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Re: 10 years — PaulStamatiou.com

Nick O'Neill — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:36:03 -0000

Awesome job Paul. I remember the good 'ole days when comments were a place to connect :) That definitely has shifted. Your shift to longer form content seems to be in line with where one-person blogs are going. I'm often in awe of your ability to churn out such long stuff!!

Re: What Do You Get a Man Who Can Afford Anything In His Life?

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:18:35 -0000

Awesome video!

Re: [Live Case Study] 14-Day Facebook Ad Experiment

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:27:12 -0000

That's a fair point. Also if he knows his value per email (which he does), then as long as he's paying less than that, he's good to go.

Re: [Live Case Study] 14-Day Facebook Ad Experiment

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:24:59 -0000

You have one massive opportunity missed here: the tripwire. You are paying for ads to ultimate drive people to a landing page. However on the next page you just say "check your inbox and share with your friends". If you offer a one-time offer ("liquidation offer" or "tripwire") you can offset a large percentage of your ad spend immediately.

Re: 3 Ways To Build An Audience BEFORE Launching Your Startup

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:33:28 -0000

Hey Dan,

Great post! Saw this in my feed and reminded me of something I wrote back in 2012 about the concept of a "minimum viable community" (http://nickoneill.com/minim.... I'm all for building a community first as you build out your product. It also serves as a great platform to test out your ideas.

Re: Swipe to Reveal Cells - NSScreencast

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:03:25 -0000

I'll have to look to find where in the video you mentioned it. However I found one other problem with this approach. Adding the UIScrollView winds up killing the call to didSelectRowAtIndexPath which is kind of a critical delegate method. Is there any way to work around this?

Re: Swipe to Reveal Cells - NSScreencast

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:58:52 -0000

A quick update. It appears that this does not function with autolayout. The video inaccurately calls "Autosizing" "Autolayout", which it is most definitely not. In your storyboard in the example you have autolayout disabled.

Re: Swipe to Reveal Cells - NSScreencast

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:26:36 -0000

I tried this exact code and the scrollview won't scroll :( I double check by logging out the width of the contentsize of the scrollview and it says it's larger than the frame itself yet for some reason it still won't scroll.

Scrollview frame size is 320, content size is 400.

userInteractionEnabled = YES;
scrollEnabled = YES;

Yet for some reason it won't scroll.

Re: Beat the GMAT: Why You Don’t Have To Be An Expert – with Eric Bahn

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:54:30 -0000

QSBS is why I incorporated as a C-Corp! However I'm not sure that you still get the same benefits today. I remember the sponsor of this site, Scott Walker, had suggested I take advantage of it. There is a downside to C-Corps though: you get double taxed. Early on this can really hit your cash flows. There are obviously ways of managing money but smaller businesses are great as LLCs especially if there's no intent to sell it.

Re: 5 Early Wins That Got Our SaaS Startup 1,000 Beta Users

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:45:23 -0000

When people signed up were they exchanging any money? If so, I didn't see that on here. If no, why not? Isn't money the ultimate validation, not emails?

Re: A SaaS Startup’s Journey to $100,000 a Month

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:54:30 -0000

Awesome! Thanks for sharing Alex. The transparency on revenue is great. What I'd love to know is how you came up with the specific idea you're working on.

Re: Some thoughts on mobile

Nick O'Neill — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:12:48 -0000

@naveen Not completely true. I've seen a number of products begin providing "add-on" features that have additional costs. One product that has done this in a relatively in your face way is Gorilla Workout. They started adding features that cost $0.99 (after an original price of $1.99 for the download).

Charging to unlock new features is the way to go and I think it's something people in the productivity/business space would be more receptive to.

Re: Why Pickup Artists Are Great Business People

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:40:05 -0000

True, not all pickup artists are good at business :)

Re: Why Pickup Artists Are Great Business People

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:38:52 -0000

Why would you put the author in the title?

Re: Why Pickup Artists Are Great Business People

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:40:52 -0000

Janis, the point isn't to watch 196 GB of pickup tutorials. The point is to get out there and practice and master whatever it is that you're doing!

Re: How To Make An Elegant Two Color Top Border With CSS

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:40:50 -0000

Awesome job!! This is a clever way of doing it. I'm wondering if there are any other ways that don't require the additional HTML

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:32:28 -0000

Hi Erica,

Thanks for inspiring the post ;) As for broke-ness having negative aspects, I agree. I think the title wound up containing some hyperbole, however the point is you need to be scrappy to start getting the revenue in the door. As you say, you *had* to make it work ... that's a great way to get you performing! Thanks again.

Best,
Nick

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:29:31 -0000

I don't think doing it yourself is always the best way. I've made this mistake as well. However coming up with scrappy ways of getting the project done is always valuable (even if that includes doing a lot of things yourself). I think there are ways to get others to help you out as well without a huge budget.

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:25:46 -0000

Someone on HackerNews made me realize there should be a distinction between "broke" and "almost broke". I've been in both circumstances. "Broke" was me firing a friend because I literally had no more money. "Almost broke" was an incentive to come up with a business model quickly. For the purpose of this article I was referring to those who are "almost broke".

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:26:29 -0000

Thanks for sharing Jeff! I went through the same process about 13 years ago. I had a friend who was going to build a website for me using PHP. He didn't finish the job so I spent countless hours learning to code. Just like you it took me a week for what would otherwise be a 15 minute task ... but now I can code. A lot of the people I now know who hire developers for their products wish they had learned to code. Great job!

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:53:40 -0000

"This time around, I have money so I'm going to do it RIGHT!!"

I think you've nailed it. And yes, I've had a similar experience :)

Re: Why Being Broke Is A Founder’s Greatest Asset

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:52:47 -0000

Thanks for the note Mike. I think you organically grow and then if you'd like to inject capital you can use that to expand. But using excess capital to get the company out the door doesn't seem to work very well from what I've seen.

Re: @SecondMarket offering investment in companies on @AngelList; min amt is $5k | Launch Ticker

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:54:28 -0000

Why is this not posted anywhere else?!?!

Re: The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:09:31 -0000

So I have to disagree here. Half the Facebook app developers that acquired millions of users had no way to monetize them and sold them off but the acquirers did nothing with them. They were a write off. So assuming that having millions of people is all it takes is false. The requirement with millions of users is *maintaining millions of people*.

I also agree with Rand Fishkin here ... I'm a big advocate of inbound marketing models.

Re: Acqui-hire is just another way to spell failure - Jacques Mattheij

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:58:31 -0000

*unfunded