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by jaksmit 11y ago
I'm not sure if it's 'legally' allowed. It's almost definitely against LinkedIn's terms of service I'd imagine though! I'd think that with anything like this; if it were illegal, then likely the indiv
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by jaksmit 11y ago
do you have a link to that? it sounds vaguely familiar. I know the guy that did a prank on his roommate using Facebook ads.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
@will_brown + @WalterGR sorry that it was unclear. This was one ad-campaign targeting just Thomas (+ 6 randomers). I ran a number of other variations targeting investors that were connected to him and others in his network. These still didn
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by jaksmit 11y ago
the evolution of my role at Vungle would be a bit of a longer story. I wouldn't describe it as being 'pushed out' exactly. But I feel that my business partner scaled with the company a lot better than I did personally. Me le
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by jaksmit 11y ago
yep. They recently changed it to 1000. At the time, I found out that for whatever reason the minimum number was 7. I'm pretty sure LinkedIn ads weren't intended to have a picture of the guy's face who you're targeting as
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I found this exploit a while back; when I checked more recently, the minimum number of people that you need to target in order for an ad to be accepted is closer to 1000. So it's harder to replicate. similarly, with the facebook thing.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
fair point. I mainly wanted to focus here on the aftermath of the linkedin campaign. The sequence of events basically was: - Thursday saw the TC post, same day created Linkedin ad campaign - Friday got a call from Thomas - next week we got
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by jaksmit 11y ago
yep, his was a funny 'hack'
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I also don't know if it would apply here. As these are "native" ads to LinkedIn. They don't really label them as ads much. I guess if the <div> mentions ads then it might be blocked.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I agree that we shouldn't celebrate raising money. Unfortunately that is just a standout metric that many companies are still judged on and was added at the start of the article to give some credibility. it wouldn't have been as c
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I think that it was especially relevant in this case as the guy running the incubator was on LinkedIn checking the profiles of all the people that were applying.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
RE "The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'" I agree, semantically it's not a very accurate title. But actually, I'd say that in the long-run the cha
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by jaksmit 11y ago
yeah that's a cool article as well. I liked his similar approach.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
yeah, it's been written about before, but I wanted to clarify the exact steps that I took, as the previous articles have been a bit hazy. Per the Pando article "Using a handful of techniques that he still seems to shy away from ta
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I don't know. I was very shocked! perhaps it was just human error, or no one had actually gone through this process before to bother to find out?
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by jaksmit 11y ago
@dsugarman: to clarify: that was just one of the ad-campaigns targeting Thomas specifically. There were a number of other campaigns targeting his investors etc
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by jaksmit 11y ago
they increased their prices more than 75% a year ago, which signaled that they didn't have a sustainable model. http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/25/homejoy-home-services/?fb_c...
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by jaksmit 11y ago
Why don't you just name which "far larger" competitors you're thinking of, so that he can address that?
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by jaksmit 11y ago
Especially in this climate, there are lots of startups fundraising all the time (indeed a few other startups announced their fundraising today), and I can imagine that from the outside it may often look easy to raise large sums of money. I
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Confessions from the Underground World of Kindle EBooks, Part 1(thehustle.co)
6 points by jaksmit 11y ago|0 comments
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I'm not fully sure why someone would use this. Is it for donating stuff, or garbage disposal? For my unwanted items, I donate them via https://givebackbox.com/ - which gives you a pre-paid UPS shipping label and lets y
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by jaksmit 11y ago
it's not just limited to Etsy Vendors. there's been a link for anyone to participate in this pre-ipo program in the footer of the Etsy website for weeks now. It's a shame that they didn't go with LOYAL3, as discussed in
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by jaksmit 12y ago
for Instacart for example; the postage fee of $3, or whatever they advertise is more of a trojan horse. The company makes most of it's money through partnering with stores and also marking up the prices of items. i.e. the price that an
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by jaksmit 12y ago
"- Uber launches a package courier service" they already have one in NYC.
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by jaksmit 12y ago
how's this different to iDoneThis?
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Nailing Your Startup's Value Proposition(tomtunguz.com)
8 points by jaksmit 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaksmit 12y ago
define success. It's not necessarily a good formula for tens of billions $ ipo level success; see facebook, twitter, google
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by jaksmit 12y ago
no. it's a company. It's valued on future potential. Same as Whatsapp can be valued at $19billion, despite only having $10 million in revenue. Many examples; there is future monetization potential, that they're already discus
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by jaksmit 12y ago
"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying" — roughly how many applications were there? 1000? 10,000? Also, how many teams make it to the interview stage?
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by jaksmit 12y ago
another promising service getting destroyed by LinkedIn, like Rapportive.

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