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Andreessen: "Facebook will be bigger than Apple."

Wow.


could also eat lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches


Peanut butter and jelly is horrible for you. Peanut butter just has a bunch of sugar in it.


That may be true for some brands. Smuckers (the kind in my fridge) contains only peanuts and salt.


As it is the brand in mine but a lot of people eat that trash, Jiffy, or Skip for example, and you might as well just each a candy bar at that point.


You keep saying this, but if you browse the Peanut Butter's here http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-pe...

You'll find that most commercial peanut butters only have 2g or so more of sugar per serving then their natural counterparts.


The serving size for peanut butter is also around 2T (~30g) so that 2g of sugar is basically going to double the sugar content of the serving...


Yeah but 3g is < 10% of the 40g of recommended sugar in a day and way less then the 50g in a Snickers bar.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_inta...


My guilty snack - peanut butter and nutella sandwiched between two tortillas.

I call it the Tortilla Abomination.


A very interesting typo-- Jif or Skippy, I think you mean.


I'd be more worried about the partially hydrogenated soybean oil isn't so great.


In terms of the product(s), what would you pay for it?


That's not always the best metric, particularly when your product is being sold to an entity which is dissimilar to you (see: rich people, medium to large companies). In those cases, they are often willing to pay much, much more than you would.

Many people make the mistake of underpricing because of this.


Relatedly, you not selling to HN posters, people on Slashdot, starving college students, or people who are morally opposed to spending money for software.

I don't mean to step on any toes, but I've heard "$20 is sort of pricey for a business -- why not make it $10?" enough to be skeptical of the advice on pricing from other people, unless they are saying Charge More.


Good point. Your business is a good example of one in which you are able to charge reasonably aggressive prices even to a demographic that is not normally considered monied.

That people are often willing to pay far more than you'd think is certainly not limited to enterprises and the wealthy.


Another read (though, it discusses the "Talent Scouts" -- not just Moritz): http://www.sequoiacap.com/news/the-secrets-of-the-talent-sco...



Thank you for this awesome, insightful contribution to the conversation... not.

Edit: seriously, do we upvote people for posting reddit-like links to vaguely related non-information now?


The graphic has done the rounds in many, many places, but it did generate 46 points and 35 comments here a few months back without an ad redditum comment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511285


Still doesn't make it relevant to this discussion, though.


Can the person who downvoted this, explain why it is relevant? Thanks.


People are downvoting you because you are doing nothing to add to the conversation. Why not try to formulate your comments into a more meaningful discussion?


I think it will be important for journalists (and their companies) to really think about who their audiences are.

I think it will be important to simplify. And once that's done, I think the majority of people will eventually (I don't know when) pay for content because it will be of higher quality and relevance. (Some do this moderately well now.)

Frankly, I think all parties (i.e. Journalism as a whole) will probably benefit in the long-run. You may see smaller organizations, but that should enable them to adapt more efficiently as things evolve.

The key here, in my opinion, is to not get caught up in fast and excessive growth. You may even extend that to "pull-back/slow down" if you're growing too fast.


Make something people will pay for.


e.g. middle management


I think he saw an opportunity to teach which stimulated his understanding of beauty.

I think he wanted to open up the man's mind to continued exploration, and in this case, discovery as well.


Great story. Great writing.

I felt like I was in the room observing this encounter take place.

This was very nice to read, or rather, to experience :)

The joy of wonder!

Thanks for the post


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