alexshipillo

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In defence of open floor plans for engineering(be.helpful.com)
5 points by alexshipillo 9y ago|0 comments
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How to be an effective early stage employee(hackernoon.com)
1 points by alexshipillo 10y ago|0 comments
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by alexshipillo 12y ago
Influitive - Toronto, Canada - Marketing Operations Manager We're looking for a technical-focused marketer to lead our website, SEO and CRO efforts, helping us convert more traffic into inbound leads. We're a well-funded startup t
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by alexshipillo 13y ago
Same one. Robert is also a Partner at YC.
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How a Startup Gained Hundreds of Customers with a few Blog Posts(blog.pressly.com)
3 points by alexshipillo 13y ago|0 comments
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How Being Creative is Like Going to the Gym(blog.pressly.com)
2 points by alexshipillo 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexshipillo 13y ago
I have mine and I like it. However, I don't think the communication was poor at all - they have sent out 39 project updates over a year, which is almost one per week. Yes, the production was delayed and it took me 11 months to receive my Pe
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Lessons Learned Since Leaving my Job(alexshipillo.com)
1 points by alexshipillo 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
Based on another stat in the article, only 800 artists earn than $50k per year. That means that while that artist is only ranked 17,000 in sales on Amazon, they happen to be in the top ~500 on Pandora.
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
Yes, it's way more than I expected. I wonder how sustainable it is...
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What Pandora Pays Top Artists(blog.pandora.com)
252 points by alexshipillo 14y ago|84 comments
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
Interesting. Does the person need you sign up through you, or just use your referral code at checkout? If it's the later, I wonder if you could target your keywords to "fab promo code" or "fab discount" to try to get people that were near t
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
I actually think that in this case, Uber does a good job of protecting privacy. I don't see the email address or the last name of the people that I referred, just their first name. I'm assuming that means that they don't see my name/email e
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
Great point. I mentioned in my post that "there isn’t a huge amount of upside" financially, but I definitely got personal value out of just doing the experiment. I'd suspect that most of the truly lucrative affiliate opportunities are extre
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
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Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit(alexshipillo.com)
22 points by alexshipillo 14y ago|13 comments
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
As someone who volunteered at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, I can confidently say that the two weeks of the Games was the most exciting time of my life. The culture of being a volunteer was incredible, and it almost felt like you w
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by alexshipillo 14y ago
The arguments for the Thiel Fellows to pursue this opportunity and the current debate for the overall college "bubble" have little in common. While they touch on a similar subject of (not) going to college, I don't see how a very narrow fun
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Travel, Get Inspired, Then What?(alexshipillo.com)
1 points by alexshipillo 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexshipillo 15y ago
Close enough. :)
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by alexshipillo 15y ago
I got in as a first-timer. Is anyone else from Vancouver heading down?
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How I justify working for a startup instead of starting my own(alexshipillo.com)
3 points by alexshipillo 15y ago|0 comments