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by dmor 14y ago
I'm sorry, I think I was unclear and can see why you would take offense. I don't think this was a knock on creating a finance business or anything else - it was specific advice for me and my career path. He was telling me that doing the fi
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by dmor 14y ago
Thanks for the kind wishes. I think what I (the OP) failed to convey in my post is that going into finance, given my background, would have been the easy way out for me. Having someone tell me "oh you could totally do X" when I thought X
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by dmor 14y ago
I don't think you are trolling, I just can't control what makes it to the front page or not. Clearly this resonated with some people. I am not sure why my story as a startup founder isn't the right kind of stuff for HN, I've been a part o
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by dmor 14y ago
Sorry about the typos, I have fixed most of them and I am still reviewing. I was very close to chickening out and not publishing this at all, so I went for it before it was perfect. I wanted to get past the point of no return. Not a great
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by dmor 14y ago
Okay. I'm just telling my stories, I'm not entitled to the #1 spot and I'm not canvasing votes (ok, I asked my husband to vote). If a couple of people read this and got fired up to have some balls and take some risk, that's good enough for
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The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day)(distributionhacks.com)
126 points by dmor 14y ago|58 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
Good point well made. As to referrals, I didn't realize they needed defending - that is how the Internet, and business in general works, and either Amazon would be keeping that money or it would be in someone else's pocket. The product was
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by dmor 14y ago
What really strikes me about this data set is that YCombinator alone has 2x the exits of all the other other accelerators combined, and accounts for 93% of the total exit amount. Whenever someone asks "why you choose YC?" just quote that -
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by dmor 14y ago
Hey guys Danielle here. Here's what I think we should do: if it makes commissions we can donate them to Room to Read through our charity program, and I will share all the stats in a blog post. Cool?
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by dmor 14y ago
Yes, I think this is one of the top concerns. I am very forthright with investors about the fact that one of my cofounders is my husband. The fundamental question I've been asked (in various ways) is whether or not I have the balls, and w
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by dmor 14y ago
IFTTT seems to be appealing to the non-developer "configurator" person quite well, so maybe they don't want to complicate things by adding something so technical. I would guess you're feature request is not in the favorable half of the 80/2
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by dmor 14y ago
I like it, we definitely want to make it easier to discover products from within your network -- thanks for the suggestion
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by dmor 14y ago
Good thing we have you as an advisor then, I will make that for you
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Startup PR: The DIY Media Kit for Startups(onboardly.com)
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Referly Goes Social - You Can Now Follow Profiles(refer.ly)
14 points by dmor 14y ago|6 comments
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by dmor 14y ago
That news story specific landing page idea is gold, I'm going to play with that soon
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by dmor 14y ago
I think starting out, every potential pageview is worth fighting for. Facebook provides the potential for broader distribution, as does Twitter, email and other socially connected technology. Plus its free to use and startup founders gene
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by dmor 14y ago
Wow I've never tried that. If I got an email like that from a startup I'd be so touched, I'm sure you generated a ton of goodwill by doing that.
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Post Launch Checklist: 10 Tasks You Should Complete(distributionhacks.com)
58 points by dmor 14y ago|8 comments
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Referly API Helper Libraries for Ruby & Python Developers(refer.ly)
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by dmor 14y ago
You can see an example of how it works when you add your profile pic on http://refer.ly
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by dmor 14y ago
Amicus is about more than just the political campaigns use case - since the submitter is the startup founder I'd imagine they wanted to make sure people knew there was something here for people beyond those interested in that one use case.
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by dmor 14y ago
We are building the new social ad unit at Referly - and every word is written and targeted by humans, not demographic algorithms
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by dmor 14y ago
Site was briefly overloaded, everything is good now
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by dmor 14y ago
We are looking for open source contributors who would be interested in building the Ruby lib - I'll post a $500 bounty here. Please email me danielle@refer.ly We posted a bounty for the Python library this morning and it is already done, s
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by dmor 14y ago
We are happy to pay you directly via Paypal, please email your information to support@refer.ly and we can process this for you immediately. We don't have a self-service process yet.
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by dmor 14y ago
One way we are different is that we also offer a fully featured consumer experience, the API is awesome for businesses but we also bring an audience to brands since we are a marketplace with both sides.
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by dmor 14y ago
The merchant is required to report chargebacks to use within 60 days
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by dmor 14y ago
Yes! I am working on a Shopify plugin right now actually - can you email me at danielle@refer.ly so I can hear what you'd like me to make sure to include?
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by dmor 14y ago
Yes, we currently do not offer this in the API but have a few customers trying this with other forms of rewards. Email support@refer.ly and we can help you

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