Tawheed

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by Tawheed 17y ago
With Foursquare, FB and now Google, I think there is room for a "neutral" competitor that lets businesses set up shop with their own domain and integrates easily with the other sites.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
This is what REAL business is. I'm so glad real entrepreneurs like these guys are getting some attention.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
I love their approach.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Thanks, but I actually consider myself to be a TERRIBLE marketer. However, I've been doing a lot of reading and learning around this and even tried to distill what I've learned into principles around effective landing pages: http://www.taw
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by Tawheed 17y ago
and maybe a segment on stories that didn't make it to the front page but we think the HN audience would LOVE - I'm sure there are plenty of these.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
dude... my "logo" is two pieces of text because I was too lazy to create a real logo
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by Tawheed 17y ago
The beauty of this is a) I get what I need for my primary business because Outlook and Gmail wasn't good enough and b) even if NO ONE else likes this, I've only lost 3 days, which I'm OK with. I'll do a reflection on this in about a month o
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by Tawheed 17y ago
done!
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Sorry about that guys, I was trying to write a little script to auto-post and it had a bug. Correct link: http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/04/how-i-used-heroku-chargi...
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How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud(tawheedkader.com)
99 points by Tawheed 17y ago|34 comments
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Tout integrates with Highrise(tawheedkader.com)
1 points by Tawheed 17y ago|0 comments
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Sticking with my hypothesis and my principle, I would sway passion first, understanding second. You can go about finding a way to improve your understanding. You can't do that with passion.
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How I used Heroku, Chargify and Sendgrid to take my web-app to market in 3 days(tawheedkader.com)
10 points by Tawheed 17y ago|3 comments
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Tout - templates and analytics for your customer development emails(toutapp.com)
1 points by Tawheed 17y ago|0 comments
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Too bad VCs haven't figured out a way to short startups yet.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
If you're focused on entrepreneurship and startups, possibly themes around debunking startup myths (e.g. you HAVE to get VC) then I'd be interested!
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The most fundamental principle for startup success(tawheedkader.com)
16 points by Tawheed 17y ago|3 comments
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by Tawheed 17y ago
I'm a single founder as well, and here is what I've done: 1) Look into chef to automate 99% of your sys-admin tasks (setup, tear up, tear down, deployment) 2) Set up pingdom for monitoring your servers externally 3) Set up hoptoad ( http://
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Free can work, if you can keep you overhead low. They clearly failed at that.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Yes, he would have, but he'd also be right, since there are so few that succeed with that model.
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Underlying principle: Focus on problems you understand
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Q&A SITE != COMMUNITY
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Sounds like a design by committee
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Maybe this inherently explains why startups are more effective at innovation (less people telling eachother what to do) than big giants (more people, more accountability being created, less free thinking).
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Canned responses work pretty well, but still not as tight of a workflow as I'd like. Also, I'm working on a premium version where you can track Opens and click-throughs on the links you share -- helping you A/B test and see ROI of your pitc
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Link: http://pitchapp.com
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Ask HN: Review my Startup: Pitch - stop re-writing the same emails
8 points by Tawheed 17y ago|5 comments
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Pitch - manage and streamline your customer development emails(pitchapp.com)
1 points by Tawheed 17y ago|0 comments
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I'm Really Worried About What Apple Is Trying To Do With The iPad(businessinsider.com)
2 points by Tawheed 17y ago|0 comments
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by Tawheed 17y ago
Geez. This is the type of talk that makes me never ever want to get VC funding....

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