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by smalter 16y ago
Thanks for the heads up. This was fixed. Rodrigo dropped you an email.
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by smalter 16y ago
Andrew, I interviewed with TechStars NYC and in the process gathered a decent amount of intel on Dave Tisch. Personal blog: http://www.davidtisch.com/ His angel fund: http://www.boxgroupnyc.com/ You can see from his linkedin that he wen
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by smalter 16y ago
Sounds like not much has changed between 2010 and 2011. According to the author's taxonomy, this is linkbait.
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Starcraft Analytics & Art - Visualizing Mouse Movement(smaltercraft.com)
3 points by smalter 16y ago|0 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
Thanks, David. I think an HN post would be cool. I'm probably the only one benefiting from your knowledge what with these comments buried deep in the bowels of HN. You've got a plan -- my only concern would be the upkeep of 12 sites. But
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by smalter 16y ago
Congratulations to Eric and the Movity team! I'm working on a startup in the real estate space and Eric has been gracious in taking the time to give us advice and look out for us. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come out with.
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by smalter 16y ago
Awesome, that's very helpful. Thanks, David. Can you give me a sense of how much you're profiting?
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by smalter 16y ago
David, could you give me a sense of your customer acquisition strategy for sleepytime? For instance, I googled "when should i wake up" and sleepytime didn't come up. But I see you have a ton of facebook likes. I'm trying to build an ad-b
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100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code(statisticsblog.com)
29 points by smalter 16y ago|3 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
thanks, veb! unfortunately, we've only had a couple of paid customers. but perhaps the social proof issue is the most glaring so i'll work on that. if you submit your startup, and i do a good job, you could write great things about me an
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by smalter 16y ago
neat! i imagine that the network effect issue will be the most important. is there a vertical where this type of economy makes particular sense?
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by smalter 16y ago
It's "motherfucker," but said in a joyous way. The name was inspired by a David Blaine documentary marathon. After blowing getting his mind blown a magic trick, some dude called David Blaine a "magical motherfucker."
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by smalter 16y ago
The other option I considered was syndicating MagicalMoFo itself to a bunch of those sites, using MagicalMoFo, then using their reviews as social proof back on MagicalMoFo.
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by smalter 16y ago
clickable: http://www.magicalmofo.com
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Ask HN: Review My Weekend Project, MagicalMoFo: Startup Coverage Syndicated
11 points by smalter 16y ago|7 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
no, i don't think it's a garden path sentence, because prior to the comma, it's just gibberish. a garden path sentence leads you down one path of meaning before turning the tables on you. it's quite possible that i'm being pedantic or jus
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by smalter 16y ago
I sympathize with both sides of this. I'm a guy who grew up in College Station, Texas, and couldn't wait to get out. Now I live in SF and NYC. But most of my closest friends to this day are the ones I grew up with in College Station who c
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by smalter 16y ago
The article linked to is a summary of this article, which I think is better, and has less of this I-don't-know-what's-going-on-but-I-don't-think-it's-right language: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/07/apple_drops_ap... . Still,
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Ask HN: What's the difference between building features and a user experience?
6 points by smalter 16y ago|9 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
I agree with this. Follow up question: I've seen sites where HN comments appear in the source's comments (like trackbacks). Can someone point me how to do this with Posterous?
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San Francisco Rents Going Up, Startups Mourn, Rejoice(blog.leasely.com)
3 points by smalter 16y ago|0 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
It's stone soup. I benefit from participating in Yelp because I like the community (or used to) -- writing reviews and getting feedback -- and because I read Yelp for reviews (or used to). The guys/girls who sent up the infrastructure to
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by smalter 16y ago
Thanks. We fixed the display bug. And thanks for the suggestions. Keeping things simple is the lodestar and is quite difficult, but really worthwhile.
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by smalter 16y ago
Thanks on both counts. Reducing friction in use is something we aim to do.
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by smalter 16y ago
Good point. Brokers and folks in the real estate media/seo community have emphasized that seo is very important to brokers so they would be interested in a service that helps with their seo that's part of what's automatically syndicated wh
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by smalter 16y ago
We imagined people would copy and paste blocks of code that we provide and none of that would include the actual URL in the text, only the link. But you make a good point. And there's no reason not to do it (your solution is better in ever
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by smalter 16y ago
Yeah, good point. Most brokers have either distributed the URL by putting in in their listing, emailing it, or printing it at the top of paper applications. We don't really see people saying the URL out loud to people. Nevertheless, huma
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by smalter 16y ago
We agree. We've looked at some very poor web services in this area. How do you think our UI handles? We're aiming to make it simple. Thanks for your offer -- we'll definitely take you up on it. We have plans to add affordable credit chec
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by smalter 16y ago
Great points. Thanks. I've been cold calling brokers, and on the phone, I've been getting very high interest -- maybe 80% of brokers want to hear more via email. But the conversion rate in getting those people signed up is lower. Your sug
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by smalter 16y ago
It was a modified credit report of mine, but I killed it because I got scared of having any of that info out there. Thanks.

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