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by sachinag 16y ago
Gabriel will be even happier when our next push goes live. :) (He's in the preview.)
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by sachinag 16y ago
Turns out that fixing it doesn't reduce signup rates. The vast majority of people use the top form above the fold. :)
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by sachinag 16y ago
On "Should I invest in mutual funds managed by a human being?" we agree. That article is in the editing process as we speak. :)
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by sachinag 16y ago
HTTPS for the marketing site increases page load times; there's no real reason to force people just browsing by to a secured server. The app itself, of course, is secure; it's just on a different subdomain: https://secure.blueleaf.com/sig
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'm actually going to disagree with the "don't date evergreen content", at least for us. Because we're writing about financial information, we're going to datestamp revisions because we want someone who comes to us via Google/Bing/DDG to k
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by sachinag 16y ago
Flowtown is the easiest way I've found to see quickly who on our list has followed @blueleafcom so I can do my invite prioritization. If there's a better way, let me know!
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Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup(sachinagarwal.com)
139 points by sachinag 16y ago|59 comments
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by sachinag 16y ago
Marketing supports sales. A VP of Sales in a startup should make her own marketing collateral.
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A Simple Guide to Small Business Insurance(smallbiztrends.com)
1 points by sachinag 16y ago|0 comments
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by sachinag 16y ago
Seconding Berlin. Even though it's in Germany, the lingua franca in the startup community there is English. Quite a few London-based VCs swing through Berlin regularly. Off the top of my head, Soundcloud is a Berlin-based company with a
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by sachinag 16y ago
As a once-and-future client who does spend his (well, and his investors') own money, I would kill to work with a developer who did this.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'm more upset that the Consumerist doesn't know that Puerto Rico has no Representatives in the House. (Or Senators, or anything really. Of course, they probably could if they wanted to but they keep voting to retain their commonwealth st
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by sachinag 16y ago
Rapportive is YC? I had no fucking clue. I signed up in March with the other 10,000 (yes, 10,000) who did in their first 24 hours. (EDIT: I originally said 30K; their blog says it was merely 10K in first 24 hours. My bad.)
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by sachinag 16y ago
They'd have to pry it from Disney.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I have worked with Mike Olson. One of the best people I've ever worked with. He's just remarkable. If you have the stuff, you should work at Cloudera.
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by sachinag 16y ago
This is a terrible idea. Big companies would set up a shell corporation for every single thing. I'm all for lower tax rates, but only in general and when they're paid for. I can't support a new loophole just because it's tailored to my pa
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by sachinag 16y ago
Just bought it. I have a feeling this will be a better value than my $1500 Thoughtbot class. :)
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by sachinag 16y ago
You know, I'm impressed with Firefox pushing the envelope inside the browser window, but their chrome is still terrible: the tabs on top take up many more pixels than Chrome's do; closing tabs in rapid succession doesn't mimic Chrome's resi
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by sachinag 16y ago
Jim, congrats - you were so helpful (you probably don't remember) when I was getting Dawdle off the ground. Just know that we're still committed to destroying your new corporate overlords and I hope you got all cash. :)
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by sachinag 16y ago
Many people are rightfully pissed at BP for cutting corners and creating a huge clusterfuck in the Gulf. Many of these same people are totally off base being pissed at BP for not fixing the broken well faster. But, hey, the screaming makes
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by sachinag 16y ago
David's generally not like this at all, which is why it had so much power when he delivered it to the crowd.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I once called someone I don't like a "human mosquito" because she added no value whatsoever to the world. Good to know that insult is now backed up with science.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Wait - I see two buttons on all Tumblr sites: one that says "+ Follow" and one that says "Join Tumblr". Is this something that I'm in a bucket test on or does it go away if you're logged or something?
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by sachinag 16y ago
I have friends who are brand managers at Coke. There's absolutely no way this came from them. They're neither organizationally smart enough nor culturally astute enough to pull this off. Everything at KO is looked at through the lens of
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by sachinag 16y ago
This story was absolutely planted in the NYT by the Honest Tea people terrified that Coke would make this change - among others - when they complete the acquisition next year when Coke can do anything it wants with the company.
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by sachinag 16y ago
You need to go a bit deeper on Google Analytics. I can't get trendlines, just numbers, and no ability to see goals. (This probably goes for a lot of analytics packages, but we're using GA.) Also, Flowtown and Wufoo would be nice - I belie
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by sachinag 16y ago
Webapp only for the foreseeable future. The security/privacy is something we've spent a lot of time and effort on. (Our CTO is a crypto by trade with a focus on financial applications: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cat/ ) Thanks!
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by sachinag 16y ago
My startup is working on exactly this problem. Our customer development reinforces that people - of all ages - know intellectually that they're supposed to save. But they have no idea how to start, or if they've started, if they're actual
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by sachinag 16y ago
If they unlock the Freebase data and associate UPCs/EANs/other bar codes and structured data around it (which Freebase has done in a hap-hazard fashion), they could really do some pretty awesome stuff.
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by sachinag 16y ago
They're delayed: https://squareup.com/letters/the-home-stretch Also, I thought you misspelled "Swype" at first. Man, that keyboard has invaded my brain and I can't even use it with my new iPhone!

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