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by aresant 10y ago
I remember in the Facebook pre-IPO days they invited a handful of notorious internet marketers / affiliates to sit down with senior executives to figure out how they could work together to drive higher CTRs for fare like ringtones, wei
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by aresant 10y ago
It would be remarkably easy for the author to validate the authenticity of her post by adding a picture of a pay-stub with blacked out identifying information / names / amounts. Or alternatively publish the story with a news agenc
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by aresant 10y ago
Source is a tweet referring to a blind board, weak but at the same time compelling enough for me to post to HN and see if any current UBERers can share thoughts?
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by aresant 10y ago
So the story after the headline is that Alphabet hired a seasoned Satellite Broadband guy, Tom Moore, to run the division and he pushed them to make the project more efficient, and ultimately profitable. This has Ruth Porat's stamp all
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Switch OS Walkthrough [video](vid.me)
38 points by aresant 10y ago|21 comments
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Theranos Has $200M in Cash Left, No Material Revenue(marketwatch.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
Or, in an alternative universe of content accurate headlines: "Gabe Newell on VR: "We're optimistic. We think VR is going great. It's going in a way that's consistent with our expectations" That's a direct
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by aresant 10y ago
Bam. Added edit to my comment. Look forward to more posts and would love to see more on the "how we grew" side.
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by aresant 10y ago
Bam. Added edit to my comment. Look forward to more posts and would love to see more on the "how we grew" side.
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by aresant 10y ago
I am not implying his built in audience was the reason for the success. DistroKid is successful because pud is a badass entrepreneur and a passionate musician that understood the pain point and executed beautifully. But at the same time you
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by aresant 10y ago
Why not tweak out the "Our secret:" part of article to include the whole "capture a community" thing? Or, fuck that, since this article is awesome self-admitted wantrepreneur wrapped marketing I'm just personally cu
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by aresant 10y ago
@Pud can undeniably build products that are laser focused and useful. And his minimalist approach to company building is epic and I am a fan. But it's sort of disingenuous to play David Vs. Goliath here like his line about launching: &
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by aresant 10y ago
Also excited about this product but from their pitch: "No one has solved automated SEO because SEO is a software problem that non-technical marketers are trying to solve." Great pitch, but untrue. Most SEOs I've met at seriou
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by aresant 10y ago
From the article: "Campbell also raised concerns that what Magic Leap showed the public in marketing material was not what the product actually could do—admonitions ignored in favor of her male colleagues’ assertions that the images an
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Former Magic Leap Exec Sues Company for Sexism/Misleading Marketing(forbes.com)
2 points by aresant 10y ago|2 comments
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by aresant 10y ago
1) In Mice by a small percentage. 2) "This research was supported in part by the California Walnut Commission (CWC)" :)
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by aresant 10y ago
This is good news. Musks target of 500,000+ cars a year of velocity in 2018 is an insane goal! By the numbers: - They have just shy of 400,000 of the 3's on deposit, along with a backlog of other models. - Last year Tesla shipped about
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by aresant 10y ago
Coinbase offers FULL digital currency insurance against theft, underwritten via a Lloyds of London Syndicate: http://www.coindesk.com/facebooks-ben-davenport-leaves-bitco... Lloyds isn't getting involved unless they ha
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by aresant 10y ago
I thought the story sounded familiar - Jered Kenna - this story's lead, claimed to have lost 800 BTC in 2013 (1) That story got him quite significant press at the time, I found thousands of deviations of the original Bloomberg story -
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Boston Dynamics' New Robot May Actually Make Money for Once(inverse.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
If the original complaint is to be believed(1) - which Juror's found credible -the course of events, tldr was something like this: - Zenimax bought ID software for >$100m(1) on June 24, 2009. - Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an
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by aresant 10y ago
Could NYT quantify - through experimentation - the value of a bot army as the "story"? For instance a Tweet with 100 retweets is substantially more likely to generate additional retweets / be shown more by Twitter's algo
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by aresant 10y ago
Editorializing: Paid clicks on Google properties +43% - "yaaay we're driving more paid search!" Cost-per-click on Google properties -16% - "ouch our advertisers are seeing less value on these add'l clicks!" To
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by aresant 10y ago
From Wikipedia: "Salvage logging during the early years of the blight may have unwittingly destroyed trees which had high levels of resistance to this disease and thus aggravated the calamity." One of many good examples of humanit
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by aresant 10y ago
You mean intrusive like the AMP header on every !@$! mobile page now that's not only annoying but breaks the standard UX?
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Ben Franklin has a great line on this topic - "Diligence is the mother of good luck." The author illustrates this major point with an example of the "TOP" cellist in the world: "One [cellist] earns eight or nine fig
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by aresant 10y ago
How do we even judge moves like this? On the one hand this is one in a continued series of "I don't care how it looks" real estate moves by Zuck. EG like his plan last year to build fake houses on 4 zone residential lots arou
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Silicon Valley Elites Get Home Loans with No Money Down(google.com)
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Two things are powering this insanity. 1 - low interest rates and speciality jumbo programs to lock in high earners are providing balloon capital. When this pops people won't lose houses because they have fixed rates, but they will be
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by aresant 10y ago
I built my early career entirely around CRO / testing and moved over time into product / ux / app optimization. Huge, crazy, insane amounts of time are WASTED by humans dickering around with interfaces that they don't un

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