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by gaborcselle 14y ago
On the iOS platform, you want to be very careful about timing when you ask for the push notification permission. which you'll need it for scheme 2. One newbie mistake on iOS is to ask for notification permissions right after install. This i
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Good point, Facebook login might cost you in the middle of the funnel but help you at the end.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
On the other hand, having an sign-in-less "Explore" type experience may actually hurt your signup conversions. Users get a feel for the app, decide that they'll sign up later, close the app, and never come again. I might be hallucinating bu
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
My best guess is that folks hear about an app from the media or friends, download it, but then forget to use it or never hit the intended use case.
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Every Step Costs You 20% of Users(blog.gaborcselle.com)
71 points by gaborcselle 14y ago|32 comments
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
"The Kauffman Foundation surveyed 550 successful entrepreneurs across multiple sectors, determined by profitability and being named a “high-valued” business by their peers. Their data suggests that most successful founders are in their mid-
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
In your post, you say "After news of the API cut off, LinkedIn got in touch to suggest a possible trip to its San Francisco HQ" - IIRC, LinkedIn's HQ is in Mountain View, not San Francisco.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
I didn't know that. Since I have Cinema Display with DisplayPort, could I do MacBook Air > Thunderbolt > Cinema Display?
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
The vast majority of developers I know use some version of the MacBook. (However, that could be the San Francisco / New York tech bubble that I live in.)
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Yeah, the title may be a little exaggerated, but most developers I know (including myself) have some version of the MacBook.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
This is a pretty big deal for designers and developers who love dual-display setups, e.g. for looking at code and docs at the same time. Until now you had to lug around a 15" MacBook Pro to get dual external monitor support.
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Developer's dream come true: New MacBook Airs now support two external displays(9to5mac.com)
40 points by gaborcselle 14y ago|60 comments
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Yes! Thanks a lot for the comment amirmansour. It certainly was the source of much controversy on here :-) One interesting change from last time I started a company (in the nuclear winter of 08/09) is that angel and seed funding is much eas
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
I can no longer edit my comment, but instead of: "For your first startup, make something awesome but try to fly people to Mars." I meant: "For your first startup, make something awesome but don't try to fly people to Mars."
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Good point, but taken to the extreme, if you listen to people too much they'll tell you they want a faster horse. You have to combine the aspirational thinking of "let's build a self-driving car" with the day-to-day grind of actually buildi
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Oh yes, I did mean the negative - thanks for the correction. Responded to your email too.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
That "ideas are a dime a dozen" mantra upset a fair amount of people, especially combined with my assertion that I could easily brainstorm up good ideas in no time. I changed it (accurately asterisked) to "ideas are easy", which more accura
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
That is not the case. I have a couple of spaces I'm interested in, and will start prototyping in the next few weeks. But I don't have a concrete and fixed idea. This blog post in not a CYA tactic but was triggered by the comment I read on H
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
I couldn't have phrased this better. Thanks ken!
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
"You have to take Peter Thiel as an ala carte buffet" - excellent good point. Paul Graham is a little bit more of a set meal.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
This is something I don't agree with Peter Thiel on - at least for your first startup. Elon Musk couldn't have started SpaceX and Tesla right out of school, he had to build up skill, credentials, and connections first. For your first startu
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Good point - I wouldn't be too worried about Google's lawyercats (unless you do something egregious) but for other companies this may be really important.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
This comment got me thinking: http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/06/i-thought-people-had-ide...
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
I would guess I'm actually above average just based on my personal sample of people who have gotten acquired.
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
Technically not until tomorrow which is my last day. Thanks for the reminder!
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by gaborcselle 14y ago
For the 3rd time actually if you count not converting after my internship with you.
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What it means to be an American(shervster.tumblr.com)
6 points by gaborcselle 15y ago|0 comments
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Apture acquired by Google(techcrunch.com)
58 points by gaborcselle 15y ago|17 comments
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by gaborcselle 15y ago
Congrats Arram and Bill! I vividly remember the "Wave of Food" illustration from Demo Day. If that's not a reason to invest in a company, I don't know what is. ( http://i.imgur.com/umToE.jpg )
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by gaborcselle 15y ago
My understanding is that Voldemort is a distributed key-value storage system, while LevelDB is a local on-disk key-value storage system.

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