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by jsonne 12y ago
> * Keeping the company engineer-driven as far as possible. That's an awfully large blanket statement that isn't right for many companies. Zappos places the emphasis on customer service and they're doing fine just as an
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by jsonne 13y ago
That would be exactly it. We're a pretty small shop so I run both accounts and help out with media planning. Having one dashboard for everything helps me out a ton. I would actually be open to trying perfect audience actually. Shoot me
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by jsonne 13y ago
This is great news. I use AdRoll all the time for our clients, and I've been super happy with their service so far.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Sure. It's not a perfect alternative, but it's an option. I imagine it would be a happy negotiation. Basically just trying to figure out what multiple the VC would want and negotiating a fair outcome.
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by jsonne 13y ago
If you wanted to keep the company private and give the Vc's an exit you can always do a leveraged buyout. Basically borrow loads of money from a bank and use it buy back their equity.
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by jsonne 13y ago
I'm a huge fan of only using FB for retargeting. You know you aren't targeting spammers, and there's some sort of legitimate interest there. The only risk here is some cannibalization and duplication, but if you use some high
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by jsonne 13y ago
Okay then not google reader. What about the myriad of startups that "pivot" leaving paying customers hanging etc. Frankly too, that was a very small part of my overall point.
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by jsonne 13y ago
I actually kind of feel for facebook. Not even a year ago people were complaining about Facebook not having enough relevant content etc. So they were migrating away. Old facebook was filled with commercial spam and made it a crappy experien
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by jsonne 13y ago
Try expressing a conservative or religious opinion. I've gotten downvotes for both even though I haven't been the slightest bit rude. I enjoy hacker news, but at times it can really feel like a hivemind.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Marketing is a really vague thing to ask for help with. What are you looking to accomplish specifically?
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by jsonne 13y ago
If you're looking to stay local check out http://builtincolorado.com/jobs Also Sendgrid is constantly hiring more devs in Boulder and Denver.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Fantastic post. I did a rough version of this for a while and it works great. One thing I didn't think of was closing the feedback loop like you suggested. Usually I did that myself through the form of a casual gift (beer, etc) but I c
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by jsonne 13y ago
"The elimination of overt racial discrimination in private businesses is actually a wonderful example of concerted government action addressing a problem that according to free market theories shouldn't even have existed in the fi
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by jsonne 13y ago
Unless they were lying about their competitors or spreading malicious rumors I would say this is fine. Welcome to business, people are going to claw their way to the top with whatever legal means they can. I would think that, if anything, 5
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by jsonne 13y ago
Which is why you delegate to people you trust like the article spoke about.
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by jsonne 13y ago
I pretty adamantly disagree. A CEO is a specialized role just like any other. I wouldn't expect a developer to know the ins and outs of financial compliance, and the same holds for a CEO and specific compliance rules.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Southern Europe (Italy and Spain specifically) it seems to be more of an issue than London or say Hamburg.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Serious question. I've traveled rather extensively and this seems to be a much more serious problem outside the US as opposed to within the US. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is this purely anecdotal on my part?
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by jsonne 13y ago
I love /b/ but it does kill my productivity like no other.
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by jsonne 13y ago
I think it's an issue of signalling. In Econ they call it information asymmetry. When one party knows more than the other they try to give us "signals" to show their quality. It seems as though as packaging yourself as a comp
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The Ratio of Engineers to Sales People in Billion Dollar SaaS Startups(ttunguz.github.io)
2 points by jsonne 13y ago|0 comments
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by jsonne 13y ago
This is an incredibly smart move. My entire company is focused on solving the gap between signup and integration. You have no idea how many people just abandon ship because they feel overwhelmed and confused. Even something as simple as a h
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by jsonne 13y ago
This is incredibly interesting. According to some people we're looking at unprecedented growth in the space. Right now there's roughly 9k public APIs. By 2019 that number could be over 100,000. The question becomes though who does
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by jsonne 13y ago
It's interesting that Google seems to be moving into the freelance space. I wonder if they're going to stay in the limited fashion, or expand to go after Odesk etc.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Swedish House Mafia Pandora Station
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New Y Combinator startup launches - Scribd = "YouTube for documents" (2007)(reddit.com)
5 points by jsonne 13y ago|1 comments
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by jsonne 13y ago
Have you thought of doing in content ads when people search specific things? I.e. If I look up "party" maybe there's an alcohol ad or an ad for a local bar. I have so many ideas around this.
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by jsonne 13y ago
Did you do this through the PNI Media API? http://developer.pnimedia.com/
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by jsonne 13y ago
Its interesting to note that I recently read the average entrepreneur is age 35. It may just be selection bias by the press that makes it seem younger.
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by jsonne 13y ago
That's interesting. I just moved to Colorado a year and I definitely noticed an uptick in my mood. I still take a vitamin D supplement, but I'm finding I'm having a much more consistently higher mood in the winter months than

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