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by sskates 11y ago
If I ever invested money I'd look at determination as the primary criteria. It's hard to measure though- what questions would be good to figure out how determined someone is?
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by sskates 11y ago
I've found what Ben Horowitz has written about management to be incredibly helpful. I am lucky to never have had to lay people off, however, if I did, I'd go to this first: http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_right_way_to
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by sskates 11y ago
Not sure about waste, can someone else here speak to that? Also deaths per unit energy are incredibly low relative to other sources.
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by sskates 11y ago
I always wondered why more energy wasn't generated from nuclear. On paper it seems like a great energy source. Kudos to Sam for putting not just his money, but his time where his mouth is. If only the rest of the internet could do the
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Love telling stories with data? Amplitude (YC W12) is hiring a writer
1 points by sskates 11y ago
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Grooveshark Shuts Down(grooveshark.com)
555 points by sskates 11y ago|270 comments
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by sskates 12y ago
No, clusters are multi-tenant. We have a cap on the number of customers per cluster and we monitor usage to make sure no one customer is hammering the cluster.
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by sskates 12y ago
*She :) I can understand why Ben Horowitz tries to default to using female pronouns.
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by sskates 12y ago
If you're so sure, why don't you take the bet that Sam offered? All this cheap talk on HN and no one wants to put their money where their mouth is.
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by sskates 12y ago
As a startup founder- done, sign me up!
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by sskates 12y ago
Sorry to hear that the experience was tough. One thing I'd recommend for anyone new to it- get help from someone who's been an enterprise sales person before. This can speed up the learning curve dramatically. Even then it's
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by sskates 12y ago
That's the hard part though, isn't it? Telling the difference between bad ideas and good ones. Even professionals at it (AKA venture capitalists) get it wrong all the time. So the questions is- knowing that you don't know whe
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by sskates 12y ago
Here's an interesting reference, Drew Houston showing Dropbox to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 Definitely more negative comments on HN these days (although it's always been a skeptical audience).
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by sskates 12y ago
Congrats guys! We at Amplitude are very lucky you guys exist. For quite a while, a majority of our new inbounds mentioned that they first saw Amplitude through the list of tools at Segment. A lot of companies see Segment as a recommendation
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by sskates 12y ago
Segment.io is awesome, would highly recommend. Makes it easy not to be locked into a single platform by lowering the switching cost to almost nothing. Attribution is a tough problem in itself, most companies either do attribution really wel
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by sskates 12y ago
We spent a lot of time thinking about this exact problem when we started Amplitude two years ago- how can we provide premium analytics while at the same time having an affordable price point? It's a hard technical problem but we feel l
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Amplitude Mobile Analytics Interface Redesign(blog.amplitude.com)
1 points by sskates 12y ago|0 comments
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The 3 Axes of Mobile Growth(blog.amplitude.com)
9 points by sskates 12y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 12y ago
Congrats Gummi! Returning to Google to pull another Siri.
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by sskates 12y ago
That's still impressive! It took you two seconds while it took us 3 code iterations to get it right. It seems so obvious in retrospect but in the moment it can be hard to use the full range of your intuition about math. That knowledge
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by sskates 12y ago
One of the problems we had to solve is compressing the data set so you don't need to keep too many bins around. To get one more significant figure, you need to keep 10x the number of bins. Once you have those individual bins you can al
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Optimal streaming histograms(blog.amplitude.com)
52 points by sskates 12y ago|19 comments
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Amplitude Mobile Analytics (YC W12) is hiring engineers
1 points by sskates 12y ago
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The one app you should measure your retention against(blog.amplitude.com)
2 points by sskates 12y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 12y ago
Ouch. 3 years is a long time to go with nearly 0 revenue. If you're selling to businesses, the most important thing is you go talk to people who will be your customers. In person. Build it and they will come is a total myth, you need t
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Find the key to your app’s growth without an army of data scientists(blog.amplitude.com)
15 points by sskates 12y ago|2 comments
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Pitfalls to avoid when instrumenting analytics(blog.amplitude.com)
1 points by sskates 12y ago|0 comments
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Don't trust client data(blog.amplitude.com)
1 points by sskates 12y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 12y ago
Flurry's definitely way better than GA for getting set up in spite of all the issues you'll run into at scale. Please give us a call once you hit that though.
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by sskates 12y ago
We do have a javascript SDK although we really recommend using the native mobile one. Send me an email at spenser@amplitude.com and we can go over what you need.

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