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by il 16y ago
I would argue that,unless you're a nonprofit or heavily government funded if you want to keep innovating yes, you need to be a business.
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by il 16y ago
Is the startup echo chamber so bad that people literally get booed for asking how a startup will make money? A startup is, at least in theory supposed to be a business(vs a side project, which doesn't have to be one). Have we forgotten that
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by il 16y ago
Not to be a jerk, but I'm super bummed that people who knew they couldn't come applied anyway, taking the spaces of people who could have come but didn't get in. I got accepted, so I'm not being bitter or anything, but I'm sure lots of peop
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by il 16y ago
Edit: Oops, looks like a (better) map has already been made, I missed the link.
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by il 16y ago
It depends on how good you are at upselling and cross-selling. If you have a tightly targeted user base and are the market leader in that niche, there is a lot you can do. For example additional services, job board, JV with suppliers for th
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by il 16y ago
So, basically, don't raise money until you have traction, at which point you probably don't need to raise money. Got it.
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by il 16y ago
So, very few bars in SF have more girls than guys. Sigh...
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by il 16y ago
Can't you use their API/data dump for this?
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by il 16y ago
He's probably sold a bunch of that stock on the second market. FYI, drinking absolutely has an age limit! In fact, in some states, the ticket for underage drinking is more than for possession of weed.
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by il 16y ago
AirBNB is expensive for a month. Post in "housing wanted" on Craigslist and look for sublets on there, it will be relatively easy to find a great place. You may find it taking longer to find more permanent housing than you think. I moved to
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by il 16y ago
This would work better as an Ask HN post.
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by il 16y ago
I was going to post something similar, but you beat me to it. This is absolutely fantastic advice for any startup, and something every startup should commit to doing before they spend months building a product. If you gauge interest before
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by il 16y ago
Believe it or not, but most advertisers are actually not brand marketers, and are interested in performance and results over impressions(think SMB e-commerce).
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by il 16y ago
It might just be an OS X issue as I rarely have a browser window open fullscreen. If the dock wasn't there, it would be above the fold. Then again, I bet a fairly significant portion of the target audience for this newsletter uses a Mac.
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by il 16y ago
It's a smaller version of the page, those ad impressions are basically worthless in terms of clicks/conversions for the advertiser. It's also unclear if the ad display/tracking Javascript even runs in the preview window. Frequently, if the
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by il 16y ago
Your landing page looks great, but if you want to increase conversions even more you should try putting the subscribe form above the fold. It took me about 5 seconds to figure out how to subscribe.
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by il 16y ago
I think "Write a music player client that can stuff your music into an encrypted blob" is a bigger hurdle for most people than paying $25/month. Besides, doesn't Grooveshark already do this for free?
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by il 16y ago
Selling. That's all. Selling your vision to investors, selling your company to potential employees, and, most importantly, selling/marketing your product to customers. You can outsource noncritical tasks like bookkeeping, but the business p
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by il 16y ago
Mee too! Maybe 1-2 days before or after Startup School, I imagine many people will be flying in for a week or so around the event.
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by il 16y ago
If anyone is in the Bay Area a day or two before Startup School, maybe we can do a pre Startup School meetup in San Francisco? That way the more introverted hackers will come to the event and see people they know.
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by il 16y ago
Neither? Judging from the downvotes my comment has been misunderstood. My job is marketing, so I know better than to say it's bunk. For those who still don't understand, here's what Eugene Schwartz, one of the greatest marketers of all time
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by il 16y ago
I asked about this when the event was announced: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1618894 The general consensus seems to be that it's worth the trip.
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by il 16y ago
FYI, it is impossible for any single company to generate demand, they can only create products that meet existing demand. Demand rises organically over time through the combination of all market forces, cultural trends, etc. Trying to educa
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by il 16y ago
A few hours ago, I was getting ready to post a question on HN that would have been phrased something like this: "Ask HN: I got rejected from Startup School. How can I improve myself to get accepted next year?" Fortunately, I didn't have to
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by il 16y ago
It actually was pretty realistic. When he was talking about writing a shell script to wget images from Harvard facebooks, I smiled to myself a little.
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by il 16y ago
I agree with the general thrust of your statement, but at the same time, the "that's what they said about Google" argument is becoming a bit tired in startup circles, don't you think? Not every startup has the potential to be the next Googl
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Ask HN:Who's Looking For a Cofounder? (October 2010 Edition)
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by il 16y ago
That rule of thumb is based on false assumptions. Here's actual data for September from a campaign I'm running on both search and content. I took the exact same keywords from my search campaign and copied them into a content network campaig
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by il 16y ago
That's because #4 is wrong. Looking at my own campaigns, I get WAY more impressions from the content network than Google estimates in the keyword tool. Also, evaluating your target market based on a single keyword seems pretty silly and mea
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by il 16y ago
Can you cite a source for this? Why would it say "searches" if it counts AdSense impressions? The more likely point is that the number 1 ad or search result doesn't get 100% of search clicks, they are distributed among all results on the fi

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