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by melindajb 12y ago
these are great questions...I suspect they're looking at erp equivalents with heavy technical integration, not the basic project management app, which have switching costs, but nowhere near the complex, often heavily regulated, issues
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by melindajb 12y ago
great add and summary. Hadn't seen this. On your point 5--amen. If marketing is using affiliates, you see the same problem, plus issues of fake sign ups. Have to make sure affiliates are compensated only on 90 day + signups.
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by melindajb 12y ago
Great post. Superb introduction to the concepts with helpful illustrations. Adding a few ideas to the mix... Typically a mature SaaS business has about 50% of its revenue from new customers and 50% from renewals. Early on that number is s
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by melindajb 12y ago
CAC is never zero from an accrual based accounting standpoint. You have marketing software, discounts, staff, etc. that technically count against it. That said, CAC never remains zero in the long run, unless you're Facebook with huge
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Should You Get An Office? How I made the decision(medium.com)
2 points by melindajb 12y ago|0 comments
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by melindajb 12y ago
It's not worth the time to argue here. they really do have their heads in the sand, no matter how many women founder days they throw and no matter how much they try to say it's not true. the numbers don't lie, and our experi
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by melindajb 12y ago
Garry, If we're going to talk about expectations, I expect more from YC than the miserable record of admission to YC for women and minorities to date. The stats shown at the women's founders' conference were a perfect exampl
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by melindajb 12y ago
except that many, many of those folks have no access to running water or even a basic education. China, Africa, India. Let's start there. Now let's remind ourselves that >50% of the US population, specifically women and peopl
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by melindajb 12y ago
One of the most important products to happen to marketers in a long, long time. Congratulations guys! I love your product and find it incredibly easy to use.
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by melindajb 12y ago
95% of the best founders are outside the US? Really? if that were the case we'd have seen a lot more publicly traded companies of the size of Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel, eBay, etc. If it could have happened, it would have happened. We ar
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by melindajb 12y ago
I loved this and would go so far as to say that anyone working a tech company who isn't an engineer needs to read this post and pretty much all the posts on that blog. They do an excellent job of breaking this stuff down and helping yo
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by melindajb 12y ago
another idea, but thinking the following: 1. anyone who wants to use a site has to create an account with a fb "anonymous" login. there would be no more "free" access" because then you can start to tie free user b
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by melindajb 12y ago
Will developers be able to reject customers who insist on anonymity? If not, I'm inclined to lean away from offering Facebook login.
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DOJ Closing Bank Accounts for "undesirable" but legal businesses/employees(outsidethebeltway.com)
5 points by melindajb 12y ago|1 comments
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by melindajb 12y ago
so you cannot articulate your differences from your competition? I'm genuinely curious to hear how you are different from existing options I have.
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4 Female characters that should be added to HBO's "Silicon Valley"(qz.com)
2 points by melindajb 12y ago|0 comments
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by melindajb 12y ago
As a 12 year plus SF Resident, married to a native San Franciscan, who has both rented and now owns property, and who follows local politics closely; I can report this is one of the most complete, articulate, and accurate summaries of the s
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How OpiaTalk got its first huge client (Skype) with LinkedIn(fastcompany.com)
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by melindajb 13y ago
There is nothing new at all about what I did. I do not claim to have new or proprietary information. In fact as I've met with friends who seek me out to learn more, that's what I start my answers with. "I have bad news for
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by melindajb 13y ago
LOL! no, I'm a product/tech geek through and through. running a pure services business is not for me. That said, the idea of scaling the conversation with others is exactly the type of idea I was seeking on hacker news. Writin
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by melindajb 13y ago
excellent suggestions of resources. thank you!
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by melindajb 13y ago
now that's some hacker news ingenuity. exactly why I came here. Love it.
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by melindajb 13y ago
thanks. the answer is yes. otherwise I wouldn't feel I had much to share. I've been a/b testing on myself, in series, for awhile.
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by melindajb 13y ago
the end goal is to help people in a scalable way. Sorry it comes off as ego driven. I'm sincerely trying to find out what people care about before being one of those people who write about themselves. I've wrestled with a few di
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I lost 60 pounds this year. How can I best share what I've learned?
9 points by melindajb 13y ago|17 comments
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by melindajb 13y ago
or you know, fix the problem.
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by melindajb 13y ago
that's correct. It's not like the mobs that put the aristocracy in the guillotine in France were logical, rational, or even educated. Not intending to be dramatic, just an example of how bad it could get.
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by melindajb 13y ago
You're prematurely optimizing. Tactics that work at one level of growth, do not work at others. That is why leadership often, but not always, changes. For example, take Microsoft. They were aggressive and bullying early on, because t
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How "Non-Devs" can protect themselves at startups(medium.com)
1 points by melindajb 13y ago|0 comments
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by melindajb 13y ago
Perhaps! Though not unlike hacker news, where hackers market the value of hacking to other hackers. ;)

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