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How to Make Your Perfect SaaS Dashboard
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For avoiding vendor lock-in with analytics tools, drip email, and getting your raw usage back out as logs or webhooks, you might check out Segment.io -- you can even change analytics tools on the fly without resubmitting to the App Store.
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Oh, yes you're absolutely right. Growth didn't have to remain unsustainable... reducing costs on AWS seems like the right idea (and kudos for huge efforts there with spot instances, etc!) My attempted point was just that during
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I did some spreadsheet-ing to look at the "profitability" of their userbase. If the business were sustainable, then Monthly Recurring Revenue [1] would be higher than the cost to service the customers [2]. If not, then growing the
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Segment.io is hiring Mobile SDK Engineers and an Office Manager
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Segment.io is Hiring Mobile SDK Engineers
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Norway's Weird Waves Traced to Japan Earthquake
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9 Tools to Help You Measure Mobile Analytics
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Segment.io, Full-time, San Francisco, CA - Mobile Platform Engineer (building SDKs for iOS, Android) - Customer Support Engineer (very technical support role) - Backend Engineer (our stack is node/rabbitmq/redis/mongo
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Segment.io is hiring technical support, iOS engineering
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More information at https://segment.io/mobile
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Segment.io launches iOS and Android SDKs to enable every app analytics solution
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/rogue-dentist-exposed-7000-pati...
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Segment.io, San Francisco (YC) Segment.io is a web analytics API. We let web companies install analytics once, and then send their data anywhere they need it with the flip of a switch. Our libraries all are all open source, including analyt
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Need "Custom" Analytics? Not So Fast
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This all makes more sense in the context of TJ Holowaychuck's new Component package management tool (first link in the article). Component gives a sane structure to building small, modular js+css+html+assets components. https://github.com/
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oh i don't mean a marketing person who "spins" the course. but rather somebody who understands what messages to deliver to which students when. for example, if I haven't done any of the assignments in 3 weeks, telling me about admin for the
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I really like your idea of "reaching" here. I think that in the MOOC model, the role of the MOOC is to help the professor extend their reach towards the students. I think the MOOC should bring the content marketing & designe experts to
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Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention
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mmm, yes this is the advantage of targeting users. if they're already set up, then the startup you mention should be sending them the next level of helpful email... or no email at all. the cool thing is that the companies mentioned in the a
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Email: the easiest way to improve retention
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What we've found is that different analytics services help us answer different kinds of questions. For example, here are the tools we use to find each metric he mentions: Distribution 1. New users by channel: Google Analytics Source break
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Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
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Sgr A is the black hole Sagittarius A* as far as I know. The black hole itself isn't bright. As far as I understand, the swirling gas around it (outside the event horizon) is what's sending out all the light. What do you mean by inactive?
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oh -- yeah seeing what people are doing on Earth via a black hole is totally out of the question technologically. that's pretty much the conclusion of the article.
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Aperture synthesis (several widely-separated telescopes looking at one object) is often used to increase the resolving power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis
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the photons "reflected" back would appear at specific locations around the edge of the MACHO, so you'd see expect to see something with Sun-like spectra at that radial location. lots of image processing would be required to un-warp the coll
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Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth
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Analytics Academy: How to Use Event Tracking
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Analytics Academy: The Secret to Real-Time Dashboards
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