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by mlinsey 16y ago
Huge congrats Chris! Being a 20 year old solo founder is seriously impressive. To everyone hating for how this borrows too heavily from last.fm: I think that you'll find soon enough that there's a serious opportunity in picking up where an
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Crowdbooster's Social Media Heroes: how Mayka Mei grew moxsie to 140K followers(blog.crowdbooster.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Metering your social interaction based on the audience is just a fact of life. It's not inherently good or bad. Based on reading The Facebook Effect , I think that Facebook's change-the-world vision is to get rid of exactly this. It's pa
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Frid.ge is trying to do something along these lines.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Agreed. I also think that Slashdot's policy of starting Anonymous comments at less karma can give most of the benefits of both sides; it would probably work even better if anonymous comments started at say -5 karma. That way, stuff that ha
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Forget Facebook and use The Fridge (YC S10) to Plan your Spring Break(thenextweb.com)
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The Next Web interviews Crowdbooster (YC S10) CEO Ricky Yean(thenextweb.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
We don't believe that spreadsheets of data about your own Twitter account are a useful way to "develop an additional product or service" and that's not how we're pitching the feature. This feature is based on requests from several professi
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Take Control of Your Twitter Data: Introducing Crowdbooster (YC S10) Pro Exports(blog.crowdbooster.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
American version is called Shark Tank, and based on the deals the investors offer, it's aptly named. Mark Cuban has signed on to be part of the next season!
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I thought this was very interesting, but it left me wanting to know a lot more about ChompOn's methodology (I looked briefly on ChompOn's blog for a more detailed post, but couldn't find anything). There's a lot of obvious potential confoun
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Facebook Shares Are Worth Almost Three Times More Than Tweets For E-Commerce(techcrunch.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Since our launch three months ago, we have been occupied with: (a) working one-on-one with some of our larger users on some premium features that we will be opening up soon. (b) supporting our userbase; we got a si
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I don't get it. It sometimes is the case that early-stage investors sell off parts of their shares in later rounds, but this is not the norm. In which case yes, there is pressure on later investors to give high late-stage valuations for a
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Agreed. I don't see why Apple would reject apps that connect to external sensors. There are already many such apps that use Bluetooth (eg Wakemate) or the headphone jack (eg Square), although getting approved to link up with the bottom por
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I'd wager a significant portion of my (meager, startup-bootstrap level) salary that $120K in any neighborhood of the country (SF, Manhattan, wherever) is more than the national median purchasing power of an American family, which was the po
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I agree with you but I'd also agree with redstripe when it comes to the parts of the article that said you "can't live in Silicon Valley" without being part of an IPO, or that you can't pay off student loans, or save for retirement, etc. T
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On Quora, Journalism, and Disintermediation(quorareview.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I doubt their margin is over 30%. Personally my bet is on an HTML5 kindle reader webapp. Only disadvantage is that you'd need a web connection, which you don't always have on iPad and iPod touch.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
For every founder who sticks with bad odds and succeeds there are ten who stick and fail. Pretty much everyone will say "I stuck with it", and almost all of them will be right - they did stick with it, at least for a while. The thing is,
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PRWeek interviews Crowdbooster (YC S10) CEO Ricky Yean(community.prweek.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
YC accepts single founders, the bar is just higher. Applying with co-founders and having them disappear is probably worse than applying as a single founder, because co-founders jumping ship is one of the things that often happens shortly be
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by mlinsey 16y ago
You're not going to find accurate answers to questions about bottom-line numbers of a privately held company by asking in a public forum. What is publicly known is that Dropbox passed 4 million users a year ago ( http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=
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by mlinsey 16y ago
The day before Verizon iPhone day? Poor timing IMO.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Yammer is commonly cited as an example of a company which does this. As far as I know, there's no public data on how well this particular tactic has worked for them, but that doesn't stop every hacker/product entrepreneur from citing them i
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by mlinsey 16y ago
According to the Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick, for most of the first 6 months of Facebook, while the site was been growing at Harvard and during the first summer in California, the Facebook crew still did think of Facebook as just a
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Is this the first we've seen of details of the Verizon data plans? I'm a tad disappointed but not surprised that the wifi hotspot is an extra $20/month, not including buying metered bandwidth that's separate from your regular unlimited data
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by mlinsey 16y ago
The first post-YC fundraising is usually made up of convertible notes. So in your example, that $700K at $3M pre would not trigger the conversion of Start Fund's note, which would instead convert at the valuation of the next round of fun
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by mlinsey 16y ago
This is possible, but it's so difficult to enforce that I assume it must be a reporting error. Will the dropbox app prevent me from accessing more than 2GB of my folder? Will they force the Pandora app to keep playing music after 40 hours e
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I think Sony could probably use the same work-around Amazon appears to be using for its Kindle app: tapping a button to shop for books in the Kindle app opens a browser window allowing you to buy a book on the mobile version of the Amazon.c

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