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An app with a knack for contacts (Xobni Blackberry)(on.wsj.com)
1 points by brezina 17y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
Anyone with experience in funding a company through equity financing would never put their personal equity into an agreement like this. And I wouldn't fund someone who is as fiscally irresponsible with their personal finances. Companies are
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by brezina 17y ago
Actually, there is another recent startup success from Penn State. Aaron Gotwalt of CoTweet was a 2004 grad. CoTweet was just acquired this week.
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by brezina 17y ago
jesh. I went there. That is my college paper. And this disappoints me. It is a good reflection on the newspaper industry
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by brezina 17y ago
Copying my comment that I posted on Aaron's blog: One more simple lesson that I learned only in my early twenties. You don’t need to finish every book. This is a simple but powerful lesson. It reduces the mental burden of starting a new boo
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by brezina 17y ago
This is one Techcrunch article where the comments on Techcrunch itself are intelligent. The best comments are from a guy named Jon who clarifies that fortunately we work in a free market. If enough people vote with their feet like you hav
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by brezina 17y ago
congrats on the sick growth guys. The choice of languages surprised me. Chinese specifically - do you expect these users to buy pro accounts? or is that simply about market share?
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A 4 year progression of startup offices(xobni.com)
54 points by brezina 17y ago|14 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
we graph the data too. Like cohorts. We graph cohorts by date of install, by build number, and eventually by other metrics that can effect retention.
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The 4 Metrics of User Acquisition and the Customer Bull’s Eye(mattbrezina.com)
31 points by brezina 17y ago|4 comments
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Who will win the Tim Ferriss biz competition, and the need for Z Combinator(mattbrezina.com)
6 points by brezina 17y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
I was on a flight so I wasn't able to respond. I actually have a much more indepth description of this preso on my blog http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog
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Xobni (YC S06) launches 2nd business model in 3 months - Xobni Enterprise(xobni.com)
3 points by brezina 17y ago|2 comments
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Xobni (YC S06) - moving to the cloud. Looking for Server Eng/Architect [SF]
3 points by brezina 17y ago
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by brezina 17y ago
haha - sales oriented guy - i do more than that @dhouston!
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by brezina 17y ago
i thought he was going to say people with expensive hobbies hang out with other people that have money - and therefore rub elbows with potential buyers or people who are connected to other buyers. I think this would be a good secondary eff
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by brezina 17y ago
Thanks for commenting Sridhar - congrats on all of the success - i love seeing success derived from long term commitment.
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by brezina 17y ago
during grad school I always found myself getting a real sensory deprivation rush when I went to the library at night to study. Great idea to explore the library as a working environment again now that i'm in the working world. Now i just
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by brezina 17y ago
gizmo, you and the other guys (and girls) on here are all over the exact studies and discussions we had internally with respect to this product - i appreciate the discussion. Pricing and positioning this and future aspects of our business
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Xobni Turns On Revenue - Will Outlook Users Pay Up?(xobni.com)
25 points by brezina 17y ago|15 comments
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by brezina 17y ago
i cant believe inc is running such a blatant ad for stack overflow. I haven't done an in-depth analysis, but i'd wager that 40% of the content of that post was promoting his product. Joel is amazing at leveraging the PR/Marketing value of
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by brezina 17y ago
another piece not included are all the contractors and service providers we pay every month. There are 18 non-founder employees at Xobni , but then we have at least 2 FTEs in contractors, a part-time CFO, a part-time bookkeeper, and stretc
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by brezina 18y ago
i don't think it is off-topic because "coder" is exactly the terminology the author used in the blog. I believe it reflects his general misunderstanding of programmers/developers/hackers
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by brezina 18y ago
Question - does anyone else get offended by the name "coder" I've always found that people who write code prefer to be called developers or hackers. I'm a bit of a hacker myself, so maybe i'm overly sensitive, and i know this is a small
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BlackBerry Partners Fund Adds $3.2M to Xobni's Series B ($10M total)(xobni.com)
2 points by brezina 18y ago|0 comments
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by brezina 18y ago
well written by a journalist (not an internet nerd like us) who has come to understand how important micropayments are and how they might save good journalism
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How to save newspapers (mentions TipJoy)(time.com)
4 points by brezina 18y ago|3 comments
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by brezina 18y ago
wow, record series A valuation? Did this company start working on their product near the beginning of their YC funding cycle or had they been working on it for a while? It appears to me that a higher percentage of YC companies are coming
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by brezina 18y ago
Taleo.com - fantastic recruiting SAAS business, something like 300k paying users. Bought by individuals and corporations
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by brezina 18y ago
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