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by wensing 16y ago
Not surprised to see this question, pretty surprised to see the answer (from David Cohen): http://ask.techstars.org/what-if-we-outsourced-the-developme...
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by wensing 16y ago
His ability to grasp tech is missing the instinct that sees those numbers (re: the Twitter UI "bug") and immediately thinks "Oh, duh, ordered-list tag is showing numbers when it shouldn't be. CSS file error. Happens a lot when I use Fac
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by wensing 16y ago
Played this on a Tandy back in ye olde daye. Then played a lot of Lemmings 2 on my Gateway 486 DX2/66V.
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by wensing 16y ago
Did anyone else notice the advertisement "hidden" in the URL hashtag? :-)
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by wensing 16y ago
He probably wasn't focusing on his spelling/typos when he wrote this.
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by wensing 16y ago
Yes. I had a colleague apply for TechStars and her takeaway from the interview was "he was really focused on where the business was." Doesn't seem in line with what I've heard about YC's primary interest (it's not the business model).
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by wensing 16y ago
YC's greatest hack is identifying founder material based on technical rather than social proof (the YC app asks for an example of the coolest thing you've ever built, not an example of a cool person that thinks you are cool). This hack is
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by wensing 16y ago
With Stormpulse we "launched" with a post on Hacker News that got us a whopping 200+ visits in a single day! Then we lingered at 50-100 visits per day for over a year. Then we figured out distribution (embeddable widget) and traffic is no
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by wensing 16y ago
Very informative write-up. At Stormpulse we're already sending emails and are about to start sending SMS and phone calls via Twilio. I can vouch for the demand (it's high). Of course, folks still have to opt-in.
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by wensing 16y ago
Do you have evidence? (Correlation != causation)
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by wensing 16y ago
Novice question--wouldn't getting exploited require that I visit a site of ill-repute? Or, alternatively, is there some cross-domain element that makes this a threat even if I'm just seeing Flash-based ads on CNN.com?
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by wensing 16y ago
Feel free to improve on it.
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by wensing 16y ago
Title is wrong: it's 1014 bytes.
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by wensing 16y ago
I wonder how many characters of code it would take.
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by wensing 16y ago
In case you don't take the time to have your mind blown, here's the source (1014 characters): for(B=i=y=u=b=i=5-5,x=10,I=[],l=[];l[B]="ECDFBDCEAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIMKLNJLKM@G@TSb~?A6J57IKJT576,+-48HLSUmgukgg OJNMLK IDHGFE".charCodeAt(B)-64,B++&
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by wensing 16y ago
I came across the list while searching for insight on value props (I'm at the "articulate your value proposition" stage of Four Steps). The end of the story is I just ordered "Delivering Profitable Value" off Amazon after being blown away
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Steve Blank's list of the best books for building a startup(microsoftstartupzone.com)
6 points by wensing 16y ago|2 comments
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by wensing 16y ago
I can almost guarantee you wouldn't build an entire product/website/SaaS just because you 'smell an opportunity' in a market 'with more than even a few hundred customers', would you?
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by wensing 16y ago
Almost any good programmer has the chops to make one of these Except the making it beautiful part, right?
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by wensing 16y ago
hundreds per screen sounds high Given the value of seeing your key metrics in a continuous display, hundreds seems low to me.
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by wensing 16y ago
The addressable market is small? Doesn't every Fortune 500 company use dashboards in their operation and control centers? The market is ripe.
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by wensing 16y ago
Market dominance goes to the best-executed whole product, not the best generic product in isolation of market dynamics. Making the best product is only half the equation. Startups also need a market strategy that works.
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by wensing 16y ago
On his Mixergy interview, Kevin of Wufoo said they sell "the least" of those, but of course that isn't saying much. He might have said more, I don't quite remember.
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by wensing 16y ago
I definitely get the concept, but there's a large range between 500 and 50k; just wanting to make sure I'm not missing something.
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by wensing 16y ago
That makes sense ... but of course even then, what would the total be? $300, $500, $1,000/mo? None of those numbers are exceptionally large are they? For a company the size of Kellogg's, et al?
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Ask HN: SaaS pricing for B2C && B2B (ex. 37s, Wufoo)
16 points by wensing 16y ago|11 comments
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by wensing 16y ago
With or without kids + family? I don't worry about those things, but 'it's not hard to save up a couple years living expenses' depends a lot on your ... dependents.
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by wensing 16y ago
If you don't mind graphical ads instead of text, you may want to look into Advertising.com (AOL). Good experience here (surprisingly high eCPM at times--many times higher than AdSense). Then again, our site performs better than most as fa
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by wensing 16y ago
How would you characterize the traction or stage of the companies that receive funding?
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Ask HN: Experiences with haxe?
2 points by wensing 16y ago|0 comments

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