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   Ask HN: If you're a startup, do you use a CRM, why or why not?

   1 points by abra_kadabra 8y ago|1 comments
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   Take a look at your states health exchange and get the plan that you think is right for you. I got a silver plan thinking I would save some money but one trip to the emergency room meant that I could have easily bought the gold plan.
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   I've seen Enterprise projects become open sourced in the past and the biggest problem that they face is that no community builds around them. It is not trivial to get other folks to hack on your project and contribute code or use your
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   First for a bit of background. How much data will you be pushing across? Things are easier if you can send full objects instead of partial objects. How much does latency matter? If this has to be as close to real time as possible (ie. stoc
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   At the last startup I worked at one thing we did was we manually input data for our customers. The application only really became useful after a time investment by the users to load up their data library, so we would offer to do it for the
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   It might be subtle and is similar to what others have said, but if you find the founders running out of steam, losing passion, for the startup, that can be a sign.
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   Capping student loans would definitely be a positive first step in the process. A study conducted by the federal reserve bank of NY found that: "We find apass-through effect on tuition of changes in subsidized loan maximums of about 6
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   I think this really shows 2 things. 1) the amount of debt accumulated by this group for their degrees is much larger than they're comfortable with 2) how much more important personal finance is as compared to government finance at this
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   by abra_kadabra 9y ago

   So I do agree with the rest of the comments that the absolute fastest way is to ship the disks and then copy the data. Now that being said if you can't or would rather not ship anything because of disks getting ruined, then the best t
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I really like this list and would add one more that I think if very important. Enable Fast iterations Weather it's a fast loop to test and make changes, or the batteries included mindset that means you can use someone else's code,
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    It all depends on what the web developer is trying to accomplish. Without knowing that the best advice I could give is make sure you have a quite environment. Everything else aside, being able to focus for long stretches of time is more i
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I'm earlier in my self employed consulting journey then you are and I'm seeing a similar pattern. When I'm busy I'm extremely busy working lots of hours, but then I'll have some time off and it usually means market
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    So I was excited to understand what this tool was all about, but I got lost in the text pretty quickly. At first it seemed like a personal organization tool, then it looked like a team management tool, then I wasn't really sure and ba
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    Thanks! I'll definitely have a look at these.
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    That makes sense to me. Are you planning on doing any Google advertising or Facebook advertising? I ask because I'm hoping to launch my own SAAS in the next month, and am trying to figure out what works for connecting to the developer
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    Great idea. Your page has a really nice design, it's easy to tell what your product is and the value proposition. Also I had a look through your blog, I saw that your marketing checklist included Product Hunt, Hacker News, and Reddit,
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I'm not sure that you could extrapolate to that wide an audience. One of the largest factors would have to be exposure to that interest, if you aren't exposed to it, then you can't know if you enjoy it (Nurture). In small gro
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I'm curious how this list got put onto reactdom, I bet there is an interesting story behind that. PS. I'm a huge Scala fan, I've used it both professionally and for side projects
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    This is interesting as I've typically made friends along lines of interest. I guess my next question would be are genetically similar people more likely to have similar interests. edit: corrected grammer
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I think pricing a project could be pretty tough and taking a quick look at your site I didn't see any guides or advice on pricing, it might be worth offering some direction to potential sellers.
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing this. I've got a few side projects that I need to finish and launch, and this will help me stay motivated to get it done.
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    My 2 cents. Instead of having to manually load a virtualenv, why not have that information contained in the project, and running a command would use that virtualenv similar to how npm, sbt, or maven work. The majority Python projects I&#x27
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    by abra_kadabra 9y ago

    I could see this being very useful. How did you initially populate your dataset with urls?