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by jyu 14y ago
This space tends to be not tech saavy or sexy, but has a lot of dollars. Were you mostly collecting the leads and then selling them off to national buyers like QuinStreet etc? That seems to me like the only way to go from $0 to $1mm in a ye
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by jyu 14y ago
Probably depends more on the stocks of the resellers and where you are ordering from.
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by jyu 14y ago
This may seem silly, but I found the most difficult part of learning RoR was getting my development environment set up. I tried several times since 2005 to get started, but failed due to a sticking point that for some reason I couldn't get
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by jyu 14y ago
Not sure if this is a feasible where you live, but there are a lot of "code with other coders" meetups in SF and NYC. If you come with a programming sticking point, there are fresh eyes that can help you though it. I like codeacademy, but f
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by jyu 14y ago
It's easy to get analysis paralysis with analytics, because pretty much anything can be measured now. You'll need benchmark analytics like visits, pageviews, etc; then you'll want key performance indicator (KPI) metrics that change over tim
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by jyu 14y ago
I just set up a new dev env on a new OSX, took about 1 day of toying around with a bunch of stuff. Having a preset recipe to follow would have saved me a ton of frustration. When I get another dev machine, will definitely give this a whirl.
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by jyu 14y ago
Cashvertising is more marketing than sales, but really great read.
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Think car dealership. The same general principle applies, but your data sources are dirtier, and the metrics are a bit different. You'd want to track things like cost per call, cost per physical visitor, etc. For effectiveness of online to
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by jyu 14y ago
If you end up finding a reliable white-label service for this please let me know too!
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Ask HN: Can this be done in CSS3?
3 points by jyu 14y ago|2 comments
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by jyu 14y ago
But since this last pivot, year over year growth is ~10x! You guys are an example of sticking around long enough and trying enough things that one's finally catching good traction. Congrats Lee, well deserved :)
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by jyu 14y ago
How do you find these web development "houses"? Seems like a really sweet gig, all the fun stuff without the chasing dead beats for money hassle.
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This is pretty cool. Instead of creating an individual board game replacement, you've created an enabling technology to open up the whole space and going for a marketplace play.
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by jyu 14y ago
Their product is social video. Their biggest problem was getting people to use the product and getting them to come back, not profitability. If they had users, then they could deal with monetization in the same way youtube and vimeo and oth
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by jyu 14y ago
First thing, awesome job going out and launching, and trying things. It's not easy, so congrats on getting the experience under your belt :) So a few other things. You keep on stating the reason for the service closing down was lack of fund
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Craigslist Hiring to Improve its UI/UX(craigslist.org)
3 points by jyu 14y ago|2 comments
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by jyu 14y ago
Making decisions based on conventional wisdom prevents you from "farming black swans." By asking the other person to do some basic tasks, they're at least passing the equivalent of fizzbuzz in execution ability and motivation.
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Ask HN: Where to Pair Program?
1 points by jyu 14y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 14y ago
Your target user is tech saavy, but this is a platform looking for problems. Describing examples with pictures should be good enough for now. When you have real examples from users, then you can screenshot and link them. I'm imagining a hea
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by jyu 14y ago
Going along this, Human.io, "the Human API" enables you to recruit a virtual army's phones, GPS, camera, microphone, etc. Sample human API tasks: 1. photo scavenger hunt 2. parking garage availability 3. male to female ratio in a club 4. co
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by jyu 14y ago
Second this. Got over 300,000 users with just 1 channel, an optimized ads / landing page, and basic sharing incentives. Tried a bunch of other mediums and channels, but even being a 1 trick pony with basic split testing can work fantastical
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by jyu 14y ago
So typically do the investors take all the cash upfront, and then whatever stock/cash over time is given to founders and employees?
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by jyu 14y ago
This approach fails when hard obstacles start presenting themselves. The founder is not bought into the idea so much that he/she cares to see it through. The VC sees it as 1 of a large portfolio of ideas. And if you look through the history
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by jyu 14y ago
This is a pretty well known strategy. Good to see people using this still and getting great results from it. You can get some surprisingly useful feedback for just $X00, especially if you note down your target user group in the HIT.
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by jyu 14y ago
What problems did you have with the Ruby environment? I went through this several months ago, and maybe can help you get set up, if you're still interested in Ruby.
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by jyu 14y ago
Web development is definitely getting easier, but it's still not easy. I spent a lot of my past 4 years doing conversion optimization and testing out different marketing channels. So I was exposed to basic html/css/php/mysql. But that didn'
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by jyu 14y ago
fixed: http://www.readability.com/articles/vi6qkk41
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by jyu 14y ago
One of the big issues I see is mobile app distribution. In app store, you have this dynamic where the top ~25 are making tons, and then there's everyone else not making so much. I'm assuming it's the same dynamic on Android. So how do you g
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A Well-Funded Startup Emerges From the Unemployment Lines(wired.com)
30 points by jyu 14y ago|11 comments
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by jyu 14y ago
Sounds like you got a bad cofounder. I was listening to a VentureHacks talk about finding a cofounder, and they had two main points: 1. Is your team making progress? Because startups have fewer people and resources, your founding team needs

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