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by badclient 13y ago
Most other posts on HN don't involve such degree of mudslinging. When they do, I think you'll find similar questions being asked.
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by badclient 13y ago
Go for post Series-A. VCs have already done the vetting for you. Seems like you thought the same about YC: that they'd do the vetting for you. And yet you're set on making the same mistake again by relying on someone else to do
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by badclient 13y ago
Also, define micromanaging .
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by badclient 13y ago
You never told us the other side of the story. Sure, the other side could, but what do you think the other side would say about you? And why should we believe you over them beyond taking your word?
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by badclient 13y ago
For every idea that ends up taking off, there is a skeptic like you swearing it won't... cuz it didn't in the 90s.
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by badclient 13y ago
When you can't easily tell a label from a textarea from a button, you know the UI is crap. Man here's me hoping that I hate the flat UI because it is new and not because it makes different behaviors so indistinguishable in the nam
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by badclient 13y ago
I signed up as someone who has a deep need for this. We are trying to run through 4 months of cold calling data to identify the ideal customer profile / call frequency etc. that has the highest odds of converting into a sale. I vaguely
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by badclient 13y ago
The first is the courage to say wait, be sure, slow down, get another source. Real people and their reputations, livelihoods and families are at stake. A 1000 times. At least it won't turn into the next PandoDaily(and its BeachMint f
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by badclient 13y ago
While I won't disagree that there might be other labels that perform better than "Submit", calling "submit" as the worst possible copy seems overtly sensational. We both know it isn't.
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by badclient 13y ago
A little birdy says that "Submit" is the worst possible copy you could use for that button Aren't you being too literal here? Vast majority of internet users have been trained to see "submit" for "okay I&#x27
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by badclient 13y ago
The problem with MVPs is that no one clearly know what they are and the folks that came up with it or evangelize it are often full of shit. On one end, lean is pitched being similar to the scientific method. But on the same note, when someo
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by badclient 13y ago
You can admire your competitor but for the simple reason that its your competitor, you always have to try and one up them or keep them from eating your lunch. If senior management is doing its job right than they'd want to take on KA,
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by badclient 13y ago
Then someone else comes along, teaches it badly, and gets lauded for doing wonderful things. Are you arguing that KA teaches all or most things badly? If not, then I'd clarify because your statement above makes it sound like you are
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by badclient 13y ago
Not necessarily. 80% of anything might be crap for you but much higher than 80% of anything is not see as crap on the whole. You might hate country but tons of people love it. Contrast with crappy domains: they are crap for everyone excep
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by badclient 13y ago
Pretty sure they are coordinating with corporates behind the scenes and have few million lined up in commitments that will turn into actual $ as we get closer. That in itself makes this campaign unpredidented - I don't recall another c
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by badclient 13y ago
There are two parts to getting good employees: finding them and getting them to work for you. Many startup employees, by themselves, will not work for Yahoo for $200K/year. Many startup employees will work for Yahoo for $150K/yea
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by badclient 13y ago
That's worth a lot more than just the engineers' salaries I call bs. It's honestly insulting to every Yahoo employee to hear this argument that these guys coming to yahoo via a dying start up are worth several multiples. Yo
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by badclient 13y ago
Is this the best PR you can get for a $70M budget?
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by badclient 13y ago
The investors should have taken a loss. It was a failing business.
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by badclient 13y ago
If Marissa gave $70M to HN for acquisitions for Yahoo, who all would you guys acquire and why?
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by badclient 13y ago
For <$70MM (and for a company that raised $40MM), that could be a relatively cheap acquisition How much money Rockmelt raised says little about how good of a deal Yahoo received. The reverse may be true: Yahoo may have had to pay way m
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by badclient 13y ago
its worse when these guys that burned through $40M+ are going to be backed by their investors again at the expense of more worthy startup founders with less experience fundraising.
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by badclient 13y ago
The guys getting a fat payout and corporate safety net while working on some random project they didn't even agree to work on are no longer the same guys who made the startup. Yahoo shareholders should pool together and stick this on
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by badclient 13y ago
Other than Tumblr, it seems like all the other acquisitions were of companies that were on their way down. Edit: Also add Lexity to the list with Tumblr.
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by badclient 13y ago
Has Yahoo ever tried to offer $500,000+ to rockstar mobile devs? Until it tries that, it is lame to argue that it must get talent from deadpooled companies.
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by badclient 13y ago
Anyone have an idea how big the pool of institutional investors are? Everytime I read one of these funding announcements I feel like its the same couple hundred instituons giving their money to bunch of different funds...that end up investi
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by badclient 13y ago
As one slide indicates, the ability to search HTTP activity by keyword permits the analyst access to what the NSA calls "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet". It seems like everyone's been attacking the wr
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by badclient 13y ago
He is not saying much about your actual conversion rate. He is saying more that you don't have enough data to make the claim in the title. For example, imagine if your conversion rate was 0. Then one day you got a few sales. If someone
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by badclient 13y ago
They mandated the color of pants speakers wore. Am I really reading this? Wow.
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by badclient 13y ago
How are NoSql databases more productive than SQL?

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