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by shafqat 17y ago
Fair point, but I dont think ideas are worthless at all. Given that he is not building startups to execute on these ideas (and alludes he probably won't be in the future), I thought it would make his case much more compelling if he did shar
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by shafqat 17y ago
Interesting, if you skip the startup content, which content do you prefer? (Not being snarky, honest question).
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by shafqat 17y ago
I think he is spot on. BUT, the fact that he won't share his idea spreadsheet is very disappointing. My comment on his blog: "While I agree completely with your thesis, this response makes the whole thing a wash in my opinion. Do you really
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by shafqat 17y ago
Why no XML as response type?
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by shafqat 17y ago
Shafqat here from NewsCred, one of the startups included in the poll. Interesting results - I'm not surprised only 8% had heard of us. Our consumer site (www.newscred.com) has gotten decent traction and press, but nothing out of this world.
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by shafqat 17y ago
After reading all of that, I still don't know what he/you actually did.
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by shafqat 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback - yes, that is exactly what I would like to see as the product evolve. Suggesting other sources/feeds as you mention. But also proposing related topics that may interest you etc. There is already a bit of cool functi
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by shafqat 17y ago
Hey there - would love to help. I've been doing a bunch of these interviews recently, and it's really interesting and relevant to our core business ( http://platform.newscred.com ). My email address is in my profile.
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by shafqat 17y ago
As a tangential question, how else can this sort of information (i.e. "blogs I read" be shared). Not talking about twitter or delicious - looking for a platform to share a curated set of feeds in a nice, presentable style. A "shareable feed
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by shafqat 17y ago
Thanks for highlighting this - I actually used this for a while. But I problem was that there was simply too much information, with a lot ABOUT venture capital and startups. I wanted information and blog posts BY venture capitalists.
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by shafqat 17y ago
Is this useful? For those of you who follow these blogs, how do you do it? I just got tired of RSS readers. While a lot of news comes to me via twitter, this seems to work well for me. EDIT: I'm the cofounder of NewsCred and we're experimen
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ASK HN: All the VC Blogs that I read, in one place. Thoughts?(vcblogs.newscred.com)
17 points by shafqat 17y ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: What kind of geo-focused APIs would you like to see?
9 points by shafqat 17y ago|2 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
Would love to read that... please can you repost if you do find?
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John Paton to News Industry: "Learn One New (tech) Thing"(jxpaton.wordpress.com)
3 points by shafqat 17y ago|1 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
PG - this is fantastically awesome. Your support and responsiveness is truly appreciated. If we meet in person someday, I will buy you many beers.
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by shafqat 17y ago
Wow, I literally just posted a comment in a separate thread about how much I value ASK HN posts. And half hour later I see this - assuming it's a coincidence, but either way, thank you, thank you, thank you. EDIT: Just saw the other post an
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by shafqat 17y ago
If that's true, that's really too bad - ASK HN posts are one of the great differentiators about this place. They are almost always valuable, and the insight and answers provided by the community always remind me why this place is great.
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by shafqat 17y ago
Yeah, I noticed that sometimes two very quick upvotes can rocket an item to the front page. On the other hand, one of my recent ASK HN posts ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1167298 ) got 7 or 8 votes in the first hour but never made i
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by shafqat 17y ago
Its a bit annoying that there is no link to the actual mixergy interview (or if there is, I can't find it!).
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Ask HN: Conversion rates for free trials for Freemium
8 points by shafqat 17y ago|1 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
Fair point, but I never said leaving comments on blogs should be a customer acquisition strategy. If it is, you have big problems! What I was saying is that leaving commnents on blogs helps you get the initial traction, both in terms of e
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by shafqat 17y ago
This is a good point. Our first version of our consumer site was flawed in many ways. But we kept getting positive reinforcement from our friends/family and didnt put it in perspective. It's important to take a step back and look objectivel
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by shafqat 17y ago
Backlinks were huge, but I had absolutely NO relationship whatsoever with Arrington, Jason or anyone else in Silcon Valley. I link to post that explains how we got on TC. It's all perseverance and creativity. But I agree, that word of mouth
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by shafqat 17y ago
I know a lot of this is obvious to some, but I gotten feedback that it's helpful so I thought I'd share with the community. Bottom line - SEO is your friend when you're looking to build a large, sustainable audience.
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Getting traction for your startup – how we did it.(blog.newscred.com)
52 points by shafqat 17y ago|14 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
This is awesome, congrats. What really stands out is the way you engage this community, seek advice, and give back with your honest response. Part of what makes HN great. What can we help with? I have a dev team that might be able to spare
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by shafqat 17y ago
I like the concept of an algorithm 'supermarket' where you get all of these algos as part of one API with various objects/methods. But the problem is one of specialization. Surely there are other APIs out there that specialize in particular
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Finance Startup Kublax Saved?(thenextweb.com)
1 points by shafqat 17y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
Not to be snarky, but what is impressive about tagging your question with "SSL" - the exact keyword is in the question. No semantic analysis or NLP required - just simple keyword based entity extraction.

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