

Edit: I forgot to mention, there was a fraudulent $10k donation included in the 200k, that's why I'm starting that much lower.
That's what I call a draconian law.

"Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments."
The article is completely wrong. This bill is actually a general privacy bill.

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_24...

Most of the provisions are about preventing social networks from by default publishing information like home address of their users. In fact, nowhere in the legislation does it actually give parents access to the information, only the ability of parents to request _removal_ of information from the website.
I think it's a bit premature to suggest that either a) Facebook would move out of California or b) a new social network would start up outside of California and eat Facebook's lunch because it didn't have draconian laws. Surely there are easier ways to solve the problem at hand.
I have a founders account from early contributions that I have never used. I logged in, setup the account, asked a few people if they wanted invites (nobody did) and haven't touched it, since. I don't care for other social networking sites (though I use LinkedIn), but supported Diaspora for principal.

I'm not expecting much, anymore. I hope otherwise, though.
Before you get too confident about being the next YouTube, consider there are already at least two startups doing this exact thing. I can only remember one now, VoiceTap, but there is at least one more that I remember had a single founder.
I am all for less inflammatory headlines, but Diaspora was 100% created and funded due to certain intense period of Facebook backlash. The fact that Zuck invested some pocket change supports that Diaspora is the anti-Facebook, as it was a PR move (that apparently worked).
In other words, you probably didn't read the article and would have made this conclusion despite whatever facts were presented.
Agreed. The fact that it uses Hadoop should be secondary to who they are. "Software Company Raises Money" would also be factually correct, but not particularly useful.
but couldn't you have a stream algorithm with modular arithmetic?

[edit: i thought i had a good demonstration of this. actually, two. but both were wrong. so it does seem to be non-trivial...]

[edit 2: open stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545931/efficient-algorit... ]
I'd settle for the return of the backlit keyboard.
Or even FreeBSD, which works on EC2 now. It uses a different technique for scheduling, so this issue will not affect it.
Commission only is not a good way to do things. If you cannot afford to pay a retainer then the business is too early to employ a salesperson. This is a sign you should be personally doing the sales yourself.

You want the commission to trail away over time.

You also want your employment contract to be rock solid - think about the salesperson who has earned trailing commissions - how is he going to feel about those ongoing commissions when you fire him? Will he sue?
I guess this is a make or break moment for the Mono project. Who owns the copyright on Mono anyway - is it individual developers?
Within the next generation or so too, since the first notices were sent by postal mail.
Listen, what's the purpose of the law? To help parents control their children?

If you don't trust your children to understand your lessons about being careful online, do you install cameras on their way to school as well? Do you read their text messages and diaries? Is this seriously acceptable/normal over there or is this explicitly targeted at Facebook/social media sites?

For me this seems like an easy way out. If you are suspicious that your own kid does something you don't like (Yeah.. And you never did that in the good old times..), let's just snoop out their communication on Facebook.

And - as we all know - the things you say or write as a kid are like totally acceptable all the time. You'd never talk bad about things your parents like and you'd always like your parents to check out the people you've got a crush on..

Edit:

You suggest a kid can use a computer at another kids house (to do stuff on the 'net that has to be controlled) but trust your kid to not abuse the distance to your home in other ways? "Yeah, she's over at a friend's. Hope they're not on Facebook again."?
There's always a way around this kind of thing, that's just part of life. If someone is adequately determined to circumvent your restriction, they can almost always do so. You're correct that many children could just use the computer at a friend's house, but there's nothing we can do about that short of imposing IP and/or MAC restrictions on Facebook logins (parents could extract Facebook passwords, however, and login to their childrens' accounts independently). A router with adequate reporting capabilities would be a huge upgrade for most families, and it's becoming increasingly important to place this kind of monitoring on the network side given the ever-growing preponderance of mobile devices.
This looks like a cool tool for your business plan, Web 3.0 style.
I'm really glad I don't know the elephants upstairs.
Looks like my problem was a long-standing but hard to reproduce issue. I lost the repro, but vagrant started working thanks to Mitchell's help.
I've also built something similar that is based on .NET: http://code.google.com/p/metalang/

Maybe we should all team up or something...
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I think part of this comes with age. We realize we don't have a lot of time left, we've accumulated a lot of cruft in our information input habits as well as in what we produce, and there's a strong impulse to focus. Writers and philosophers thousands of years ago were also complaining about this same thing and coming to the same conclusion.
Can you expand a little on the IP part. I was at the same Startup Weekend, which the Talkible guys certainly deserved to win.

