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Free course: How to buy ads for your startup w/ founder of MixRank (YC S11)(mixergy.com)
64 points by il 15y ago|20 comments
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by il 15y ago
This seems like a great project. I think even brief exposure to entrepreneurs and startups could make a huge difference in these kids' lives.
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by il 15y ago
Now you can do a search from the search box on the homepage at mixrank.com. Sorry for the confusion...we still need to tweak the UX.
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by il 15y ago
Getting shut down by Google is always a possibility, but I think the chances of that happening are very remote. Similar keyword tools for search have been operating at scale for years without any trouble. I think the reason Google puts up w
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by il 15y ago
We'll be implementing keyword search soon, but for now, a good hack is to: 1. Search some of your main keywords on Google. 2. Look through the organic results and find organic results pages running AdSense. 3. Search the display URLs of adv
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by il 15y ago
Yes, absolutely! Image ads are one of our top priorities and coming very soon.
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by il 15y ago
Yeah! I'll write a more in depth blog post about this, but the summary is that I learned to code well enough to build a rudimentary prototype. Then I met my cofounder Scott at a Hackers and Founders meetup, showed him the prototype, and, af
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by il 15y ago
I'm one of the founders of MixRank (we're in the YC S11 batch). If you guys have any questions you can post them here or send them to the email in my profile. The part that TechCrunch left out was that the idea for MixRank started as an Off
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by il 15y ago
Another reason: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/twitter-close-to-acquiring-...
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by il 15y ago
The debate format feels like an anachronism but it certainly looks like prefixing every comment with "Dear Sir" increases their civility and thoughtfulness. Maybe something for HN to try.
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by il 15y ago
I think in this case "for hipsters" means "with less bestiality".
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by il 15y ago
Especially if you know something they don't.
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by il 15y ago
I have no evidence for this whatsoever, but my hunch is that there is a significant amount of gaming and astroturfing on HN by people who have a vested interest in more bitcoin coverage. The current volatility of the bitcoin economy means t
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by il 15y ago
Best part of the story: "Price-to-earnings comparisons for other hot Internet companies, like TheGlobe.com or even Netscape on their opening days, are difficult as they did not have any earnings."
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by il 15y ago
The daily bitcoin astroturfing on HN is getting tiresome. When there are such strong and immediate economic incentives for upvoting a story(I bet every bitcoin story on HN causes a small increase in the exchange rate), you're bound to run i
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by il 15y ago
Don't worry, it only took an hour after your comment for the stock to break $100 and their valuation is now a cool $10 billion. The way this stock is moving now, a stock price of $83 seems downright conservative.
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by il 15y ago
The real question is, given the terrible performance of the RenRen IPO (which was hyped up lot), how will LinkedIn perform tomorrow? Anyone have a guess?
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by il 15y ago
And many listed doing YC as the best funding decision they ever made.
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by il 15y ago
The other side of this is that because we're all so connected, there is a lot of noise in the system. Your awesome app can and will get drowned out by the collective output of millions of teenagers on their iPhones. Although distribution me
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First 100% Crowdsourced Book (80 authors)(amazon.com)
54 points by il 15y ago|11 comments
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by il 15y ago
Is there any way to get residential IPv6 access easily?
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by il 15y ago
A stronger argument would have been that, politics aside, mandatory military servitude is inherently anti-freedom and undemocratic. It is the only form of slavery still permitted by "free" countries. Which means it stifles entrepreneurship
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by il 15y ago
It's comparable for the advertiser, but it's not good for Facebook. Their inability to get higher CPMs for their traffic is a big problem for them.
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by il 15y ago
The time frame doesn't matter too much, there is a fundamental difference between intent based advertising and interruption advertising. CPMs for social networks will always be lower because there are so many more pageviews per user, and th
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by il 15y ago
Really good post. Keyword/interest targeting on Facebook is a gold mine that is completely ignored by 99% of advertisers. Facebook Ads reminds me a lot of the early days of AdWords. Whoever was first to bid on long tail keywords must have m
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by il 15y ago
I don't think this is uniquely American, more like ambitious or not. Otherwise it would be too easy for everyone to "hack" success by simply setting easily attainable goals.
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by il 15y ago
>One wouldn't refer to someone who decides to live in a remote hut in the woods, fishing and hunting but having 0 income and not managing anyone as "successful". Would you refer to someone like that as successful? I think some, unspoken
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by il 15y ago
Do you have a landline phone? Do you know anyone under 50 who does? Is there any reason to have a landline phone nowadays when you can make VoIP calls from home for free with Google Voice? I think the writing is on the wall for that industr
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by il 15y ago
Facebook acquires Daytum or Daytum founders hired by Facebook?
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by il 15y ago
Since it's easy to calculate Pinboard's user numbers, apparenty most of them. Browser bookmark sync is probably a much bigger alternative.

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