robert_mygengo

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Simple Advice, On Advice(robertlaing.com)
2 points by robert_mygengo 14y ago|0 comments
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
Developer-centric opinions are for Hacker News.
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
Sorry man. We all worked hard on this and were excited to get it out; it's been well-received by our users and I wanted to post it. Did not mean to offend.
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
My full blog post: Today we have some great news. It’s been more than three years since we started our company—just a couple of friends in an apartment. There are now over 40 of us, in Japan, the USA, Germany, the UK and China. We offer tra
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
There will be some Gengo people there for sure :)
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MyGengo is now Gengo(mygengo.com)
8 points by robert_mygengo 14y ago|7 comments
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
This is not necessarily bad advice. However it's kind of arrogant. While "the point of an internship is [...] to learn what kind of work or industry you want to be in once you graduate, to try things out and live in cool places." is partly
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by robert_mygengo 14y ago
I don't really understand why this is on the front page, or what the point of the article is (apart from a grumble). Not saying it ain't so, but struggling to care...
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
This theoretically true statement "There is no reasonable economic justification for a customer to offer anything but a low-ball figure. " can, in practice, be irrelevant. So unless you are a savant, following the OP's advice in enterprise
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Reading this makes me feel treated like a kid. As if Asana staff will be leaning over my shoulder the whole day like creepy startup Jesuses. Plus Donnie and Kim, peeking round the door, desperately fishing for compliments on their cooking :
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Best part of this for me is that I can now actually pay to watch something outside of the US from an artist I like. If you don't live outside the US or UK you probably don't realize how rare that is.
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
I don't want to in any way refute the referenced article or the findings of the air crash investigators, because clearly the pilots here behaved incorrectly and I am just an outsider. However I think it's worth at least mentioning that both
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Bad names are good for SEO. Good names have no intrinsic SEO value. e.g. Twitter, Skype, Foursquare are all pretty good names. But have no SEO benefit. e.g. local-activities.com is good for SEO, but I've already forgotten it, it's so generi
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
I think the name is one of the factors, but probably not the primary factor. But the point of the article is not really about search engine business models.
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
I generally agree with this. I think it's just a suggestion that it's worth thinking about if you're at all considering Chinese market entry, instead of assuming your name will just "work".
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Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
9 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|3 comments
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Esrauch is right — but they have not announced details.
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Guess you could use our services for a different reason instead. But we'll live.
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Disclosure: My company. Factual note: Not actually a Series A, was a conv. note.
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MyGengo Raises $1 Million To “Own” Translation(techcrunch.com)
25 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|16 comments
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Hey guys We currently source our API's machine translation from Google, but we're going to be connecting to several other providers in the next few months. Depending on Google's pricing model we may or may not include them in the roster. We
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Disclosure: I'm the CEO of myGengo We offer machine translation for free, and we'll continue to do so... I don't really see how this is spam.
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
(Disclosure, I'm the CEO of myGengo) We just this damn second announced a special offer whereby you can switch to our translation API and get $25 free credits (AND you'll continue to get free machine translation). Bit ironic that you post
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E-G8: Openness and innovation: Digital thought leaders express their views(mygengo.com)
5 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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Curry for Startups: Do the Basics Right(mygengo.com)
3 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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Startup Swag to Brag About(mygengo.com)
3 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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Sushi For Startups: Learn from the Pros(mygengo.com)
4 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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More Profit at the Price of Free? Why We Chose Freemium for String(mygengo.com)
1 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Brazilian Stars of Silicon Valley(mygengo.com)
10 points by robert_mygengo 15y ago|0 comments
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by robert_mygengo 15y ago
Bit more background info here (I co-founded the company that the person blogging here is working for, s'pose he'd better answer about the pay :)) http://blog.500startups.com/2011/01/24/how-to-create-a-succe... Visa: If you have a college

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