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10 ways FreshBooks brought home the bacon at SXSW(freshbooks.com)
3 points by sunir 17y ago|0 comments
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by sunir 17y ago
Hey Paras, I'm one of your beta testers. I can assure you that you will go a lot further if you put in a consistent 40 hours a week for the next five years around the core idea of website conversion optimization rather than abandoning the p
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by sunir 17y ago
As one of the motors behind The Small Business Web, thanks for the shout out! I should point out that our directory is a bit different than what the OP probably wants. It's a list of vendors who have signed the Small Business Web manifesto,
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by sunir 17y ago
Hey Julias, you should join http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com if you're looking to find a good group of people building the market through integrations. We'll be working on time tracking data standards later this year in fact. P.S. You s
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by sunir 17y ago
It's not ironic. It's statistics. Advertising works on a percentage basis across a population. Over all, it sells more products. If it didn't, people would stop doing it. You may happen to fit within a percentage of the population that will
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by sunir 17y ago
That depends on how engaged your engineers are in the product development process. If they are mere instruments of someone else's vision, no, but if they are also part of the idea creation process, then yes. Facebook constantly deploys and
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by sunir 17y ago
If you're constantly trying to build the right thing, you have to be constantly willing to reject failed or obsolete ideas to keep moving forward.
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by sunir 17y ago
"Infringements of intellectual property aside" Well, that's why they are ridiculous.
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by sunir 17y ago
Does anyone have any sense of what the market is for these obviously ridiculous knock offs? They are clearly expensive to make, they are endlessly made, and so economics suggests they are profitable. Industrial spam. It can't just be fools
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by sunir 17y ago
The story of the Toronto real estate market is well described on http://guava.ca . I was lucky to buy in January, 2009, when the prices had hit the bottom. They have gone up 10% since 2008 already. Non-Canadians reading those stats should
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by sunir 17y ago
Until you have tried it, don't knock it. They have actually done it and have demonstrable success. You comment on blogs to engage the existing early adopters of the niche you are targeting to start the process of customer development. You h
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by sunir 17y ago
I don't know enough about the OP to talk directly to your problem, so I can only share a few interesting frames of mind that I have picked up along the way that help push me along. There is a phenomenon from child psychiatry that has shown
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by sunir 17y ago
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/steve-jobs-tablet-most-...
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by sunir 17y ago
I have observed a Law of Steve Jobs. If he hypes it, it will suck. If he says nothing, it will rock. The iPhone he said nothing about. Before today, he was hyping the iPad as the most important thing he's ever done.
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Insights That Helped FreshBooks Become A Successful Paid Web App(mixergy.com)
18 points by sunir 17y ago|4 comments
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by sunir 17y ago
Depends on your market position. You can create a lot of value in the marketplace by commoditizing and simplifying an over-serviced, over-delivered, over-matched product. This works in software too. For instance, Gmail and Amazon Web Servic
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by sunir 17y ago
I understand Dave's motivations but I don't agree with his position that investors are like football coaches. That condescension is the heart of many poor investor relationships. @Hiten, do you really look to your investors for guidance on
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by sunir 17y ago
I'm working on Bibdex, online bibliography software for the community of scholars and scientists. http://www.bibdex.com Last weekend I was working hard to get it onto the production server. I've done that. The marketing website is good, a
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Ask HN: Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you upto?
8 points by sunir 17y ago|4 comments
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by sunir 17y ago
It was obvious to this Canadian the first winter I owned an iPhone that the designers of the iPhone lived in California.
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by sunir 17y ago
I did this same thing too in first year undergrad (first year alone in a strange city), and then I realized that I was an idiot. Clearly people hook up all the time, so the probability of meeting someone isn't that low. Key difference: peop
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by sunir 17y ago
Webfinger is a really important and exciting new standard. I am pushing The Small Business Web ( http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com ) hard to wrap their heads around it. The vision is really powerful: 1. As users type in their email address
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by sunir 17y ago
Gmail already supports Webfinger, albeit for early adopters only. http://groups.google.com/group/portablecontacts/browse_threa...
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by sunir 17y ago
When you get it working, we should talk. My day job is being the head of integrations at FreshBooks. I'm also one of the leaders of the Small Business Web ( http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com ) and know about a trillion e-commerce ISVs. Ema
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by sunir 17y ago
Tagging based on context, or from the image itself? Semantically, or on graphical metrics?
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by sunir 17y ago
Hey, sweet. High five! Now I'm very curious. What kind of underlying string representation does your VM have that you require your own regexp engine? Actually, more importantly, what is the VM for?
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by sunir 17y ago
Hah. Well, that would help me go after the 4chan market. Thanks! Fixed.
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by sunir 17y ago
Thanks!
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by sunir 17y ago
Are you serious about the Twitter bot? That reminds me of the story of the best man who rigged the newly weds' bed to Tweet whenever they had sex. http://mashable.com/2009/12/12/twitter-bed-sex/
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by sunir 17y ago
So, what's the story about?

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