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by tbgvi 17y ago
I've worked with Blake a lot, my company developed their current e-commerce site. He's a great, passionate and fun guy. One of my favorite stories about him is when we were asking how he gets thousands of pairs of shoes through customs in A
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by tbgvi 17y ago
As someone just starting out with an SaaS product this is an extremely helpful article. I've put together much of this from various sources but it's nice to have it all in one place. xal/3pt14159/others - are there any other saas metrics ar
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Haha well I think it's an interesting idea. I always trick myself into checking the score to see if something is worth watching. The problem is when I know the score I don't want to watch it again! Argh.. lol Funny interesting idea, wouldn'
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by tbgvi 17y ago
This is a press release for something called RightScale. You'd think Zynga could figure this out on their own.
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by tbgvi 17y ago
How much karma do I need before I can down vote someone? This seemed like a good place to ask.
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Some things probably don't need to be dumbed down. I've been reading the old fashioned way as long as I can remember and it seems to be working just fine :)
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by tbgvi 17y ago
I'll agree on the first timer bias, VC's are probably less likely to invest in new entrepreneurs because the don't have a well known team and VC contacts. That's their prerogative though, it probably comes down to their appetite for risk. D
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by tbgvi 17y ago
I read they've had $2.5m in investment. I'm sure their board is loving this right now... must have been a fun meeting to attend. As for the discussion about how many customers they have etc.. Would you continue using a service like this tha
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by tbgvi 17y ago
I've spent probably way to much time thinking about this as well. I'll never forget the looks I got on the train when I was laughing hysterically at those article comments :) It seemed that a lot of the confused were older judging from thei
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Something tells me this is the first time "Trapped in the Closet" has been referenced on HN, congrats sir :)
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Something tells me that heavy users of foursquare have already considered the implications of letting people know where they are at all times. I don't think this site will deter these people from checking in somewhere.
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by tbgvi 17y ago
I've just recently gotten into using usertesting.com to get quick feedback on the usability of my product. It's extremely valuable to get an idea of how other users are interacting with software, and helps guide where we need to make improv
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Some good tips but pretty basic - if you don't know anything about AdWords and you're running ads then take a look. On that note, the #1 dumbest thing I've seen wasting money on AdWords is running an ad for a local business across the whole
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by tbgvi 17y ago
To me, Microsoft's dilemma is that they need to keep market share in their core products while at the same time be quick and innovative with new ones. Their corporate structure seems to be geared towards managing their complex, large projec
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by tbgvi 17y ago
+1 to being able to embed. That would be a really nice feature to have and would build awareness for what you're working on. Every time someone embedded a timeline in their blog (or wherever) it would be free advertising. Looks great, good
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Don't mess with The Jesus! It's from Big Lebowski :) Great movie if you haven't seen it.
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That's actually how I wanted to do it - I got overruled by our designer. You just helped me win that argument, thanks! Should be fixed up in a second :)
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We went ahead and put in alternative static images for those who don't have flash/have flash disabled. Thanks again for the feedback
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Yea I agree that theres a few points where it gets slow, I'll take a look at tightening them up a bit. That being said I think they're not bad considering some of the other training videos I've seen :) Was there a particular one that bother
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You're right on target - our typical customer is a small independent retailer that's currently using an electronic cash register. Market knowledge and research is actually what lead us to develop this. I had been working for a point of sale
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Good catch. Just went through some of the flash issues with our designer and he had named the flash header class "adspace" Something tells me that's the problem :) Should be fixed
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Restaurant is definitely something we've thought about, but there's a lot of trick things a restaurant can need. Retail has easier requirements so that's where we started. And I am totally aware of the POS vs. Point of Sale debate, I laugh
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Yikes thanks for sending that over. That doesn't look too good . I'll get started on having an alternative in there for people without flash.
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback - that's definitely a concern we've thought about. The key point is that the free version requires you to use one of our processing partners. They subsidize the cost so while it's free to you, they pay us every month
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by tbgvi 17y ago
That's interesting that it's hard to connect QuickBooks POS to QuickBooks, you'd think they would have figured that one out :) They acquired QB POS so that might be why it's not seamless. On another e-commerce project we set up an integrati
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It looks nice :) But seriously - we're going to be doing some a/b testing and that's one of the things we'll be looking at. At this point the main benefit is that they're slightly animated to catch attention
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At the beginning it's still downloading the other sections, after they're downloaded you can click around :)
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Yea we're working on offline support with HTML5 now. We were really happy when we heard about that :) I think it's a better way to go than having another completely separate application
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Agreed, that definitely a hurdle here :) Most people using a POS system already require an internet connection for processing credit cards, so either way it's critical to a retailer. If someone's connection isn't stable we recommend a dial-
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by tbgvi 17y ago
Hey everyone, we just ended our closed beta and launched so I wanted to get your thoughts. We’ve been working on Cashier Live for about 9 months– in beta for the last 4 or so. Even though it’s pretty polished now, it started off as an MVP a

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