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An Inside Look at Tech Adoption in Non Tech Businesses(zapier.com)
6 points by WadeF 14y ago|0 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
This guy knows what fundraising really means. Great article. Everyone should read it.
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Working From Home? You're a Better Worker.(wired.com)
4 points by WadeF 14y ago|0 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
True, but it wasn't too much work to find a HN thread about it and complain there. Either be constructive or don't say anything. Both are good feedback for the startup. Being mean doesn't help anyone - the startup or the user.
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by WadeF 14y ago
I would give them a break. Rather than just criticize them maybe provide useful feedback about content they could send you or why you think the emails weren't useful. If you don't like the emails just hit reply and tell them why. I'm sure t
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by WadeF 14y ago
I set right next to Bryan while he did this. He went from not ever having seen the App.net docs at all to fully functional in less than 30 minutes. That's a pretty good testament to the App.net API.
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by WadeF 14y ago
Hi Daniel, We got a lot of feedback about that and reduced the number of emails we send now. Really sorry about that. Wade
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by WadeF 14y ago
Yep, we noticed that too. Working on a fix.
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by WadeF 14y ago
Might try another browser real quick. Still working out some kinks in Opera.
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Zapier (YC S12), The IFTTT For Business Users, Launches Developer Platform(techcrunch.com)
83 points by WadeF 14y ago|28 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
I can definitely vouch for getting value out of simply tailing a log of new signups or just refreshing our admin of signups every few when we were collecting a lot of email address. The ones that look valuable stick out like a sore thumb an
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by WadeF 14y ago
In addition I would suggest emailing any peoples blogs you've read over the past few years. After our launch, I emailed a bunch of people who I'd never had any connection with other than reading the content they put out and simply thanked t
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by WadeF 14y ago
I wasn't. Just simply trying to provide a perspective on why someone younger might also have valid advice. Life doesn't have to be one or the other. :)
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by WadeF 14y ago
A lot of times people more experienced are so far detached from what you might be going through. I've found people who have just gone through what I've gone through can help a ton. Joel Gascoigne sums this up better than I. http://joel.is/
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Integrations: Simple Marketing for Developers(zapier.com)
27 points by WadeF 14y ago|7 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
This is super cool. One of the things I find myself doing all the team is getting users chatting with me on Olark but then need to switch to Skype because screen sharing is needed for support. Putting something like /support/video on our si
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by WadeF 14y ago
The percentage isn't that great, but we usually aren't the ones initiating conversation. The quality is definitely what drives us to continue using it. Olark has a free trial. When we first put it on our site we were pretty hesitant too, bu
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by WadeF 14y ago
This is cool to hear from investors. Attacking a niche is one of the easiest ways to get early traction. And the best time to go big is once you have a couple wins in the bag.
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by WadeF 14y ago
OP here. It was in the thousands. :)
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by WadeF 14y ago
It wasn't 25,000 people. Just 25,000 conversations. Multiple conversations with the same people. But the number of people was in the thousands.
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Why We Sent 25,000 Messages to Users Before We Launched(zapier.com)
67 points by WadeF 14y ago|19 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
All I can think about when reading this is Betteridge's Law of Headlines. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880
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by WadeF 14y ago
Mixergy Premium is worth subscribing to simply because you know the content will be good and you don't have to wade through a bunch of random startup advice porn to get the good stuff. I've found it helpful to take notes and try to implemen
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The Anatomy of Sales or How Andrew Warner Became Our First Paying Customer(zapier.com)
23 points by WadeF 14y ago|1 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
Yeah we've definitely not done a great job optimizing for older hardware/browser combos.
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Zapier (YC S12): An IFTTT For Business Users(techcrunch.com)
73 points by WadeF 14y ago|22 comments
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You Are the Exception to the Rule(zapier.com)
178 points by WadeF 14y ago|46 comments
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by WadeF 14y ago
SPN does the best coverage of midwest startups hands down. On top of that they put on the amazing Big Omaha conference.
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Sched.org uses Zapier to build their own Hubot: Notorious B.O.T.(zapier.com)
12 points by WadeF 14y ago|1 comments
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The “Bicycle for Our Minds” Needs Gears: Restrictive Interfaces (kadavy.net)
12 points by WadeF 14y ago|0 comments

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