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by jpster 9y ago
I've done PR for startups and this is one of the best, most detailed guides I've seen about how the sausage is made. I would add: Getting good PR in premiere outlets will give you so much more than just the first 1,000 customers.
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> “Getting the data into a format that makes sense for machine learning is a huge undertaking right now and is more art than science. English is a very convoluted and complicated language and not at all amicable for machine learning.” Is
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Very cool. There are many aspiring entrepreneurs on HN and writers are entrepreneurs, too, so there may be something for the other to learn from either side. Spotted this article about time management on the site which could be helpful to a
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See also Booster Fuels, based in Dallas-Fort Worth (ay!) and the Bay Area. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/traffi...
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Depends on if the tester actually knows what they're doing. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/your-ab-tests-are-illusory/
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>We actually don't do a ton of A/B testing or worry much about open and click rates, and here's why: Our revenue model is subscription based. We don't take any commissions or have any ads in the premium emails. Our on
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by jpster 9y ago
No, but one thing that has helped tremendously: at the start of every day I figure out the total hours that I will work. Then I make a list of tasks I want to get done and put a guesstimate of how long each should take me. I start with the
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The former attorney general Eric Holder basically admitted that some banks are too big to face any criminal charges they might deserve. So expect the crimes to continue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy&#
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But why did James Baldwin have reason to scrutinize the FBI's role during the civil rights movement? Some background: https://zinnedproject.org/2016/03/fbi-war-civil-rights-movem...
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I have been noticing more and more people using "female" as opposed to "woman". (They never seem to substitute "male" for men.) Thank you for articulating this.
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Hats off to you for thinking up a really clever way to get and offer something of value to people who are super price-sensitive.
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Thanks!
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Any recommendations for a really good PostgresSQL tutorial?
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>the book about patterns Could you be more specific?
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Thank you for Airtable, I'm a big fan, especially of the Zapier integration. Lately there has been a lot of discussion on Hacker News about projects like Opps Daily [1] and Nugget [2], where people write in about some pain point they