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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Jor from MediaPiston here. We recently AB tested with a daily deals provider to compare email open rate and click rate of deal descriptions, and beat the internal team to win their business. Not all online services that involve copy writin
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Reading it now actually. Wow, great book...!
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Get a blog and a Twitter account and just start. Soon enough you will discover what works
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Well, it would be nice if the author had (or if someone with expertise would) write up some rationale on the strategy and benefits of having APIs. Certainly distribution or monetization can both be benefits of a well crafted API, but if it
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, but I'd imagine that RescueTime's users are early-adopters, and as such may be the tip of the arrow indicating future trends. Hence, this is fairly interesting data.
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
According to your math, homes in the US waste the energy equivalent of over 1,300 gulf oil spills every year . Ouch...
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
One interesting aspect is that the NYT pulled these from their log of user's clicking the terms to look them up...so they correspond to their readership's (lack of) vocab
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Very impressive. Jeff and team are quite talented, and the execution there is incredible
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Great post! This part is golden: "When the company picks up your nighttime MBA, that’s a great benefit – but when Teachstreet (a company that helps people find local and online classes) gets its employees together to learn how to build ki
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Check out this framework: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/pdf/PragmaticMarketingFram... When i first saw this it made hiring and sorting out non-tech jobs much clearer in my mind. Though i wish there was a version of this for consume
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What is Marketing?(scottporad.com)
9 points by jheitzeb 16y ago|7 comments
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Yeah, good point... That is a big (biggest?) part of a typical VC's way of thinking. Similarly on the founder's side is the "emotional control" factor in determining exits and decisions in spite of the terms and VC's objectives. Have you
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
totally!
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
touché. So we agree, shouldn't care about the kind of fridge and it's not beneath them to order it. Btw, hopefully the people in the company care more about the quality of the people, the work and the direction that what is IN the fridge.
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
I worry about the startup whose CEO cares a single second on what kind of fridge they have. Wrong priorities. Spent that extra 20 minutes on hiring, product planning, sales or coding.
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
"Office Manager" is a good percentage of the role, but in a chaotic startup environment, settling on the narrower job expectations that come with that title is limiting. Our d-i-a-o-a's were doing usability studies, guerilla marketing, rec
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
With all due respect, this is totally different from exec admin or exec babysitter. When we were 12 people in a small room coding and focused on our product, our do-it-all-office admins were absolutely strategic, important and appreciated
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Right on! Good way to characterize it. If you are strafing from zero, the downside risk is low, relatively speaking....so might as well go for it. This is why (in my view) it is good to go for it when you're young and/or it is a bad econ
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Great advice. Part of my decision to do the MBA was based on market timing...I applied just as the web 1.0 bubble was bursting. I hadn't considered much just doing a startup during the down economy, but that would have been a good time, a
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
I agree. This was my own experience, obviously. People debate these sorts of questions all the time (i.e. what's best X or Y?") and I think there are a couple of things that hardly get any attention that are more important factors than an
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Yes, totally (that was my point). Not dissing the MBA -- it was also an amazing experience and investment / risk. My real point was about weighing the financial considerations of taking the startup plunge against the intangible benefits.
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by jheitzeb 16y ago
Good post. I'm looking forward to seeing the follow-up post with data from your site
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by jheitzeb 17y ago
Great post. If a prospective MBA student thought about their 150K as seed capital, they'd already be better off in terms of networking and learning if they started a company instead of going to school for 2 years. It would be even better
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by jheitzeb 17y ago
I think for me, before visiting LeadsCon, it was never so crystal clear that you could have a business without much product or technology. I've seen a lot of people pursue tech or product with business being an afterthought and it is int
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Avoid This Startup Mistake: Losing Customer Focus(currentlyobsessed.com)
2 points by jheitzeb 17y ago|0 comments