My team is getting together this week to have "the talk" about moving forward. Our idea is has a ton of IP but know that not everyone wants to move forward and/or work with each other.

Additionally, I came up with a pivot while working on this one that is related but certainly different. I have not shared it with the rest of my group yet(mostly because I thought of it 2hrs before we had to present), would they have any claim to that IP if I ran with it?
My iOS app iCircuit (http://icircuitapp.com) was written using MonoTouch. It's the #242 grossing productivity app in the store.

I know, I know, #242 doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a big store. :-)

I use Mono for the ease of development (powerful language + nice IDE), the nice runtime (GC and type reflection), and the .NET libraries.
Paypal was a merger or two companies very early on:

"The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.[10] Confinity was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.[11] X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company. " per the wiki
They should let me in on what they are doing with my 1k pledge.
Ask HN: What's the most annoying website you are forced use?
Basically, what is the most annoying/hard to use site you haven't found a replacement for?

Maybe you are a design purist and you can't stand eBay's clutter, but there aren't any decent alternatives, so you are "forced" to use it.

Or in my case, I have to use a royal headache of "websites" for school.
I'm with sixtofour, once you don't have to think about what to do, you speed up massively. Personally I prefer vi only because I've learnt it. Changing slows me down for very little gain.

For me, vi + git + make works well. Have tried most IDEs and keep coming back to this combination. Use a second screen to refer to APIs etc.
This is my prediction as well. If I look at everything Apple is doing content-wise, ATV seems too small (figuratively speaking) in comparison. I want to control my TV with my iPad. Apple has to be concerned about Google's somewhat strong (albeit supposedly buggy) foray into the living room. How can they give away this territory without putting up a better fight? I predict that the killer feature will be optional control via an iPhone/iPad. The 10' interface stinks for content selection and other input-intensive activities although it's great for a shared viewing experience. The new ATV should turn my A/V set-up into a seemingly dumb slave of my iPad. Some IR repeaters to do Harmony-esque things would be a huge bonus. I also predict that this device will be Google TV-like in that it acts as a pass-thru for other, "legacy" devices. The interesting question will be whether it will include a Blu-Ray player. Of course, I have no special knowledge of Apple's plans -- I'm just looking at all the other cards Apple has played and imagining a product which makes the previously played cards look like brilliant moves.
Yeah but the other case is that the best and brightest don't apply. Then its impossible to pick them...
As cool as this look, I don't really understand the point. If it's not supposed to be a terminal emulator, what is it?
So basically you think the entire patent system is a giant conspiracy?
Next week, Apple will announce its entry into the console market with the iGame. That's my guess.
Writing a bad check for more than $20 dollars, being drunk in public, or disturbing others by making loud and unreasonable noises, are all felonies.

It's probably not a bad thing that this stuff would go to criminal court. I think criminal courts would be far less enthusiastic about claiming 1 song is worth thousands of dollars.

Really, the amount of effort to prove something like this is off the charts. It's not like searching a car and finding a bag of weed. How many prosecutors are going to put together the logs to show this actually happend and it was worth more than 5k?
Many of us were led to believe that inserting the control rods would immediately "stop the reaction" and prevent a meltdown from occurring.

I'm not sure how much you were "led" to believe that, given that the control rods became fully inserted immediately after the earthquake, where they did in fact "stop the reaction". The entire crisis revolved around the removal of decay heat, not halting the reactors.
Perhaps a better route for google is to put their cash into a grassroots anti-lobbyist campaign.
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How about non-fiction?

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
Yes, I have wanted to build something like that for Android, mainly to keep my phone from getting confused when it's connected to someone's wifi that demands some check box be checked off for service.

It would periodically awaken, see if the wifi is connected, if it is is there connectivity, if there is, go back to sleep, if there is not, turn the wifi off.

I've also wanted to build for Android the same piece of code, but if for 2 or 5 urls it gets back the same page with a checkbox, it checks off the box and sends it back off.

But I am curious, do all those wifi dns terms and agreements hijacking pages break any sort of RFC?

And is there any solution in ip6?

Or is there a real fix possible in ip4?
At what point do we just call the US government what it really is, an oligarchy.

Republics actually represent the public at large not just the wealthy and connected.
Microsoft applied the "Community Promise" to the ECMA C# and CLI standards a couple of years ago.

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx
Fuck, I cried at work, just as a son who loves his father.
Does an upgrade of the Macbook Air justify the current secret activity we see at the Apple stores? Employees not allowed to take vacation? Gigabytes of training materials distributed? Black curtains and mandatory meeting on next Sunday?

