AlexBlom

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by AlexBlom 12y ago
Feel free to shoot me an email (on profile) and I can share details / connect you with some involved. I'm an Australian who has been in Canada since 2009. The current iteration of the startup visa has some odd restrictions on Cana
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by AlexBlom 12y ago
I went through a similar thing in my first few trips to the Bay area, and ultimately decided to not move there for the same reasons. I've found subsequent trips to be much easier. Unfortunately, the most vocal and easiest to meet withi
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Link is down. Cached page at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybdWn7-...
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
tl;dr: most feedback on twitter ads assume it is intent driven (i.e. google adwords), when in most cases it is not. IMO, it's the root of many social companies struggle to monetize with ads. We've been spoiled the last while because we knew
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
The 4 and 7 has been an ongoing debate among marketing academics, it seems. I recall the "right" answer alternating course by course through school, pending the professors interest. If I recall, the 4 P's are the standard marketing mix, wit
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
On top of this, once the coding starts, too many languages focus on command / effect (note: not cause / effect). This is arguably fine for basic looping and data structures. The problem is I see this knowledge break when 1) it is applied to
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Thanks for organizing, Dave.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I think you make some valid points, and as somebody who self-taught, I get the pain. That being said, I also agree with the common sentiment here "help yourself a little first". If you consider yourself a technology company, you need an und
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I found the SEE (free Stanford) courses to be best: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I'm unsure this is true anymore. If you know how to play B2B (the same lies true for B2C), it's entirely plausible to get the first 1-5 deals pre-build (I did). If you consider that equal to the first traction burst in B2C, then I'd argue t
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I'm unsure the perception of B2B among VC's is as bad as commonly thought. My last startup was pure B2B, and during our valley runs I found most potential partners / vc's / workers were very excited (in part because of the opportunity, in p
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Thanks Yoseph
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Hi, just to address, there are two options I'm working on at this point: 1) App-less (just changed your contact settings); and 2) I am tinkering with some local app stuff for the folks who want it. The focus right now is 1), but the point o
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Show HN: Syncable - Stop searching old email threads on iPhone(trysyncable.com)
24 points by AlexBlom 14y ago|6 comments
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Good call. Would love to see it integrated.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Perhaps I mis-spoke above. An issue can be associated with multiple tickets, just as a ticket can be associated with multiple issues. The latter is not beefed as much in the code, as I found the use case to be less once live.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Appreciate the feedback. Will see how often this is reported. The fading is also handled in the main JS file, so you can disable it there.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I'll admit there is not much logic here. Was not needed for my use case. Feel free to contribute it, though!
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Sure. You create a support e-mail. Customers send to this e-mail, and tickets are auto-created.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Hi. I may flesh it out, but I've also opened up the software. If you have extension ideas, please feel free to fork / contribute. You can flip me an e-mail (my first name @ my HN username . com) if you want to go further, or flip a note on
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Thanks. It's easy to keep things simple when you are building for my use case, which was rather basic. That being said, I see the value of tagging. Perhaps a future addition.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Demo is up (loaded with some of my testing data, so no real guarantees): www.ticketdesk.co alex@ticketdesk.co 123456 I've disabled much of the cron / emailing.
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
For my use case it's fine. If the software was going to be commercial, this module would be the first to need beefing. I've toyed with re-running delayed jobs, but this setup has worked for me (Micro EC2 instance).
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Fair. I've got an EC2 instance booting up right now.
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Shown HN: Open Source Ticket Desk app(github.com)
47 points by AlexBlom 14y ago|31 comments
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Is anybody else getting "Sorry! This document is not publicly available."?
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Eh. Yes and no, sales is a different beast. I'm not saying it should be, but it generally is. If you judge your sales process like your technology process (without building the right culture), you're readying yourself for a mighty flop. By
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New Keyboard Method for iPad(businessinsider.com)
1 points by AlexBlom 14y ago|0 comments
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
I agree it's easy to reproduce. Not an easy problem by any measure. Putting in my credit card (or revealing any information I don't deem relevant to the company / form) is always an immediate deal breaker. For Yelp, a critical mass of revie
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by AlexBlom 14y ago
Agreed. As somebody who has self-taught / is self-teaching, many of the guides become very complex very quickly. I'm fine with that now. At the start it was a frustrating experience, and I'm one of the people who wikipedia's everything he d

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