stephenhacking

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Zero Dollar Startup Marketing Strategies(medium.com)
3 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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India's Politicians Hope To Win Elections With Spam(medium.com)
1 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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12 Bizarre Cat Related Patents(theweek.com)
1 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
So, it's "bragging rights". But, temporary bragging rights considering the fact that they have at least ~100 teams per year and unless your startup goes somewhere after YC, you're just wasting your time.
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The Most Commonly Used Passwords From Adobe's 40m Hacked Users(plus.google.com)
2 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Why are so many people fretting about not getting into YC and why do crappy stories like this get upvoted? If getting into Y-Combinator was your idea of validation, your startup is doomed anyways.
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Office Space Photos For Inspiration(customspaces.com)
3 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Not very well.
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Five Ways To Make Your Forms Suck(medium.com)
1 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Nope.
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The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree(medium.com)
124 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|83 comments
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Why we said no to $200k(medium.com)
2 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
For starters, you'll need to start doing the following: 1. Register a Pvt. Ltd. to do business <-- hard to do unless you're Indian or someone who's Indian on board 2. Register with the RBI and get stamped from them every t
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
I run a startup in Bangalore and Chennai, so I can explain the costs involved: In Bangalore Your cost for 2000 square feet office space would be at least $2000/mo in a fairly decent building; add to this 10 months rental advance which
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I Need A Trial, Not A Sales Pitch(medium.com)
5 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Yes sir. My bad.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Medium has a prettier editor? I could get featured on the first page of medium if my content doesn't suck?
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
And, I was talking about Medium vs my personal blog. Not really talking about Medium vs HN.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
You're right. I was more active on Inbound.org vs Hacker News simply because I used to primarily write marketing content. The post I wrote yesterday which was actually a rant about the growth hacking buzzword hit the first page of HN m
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Great argument. But, not quite the same. I run my personal blog on a $5/mo digital ocean box - I'm too cheap to shell out $100/mo for a managed SingleHop box. I don't know how to use terminal too much, I just learnt how
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Yet another yay for medium.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Possible true, but that's a tad too technical for me. I just want to focus on the writing.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
I used to think the same way. But, propagation of your content is a lot more important than just feeling good that it's hosted on your own blog.
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Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog(medium.com)
12 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|28 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
A mysql reset seems to have fixed it.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Server down. I'm not a hacker, so I need to sit down and figure this out :)
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
I agree. The dictionary needs an update, but attaching the suffix to everything is just a tad annoying. My cousin told me that somebody asked her to "hack the computer" when she wanted her to just turn the darn thing on!
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I don't want to be called a hacker(ashwinramesh.net)
16 points by stephenhacking 13y ago|10 comments
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
Freshbooks.
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by stephenhacking 13y ago
I initially checked out iDoneThis and liked the idea, but $5/user/mo was a little too much for my bootstrapped startup. Hence, I just created a mashup of Google Calendar + Docs and Gmail to create a solution does the same thing as

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