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by shafqat 18y ago
What was your previous experience?
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by shafqat 18y ago
At NewsCred, we got covered on ALL the big technology blogs (Techrunch etc) as well as a lot of mainstream press (NYT, Boston Globe, Reuters, BW etc). That was not the difficult part, although I still owe this community a blog post about ho
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Video of Investor Morten Lund at LeWeb. This guys is crazy/awesome.(ustream.tv)
50 points by shafqat 18y ago|27 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
If you're going to say something or accuse someone, just say it!
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by shafqat 18y ago
We use MailChimp at NewsCred and love it. Awesome service, easy to use website and they definately do have an API. In fact, they have an API for transactional e-mails (i.e. ad-hoc ones to welcome a user for example). So you're not just rest
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by shafqat 18y ago
Can we have some more details? This looks interesting, but I can't see how you used them. They look like Mechanical Turkers - did you just give them detailed instructions?
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Ask YC: Any startups here have luck outsourcing sales?
15 points by shafqat 18y ago|12 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Agree 100%. Although we were talking to some of the VCs in your 2nd bucket, we ended up going with #1. Our seed round is entirely angel funded, with one institutional player (#3 type) making an exceptional angel investment.
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Ask YC: Good resources for learning more about sales (startup)
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|1 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
How do you do the clustering? Open source tool/software? Nice site!
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by shafqat 18y ago
What kind of complaining?
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by shafqat 18y ago
Absolutely - we're happy to be in their company!
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by shafqat 18y ago
We're in the process of converting NewsCred to Django. We thought we'd be joining Pownce as one of the few larger-ish startups using Django, but looks like we'll be going at it alone. I was surprised to see the biggest team of Django develo
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by shafqat 18y ago
Good idea. I'll send Leah an email...
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks for the links. Sounds promising!
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Ask YC: Anyone have a good implementation for multiple database support in Django?
20 points by shafqat 18y ago|17 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
We're doing exactly that with our biz model for NewsCred. And no, it has nothing to do with advertizing!
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by shafqat 18y ago
Whats the business? Can you name it?
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by shafqat 18y ago
I didnt realize there were "outsourced sales services" - do you have any examples? Of good ones that may cost a bit more?
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by shafqat 18y ago
I agree, it's not easy to find. I had to log into my account, and was then offered the choice to upgrade. FYI, its 3.99 a month.
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Ask YC: Best way to parse wikipedia summaries?
2 points by shafqat 18y ago|1 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
This is a no-brainer. We've seen our traffic shoot up recently, some of it no doubt because of election related news. But we've taken steps to diversify our news offering to prevent a post-election drop off. I think some of the bigger sites
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by shafqat 18y ago
Interesting... 10X profit would make it an approximately 700K sale. I wouldn't be surprised if that was close to the actual number because Carson wanted around 1M, so after negotiations this seems likely.
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by shafqat 18y ago
This could be one of the best posts that I've seen here on Hacker News. Great job Preston.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Haha,thanks for getting it back on track! What company? Couldn't see anything on your profile.
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by shafqat 18y ago
I don't think they are swearing off advertising completely - as the commenter above says, its more a result of the economic environment. Of course, innovation in the ad space, especially to replace old-school banner ads would be a huge oppo
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Ask YC/Startups: How has fundraising been going for you?
8 points by shafqat 18y ago|20 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Just read your post on your last startup - great post and seems like you learned a lot. I would really encourage you to jump in again. You sound like you're made of the right stuff! Good luck with whatever you do.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Was happy to see that NewsCred is in the comfort quadrant!
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by shafqat 18y ago
Best advice: start selling now!

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