arkonaut

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by arkonaut 14y ago
Agreed. People often use the term "consumer space" as if it only means some free app or product being given away for free ad infinitem... Dropbox, Airbnb, Uber, Kickstarter are all consumer services that all had huge years in 2012. Dropbox
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Really well done! Love where the payments space is going.
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by arkonaut 14y ago
> "90% of tests fail" This is a valuable point for those looking to get into split testing, growth testing, growth hacking in general. Unless there is this kind of understanding going in, a 90% 'failure' rate (failure to find something
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by arkonaut 14y ago
I was also wondering this... A local meetup making it to the homepage of HN?
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by arkonaut 14y ago
It's like what people have been saying for years... PayPal, three things you need to work on: customer service around people's money, better api docs, and above all, a brand new homepage
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by arkonaut 14y ago
i think this is quite smart. it's not just the hype, but similar to app.net, it's guaranteeing there is a minimum threshold of demand. what do you mean by 'ballsy to sidestep kickstarter.' has kickstarter become some kind of sole-arbiter of
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Am a fan of this fee/tuition structure over Dev Bootcamp's and know a girl in the current class - She built a grocery shopping/calorie counting app that blew me away within 3 weeks of the course. No prior programming knowledge or experience
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by arkonaut 14y ago
What a contrast a zoom and filter can have on an image... The actual image is him intently/genuinely listening to what I can only suppose is a question from an audience member of some kind. And the Venture Beat cropped version is supposed t
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by arkonaut 14y ago
Google Ventures is not the "Google" of venture funding. And there are about 5-7 firms that would have this type of brand-value that don't even consider these kind of tactics.
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by arkonaut 14y ago
huh?