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by robfitz 17y ago
I've run into several happy founding couples (not married, just dating). They rarely publicize it, so at first glance it seems to be less common than it actually is.
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How to use Twitter for B2B & enterprise startup sales(blog.habitindustries.com)
6 points by robfitz 17y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 17y ago
We've definitely been wanting this... Nice work.
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by robfitz 17y ago
This is unrelated to the larger educational app, but I hope "Startup 3.0" doesn't take off as a name. It's a more fad-based, ephemeral phrase that is being used to mean the same thing as "Lean Startup" (ie the intersection of Customer Devel
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by robfitz 17y ago
The idea is that you don't move beyond the 1st phase until you've thoroughly proved that your business model will scale. At that point, you DO want to hire managers, and grow your team. You've spent a lot of energy up till that point ensuri
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by robfitz 17y ago
Hey Jeff, thanks for taking the time. Google Checkout reviews are a great idea... will definitely look into making that happen. Don't know if it's useful for you, but in the meantime you can grab Amazon reviews by putting the whole Amazon U
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by robfitz 17y ago
Hey Jason, thanks. Totally agree. I think there's also a certain value in the knowledge that the testimonials were unsolicited - just freely given to a friend in a normal conversation.
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by robfitz 17y ago
Hey Paul. Same company, same team ( http://habitindustries.com/about ), and still trying to make social advertising easier. It's been a winding (& interesting) journey of customer development from Fuzzwich to Habit Stream, which I'll pr
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by robfitz 17y ago
In short: Yes, it's weird, but there's a good reason! ;) We're integrating realtime content pretty deeply into our site. It's a full redesign and we're still in the midst of the makeover. In the meantime, we wanted to start getting feedback
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by robfitz 17y ago
Hey guys, we've been working with London's agencies for the last few months to develop Habit Stream, which help find the nice things people are saying about your business and then re-broadcast the best bits (customer tweets, press coverage,
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Ask HN: Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07)(habitstream.com)
38 points by robfitz 17y ago|27 comments
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by robfitz 17y ago
Explicit, short-term rewards trump implicit or long-term rewards. Immediate feedback with points will enable much faster & more effective behavior change.
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by robfitz 17y ago
(it's an internet cafe-bus) Would the power source for that many computers on a vehicle pull from the standard batteries/engine, or would it be rigged with alternate electricity sources?
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by robfitz 17y ago
We shopped around for outsourced artists to make animated characters, backgrounds, etc when we were working on fuzzwich.com. The lowest prices we were finding for animations was ~$50 per second (for a simple, single character animation) and
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by robfitz 17y ago
Humor helps if you're already doing well, and hurts otherwise.
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by robfitz 17y ago
Part of their job is to write reasonable responses to customer inquiries. That's the output of their working time, for which they are paid. Saying that should be private is like saying someone's code check-ins should be private. And if we a
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by robfitz 17y ago
Congrats. Looks like a great game - I look forward to giving it a spin.
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by robfitz 17y ago
Hey J. If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'm really curious about what made the direct messaging engine so tricky/special.
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by robfitz 17y ago
I would quite enjoy seeing additional data.. founding of new 'accelerators' over time, number of companies funded, companies/year, etc. Primarily when they were founded. Last I checked, I found only 3. Would also be fun to see an evolution
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by robfitz 17y ago
But you can’t get a ‘liberal arts’ CS degree. Georgia Tech's Computational Media degree is one of these. The major is shared by their CS and Literature departments, thinking about programmatic artifacts as if they were traditional cultura
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by robfitz 17y ago
Does anyone know how the economics of font creation work out? This seems to take an enormous amount of time to create [what appears to me to be] a very niche product that sells for only $250.
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by robfitz 17y ago
You can't will your rent payment into existence, and you won't fully enjoy your admittedly short life while deciding between another week of spaghetti or tuna. He is saying you should work on developing your skills until you are good enough
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by robfitz 17y ago
No -- he says being nervous about a switch suggests you aren't yet qualified to make the leap. And while you should not quit your job if this is the case, there is an upside because your current nervousness gives you a metric about how qual
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by robfitz 17y ago
May I ask if these are going to be game projects? I'm very interested in people's experiences doing rapid game development.
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by robfitz 17y ago
I would personally be inclined to join the open source development. But to 'compete', tailored support for any non-technical niche. The equivalent of the "Basecamp for X" phenomenon, where X equals churches, fashion, teachers, politicians,
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by robfitz 17y ago
Just an FYI, the article is 11 months old (which I think makes the article more interesting, as we can see the results of his predictions) And while I'm here, he isn't saying the iphone wasn't/isn't important, just that it probably isn't th
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by robfitz 17y ago
Search doesn't benefit from a network effect, whereas social games do. It's the same defense that Ebay/Craigslist enjoy (though admittedly less ironclad). Someone like Zynga has brutally low customer acquisition costs compared to a new soci
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by robfitz 17y ago
Maybe as its the first..? They said it has a million threads at about 20 feet long. 5 bucks for a length of spider silk seems high, but I don't really know what goes into keeping that many critters alive and happy. Also, at the end of the v
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by robfitz 17y ago
I've only read about a third of this, but it strikes me as considerably more productive than most of the product/business design meetings I've been a part of. Interesting to see how other industries build their ideas.
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by robfitz 17y ago
You can still use anything native to Flash (ie vectors). Flixel has added support for bitmaps -- fast blitting plus old school visual effects (are typically a great pain to create in Flash)

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