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by brezina 16y ago
haha - it wasn't all bad. Just nothing, i repeat nothing like my experience with YC.
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by brezina 16y ago
I'll argue that the most important part of grad school is/was the people. And that is the element YC nailed for me. I also had to teach myself a bunch of technical stuff to get xobni off the ground. Unlike grad courses this stuff was practi
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YC: The new grad school(mattbrezina.com)
165 points by brezina 16y ago|54 comments
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by brezina 16y ago
i agree ;)
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by brezina 16y ago
unfortunately this app requires you to type in the physical address. But we do save it, so you'll never have to again
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by brezina 16y ago
a_m_kelly - i'm the founder of Sincerely (creator of postagram) I totally hear where you are coming from. We don't intend to replace old-school postcards. Instead, we think of postcards simply as a delivery mechanism for photos. We are arb
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by brezina 16y ago
these guys are continuing to capture value from an industry that was lacking innovation. It just goes to show one of the most direct paths to cash is to take existing user behaviors and bring them to new platforms.
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by brezina 16y ago
thanks so much for sharing your real data. This is a great how-to for developing product messaging.
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by brezina 16y ago
I think you put the reasons this is exciting in exactly the right order. No sign-up friction before people can start using your app? That's nuts. You almost want to redirect any of the chrome visitors to www.weebly.com to this reg flow!
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by brezina 16y ago
If you think all 3 of these companies (and probably more) need an offering in this category & if you think one or more will fuck it up, fail to ship, etc that actually puts dropbox in an amazing position. They've already executed, the
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An analysis of mail.ru (public company that owns facebook, zynga, etc stock)(thegongshow.tumblr.com)
2 points by brezina 16y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 16y ago
You should try the outlook social connector and report back. but here are my answers: 1. OSC isn't compatible with google gadgets 2. OSC isn't very customizable for developers - the presentation layer is super limited 3. OSC requires a spec
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by brezina 16y ago
Awesome - We definitely make Xobni redistributable by partners. Email me matt at companyname. We'd love to help make this a success for you.
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by brezina 16y ago
Yikes dude - you are all over this thread. the total addressable market of gmail is around 120M mailboxes. Building a gadget won't get you all of those users, you'll still need to convince them to add your gadget. Same thing goes for Outlo
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by brezina 16y ago
We support the most important recipient extractor RecipientEmailExtractor - which gives you all recipients in both the to and cc field. We don't support RecipientToEmailExtractor and RecipientCCEmailExtractor right now, but we will with to
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by brezina 16y ago
Yes. We support the exact same google Extractors API, so you'll have all the info you need to show relevant context to the message.
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by brezina 16y ago
This announcement means that a developer can build a gadget for gmail using Google's APIs, and Xobni will fully support that Google API to bring the same gadget into Outlook. Build once and deploy to both gmail & Outlook More here: ht
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by brezina 16y ago
welp, i'm back after using nowmov. thanks to nowmov i found one of the coolest youtube videos i've seen in a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0 Google Chrome speed tests
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by brezina 16y ago
The data this company will be able to collect at scale could be valuable in and of itself.
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by brezina 16y ago
quick thoughts as I look at the site - make the whole discover, share, etc buttons clickable. Not just the bottom text - i'm not convinced why i want to signup? Give me a reason. Probalby just one reason. Test 3 reasons and see which one
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by brezina 16y ago
We are courting msft employees to use Xobni again. At one point we had 16k msft employees using Xobni. Then they started beta testing Outlook 2010 internally and we weren't compatible, so we lost all but 1,000. Our seattle campaign was de
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by brezina 16y ago
this is actually the #1 benefit of going after a large market and why VCs often invest (1) in the market (2) in the team and (3) in the current product (in that order). If you are in a good market, and spend enough time slamming your head a
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by brezina 16y ago
Fantastic gents! I've loved the promise of picwing from day one. There is definitely a large market for the problems you are solving. This was a great business pivot. I really hope it works out - and i think it will - you could be doing s
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Xobni takes to the streets & skies above Microsoft(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by brezina 17y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
Exactly! We should file suit against the US Treasury for propping up Goldman and others with our tax money. They defrauded us by forcing us bankroll the bailout while providing limited upside for the massive risk we took.
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by brezina 17y ago
Matt, co-founder of Xobni here. Adam and I started Xobni with the basic idea that google organized the world's public information, yet no one had done that for personal information (Adam's insight - not mine - he was in grad school looking
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Freemium ain't new (a study of 3 public companies and xobni)(mattbrezina.com)
15 points by brezina 17y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
I wonder what Groupon's repeat business is like. Do they convince some small business to price their service incredibly under cost, take their rip, and leave the business to deal with 2,000 loss leading customers? I'd love to hear from th
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by brezina 17y ago
Guys, this is an awesome service. I can see a lot of other startups building on this platform. Did you guys build push.ly yourselves? If so, the smart thing here is building and marketing a great free little demo app is a great way to get
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by brezina 17y ago
awesome to have you in this community Ryan. Legal stuff is my least favorite part about operating a startup. It is great to have the perspective of someone who is passionate about it. Also, this is great away for you to get involved with

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