No, I think it must be something bigger. For example, the iConsole. Apple is going to compete with the XBox and the PS3.
The interviewing company does not get to keep and use the work; even if the applicant signed something, if consideration was not given, it would be difficult to use the work.
Let's say if Apple were to launch a cloud service that required large amounts of data to be uploaded or downloaded wouldn't Apple Stores be a nice oasis in the desert for the slow cap stricken broadband connections most people have at home or on 3G iOS devices? One you get that initial sync done the incremental updates are manageable.
Cons cells give you binary trees. It is possible to encode any arbitrary tree as a binary tree. However, this does not mean that the expression of algorithms over such left child right sibling encoded trees is identical to one over trees with some higher branching factor. So the cons/binary situation will at the least require some additional layers of abstraction to simulate various traversal patterns of the n way tree on the encoding binary tree.

There also physical/efficiency concerns. There's a reason databases use highly branching trees.
Whoa, thanks for the link.

After reading that I guess TechCrunch tried to get a nice headline here.. I don't see that the bill allows parents access to the profile. It 'only' allows parents to request that personal details of their children are taken down within 48h and it says that the default privacy settings are rather strict (Name, City revealed only) and need to be explained in plain text.

That seems to be a lot different from 'Your parents can access your profile, young boy'? Am I misreading the text?
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Ask HN: When/How is the eBook market going to defragment?
- Kindle

- iBooks

- Nook

- EPub

- Generic eInk

- &tc.

'nuff said.
The iPhone uses a very similar technique. If you connect to a wifi network that requires login, a browser sans address bar will pop-up over your current app and allow you to login. Once an external resource can be reached, the browser disappears and returns you to the previous app. Steve Jobs even alluded to it / bragged about it when the iPhone was first unveiled, 2 years before Win7 was released.
In most states you need to bounce a significantly larger check to become a felon:

http://www.ckfraud.org/penalties.html

Being drunk in public is a misdemeanor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_intoxication#State_publi...

As is disturbing the peace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbing_the_peace
no offense, but MIT is pretty much for f*cking retards.
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What do you think the answer would be? -> The Sex Pistols, pretty much. Not so bad.

Training is overrated, so is talent. Practice with feedback is what really matters. The feedback part is what's hard to find. The Sex Pistols got a lot of feedback.
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> The main difference between Ubuntu-LTS and Debian is that Debian's stable release cycle is longer and more thorough.

I believe that the debian stable release cycle is currently at about 2 years, w/ a very short support cycle afterwards. The LTS cycle is 2 years with a 3 years of additional support afterwards.
You provided two things that the original post is a reinvention of. Which is it? Why not read the article enough to decide which it is a reinvention of, then present your thinking in your comment?
Before you-all get in a tizzy from Techcrunch's sensationalist headlines, please take a look at some of the links to the actual law in the comments below.
Cold calling. It's boring. Some people are jerks. Try and get the person you are talking to remember when they were doing shit work getting their agency started.

Go to the library and ask the librarian to show you how to use reference usa (or email me: actionbrandon@gmail.com). You can search a massive database (for free) and get your hands on leads by city/zip/state and type of business, contact level, business size, and so on. Google "SIC codes" and find the code for the type of industry you want to target and filter reference that way. I think ad agencies are 7311, but I may be wrong.

Good luck
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Yea, it was all about trying to screw Adobe.
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I have I feeling you're playing a No True Scotsman with this talk on "official" training. There are many good ways of training that could not remotely be described as "official." Which "really, really good experiences" were created by first-timers with no relevant experience or learning?

For example, the Sex Pistols had been doing their thing for years before they hit it big.
I'm reluctant to accept any violation of copyright as anything more than a civil issue.
Well there are degrees of dysfunction. Compare, for example, the healthcare system of Western European countries to that of the US. I realize this is a charged issue where people have different ideas of how it should work, but for a certain set of goals (maximum coverage, minimum cost), Europe generally does much better than the US. Other things (diversity, productivity, entrepreneurship, I would argue) are done better in the US.

There are obvious and simple ways the patent system could be improved. For example, drug patents already are treated specially, in that they expire quickly--perhaps a similar system could be applied to software patents. Or, exemptions could be made for implementations of patented software that exist for reasons of interoperability or compatibility. Another option would be to enshrine into law the promises companies make not to sue. (As in, the company is not allowed to renege on their covenant not to sue--this is actually probably not really possible from a legal standpoint, but I'm not an expert.)
yes, if suddenly they added support for t-mobile and sprint. but it could also be something like upgrading / changing how their point-of-sale systems work to give an improved customer experience. that would make a lot of sense for a store anniversary, for example
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