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by gyardley 17y ago
VCs should have hands-on experience with the things they invest in. You can either not read his blog or use browser extensions to blog the social hooks you don't care for.
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by gyardley 17y ago
Affiliate programs generally try to account for click-now buy-later behavior by setting a tracking cookie on the user's browser that lasts for a period of time - 30 days is pretty typical. Provided the user doesn't click another affiliate
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by gyardley 17y ago
Every time I read an article like this, I think of Google Lively. Google entering a space != Google crushing the competition.
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by gyardley 17y ago
I co-founded and ran Pinch Media, which recently (transaction announced last week and closed yesterday) merged with Flurry. Now I'm doing product management there. I'm assuming you've written a native app vs. a web app. (If not, my apolog
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by gyardley 17y ago
No, he's still in jail. Looks like his earliest release date is November 19th, 2010. http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130
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by gyardley 17y ago
We did some estimating at Pinch Media a few months back, based on our analytics data, and figured the mean (not median) revenue for a paid app was about $8K over the course of its entire lifetime. I won't claim this is anything but a rough
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by gyardley 17y ago
Someone who pays nothing is not a customer.
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by gyardley 17y ago
I don't believe the market will balance itself at all. Online publishers are reliant on advertiser revenue, and there's far too much ad space to fill solely with useful ads for useful products. At the same time, the vast majority of AdBlo
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by gyardley 17y ago
I think there's been a slight shift in outside perceptions of New York on the strength of a handful of consumer-focused startups (bit.ly, Tumblr, Etsy, Hunch, etc.) and a handful of well-known early-stage firms (Union Square Ventures, First
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by gyardley 17y ago
Breaking a rule or two (or turning a blind eye to users that are breaking a rule or two) in an attempt to get large is a tried-and-true startup strategy. If you get large, you'll hopefully have access to the resources required to figure ou
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by gyardley 17y ago
Advertising isn't all click-oriented direct response, like mortgage lead generation. Branded display advertising is rarely clicked, but viewing it has a measurable effect on user behavior later. Fred Wilson's got a decent summary of a comS
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by gyardley 17y ago
Google developer Peter Kasting's comment on this is here: http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/... That comment points to a Chromium tracking bug, here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 It
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by gyardley 17y ago
Many American Ph.D. programs will let you pick up a Master's along the way just by completing the required coursework and submitting a form at the appropriate time - generally right before your comprehensive exams / selection of a thesis to
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by gyardley 17y ago
I could imagine three CEO types competing for resources & timing on various projects, but I can't imagine skilled developers or designers working for them for long.
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by gyardley 17y ago
I wish I had read this a year and a half ago. Before my current startup launched but after it'd gotten angel funding, someone learned about our business from an indiscreet angel investor. That someone then started a very similar business.
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by gyardley 17y ago
That functionality's available, but not to everybody - you need to have a relationship with Google. When operational, Findory did this client-side - each page included a list of space-delimited keywords based on the content of the page and
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by gyardley 18y ago
The presentation combines data from a lot of sources, including some of the quality applications you've mentioned. I didn't break out the retention characteristics by decile, but late in the presentation there's a slide on cumulative sessi
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by gyardley 18y ago
Well, keep in mind that those are the figures for free applications. The barrier for paid applications is a lot less - about a tenth. I've seen application developers experiment with this approach, generally using in-application advertisin