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by hsuresh 13y ago
Nope, actually do everything to get the first few to pay. Once you do that, you can at least be certain that there are people willing to pay for your service/product. You can focus on growing your customer base after your paying custom
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by hsuresh 13y ago
First of all, i don't know enough about your service and target market, so take this with a grain(actually, plenty) of salt. Since you have a beta ready, first get a handful of customers pay and get value from your service. This is to
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Gender and the body language of power(thesocietypages.org)
8 points by hsuresh 13y ago|3 comments
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by hsuresh 13y ago
There should be another option - full stack development. I am quite sure that many developers love working on entire application stacks.
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by hsuresh 13y ago
This has been one of my favorite questions when interviewing candidates for jobs. The beauty of this question is that you can branch out and go deep into any of the several technologies that power the web - "how does the browser know i
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Great game! Found a bug though. When the game is over, if you hit the browser back button, it will let you continue the game.
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Another way of looking at what reddit did, is to think of them as hacking a way to provide value to the initial users. Faking doesn't necessarily have to be about lying, it can be used to provide value, even though the system is design
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by hsuresh 13y ago
I would't like if a startup fakes. They'd lose my credibility. However, some of the examples seem reasonable - like the case of reddit. It is more about providing value to the early adopters - clearly reddit needed more users to c
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by hsuresh 13y ago
That is the beauty of services that are easy to sell. Everything is fairly clear, it is "just" a matter of execution at scale - i know i am oversimplifying the execution bit, but most startups have trouble figuring out the product
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Where did you buy the laptop from? Have you tried reaching out to them. Alternately, bigger cities have authorized service centers, that is likely your best bet.
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SaaS Branding | 6 Challenges of Killer Cloud Brands(chaotic-flow.com)
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Absolutely. Pitch is a place holder for your understanding about the business you are building - the market, your team, product and your growth strategy. Just like a resume is a placeholder for your skills and experience.
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Our experiences hacking for growth(blog.nudgespot.com)
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Most of the case studies around A/B testing is very misleading. The value you get from testing color schemes is likely to be insignificant - unless you have a really horrible color scheme as one of the options or you have traffic compa
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by hsuresh 13y ago
I usually use an analogy to explain this. Tracking via first party cookies is like walking into a store that uses security cameras. I have even seen boards that inform the visitors that the store is under surveillance. Generally, the securi
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by hsuresh 13y ago
For those interested in this topic, Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, fast and slow" is an excellent resource. He refers to 2 systems in our brain, and how they interplay when making everyday decisions. Fascinating read.
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Such a crass generalization. If you think the bulk of India's IT professionals are bad - then you should at least consider if such poor skills are "good enough" for a vast majority of IT work.
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by hsuresh 13y ago
I don't even think this is sustainable. The customers that are acquired this way are likely to abandon very soon.
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by hsuresh 13y ago
A lot of the techniques pointed out seem like plain spamming. Why/how does that count for growth hacking?
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by hsuresh 13y ago
This is true not just at "building an MVP" stage. At my current startup, we are focusing on traction, across different channels/verticals. We have found it quite useful to test and learn about these channels by running experi
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by hsuresh 13y ago
This has been fairly common knowledge, at least here in India, where mosquito menace is common. Another really popular product is what is known as mosquito bats (swatters) like here: http://www.hunterbat.com/mosquito-swatter
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by hsuresh 13y ago
It is sad that even though FB, Twitter and numerous other services have popped up to facilitate new ways of communicating with people, none of them are part of any (widely accepted?) standards. Could emails have survived so long if it were
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by hsuresh 13y ago
There is another important reason why you, as a US citizen should be worried about spying on non-US citizens. Now that everyone knows about this, other countries are probably going down the same route - in fact, it looks like some already a
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by hsuresh 13y ago
Also, animated gifs of some regions over time -> https://plus.google.com/photos/+GoogleEarth/albums/587582297...
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Google Earth Engine - Platform for environmental data & analysis(earthengine.google.org)
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by hsuresh 13y ago
And there lies a startup's life - figuring out what the demand is, and demonstrating feasibility/traction.
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by hsuresh 14y ago
Thanks, fixed now. Clickable link: http://www.nudgespot.com/instoreads
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by hsuresh 14y ago
Thank you. I will. Let me try to rephrase the text a bit.
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Show HN: In-store ads - ads for your store, on your own store
1 points by hsuresh 14y ago|4 comments
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by hsuresh 14y ago
Hi HN, Would love to know what you guys think about this.

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