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by saumil07 14y ago
Can you dig into (1) a bit more? Agree that most people are consumers not producers - but FB cleverly and incessantly worked towards making the most hardened consumer into a producer (Like being the first incarnation thereof). Half that sit
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by saumil07 14y ago
Yup, I find the ad targeting for my personal FB account to be actually quite good.
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by saumil07 14y ago
I worked in Search and on Search-related problems for nearly 4 years so here's my 2c. For most users Google is "muscle memory". It is quite good for most Search needs. The angles of attack that tech-savvy folks think are amazing (category f
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by saumil07 14y ago
1. I like, support and (pay for) App.net 2. One tweet, by one famous media guy (admittedly a board member, yes, but really only known for being a great media executive) does not a strategy make. 3. The title "is pivoting" is extremely asse
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by saumil07 14y ago
I'd say that's a nice gesture, really. The company's founders have excellent street cred. The game had a lot of hype/visibility. It did not fail for lack of technical prowess. People will (and, I bet, are already trying very hard) want to h
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by saumil07 14y ago
Well this is fun - thanks for sharing. Have you found anything that's similar to MagCloud but operates on a push-button API basis? I didn't see an API link on MagCloud when I clicked around for a bit.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Yelp actually does have an algorithm for computing the final star rating. It is not a simple average across all ratings. It takes contributor status on Yelp, age of review and other signals into account before the final score is published.
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by saumil07 14y ago
LocBox, San Francisco. Frontend Engineer, Rails Developer, Data Scientist, Inside Sales Representative. Relocations Welcome, H1B Transfers Welcome. More at http://www.getlocbox.com/careers and http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/locbox-
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LocBox Raises $5.1M Series A To Empower Local Businesses(techcrunch.com)
10 points by saumil07 14y ago|2 comments
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by saumil07 14y ago
As I've said in the rather giant tome above I've done 100+ of these so forgive me if it's not on the tip of my tongue. I went back and looked at your submissions and it must have been the fact that you have a lot of Ask_HNs, a couple about
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by saumil07 14y ago
Excellent! We try to empower local businesses with good software and we like what we do - Local is super-challenging and very broken which in turn makes it fun to try to build stuff for. Plus customers pay on Day One, which is always nice.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Fair enough, agree to disagree on this one. It's not as if you had just heard from the next Nigerian prince or been offered cheap meds at a low price :) I personally think a Tell HN with an accusatory tone is extreme - could have checked he
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by saumil07 14y ago
Will do! Thanks man.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Disagree with the tacky/tasteless part but yes, as I describe above, it did indeed work for me. Thanks for your feedback.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Hello there - I've tried to respond to almost everyone that wrote back. If I missed you I'll go back and check my drafts because sometimes I have additional questions that I want to ask folks after taking a look at their notes or their blog
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by saumil07 14y ago
That tool would be my very tired but somewhat functional human brain late at night and on weekends. And as I describe above, it's not sad at all. It was actually awesome to be able to speak with so many cool folks.
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by saumil07 14y ago
Thanks Phillip :)
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Airtime, a Pedigreed Start-Up, Is Tested(nytimes.com)
15 points by saumil07 14y ago|6 comments
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by saumil07 14y ago
Thanks Patrick :)
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by saumil07 14y ago
Hello all - my name is Saumil Mehta and since I guess I'm the mastermind behind this whole thread it behooves me to reach out and respond. First of all, I'm sorry to jason_slack for the major inconvenience caused by my email. It was written
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by saumil07 14y ago
LocBox, San Francisco, Frontend Engineer, Rails Developer, Data Scientist, Relocation Dear (Future) LocBox Engineer, It’s only October 1st and this thread has become so noisy that you’ve either a) resorted to keyword searches OR b) gone bac
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by saumil07 14y ago
Try sellercrowd.com. Also, are you a salesperson?
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by saumil07 14y ago
Interesting post. I guess I "agree" with the headline that you can raise without a prototype. Should you? Unclear. I can only speak to this from my own experiences with fundraising (2x) - I've seen entrepreneurs raise bigger rounds with zer
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by saumil07 14y ago
This makes me sick - I'm no M&A expert so it's unclear what Goldman's exact due diligence responsibilities should have been but clearly they screwed up if they helped execute a transaction against a company that basically didn't exist
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by saumil07 14y ago
Most succinct and best comment - the original post is a tempest in a teapot. Craigslist is free to optimize their lock-in on their marketplace and web-savvy users are free to bitch about the effects thereof (I did on Twitter twice over), mo
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by saumil07 14y ago
Indeed. The Meebo Product/Eng team by all accounts was excellent. Same for the exec team. At the end of the day they were bitten by the same things Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger figured out a long time ago. Monetizing IM is hard. But at
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by saumil07 14y ago
Congrats CT team!