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Marc Gayle
Personal blog · marcgayle.com · on HN as marcamillionstartupsbusinesseconomics
Marc Gayle's personal blog at marcgayle.com covers startups, business and economics. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “How Dropbox is printing money”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
The recent articles & discussions about the moves of LIME & Digicel to block all VOIP traffic on their network is disturbing for a number of …
Most-linked posts?
- How Dropbox is printing money2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-01-25
- Einstein's productivity is a model for all entrepreneuers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-28
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$240M Revenue? Holy CRAP! As I predicted some time ago - http://marcgayle.com/how-dropbox-is-printing-money - I am pretty sure that once Dropbox reveals their profit margins, the world will be stunned. Mark. My. Words.
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on “Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup”Submitted Why I Hate Adobe as a story · 155 points
HN discussionI can't wait for them to go public and we can take a look at their financials properly. I suspect they will surprise many people - as I had predicted back in 2011 - http://marcgayle.com/2011/01/24/how-dropbox-is-printing-mone... Much hasn't changed....I don't think.
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on “Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation”Submitted I would never work for Jason Calacanis - There, I said it as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThis is brilliant...I am glad someone finally ran with it. I wrote a blog post about this almost 2 years ago - http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-billion-dolla... There are many applications for this - including fighting DDOS attacks. There are still huge technical challenges with that particular application, but as I understand it...the only way to fight a DDOS is to a) get bigger guns, or b) lie down a…
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on “Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing”Submitted An open letter to Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionCongrats Patrick. The link anchor text I used is: >easily setup automated appointment reminders for your customers Hope this helps. You can see my post here: http://marcgayle.com/appointment-reminder-launches-congrats-...
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on “Appointment Reminder Launches”Submitted IPad App Idea - You are free to take it as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI really don't think people understand the implications of Dropbox's model. I think I stumbled upon it - http://marcgayle.com/how-dropbox-is-printing-money - so I am not surprised with this level of decadence. At the rate at which they are going, I can almost guarantee you that their public filings - or the first public confirmation of their financials - will be bombshellish (if it is anything like I suspect, and I…
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on “TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices”Submitted Screw uniques and pageviews; New metric: Revenue per month as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Remote, (Kingston, Jamaica) Ruby, Rails, SQL, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5. Web app/startup I am bootstrapping: http://www.compversions.com Blog: http://www.marcgayle.com Email: marc@compversions.com P.S. Serious enquiries for large projects ($20K+) only please. Thanks
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)”Submitted This is why people pirate software as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI also strongly disagree with this. Github is the perfect example of this strategy working today. It's a bit different than examples of yore, but certainly still quite lucrative. I wrote a post about this sometime ago: http://marcgayle.com/githubs-brilliant-organic-traffic-acqui... I can bet that if Github released their traffic data like Stack Overflow did, a large portion of their traffic would show that it comes…
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on “SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups”Submitted A clean notepad in HTML & CSS as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThis scenario is where my previously discussed startup idea would do really well - if someone could pull it off - http://marcgayle.com/2010/01/08/a-legal-botnet-billion-dolla... A completely distributed web host, hosted on people's machines. A lot more difficult to shut down (although, I guess if enough government pressure was put on some local chokepoint, it could be a problem). But if it was designed in such a way…
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on “Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks”Submitted Idea: a legal botnet CDN as a story · 16 points
HN discussionOh absolutely. Dropbox is reaching the point where now my father and mother use it. It hasn't reached Facebook levels yet (by that I mean, my grandmother ;)), but it is getting there. But with each incremental user, Dropbox's value increases in an e^x fashion. For more on why I think so, here is a more detailed breakdown: http://marcgayle.com/how-dropbox-is-printing-money There is no reason that Dropbox's growth wil…
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on “Will Facebook become one of the most profitable companies in the world? ”Submitted Traffic results from picking a fight with 37Signals as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Dropbox is printing money as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canada denied me a visitors visa because I am too poor as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacker's Guide to Cashflow vs Profit as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Doubt: The Unspoken Truth of Founding a Startup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Github's brilliant organic traffic acquisition strategy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Einstein's productivity is a model for all entrepreneuers as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted A simple solution to the Social Security Problem: Legalize Illegal Immigrants as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The YC Dilemma - thoughts about YC Reject as a story · 3 points
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