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by answerly 16y ago
Startup.com and E-dreams are documentaries about high flying startups (GovWorks and Kozmo.com, respectively) from the first dotcom boom. Interestingly, both document NYC startups rather than Silicon Valley ones. There are some great Sand H
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by answerly 16y ago
That is really just the standard "style guide" of the site. YC companies are always referenced that way in titles. It seems a bit unfair to make the assumption there is something opportunistic going on. The 1000Memories team are very thou
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by answerly 16y ago
Check out: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/ There is obviously no replacement for situation specific legal advice from a real live lawyer.
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by answerly 16y ago
>>I recall about.com as a decent site a while ago, but I believe it was acquired a while ago by ... Yahoo!? Go figure. About.com is owned by the New York Times Company, not Yahoo.
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by answerly 16y ago
Salary.com has reasonably good data that I have found to be at least directionally accurate.
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by answerly 16y ago
Crunchbase.com is a great resource for this type of research. Try searching for companies in the categories you mention and see which investors are in those deals.
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by answerly 16y ago
Test all this stuff. Use a tool like Optimizely to create a few variations and see what works best.
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Yahoo Reduces Staff By 4 Percent; Hands Out Pink Slips To Over 500 Employees(techcrunch.com)
27 points by answerly 16y ago|22 comments
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by answerly 16y ago
A pending legal action could put the acquisition in jeopardy. I'd expect that they would take any credible legal threat very seriously. See if you can get a lawyer to write a threatening collections letter. That may be all you need to ge
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by answerly 16y ago
Are there any established, complimentary products in the market? That is, companies that sell to the same types of clients that you want to target but that you wouldn't consider competitors. If so, try talking to those companies and see if
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There is No Angel Bubble. There are Many Angel Bubbles.(startupboy.com)
14 points by answerly 16y ago|0 comments
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by answerly 16y ago
>>But if there's a third-party saying "you with the steaks: you'll get those from this particular guy with potatoes. and you with the potatoes: vice versa." That doesn't happen. YC is more like a university alumni association. They
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by answerly 16y ago
It sounds like you are asking the investor to take all the risk of a standard investment, but with potentially less upside. Seems like a tough sell.
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by answerly 16y ago
It indicates to Google (and presumably other crawlers) that the site supports the AJAX crawling scheme. More here: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...
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by answerly 16y ago
We also have a bunch of internal data from our q&a search engine. I wouldn't want to publish that publicly, but feel free to email me (address in my profile) and I'd be glad to share.
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by answerly 16y ago
According to the Google keyword suggestion tool, the global search volumes for those phrases are: "How to" - 226m "How do I" - 9.14m "How do you" - 11.1m
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by answerly 16y ago
We track average click position for each query and use that as a measure of effectiveness. We evaluate any changes based on the impact to that metric.
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by answerly 16y ago
It presumably makes sense for Bing to buy ads on any keyword that leads to a profitable customer acquisition opportunity.
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by answerly 16y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-spends-90965-per-day-on... http://www.businessinsider.com/top-100-google-advertisers-by... That second link pre-dates Bing's launch, I believe. You'll see Yahoo and Ask.com in the top 15. Much of t
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by answerly 16y ago
Brian Chesky from AirBnB offers up a bunch of great examples in this talk from Startup School. http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383
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by answerly 16y ago
Bing, Yahoo, Ask and dozens or hundreds of smaller, niche search engines already spend millions of dollars per month on Google Adwords.
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by answerly 16y ago
>Companies like this could've easily succeeded even 10 years ago if the old-school dot-com companies hadn't blown all their capital on super bowl ads and aeron chairs. Maybe. There have been a lot of innovations in the consumer Interne
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by answerly 16y ago
These guys are the founders of Azoogle (now Epic Advertising) which is a very large CPA marketing network. They are not only very successful entrepreneurs but understand customer acquisition, LTV, etc. Pets.com jokes aside, these are very
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by answerly 16y ago
This line from the linked Chris Dixon post sums it up pretty well: "Remember that an equity grant is typically for the next 4 years of work (hence 4 years of vesting)."
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by answerly 16y ago
Thats exactly right. More than 85% of Mozilla's revenue comes from an ad rev share with Google.
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It seems like the most likely scenario is that they burned through the VC cash and couldn't raise more, so they were forced to sell. If the VCs had some high liquidation preference it could easily explain how the common shareholders and ea
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The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
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by answerly 16y ago
We are hiring right now- I'd love to chat. I'm also an SF native so can give you some general perspective on the bay area as well. Feel free to email me any time. joe@answerly.com
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I'd just stop if I were you. Dismissing every helpful piece of advice out of hand makes you seem like a very unreasonable person. Good luck with your startup. I hope everything works out for the best.
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by answerly 16y ago
>But the initial comment sounded like I should stalk people, corner them, and in general be a jerk. I refuse to do that. Thats a pretty big leap from my initial suggestion of asking one of your existing LinkedIn contacts to introduce yo

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