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A recruiter sent me a resume and asked if I wanted the person's contact info. The email header said that any communication with the candidate needed to be initiated through them. We decided to interview him and let recruiter know. We liked the person and made an informal offer. How should we handle this? I don't think we have any legal obligation to pay anything since I never agreed to anything, but is there an ethical obligation and how should the fee be arrived at?

Has anyone tried "burst" mobile advertising on iPhone/iPad? How did it work out? Any recommendations for how to decide whether to go for it or strategy?

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Steve Blank describes a Customer Discovery methodology that starts with a Product Hypothesis and then tests and refines it. But what if you aren't at step #1 yet? What are some good ways to generate hypotheses?

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I'd like to know what percent of iPhone apps make less than $100 and what percent make less than $10,000.

This site (http://www.moveyourweb.net/blog/guess-sales-figures-for-any-iphone-application/) estimates that an app will get between 200 to 550 times as many sales as reviews, but that wouldn't apply for a small number of reviews that could just be friends. But if you had a way to fairly sample apps, you could estimate how many make over $10,000. For 99 cent apps, 1 additional review would correspond very roughly to 350 * 0.99 * 0.7 = $243 so if you subtract 20 for friends it would mean the ones getting over 60 reviews are making over $10,000. Does that sound in the ballpark?

If you could estimate the revenue from all the high selling apps, you could see what is left over for the rest but I don't know if that would be possible.

So... anyone willing to make some SWAGs?