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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks for the constructive feedback! Many of our clients have tried lead databases like Data or Jigsaw and haven't found them nearly specific enough, which is why they come to us. There are a few examples in the blog post that are we
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks for signing up! We'll see if we can make it clearer on the front page. It's the former -- we'll be finding potential leads, curating the list, and emailing them using a variety of formats to see what works the best.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Get in touch with me and we'll get you sorted out! anand@mobileworks.
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Nope, they don't -- users and leads are produced fresh for each client as a work-for-hire, and they're the property of the customer who purchases them.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
We mean that lead lists aren't shared internally inside LeadGenius. All the work that's carried out is considered work-for-hire, and remains client property. It's more work for us, but this protects our clients who sell simil
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks, Austen. You make a great point -- below a certain customer point, paid UAaaS doesn't make sense! We try to help people determine their ROI for lead generation out of the box, but LTV is something that a company has to figure o
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Sorry you had a bad experience! We always cheerily offer refunds or set things right when things don't work. I'm happy to look into this myself -- feel free to get in touch with me directly if for some reason this didn't happ
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
There's certainly more than that, but SDRs (as we call them) are a piece of it. Excellent -- let's chat further! Drop me a note directly.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Great question. LeadGenius is a product from MobileWorks, which was built as a "fair trade" virtual staffing platform -- a direct alternative to Mechanical Turk. Our technical specialty is finding and managing teams of talented p
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
You might consider looking at our earlier virtual assistant product, Premier ( https://premier.mobileworks.com ), which has a few small-scale options available.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Certainly. Finance, insurance, software development, and real estate have been four verticals that have been particularly common.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Nope -- the reason is that you can't realistically research much information or reach out to many users in $150 of time. Figuring out and deploying a strategy to find and acquire users takes human time - it's very different from j
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks! Tech-savvy folks with great products and no salesforces have certainly been using us a lot, but we're also seeing more experienced and high-paid salespeople using us who just don't want to prospect on their own. To answer
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
This is a fantastic point. PG has hinted at this trend already in one of his previous essays: because companies get a shared set of awesome services provided by other YC startups (finance, HR, hosting, etc.), startups can operate as efficie
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Lead research means looking through a known set of public/private data sources to figure out if a target user is reasonable for a service. Generally it's not cold calling to get data, although we've done that in a few cases.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
The main use is definitely for non-enterprise leads, as long as you can figure out what kind of user you'd like based on a few qualification criteria. B2B prospects are much easier to obtain than B2C users since the segment is so broad
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks for the great questions! The amount of time required per lead varies substantially between different client types, so giving a cost per lead isn't possible between different types of users. (We've also found that compared
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Show HN: We built manual user acquisition as a service(leadgeni.us)
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
We're doing quite well, as it so happens. Paying fair wages means better work output, which means you can get higher quality results, and actually means lower total cost. It's better business than trying to scrape usable results
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
You should be using Clerky for a convertible note financing. It should cost you just a few hundred dollars total and won't require lawyers.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
www.zenefits.com is the easiest way to get set up with insurance here. They're free and will recommend the best few options based on your setup.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
https://www.leadgeni.us
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thanks for doing this! It'll be a lot of fun for folks to fork.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
This is pretty much spot-on with what it's like to fundraise. RG is such a breakout star today that it's remarkable to see they went through similar fundraising adventures to everyone else in YCS11.
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
The most interesting suggestion, to me: "However, there is something else we can do. It is more radical, but also more useful. Rather than letting people only evaluate papers, why not give them a chance to participate and improve them
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Thrilled to have watched this product and this team grow to this phase. This technology still amazes me. Keep on killing it, guys!
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
Parse pitched itself as "Heroku for Mobile." Seems to be an effective shorthand to convey what you do.
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Spectacular. How'd you do on conversions?
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
I can't say enough good things about Double. At one point we at MobileWorks were the world's heaviest users of Doubles – not sure if that's still the case or if someone's caught up. Right now one of our partners operates full-time on the r
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by anandkulkarni 13y ago
It became Yahoo! Stores.

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