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by dmk23 15y ago
In my opinion, Marc's segment was the most interesting because his perspective / experience cannot be found in any other living human being: 1) Being in the Internet business longer than anyone else (1994 or 1993) 2) Being a hacker, who tur
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Email is bringing in $40.56 for every dollar spent on it this year(magillreport.com)
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Any startup would benefit from thinking of itself as a business. In fact most startups that are not businesses do not have a very good prognosis, though quite a few still get acquired for technology or team.
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TLDR summary of the article: "Confront reality and focus on execution of your product/sales plan to get competitive. No pie-in-the-sky strategizing would save your bacon if you fail to get stuff done."
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I take a very simple perspective on this "single founder aversion". If some investor is going to ignore my traction and business just because I achieved it without signing on a token co-founder, then frankly it is their loss and I won't hes
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by dmk23 15y ago
The tool is nice but unfortunately it would miss the key spam score components tied to IP reputation. AWL (auto-white-list) is the most obvious rule, but many actual Spam Assassin installs include plugins that rely on all kinds of 3rd party
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by dmk23 15y ago
The real lesson here is that if your service relies on "Big Data" processing it pays off to build your own storage. If you were to buy 135Tb on Amazon EC2/EBS the same capacity would cost you ~$19,000 per month , not counting charges for I
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by dmk23 15y ago
Nice interview, but I wish she shared more technical details on what they actually did, what worked and what did not. Especially on bootstrapping a recommendation engine from sparse data set, which is a very common challenge - It was de
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That is exactly their problem. Spotify owns neither the customer nor digital contents. They can play their "music discovery arbitrage" game till it grows big enough that their partners have enough incentive to step in and take over their bu
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by dmk23 15y ago
Failure to live up to promised quality of service is one obvious "evil" to be added to the article. ISP does not even have to be "deliberately" evil to underinvest in their network and oversell their capacity. Measure your latencies and act
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by dmk23 15y ago
This should not stop at the CEO level, it needs to apply to every job within the company, at every level. Nobody cares about your excuses, whoever you are. Everyone's job involves goals, milestones and deadline. If you are performing you de
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by dmk23 15y ago
OMG, Julius Caesar had to die too! There is no need for any language or framework to "die". If you do not like PHP (or Perl or Python or COBOL or Ruby or Java) just do not use it. There are plenty of alternatives. If you and your team can b
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Email Relevance Revisited: Microsoft updates Hotmail to deal with "grey spam"(theregister.co.uk)
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"Letter of intent" is a very weak validation. Either you can get an actual contractual commitment with a check or you still have not closed the deal... Don't waste time crafting LOI language and focus on the actual sales process of getting
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by dmk23 15y ago
Great tips and I would definitely add another one: "Make sure your marketer is readily willing to implement automation tools to increase their efficiency". As many new tools, MixRank included, become available, you want to be sure your mark
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Even though the article covers a lot of other things, I very much agree with the headline. I am a newcomer to Hacker News, but after spending just short two weeks immersing myself into the community I only wish I have committed HN to my dai
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by dmk23 15y ago
Have you looked at graph databases and how would you compare them to your with Citrusleaf document store? A similar-sized ad network, CPX Interactive is running ad requests on InfiniGraph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88HCKQ73nFU&fea
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by dmk23 15y ago
Exactly. The way I would put it is that this CEO is flunking out in his job. If any executive (CTO or whoever) is not getting things done, CEO's job is to replace them as fast as possible. If the CEO is failing to do that, this means he nee
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by dmk23 15y ago
This could actually save their business model. Merchant churn is really their biggest problem. Becoming their "loyalty solution provider" could help re-engage the merchants. The only puzzling thing is why Groupon has not done it earlier.
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Exactly. What you pitch them is on buying larger license for the whole enterprise, increasing the usage and integrating deeper into their systems. Getting from a handful of users to thousands is easier to do when you have both initial end u
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My point was not whether "banning tools that were 'snuck in through the back door'" is childish or fair or unfair. That's not even relevant. The point was that they have the power to do this and they do not hesitate to use it. Occasionally
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You might think they are clueless but there is a method to IT's madness. I would not recommend publicly trashing anybody in corporate buying chain if you ever plan to go upscale and sell your services for 7 figures at CIO's level. Nobody ap
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Determination Role Model: Man with broken leg survives 4 days in Utah desert(telegraph.co.uk)
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California Repeals the Affiliate Nexus Tax Law(performancemarketingassociation.com)
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If you know your idea sucks this means you need to change it, revise it, pivot or whatever you want to call it. Every success that started with a lousy idea became a success because they recognized their idea sucks and changed it, not kept
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by dmk23 15y ago
IAB has tons of standards: http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/508676...
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Have you looked into display ad exchanges and how they store and manipulate ads? That could be an easier place to get traction.
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There are literally hundreds of ESPs (Email Service Providers). Many of them offers APIs that can be programmed. You just need to define clearly what exact automation functionality you need and then select the right ESP based on API feature
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Seems like you are offering the same data manipulation people currently do either with desktop software or custom coded server apps. Your value here is turning it into a web service and making it easier to use. There is a very strong case f
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The reason they do it this way is because it is much easier to evaluate with confidence the people who come through their network. When sizable money is involved it is really the only way to invest. That's the same reason most people would

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