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Growth Hacking has 2 phases – and using the wrong one will sink you(venturebeat.com)
2 points by melindajb 11y ago|0 comments
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by melindajb 11y ago
Fascinating take on this valuation. Love when people look past the knee jerk headlines and offer a different approach. I wonder how he came up with that insight?
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Why Growth Hacking Is Failing Most of Us(venturebeat.com)
1 points by melindajb 11y ago|0 comments
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by melindajb 11y ago
I highly recommend using an accounting package, even if it's just quickbooks online. it helps so much when it comes to tax time. For my business we use Xero so we can track expenses against the income for tax purposes. Are you trackin
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by melindajb 11y ago
Nice analogy! Would love see a drill in to 12:01 to 2am for startups. :)
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by melindajb 11y ago
that's pretty much a synopsis of the article, thank you! :D
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by melindajb 11y ago
As someone with a life long case of VERY serious, diagnosed, and treated ADHD, one that is exacerbated by noise (I also have an auditory processing disorder); I often feel I have to take myself out of the running for any job in an open plan
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by melindajb 11y ago
Loved seeing this here, thanks for posting! To the OP: what was the connection for you to Hacker News?
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Why Agencies Can't Do Rev-Share Deals with Startups(linkedin.com)
1 points by melindajb 11y ago|2 comments
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by melindajb 12y ago
typically lights out 10-10:30 as I get up at 6:30 each day. edit to add: during this time I: 1. walk the dog 2. read (book or kindle paperwhite which doesn't impact sleep) 3. tidy up 4. lay out clothes for the next day, pack lunches or
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by melindajb 12y ago
Good luck to all. this is a good afternoon, if you truly find you can't concentrate, to just take care of yourself. Go for a walk, get a pedicure, spend time with loved ones, relax and remind yourself that your life is so much more t
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by melindajb 12y ago
1. Sleep a minimum of 7-8 hours a night, and go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time. 2. Screens off after 8:30pm. 3. Stop work at 6pm and spend time with family or doing things I find fun, stimulating. After about 40 hours o
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by melindajb 12y ago
there is no god given right to cheap labor. the problem here is that investors want to have it both ways; a free market in terms of laws, restrictions, HR policies, etc, but when that same free market drives up their costs, all of a sudden
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by melindajb 12y ago
This is so true. salaries could drop fast if people could work from anywhere. Lots of people would take a pay cut to live in a less expensive part of the country near family with better schools and quality of life.
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by melindajb 12y ago
The fact is that investors want a free market for labor, but will not accept a free market for capital. Otherwise anyone could invest in any company without silly "accredited investor" rules, which serve only to keep the cost of c
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by melindajb 12y ago
I can see where you are coming from. I understand that innate perception, no matter how well intentioned, is a really hard thing to observe and think critically about in ourselves. I just want to ask you about the last line. you truly, tru
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by melindajb 12y ago
Polarizing Drivel. Wow. That's pretty harsh. The author posts the data, then calls for further study. Isn't that the very basis of science? She admits fully its potential for inaccuracies and wonders aloud about its flaws. Isn
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by melindajb 12y ago
I respect your ability to admit that and share it with people here. Truly isn't that the way we can all get better at understanding each other, to walk in each other's shoes? hats off to you.
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by melindajb 12y ago
I do think you are misinterpreting the author. 1. She states very clearly in the last line: this is a call to action to review the language in reviews for for bias, not just the scores. 2. I can see you and others here very willing to acc
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by melindajb 12y ago
I find it telling that you jump right into assigning me an emotional response for countering his logic with my own. Do you often accuse women of being too emotional? Or too aggressive? I can tell you that I have a male named account on ha
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by melindajb 12y ago
Your logic is inconsistent. This author is applying real data to an assertion. That assertion is backed up not only by my own experiences, but to the dozens if not hundreds or thousands of women sharing this all over social media with som
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by melindajb 12y ago
Exactly what part here is misrepresented?
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by melindajb 12y ago
Let me understand: you think nothing of value can be determined from this study even though my entire newsfeed on facebook is full of my friends in all industries sharing it as exactly in line with their experiences?
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by melindajb 12y ago
Did you happen to notice the author's full name and workplace? And at startups where much of the more recent notorious and egregious behavior is happening, there is no such thing as a legal department, let alone a robust one.
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by melindajb 12y ago
Your argument is not logical. These were professionals in the same sphere: tech. And one could make the argument that the sample of men was also biased--towards men who liked tech. No one claimed this was an iron clad peer reviewed scienti
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by melindajb 12y ago
What you fail to recognize is that YC is funding a disproportionately large number of founders who have little to no work experience. this leads to situations where the founders have no idea how to protect their company(including their inv
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by melindajb 12y ago
just because you never witnessed it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. women are usually harassed well out of sight of other people.
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by melindajb 12y ago
Fascinating that this gets 16 upvotes but the entire hashtag YesAllWomen gets nearly nothing. I'd argue it's because it fits into the prevailing norm on hacker news that there is no gender problem in stem. https://hn.al
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by melindajb 12y ago
did my response below not show up, because that's what I just said.
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by melindajb 12y ago
this is an accounting question. Rent is not a marketing expense and neither is health insurance. But salaries are. As is any SaaS you buy, from hootsuite, optimizely, etc. If you're on accrual accounting (and as a startup, why? no r

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