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by loumf 14y ago
Automating email to anyone with email addresses is the easy part, and of course, that can be done. The hard parts are: 1. Getting email addresses -- for SaaS businesses, it makes sense to ask and get the address -- it's work for most any ot
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by loumf 14y ago
My apps are from Salesforce, Yammer and Concur -- not third parties. I would bet there are 100's or 1000's of apps like this -- just look at the EMR space: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drchrono-emr/id363897223?mt=8 Your way is another,
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by loumf 14y ago
You can sell your service to people that have iPads. This is the fundamental question of what an iPad is. Apple would like it to be treated as an extension of their store, and you want it to be like a Windows PC. Any consumer that agrees wi
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I also cannot set up a lemonade stand inside of a Walmart.
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by loumf 14y ago
I use apps connected to pay SaaS services (Concur, SalesForce) -- the apps are free with no IAP, but my company pays a lot for them. Yammer has pay services and a free iOS app with no IAP. I think if you look for them, you will see tons of
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by loumf 14y ago
I think perhaps Patrick didn't intentionally name it A/Bingo for the SEO, but he did understand the value OSS and link juice. If I thought of it, he certainly did -- but the name A/Bingo totally stands on its own as a really good name for
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by loumf 14y ago
Probably the worst thing you could do to this app is collect a bunch of features from us and start implementing them -- if you do that you'll probably add priority, user assignment, better authentication, sub-tasks and eventually be like th
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by loumf 14y ago
Walmart has a monopoly on items you can buy at the checkout counters inside of their stores. The law cares about using earned monopoly power in one market to advantage yourself in another market.
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The question you should be asking yourself is, why did patio11 make A/Bingo available as open source. Clues: 1. It's called A/Bingo 2. It's hosted on his bingo card creator site, not on github or kalzumeus.com (his personal site) 3. People
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by loumf 14y ago
Amazon has credibly claimed that the Kindle Fire has 20% market share. The Nook also has some not insignificant share. Even adding up the also-rans will probably get 3-5 more percent. This is important because there is an inflection point w
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by loumf 14y ago
Shifting from the compressed file to the decompressor is totally allowed. What is not is shifting it to the filesystem. For example, he could have named the decompressor file with the first 512 bytes of data and then the decompressor con
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by loumf 14y ago
To me, dependability and reliability are the absolute lowest bar of criteria. Meaning -- of course I expect you to actually do some work if I pay you. The fact that you seem to have trouble getting that and you also want rates to be low ar
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by loumf 14y ago
What's your lifetime value -- 3 years is ~$360 -- so 1 more customer certainly justifies this price. Also, I guess my suggestion is to have a more expensive option for those that are going to get a lot of value out of it. Even just segment
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by loumf 14y ago
On the HN I read, there is a nearly constant stream of ShowHN posts with paid services and promotions of Y-Combinator startups who stand to gain from the exposure. It has always been part of HN culture to promote our projects -- particular
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by loumf 14y ago
You are right -- typically courses in the $X k range need some interactive component -- but it needn't be a webinar. You want 2k+? -- offer to edit 3 emails -- you probably wouldn't get enough takers to take too much time. Also, it price a
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by loumf 14y ago
Raise prices (well, wait 2 days, so I can get my purchase through) -- I just sent a note to my boss that this is a no-brainer for the $999. And, we already do email campaigns like this, and probably do 80% of what you are going to suggest (
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by loumf 14y ago
Jobs was well known for being biased to shipping over having a perfect product aka "Real Artists Ship". The first version of OSX had non-functional CD writing, from what I recall (fixed in the first update). Siri was released as beta, atten
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by loumf 14y ago
Not really. The main thing that has been happening over time is that more and more low-security messages are being drawn away from email (Twitter, FaceBook, SMS). I used to get email forwards from friends/family -- now they post to FB. I
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by loumf 14y ago
Noam Wasserman from HBR studies this extensively and has real data on Startup survival rates under various conditions (including founder size). This book http://www.noamwasserman.com/book/ has his results -- I don't have it, and I don't
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by loumf 14y ago
The most valuable thing about your email account is that it's your password recovery mechanism. What ever email account you use for password recovery or logging into things becomes the "super secure" email account. There is no message in m
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by loumf 14y ago
On your iPad, click your name in the upper right, and make sure there is an email on your profile. Then when you try to login and fail, you can email yourself a new password.
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Double the revenue of others and top revenue producer shows some talent that is useful to the business. Also, leveraged himself with spreading training.
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That's the Steve Blank definition. In the end of this essay, it seems to come around to that point of view. You're committing to search for one of the rare ideas that generates rapid growth. Because these ideas are so valuable, finding on
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by loumf 14y ago
Being able to run an app I want is a feature of my phone. It's all subjective. Even if you have an objective, measurable difference (processor speed), that only matters if I value the difference (subjective) -- which I don't. The iPhone 4S
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They would rather do that then open an exploit possibility. As a user, I prefer that trade-off. It would bother me if I relied on PhoneGap or something similar, but in practice, the performance really isn't that bad.
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They are getting all of the profit share (and actually increasing market share slightly). In the long term, if you take all the profits, others can't compete unless they do so asymmetrically (make profit some other way). No one has shown t
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For me it was that my original iPhone contract was finally up and I could get 3G. Is that the one with gyroscope? -- Jobs playing Jenga during the keynote?
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There are many. The easiest answer is being able to run iOS apps -- which for many overrides almost anything else. Another is deep integration with Macs and AppleTV -- that solves real problems for me that (for example) wireless charging
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The difference is that iOS allows Mobile Safari to turn memory areas into code pages, which is what you need to do to JIT JavaScript. It doesn't trust other apps not to be able to exploit that somehow, so UIWebView is not allowed to do this
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The only prediction he made is that he would personally not like to program in it and that he could safely ignore it. I think that prediction has come true. He ignored it and that had no detrimental effect on him. Not ignoring it would pr

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