rahulvohra

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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   The plan is to go freemium: build an amazingly useful product, and charge money for premium features. I know that startups very commonly say that this is their plan. We've thought very hard about what makes freemium work: http://blog.rapp
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   Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail(mashable.com)

   63 points by rahulvohra 16y ago|20 comments
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   Thanks — I'll follow up with you about this at @hello_world
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   ultrasaurus, thanks for this! Do you mind if I follow up by email to ask you a few questions about how you email? I'm at rahul@rapportive.com Also, I just got crm.raplet.info working (I don't think it did last time I tried). Looks great
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   wwortiz, that's a good point. Posterous supports themes, so we should use those to make it easier to find our product.
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   Will Freemium Work For You? Questions To Consider(blog.rapportive.com)

   125 points by rahulvohra 16y ago|19 comments
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   Thanks! We are very fortunate to be working with a truly awesome designer (@limedaring on twitter). We simply did not stop working on the site until we felt it was awesome (I think I spent almost a week fulltime on it, and I wasn't doing
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   Nothing yet on Campaign Monitor, but I've added it to my list. (If it helps, Constant Contact is in the works.)
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   by rahulvohra 16y ago

   Cloud computing has made it possible to choose a hosting provider which allows you to scale with approximately no effort.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Positivity is something I consciously work on. 1. If at every point you're taking what you believe to be approximately right decisions, given all the information you have at that time, then you can ban regrets from your mind. This is a goo
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    It may look like that today, but when you pitch investors you sell them on the team, the market and the vision. You paint a compelling picture of how you get from where you are today to somewhere incredibly exciting.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Good point. Added the blurb to the blog, but couldn't find a quick way of adding a link. That might require theme customisation. (Or am I wrong?)
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    We have plans which we're going to test in the coming months. As much as we can say right now is that it will be freemium: we intend to keep the core service you see today free, and to charge for premium features.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Thanks :) You're absolutely right, we need to customise the posterous theme a tad. Edit: added blurb, not yet a link.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Hey Fred, thanks for your kind words. Yes, there is a Rapportive API. It doesn't allow for Rapportive to go inside other applications, but it does allow folks to embed their own applications inside Rapportive. Would that be useful at all
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    10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt(blog.rapportive.com)

    258 points by rahulvohra 16y ago|87 comments
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    The other thing a lead often does in seed rounds is to work with the entrepreneur to set the price and other terms; the subsequent investors then reassure themselves that somebody who knows what they are doing thinks this is a good deal.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    I think you should submit. For a great hire, a great start-up will pull out the stops and help you sort out an appropriate visa.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    proud to have you on the team. let's crush it.
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Hey there, refresh your Gmail tab and checkout a twitter follower notification :) We do have an API to let folks write Rapportive applications, or Raplets. Checkout raplets.com for some examples. Here's a funky video of the MailChimp one:
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    It didn't take us too long to get to 30K either :)
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    by rahulvohra 16y ago

    Hey there, thanks for the kind words. Co-founder of Rapportive here. I had exactly the same experience when renting a room in my house. A facebook or myspace link told me more than showing people the room, as people tend to be on best be
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    +1 for Mailplane for Windows
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    Mailplane preview integrates Rapportive(mailplaneapp.com)

    21 points by rahulvohra 17y ago|22 comments
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    Try unchecking the "Remove Ads. Fix Page width. Reposition print button." setting in Better Gmail. Does that help?
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    Re: approximate time remaining - good idea!
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    Currently, only you can see your notes. In the future, we want to allow sharing across teams and integration with CRMs.
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    Ah, I messed up. Can you try it again?
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    This was actually a website we prepared for investors; we weren't intending a public beta today! But the press found it, and so here we are. That's why you can't see a privacy policy. In the absence of a written policy, we'll "treat users
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    by rahulvohra 17y ago

    We search on-demand currently. A search will start the first time you open an email from an address we don't know about. Searches can take about a day right now.