jasonlbaptiste

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by jasonlbaptiste 14y ago
Hey, I'm a TS grad from NYC and friendly with both founders from YC and other Techstars classes. One quick misconception: Only 5 TS cities, none international, and the "affiliate techstars network cities" shouldn't be lumped in here. Bot
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Focus vs. Myopia(onstartups.com)
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Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition(onstartups.com)
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How To Lure Talented Engineers To Your Startup(forbes.com)
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The Ultralight Startup is Available (jasonlbaptiste's book)(amazon.com)
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Successful Companies That Were Started in a Weekend(theultralightstartup.com)
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Read The Ultralight Startup by Jason Baptiste free for 24 hours(theultralightstartup.com)
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One Burbn, One Scotch, One Beer(parislemon.com)
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Thank you a ton. This industry is where it is because it's about pay it forward. Be fortunate enough to do well, teach those lessons, and pass those connections forward. I had to get everything I wish I knew 5 years ago down on paper.
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
It's all based upon the exit. The VCs get diluted along the way and 1 million is the first step down the road. You'll probably raise way more. I believe the average dollars amount raised for tech companies going public this year was 65-7
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Hey, I wouldn't have a book or really anything without hacker news. I'll give away a ton of free books here. Just email me: j@onswipe.com with the subject line, HN Free Book and include your twitter handle if you have one. Will mail and
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Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan(onstartups.com)
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How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide(onstartups.com)
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Be Captain Of Your Destiny - Not Prisoner Of Wishful Thinking(onstartups.com)
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
wait, where did you see this? kindle is 12.99 and hardcover is 16.95. Maybe international edition? Let me know so I can have the publisher look into this. In the meantime, email me - j@onswipe.com. I'd like to send you a copy for free.
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
thanks Josh!
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Yup. I already have my next book fairly well outlined. The key is - will I write it?
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Completely new material. I took a case study method as opposed to a tried+true methodology. What I did was understand what readers wanted from my blog posts and took that into account. I basically just wrote everything I wish I could have
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Great point! Even once published, odds of success are low. You're funded aka have an advance, but the odds you deliver a return are low, just like startups+VCs.
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Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball"(onstartups.com)
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What If Google Does It? - How To Think About And Crush Your Competition(onstartups.com)
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
I can assure you they are. Beyond the opting out, we also look at things like bounce rate and other metrics.
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
You either love it or hate it. The tech crowd seems to be more towards a hate level due to certain expectations. Overall, >95% of readers using an Onswipe experience opt to keep it the default.
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
The tech is made specifically for touch enabled devices right now. Other tablets don't have market share, so we're focusing on the sector of the market that's 97% of readers. Once we nail that, we'll spend time on another tablet browser w
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Hey, so this was just one of many layouts and it seemed to be the "cleanest". There's a straight up list layout that we have that would have worked as well, which I almost went with. We've thought about font resizing, but do you think that
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Just articles since this is focused more on reading, sorry :/. That kind of sucks though, since the big value of HN happens to be the discussion. In reality this is meant to be: you want to read all the awesome content making the HN fron
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Direct link when on iPad: http://onswipe.com/hackernews Let me pre-empty where I know there's going to be some dislike as a lot of the HN crowd just wants the normal non-swipeable web. Most of that frustration comes from a > year old
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
We knew how to handle certain questions. There was a lot of liberty with editing. In real life, I'm an aggressive, confident, and quirky person. I'm also quite nice :).
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Seems to be a lot of assumptions going around. Let me clarify anything you want to know. AMA.
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by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
No, I actually don't blame TechStars. We were ALL told the same thing - it was constantly referred to as a documentary while filming. Go look at TS post and mine when the show was announced. Trust me, Bloomberg wanted to do far worse, but

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