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The Business of Startup Acceleration (2/3) (book excerpt)(speedupyourstartup.com)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
Depends what they mean by make it. Survive as a niche network? Maybe. Break it big? Not likely.
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The Anna Karenina Principle of UX(mhj.tc)
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Reverse Planning for your New Year resolutions(mhj.tc)
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Ask HN: Android / iOS user testing needs?
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Giving away my domains TheNewPirateBay.com, .org, TNPB.co(mhj.tc)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
It was that email that prompted the blog post. For the Cue team's credit, they got in touch afterwards and we exchanged a couple of emails about it.
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by mikk0j 14y ago
That's a great suggestion. It will certainly be an improvement. Just explaining it to a wide variety of people can help your thinking about it. If you get outsiders to describe it for you, even better.
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by mikk0j 14y ago
That's the key thing: "like I had been waiting for them". No, we haven't been waiting for you, sorry. So please remind me what it was you do again?
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I'm keeping track. Thanks for the feedback - obviously not a good description for everyone. Would have worked for me, though. Maybe I should've stayed at Google then? :)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. New York and Tokyo are easy examples to refer to but they are in scale and history completely different. What about other cities that build high and are on a sm
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I come from a marketing background, so I guess I'm both numb to and guilty of that kind of text. But I don't see how "most elegant" or other superlatives are different from "best for X" though. Both are equally difficult to prove, both may
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by mikk0j 14y ago
Thanks!
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by mikk0j 14y ago
Yes, I think they certainly don't write bad emails because they don't care. They might write bad emails because they care too much. They may think about their product constantly, so stating the obvious about it doesn't even come to mind (an
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by mikk0j 14y ago
A/B testing is a great thing to do with email. On the point of Mailchimp, they also allow you edit the little preview text box - this is what shows as the preview snippet in many email programs and is a good place to remind the recipient wh
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by mikk0j 14y ago
Completely agreed. Like pointed above by venus, the "best for" format may annoy some people and is not necessary in all cases. Your more generic example works as a better template.
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by mikk0j 14y ago
Thanks Venus. No I don't recommend that across the board. I did use "X is the best Y" 2 out of 5 times in the examples (both are directly from their value props on the site or on Twitter bio). Personally, I don't find it annoying anymore bu
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Startups, please write better emails(i.mhj.tc)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I think you'd need to tell much more about how this is special, and especially how this is easy for me to use. Basically, this is a static social profile? Ok, all data I would want to make available in such a page is already somewhere in ot
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Pot farming is like any other farming (photos)(wired.com)
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A YouTube video transcript that's 83% wrong(mhj.tc)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
For me, this perfectly sums up the futility of the Strong AI / AGI research project. So much of what we consider to be 'intelligence' or repercussions of intelligence are in fact language-based communications and culture - with an immense g
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by mikk0j 14y ago
This is sad news! Arctic Startup developed immensely in the quality and depth of reporting in the last two years (props to both Antti and Greg on this). Granted it was impossible to keep up a deluge of posts, hastily slapped together or se
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I've written 335 pages of emails in 1.5 years of work(mhj.tc)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I was on a voice call on Gmail this whole downtime. The email UI didn't react, the contact list went dead etc., but the call quality was crystal clear throughout.
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Survey results: What Startups Get from Accelerators?(speedupyourstartup.com)
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by mikk0j 14y ago
I spot-checked some of the profiles in the original post screenshot. Four out of five were realtors. So it could be the profiles in the screenshot were ranked by profession, or that this is a lead for where the leak came from. Or coincidenc
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by mikk0j 14y ago
This book was worked on as "DIY Accelerator: How Startups Can Accelerate Themselves for 0% Equity". I changed the name to appeal to a broader audience, but the working title might tell Hacker News audience a bit more about what the goal of
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Create your own DIY accelerator for your startup (new book)(speedupyourstartup.com)
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In 1.5 years of work, I received 10,349 emails.(mhj.tc)
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