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Don't let the beer get warm: Iterate(blog.olark.com)
47 points by bcx 16y ago|9 comments
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by bcx 16y ago
Hmm.. is it Tuesday the 25th or Monday the 24th?
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by bcx 16y ago
I'd to learn more about the issues you experienced, could you email me directly at benc@olark.com? -Ben
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by bcx 17y ago
What's RT? We took WuFoo's advice and just used one big shared Gmail inbox (similar to your approach), with one person monitoring the inbox every day. Most day-to-day issues can be handled by anyone on our team.
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by bcx 17y ago
I think this article does a good job sparking discussion. I.e. What do you guys do to balance working on your product verses talking to customers? How do you manage customer service in small teams?
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by bcx 17y ago
It looks more like a degradation towards perl :-)
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by bcx 17y ago
In Mountain View (in the Heart of Silicon Valley) we were able to rent a townhouse for roughly $500 a month. (with 5 people) If you want to reduce your expenses, get a room-mate. (Then it will be $400 a month)
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by bcx 17y ago
Just for fun, you might want to drop Olark ( http://olark.com ) on your website, so when you do get useful traffic you'll have an opportunity to help sell to them -- it's worked out pretty well for us. (shameless plug)
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Olark + Google Analytics = Understand your live chat's effectiveness.(blog.olark.com)
14 points by bcx 17y ago|0 comments
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Olark (YC S09) Brings Chat to Any Website - Whether You Own the Site or Not(readwriteweb.com)
103 points by bcx 17y ago|22 comments
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by bcx 17y ago
I'd like some feedback on this to :-), it was a pretty touch decision to move from hab.la to olark.
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by bcx 17y ago
Talk to us, and we can work something out @olark :-)
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by bcx 17y ago
You may want to also take a look at http://www.linode.com , they give more ram, for the same price, and have a pretty slick, albeit not as pretty control area.
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by bcx 17y ago
Did you notice the random embed "Date All Within the last week Within the last 2 weeks Within the last 30 days Within the last 60 days Within the last 90 days Within the last 180 days Within the last year Within the last two years Custom Ty
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by bcx 17y ago
I think it depends on what you want to do. If you want to work at a company there is no better way to get an in, then to do an internship that that company and show that you are really good and add value. This applies to both young startu
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by bcx 17y ago
Did they pass out silverlight via Windows update?
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by bcx 17y ago
You can always proxy the /blog on your primary domain, so that BOTH URLs point to the same place. So you end up with both /blog and blog. With the same content.
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by bcx 17y ago
1. terminal / putty 2. textmate / vim 3. quicksilver 4. firefox + firebug Whenever I use any computer, I find myself installing all of these programs, in order to get anything done.
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Processing in JS is beautiful(processingjs.org)
59 points by bcx 17y ago|2 comments
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by bcx 18y ago
I wonder if there are any Aspen VCs / Angel investors.
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Ask HN: Where would you rather start a company Boulder or Boston?
3 points by bcx 18y ago|4 comments
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by bcx 18y ago
Just to put things in perspective the next round of YC is not exactly a 'no luck' process either. Basically PG and company meet with you for 10 minutes to meet the team, and discuss the project and plan. Now, tell me, how they can possibl
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by bcx 18y ago
nice post, I think we were at the same sessions. I thought Eric Gilbert's talk was the best talk I saw today. Although, it's funny how simple his method was though -- really he just took a little bit of social theory, and then ran a regr
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by bcx 18y ago
Why not just buy tinyURL and a few of the other big link shorteners for 500K each, and then spend 1 million building an analytic platform.
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Best places to live and launch?(money.cnn.com)
1 points by bcx 18y ago|0 comments
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by bcx 18y ago
Does anyone have any other sources for this information? Like anything that makes it look less like a rumor?
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by bcx 18y ago
What is the advantage of polling over comet? I guess the real question is how often is a user re-polling the same value, without it changing. -Ben
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by bcx 18y ago
Try a place like slicehost.com or linode.com where you can seamlessly upgrade your account over time. Both start around $20 a month, and both will let you instantly upgrade your account. That said -- if you have a good growth trajectory,
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Proximity detection using bluetooth -- Responsive Environments(situated.wordpress.com)
1 points by bcx 18y ago|0 comments
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by bcx 18y ago
With the recent launch of Google Voice, google might end up having the best social network data of any social network, since they will essentially act as the phone company, your email provider(Gmail), and your instant messaging service(Gtal

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