sandimac

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Why did the founder of a $2.0B tech co build this bot? He wanted it for himself(medium.com)
1 points by sandimac 10y ago|0 comments
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How to get teams addicted to your Slack bot: A teardown of Howdy(medium.com)
2 points by sandimac 10y ago|0 comments
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Tuesday Bot Teardown: Growbot(medium.com)
3 points by sandimac 10y ago|0 comments
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The secrets hidden in my chatbot logs: You don’t know how to talk to bots(medium.com)
1 points by sandimac 10y ago|0 comments
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The Devil’s in the Details: How to Transition from a Big Company to a Startup(medium.com)
2 points by sandimac 11y ago|0 comments
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Why People Make the Crazy Choice to Go from Megacorp to Startup(medium.com)
1 points by sandimac 11y ago|0 comments
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How Smart Founders Find Investors(medium.com)
2 points by sandimac 11y ago|0 comments
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The ONE feature I miss from my Android – And what it means for Apple’s future(medium.com)
2 points by sandimac 11y ago|0 comments
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Why a Third Mobile OS Is Doomed to Fail(medium.com)
1 points by sandimac 12y ago|0 comments
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Knowledge transfer networks vs. Information transfer networks(ufert.se)
2 points by sandimac 14y ago|0 comments
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by sandimac 14y ago
If you're interested - a lot of his slides were similar to these: http://www.slideshare.net/seanellis/stacking-the-odds-for-au...
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Bump, Twitter, and Tapjoy agree - Successful mobile apps have great onboarding(quibb.com)
9 points by sandimac 14y ago|0 comments
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Eliminate ego, don't focus on k, and understand engaged users(quibb.com)
23 points by sandimac 14y ago|3 comments
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by sandimac 14y ago
sure - totally agree re: passwords/unsubscribe/etc. I'm not saying LinkedIn has the best product or user experience or retention/engagement - but they have done a great job growing the userbase. as for flakey - maybe you're smarter than mos
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Lessons learned from growing LinkedIn to 175 million users(quibb.com)
48 points by sandimac 14y ago|12 comments
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I learned at Startup School: Great entrepreneurs embrace head-on competition(quibb.com)
20 points by sandimac 14y ago|4 comments
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How TechCrunch must change to stay relevant to the startup community(quibb.com)
34 points by sandimac 14y ago|23 comments
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Behavior-specific social networks, Facebook's challenge, and others' opportunity(quibb.com)
10 points by sandimac 14y ago|0 comments
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Traits of successful non-technical solo founders(quibb.com)
51 points by sandimac 14y ago|12 comments
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Online News is Broken(caseyaccidental.com)
32 points by sandimac 14y ago|36 comments
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by sandimac 14y ago
It's definitely not easy to do at scale, if possible at all. I'm still in the early stages with the product, so at this point (and with this particular type of product) the personal, un-scalable approach makes sense. The style of email tha
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How Cubie got 3.5M users in 6 months by thinking 'market first, product second'(quibb.com)
29 points by sandimac 14y ago|0 comments
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by sandimac 14y ago
Yes, I understand your point. For some (maybe in your case, all?) products, it can be annoying. But with early-stage products, that first touch-point is critical, and I believe that you want to make your message as authentic as possible. I
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by sandimac 14y ago
Yes, Rapportive is very helpful! One problem I've notice with Rapportive fyi - the info is a bit off/conflicting if the person has ever changed their twitter handle (rare, but it does happen).
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by sandimac 14y ago
No, I haven't tried any auto messages yet. Good point re: working email address. That situation has come up a few times - the person didn't reply to my initial welcome email, but remembered that they had received it, and replied to that ema
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by sandimac 14y ago
It depends on the product. Coming directly from myname@gmail.com makes sense for Quibb, but I could see yourname@startup.com working in some other cases.
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by sandimac 14y ago
Yeah, you could - but I still don't think it's authentic :) Actually sending the emails myself also allows me to add small things on the fly - for example, I'll sign my name '-Sandi (fellow Canadian!)' if I've noticed that the person is fro
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by sandimac 14y ago
Thanks, forgot to say something about that. I meant to add that this is the best way to learn about your product at the beginning, and aren't yet focusing on scaling. I edited the post to clarify. Thanks for reading!
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People send the best welcome emails, not robots(quibb.com)
22 points by sandimac 14y ago|17 comments
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by sandimac 14y ago
yeah... that's a bit more difficult. i picked up the korean alphabet in an afternoon, and was able to read out loud almost any korean text put in front of me. after studying the language for a few more months, i was still only at a very low

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