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by francov88 14y ago
amazing. thanks!
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by francov88 14y ago
Great app! Congrats to Michael and the team!
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by francov88 14y ago
Wicked app and calculator. Very nice design guys!
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by francov88 14y ago
Great post, and I agree with the idea that good design makes a huge difference, but I would have like to see more conclusive data. Seemed a little superficial and also like you believe the $50 icon was the source all the popularity. I would
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by francov88 14y ago
Great post, always love to hear about the little cool things startups do to differentiate their product/service and help people love them. Fist pumps, t-shirts are wicked... I guess the moustache works :)
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by francov88 14y ago
Great post and detailed analysis Josh. Thomas - While the design/layout/marketing elements may not have had an effect on the loyal zealots setting their alarm clocks early, it certain did help convince those who were on the fence about the
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by francov88 14y ago
Context always matters. People always forget that a rush too quickly into things (kind of like Facebook and an emerging technology). However in the case of Facebook, the error was still made.
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by francov88 14y ago
Amazing. Use it. That is all.
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by francov88 14y ago
Wicked move. Love how it's so integrated into the platform.
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Top 35 Startups In Tech that TechCrunch missed out on – August 2012(startupplays.com)
55 points by francov88 14y ago|42 comments
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by francov88 14y ago
Great research and post. There's another startup http://www.whogotfunded.com/ who specializes in tracking the funding wave.... not sure how they make money though...
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A Summary of Seed and Angel Investments in the First Half of the Year(biz30.timedoctor.com)
13 points by francov88 14y ago|9 comments
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by francov88 14y ago
As a major in international development and economics (and a part-time hacker)gone to the startup world, initiatives like this are great and will certainly provide long term value... The problem is in the short term as these policies tend
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by francov88 14y ago
Great article, but i'm not really surprised by the outcome. I mean if kim dot com is being sued why would you ever expect to be able to save your digital content for someone else after death?
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by francov88 14y ago
Great work, incredible idea and very functional MVP. Perhaps you can consider integrating IFTTT to make it even easier to share? You need a marketing campaign around the concept. Good luck!
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by francov88 14y ago
This is a great resource! There's also a visual Bootstrap client http://jetstrap.com/ which I came across the other day. Still in beta atm I believe...
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Top 35 Startups in Tech - July 2012(startupplays.com)
12 points by francov88 14y ago|8 comments
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by francov88 14y ago
Both very good points. I've even been guilty of it here and there... the trick is in making sure that the call to action is simple, present and not being deterred by anything else. Having friends review is great, but sitting an intelligent
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Startups that TechCrunch missed out on(startupplays.com)
37 points by francov88 14y ago|19 comments
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Growth Hacking A Community People Will Love(startupplays.com)
4 points by francov88 14y ago|0 comments
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by francov88 14y ago
Great post. the part that stuck out the most personally: "Homeruns by definition aren’t sustainable. They’re not predictable. Sometimes you hit one, but most of the time you don’t. That part of things is mostly out of your control." This is
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Show HN: The StartupPlays.com Story(startupplays.com)
11 points by francov88 14y ago|6 comments
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Top 5 Startup Growth Hacks(startupplays.com)
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Rising Startup Videos(startupplays.com)
1 points by francov88 14y ago|0 comments
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How JackThreads grew from a bootstrapped bedroom startup to 2M members(venturebeat.com)
2 points by francov88 14y ago|0 comments
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How Foursquare is using big data (theverge.com)
1 points by francov88 14y ago|0 comments
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The Top 35 Startups that TechCrunch Missed Out On(startupplays.com)
6 points by francov88 14y ago|1 comments
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The Growth hacker: How To Guide On Acquiring Users(startupplays.com)
12 points by francov88 14y ago|2 comments
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by francov88 14y ago
Hey Chris, We started as a simple splash page back in November 2011 and got covered in TechCrunch with our official launch in late Jaurary with our full launch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/startupplays-offers-an-affo... Hope you find