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by mschaecher 13y ago
You're right it's a real problem. There are literally hundreds of "startups" doing that for social media advertising. Hundreds for search. Hundreds for display, and not just regular display, but RTB(sarcasm)! There are t
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by mschaecher 13y ago
You're correct that there certainly a lot of snake-oil merchants out there. But they're not just limited "new" media channels. Just as many slimeballs in the traditional world. I'm going to get crucified for this, b
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by mschaecher 13y ago
As someone who has helped massively grow a handful of businesses with Facebook being a significant channel, part of me wants to say "Yep, FB advertising is bunk. Everyone stop!" But in reality I'd be saying that in a weak att
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by mschaecher 13y ago
You're correct. Which is why most reports of revenue for Uber, or even Airbnb, almost always use numbers in the hundreds of millions. However, both companies have gross sales in the billions.
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by mschaecher 13y ago
Couldn't you space them out a little and rather than backing up it would expand and flow like regular wind? (serious, just curious)
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by mschaecher 13y ago
If I read various parts of their website correctly it sounds like they aren't in the turbine business(yet), but building this funnel thing around many existing turbines.
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by mschaecher 13y ago
You could do this without having to "move" the exhaust back up to the top I think. Just stack them in a line at different elevations so that one's exhaust turns into the fuel for the next one. If speed of the exhaust increase
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by mschaecher 13y ago
I had to dig into that one too. I lost where I found it, but it's actually "up to 600%." Range is 85%-600% with average of like 315% or something.
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by mschaecher 13y ago
Really need to put some social sharing options on that page. Great idea though!
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by mschaecher 13y ago
I've only had to use uber support once, and it was for an extreme edge technical error. I received immediate email reply from the SF CM at 2AM. She followed up twice in the following week to keep me updated on the status without me eve
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by mschaecher 13y ago
Here's the above the fold of their How it Works page as seen on an apple LCD. http://d.pr/i/ltch Is how it works clear or am I missing something? Here is their FAQ http://d.pr/i/beRt It takes
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by mschaecher 13y ago
As someone who spent a lot of time optimizing conversions, it painfully obvious that they are optimizing to not be clear. If the subscription was so valuable, they'd message it as a top level value prop. But you're not dumb, their
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by mschaecher 13y ago
my guess would be instacart, goldbely or teespring. But there are probably some B2B contenders I haven't thought of
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by mschaecher 14y ago
I don't think you'd ever hear anyone whose created something truly great say this. For a lot of them, good enough, just isn't. (partial Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, quote) Sure good enough MVPs might be alright. Once you find product m
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by mschaecher 14y ago
San Francisco, SFBA, INTERNS(too) Munchery is changing something so fundamental as your nightly dinner, and giving local food entrepreneurs the economic freedom to fully leverage their skill, passion and creativity. We're looking for softwa
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by mschaecher 14y ago
San Francisco, SFBA, REMOTE, INTERNS(too) Munchery is changing something so fundamental as your nightly dinner, and giving local food entrepreneurs the economic freedom to fully leverage their skill, passion and creativity. We're looking fo
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by mschaecher 14y ago
Just make a dozen variations, break into groups of three, put each set on it's webpage with a header question "Which sudoko game would you rather play?" Install click tracking via your tool of choice GA/Optimizely/VWO/CrazyEgg/Clicktale. Th
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by mschaecher 14y ago
I've never used SnapChat, but hypothetically if you wanted to limit data going back to facebook here's one potential approach. For this example, let's say you have an app that you want to use facebook for account creation and friend finding
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by mschaecher 14y ago
If you're still looking, I might be able to find you some temp contractor work asap, as well as introduce you to people looking for more permanent (or at least medium term) remote devs. michael@munchery.com
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by mschaecher 14y ago
I agree, don't read techcrunch. Unless you're interested in startups generally. Or if you want to learn about new companies. But really only if you're interested in learning about hot new spaces in trends, yea then it's ok. Or if you want t
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by mschaecher 14y ago
Riiiight, because this opaque give us money and we'll buy off some anonymous people's debt is a beacon for piece of mind. A non-profit marketplace for this built similar to Kiva, LendingClub, etc. increases transparency dramatically.
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by mschaecher 14y ago
They're basically already doing all of these in some form or another. 1. They'd never describe it as this, but sign up as an advertiser and you essentially get all of this. 2. They're essentially doing this with their new interest based tar
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by mschaecher 14y ago
Anyone know if the reasoning behind not being able to buy individuals debt is legal or if technical/execution? A marketplace for this kind of relief a la Kiva could be hugely powerful.
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Meals Marketplace Munchery Raises $4 Million For Expansion(techcrunch.com)
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by mschaecher 14y ago
The title of the article should actually be: "Meet the man who's getting his ass kicked by Airbnb in Europe" Your title is pure link-bait. You offer no specifics AT ALL in your article about how HouseTrip is beating Airbnb. In fact the one
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by mschaecher 14y ago
Here's a plausible explanation for what is happening: For any given user on facebook, there is a limited amount of promoted posts that facebook will show in their feed at any given time/day so that their feeds don't become overwhelmed with
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by mschaecher 14y ago
Why is this post not full of data and heatmaps to support this case? All I see is a "conversion" expert trumpeting anecdotal and gut opinions, without any supporting data one way or the other. I'm not saying he is necessarily wrong, but thi
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by mschaecher 14y ago
At Airbnb we respected them as a competitor, enough to know that we needed to crush them. Forgive the sports metaphor, but it's like in sports when you have respect for an opponent that you will face, but come game time you're at war. Gotta
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by mschaecher 14y ago
So since you launched last week I'm guessing the testimonials are bunk?
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Ask HN: Is there CodeAcademy/Treehouse for SQL/Db?
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