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Re:Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from m... by bartjacobs on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:27AM (#2331891)
Absolutely agree. Earning that first dollar is much harder than the next thousand. The reason is that it is a major mindset shift. It's a hurdle that quite a lot of people underestimate.
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Re:Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from m... by cullenking on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:33PM (#2332692)
Exactly. It's totally a mental barrier as well. It took me a long while before I put up a simple donate via paypal link. That alone has generated $15k in revenue in basically the last year. Just putting that up took alot of guts, but it's been easy collecting donations to help bootstrap us along since then :)
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Re:Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from m... by combiclickwise on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:29AM (#2331896)
..and HN has made it unbelievably special for me.. burning the memory of this moment into my head
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