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by mrkmcknz 12y ago
Yes! We've got something in the works for next week in regards to lead generation and investor information. With permission we will also release the dataset and make it public.
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by mrkmcknz 12y ago
We pull in data from private and public sources and the real magic isn't crawling or scraping data. It's what we do to make sense of the data, the information we can link together and using the data to understand businesses and th
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by mrkmcknz 12y ago
Sure, I will reach out to you!
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by mrkmcknz 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree we should be clearer in regards to how it works. I'll put an example up there over the next couple of days. In regards to the setup fee. We spend a bit of time before on-boarding where we get to know wh
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by mrkmcknz 12y ago
Clickable: http://leadngin.com/
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Show HN: Leadngin.com finally launched my startup after 18months of stealth.
15 points by mrkmcknz 12y ago|17 comments
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Ask HN: Looking for some guinea pigs for our shiny API
7 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|0 comments
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Deaf woman's shock as she hears for first time(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Say what you want about Kim Dotcom, the guy is a marketing genius. Before Megaupload he was virtually unknown out of tech/finance circles. Now my mother knows who he is. Albeit, she calls him Dotcom Internet.
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Very humbling that no one at Buffer would call themselves a "Master", indeed many would probably but Joel at that level but he sits there on a 1.2x multiplier. I once had a conversation with an old hat who said "If you call y
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Usually the best way to get quality responses from posts like this is to include why they would want to be your cofounder. Programmers aren't short of offers from their uncle, old friends or co-workers to work on the next Facebook. Let
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
This looks like an awesome read! Both my sister and my partner's sister are expecting shortly. I was happy to place an order for two copies through Amazon. I'm sure it will bring about some chuckles on Christmas day.
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Somewhat related technology to the winning team: http://delver.io/ They launched in stealth on HN around 12months ago and reached the front page. Since then they've been operating under the radar working on the technol
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
The UK in comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_in_England_and_Wales I understand that we don't have the kind of problem that a8da6b0c91d mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
I can only imagine how the markets would have reacted to FB spending 2% thereabouts on a company with no revolutionary IP or revenue.
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Ask HN: How do you manage fake signups on products with free plans/trials
5 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|3 comments
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
We http://liid.co/ created this file for internal use but I'm sure the HN crowd will get more value from it! The information has all been sourced using our automated tools as a consequence no data has been cleansed or
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
I can't speak for '12 but I know in '11 there was an Office Hours session where PG and Harj 'grilled' some of the applicants to the winter batch. I throughly enjoyed it. Does anyone know if any of those who got up o
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Challenge three is located here: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/bletchley.html 2910404C21CF8BF4CC93B7D4A518BABF34B42A8AB0047627998D633E653AF63A873C\ 8FABBE8D095ED125D4539706932425E78C261E2AB9273D177578F20E38AFEF124E
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Ask HN: Google API billable limit increase?
2 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Does anyone on here know whether this was in fact posted as 'chatter' via Bloomberg terminals before the tweet or not. Surely there's a Wall Street guy with access to a terminal on HN.
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Just a quick word on Pattern[1]. TextBlob is probably just using the en module, I would suggest everyone take a look at the other modules in particular the web module should you be doing any light data scraping. It has nice wrappers around
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
13" 2013 MBA, Magic Mouse, wireless Apple keyboard, RAZER Sphex mouse mat [1], ACER 23" s236HL IPS [2], Herman Miller Aeron chair, Bowers and Wilkins p5 [3], Bose SoundLink mobile [4], [1] http://www.pcworld.co.uk/
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
I use a combination of Hetzner and AWS. AWS - RDS, EMR and S3 Hetzner - Crawling and CPU intensive computing In the early days AWS allowed us to spin a crazy amount of machines up with basically no capital outlay. Depending on your status..
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Subconsciously Depressed(medium.com)
1 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Bose.com have a pretty nice tribute running right now: http://www.bose.com/remember/index.html
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Not sure of the reputation of Bose in the US but over here in the UK 8/10 people would know Bose as a high end, high quality audio company. I'm not sure any other audio company could make such a claim in the UK. Every electronics
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Isn't that like asking if the NSA is tapping into Newspapers...
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by mrkmcknz 13y ago
Because rails people don't know markdown. In all seriousness I'm assuming that those guys are panicking right about now and can't type fast enough let alone worry about the slightest bit of code formatting.
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Create a dinosaur egg(medium.com)
1 points by mrkmcknz 13y ago|0 comments

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