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by adambenayoun 13y ago
Understandable. Would you be willing to disclose this information in private? I'm not affiliated with any accelerator but do have my share of experience with them and this kind of information is very interesting to me. If you do - then
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by adambenayoun 13y ago
My story about accelerator is all fluffy and red roses (I was with 500startups and the experience was AMAZING) and I moved from another country to the US in order to participate in it. I can only imagine what would have happened if they had
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After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned(techfounder.net)
50 points by adambenayoun 13y ago|12 comments
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by adambenayoun 13y ago
"Can't pay him" doesn't sound like bureaucracy BS, they don't pay him because he violated the TOS, it's on purpose. We could argue this is stupid and the TOS should be changed, but I can understand why they spe
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by adambenayoun 13y ago
Outing this kind of shit is needed.
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by adambenayoun 13y ago
couldn't agree more - if not suspended then at least get some kind of penalty - if your ranking is in jeopardy because some marketing dude thing he's clever by paying for 1 star review, then perhaps people will rethink twice their
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Beware of these lame App Store techniques(neotokyo.vg)
120 points by adambenayoun 13y ago|56 comments
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by adambenayoun 13y ago
I've heard a different take on this from an entrepreneur who raised several time in the past. His strategy was to raise small amounts for 20-30 angels investors at the seed round with the assumption that when he needed more money it would b
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
That was exactly my thoughts. Too bad this wasn't posted instead of the other post announcing they fired Adria. It is clear from this post that she had to go, his reasoning behind the fact that she ne effective in her role are sounds.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
I'd love to hear why you think mailgun is more superior than sendgrid. I'm currently using sendgrid.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
How do you handle SPF/DKIM and domain keys records? Do you send out a lot of emails? Have you had a mailgun account ready?
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
I couldn't agree with you more on the subject of what happened with PyCon. I don't think it should be mixed with what is happening now. On the flip side, I'm happy that this story has been up-voted and that it attracted some attention becau
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
There's not much negativity toward them just a bit of criticism on how they're handling this outage. As I mentioned in another comment of mine on that thread - they should have reached out to customers and let them know there's an outage (
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Critical notification should be sent to me and not pulled by me. Nice addition would be to have an addon to newrelic that would basically poll services/API like sendgrid and allow you to setup notifications for failure or degradation.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
We do have SPF entries set up for another provider, the main problem is that some services may need to warm up an IP prior sending lot of emails through a backup provider. What it means is that basically you should be using 2 providers at t
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Sendgrid customer here. Since many services rely on SMTP providers like Sendgrid, they should have a way to notify customers when their server go down and transactional notifications may be disrupted. I shouldn't be notified by someone who
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Thanks for the answer Joel! By the way - I'm curious why you guys had to built this internally - I always get the feeling people prefer using a 3rd party service like kissmetrics than building something.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
You posted twice on HN and no one up voted you - posted this 'Tell HN' and this time you're on the front page, I'm sure that a bunch of interested hackers will visit your website now and register with your service. Keep telling the world ab
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Hey Joel, I'm interested to know if the first 100 users stuck with your product over time or you had to figure out how to do retention over time.
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Simcity rejected building an offline mode because it didn't fit their "vision"(simcity.com)
2 points by adambenayoun 14y ago|0 comments
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Any chance you could open source L33tStart. Also what type of ponies were you using for your startups? Black or white ponies?
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
This is a great project and will surely help a few people down the road starting their own clone of IFTTT :)
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Tutorial: Create a virtual pet game with html 5(binpress.com)
2 points by adambenayoun 14y ago|0 comments
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
As someone who's running a marketplace with hundreds of iOS components and templates, I can certainly say that there's a need for these kind of templates. A lot of people will use these templates as a good base to get started and release a
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Going after a new market often require much more resources than going after an established market. You'll need to spend a lot of time branding yourself and educating your users about your services. What often works well for people is to ent
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Propose to settle with them for like 1% of your app's profit (profit not revenue), then send them a check for 10 cents. Seriously though - you should consult with a lawyer but ultimately the decision will be yours.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Well, it's not hard to add a link but can easily get overlooked when developing a product with tons of priorities. Since it's always exponentially harder to develop a product than writing a review about that product, when I write something
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Definitely - although the idea itself is a nice surprise.
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
How about being a bit more supportive and air this concern in a more supportive manner? It's not like it's rocket science to figure out what is their main url, right?
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by adambenayoun 14y ago
Then you aren't anymore.

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