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by edash 15y ago
Kudos, you've managed to demonstrate Jason's final slide perfectly.
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by edash 15y ago
Here are some things we use at http://realhq.com — those also mentioned in the article are in italics : HOSTING Rails Hosting: EngineYard LAMP Hosting: HostGator File Hosting: AWS Video Hosting: Wistia Code Hosting: GitHub COLLABORAT
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by edash 15y ago
This isn't hosted on Tumblr, it's Wordpress. And Tumblr's done lots of great work around attribution: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/1059624418/content-attribution
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by edash 15y ago
The IRS, at least, accepts digital copies of receipts: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html#en_US_publink... I've used Shoeboxed since 2008 to keep all my receipts, so I don't have to physically store anything. I don't actually
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by edash 15y ago
Here's the Reuters version (not behind a paywall): http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/22/us-google-yahoo-id...
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by edash 15y ago
Conversion rate is so much more than design: Where are their website visitors coming from? What is the messaging that got them there? What are they trying to accomplish? Does this product or service solve their problem? Burying the sign-up
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by edash 15y ago
Related: The Love Affair Between Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso http://gizmodo.com/5727913/the-love-affair-between-steve-job...
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by edash 15y ago
Wistia should be added for video: http://wistia.com/ Intercom should be added for Feedback and FAQ: http://www.intercom.io/ HootSuite for social media tracking / monitoring: http://hootsuite.com/
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by edash 15y ago
It seems like you first need to decide an even more important thing: Is profitability the ultimate metric for your business? From the Ludicorp (Flickr) corporate philosophy: Likewise, a business develops an identity by providing a product
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by edash 15y ago
Thanks so much, we'll do that!
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by edash 15y ago
That's a strong sell even after sign-up actually. We're trying to sort through Braintree charges right now and it is pretty painful...
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by edash 15y ago
Braintree also acts as your merchant account though, right? I'm really excited to learn more about Stripe, but I have Braintree implemented in one application and have had a good experience. For future apps, why choose Stripe over Braintree
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by edash 15y ago
I think this is a broad generalization. I work on two different projects that both invest heavily in Google AdWords and both have revenue small enough to be considered a "start-up." If a start-up is focused on a particular vertical, or is a
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by edash 15y ago
Mixergy has given so much to the community...if you're going to be a thief at least have the decency to be modest about it. Edit: Parent post has been deleted.
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by edash 15y ago
I'm sure they've saved way more time (and money) using Google Docs than this one hour outage of the document dashboard cost them today...
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by edash 15y ago
I highly recommend the audio version of This is Water. You get to hear his intonation and his interaction with the crowd...I found it much more moving than the transcription.
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by edash 15y ago
DFW's depression was clinical and a lifelong battle. Your statement is akin to saying "Don't take advice from a man who died of cancer at 46."
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by edash 15y ago
Page views and site visitors are usually different metrics. I don't know how the Airbnb stats are calculated, but I'm guessing you've had fewer than 246 visitors—which means your conversion rate would be higher than 1%.
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by edash 15y ago
Several commenters on this post claim this is an issue of safety: "The ability to add nicknames/maiden names etc is of no use to people who actually need to keep their identity secret for their own or their family's safety." "There are plen
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by edash 15y ago
I wasn't defending Noah's behavior. I was defending Noah.
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by edash 15y ago
I didn't get hot sauce on me and I wasn't at MicroConf — but I will defend Noah. I've met him on several occasions and he's been friendly and helpful. He also gives time and energy to many people and projects without wanting anything in ret
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by edash 15y ago
I'd say this is the idea Hipmunk is going after...
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by edash 15y ago
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/false_modesty
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by edash 15y ago
Boomerang for Gmail does this...
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by edash 15y ago
How many Walkman's or Discman's did you buy before the iPod came out? The market for portable music devices went up exponentially from the 90's to the mid-2000's when the iPod achieved mainstream status. I bought two iPods in three years be
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by edash 15y ago
A good "business person" should be well-versed or at least dumb and ambitious in most of the following: - Hiring - Usability - Accounting - Copywriting - Customer Service - Project management - Business development - Knowl
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by edash 15y ago
I recently did some fundraising and employee grants with an LLC and it was more complicated than you'd think... You should make sure your grants have a "distribution hurdle." If you don't have a distribution hurdle, the options you're grant
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by edash 16y ago
I'm slowly moving all my domains to Name.com. Once your account is setup and you've purchased one domain, all future domain purchases take a grand total of two clicks.
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by edash 16y ago
It's a F*CKING thermal mass the same way that Twitter is a weekend project. Weekend projects come and go with hardly a whimper. The hard part comes when you want to turn that weekend project into something people will actually use (or in th
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by edash 16y ago
I think the new startup Tout (toutapp.com) is working to develop something like this. HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2361409 In the current iteration, it seeks to fill the middle ground between an email client and

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