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Four Reasons Google Bought Waze(forbes.com)
2 points by avimeir 13y ago|0 comments
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by avimeir 13y ago
Do you mind sharing what's working for you these days? which channels? Do you do offline also? Would make sense given your vertical..
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by avimeir 13y ago
Following up the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773831 . I posted something a while back with a crazy idea for Google - charge me $5/month for Search and remove all ads/your products unless I opt-in.
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Is there a future for Google?(avimeir.com)
1 points by avimeir 13y ago|1 comments
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by avimeir 13y ago
In my previous gig we used to spend single-digit millions/year, and saw all metrics falling down like OP did, and we had a team of 6 experts with tons of experience in AdWords. Not sure about this vertical, but in other (much more lucrative
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Webcams site publishes a list of stalkers(ww.com)
1 points by avimeir 13y ago|0 comments
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by avimeir 13y ago
avi at hotelninjas com
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by avimeir 13y ago
This is what the app in question suggests on their website. Not linking as I agree that it might be a PR stunt
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by avimeir 13y ago
What happens if you password-protect your Mac and install Hidden? Won't the thief have to format the computer, therefore rendering Hidden useless? I'm thinking about installing it on our Macs but removing the password seems like opening a l
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by avimeir 13y ago
My issue with this is that history teaches us that you don't need big money to reach scale, you only need the cash to support scaling up from a technical POV. Look at FB early days, Twitter, etc. Unless they're going to pay users to join th
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by avimeir 13y ago
For technical reasons. We're waiting for a deal with a strategic partner to close, we can't technically start charging money or distribute our app before that. Can't go into specific at this stage but imagine we're building an iOS app and w
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by avimeir 13y ago
I think that you're addressing a real issue for job applicants, but not sure about the domain name.
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by avimeir 13y ago
I don't see the logic of raising $41M for a company that doesn't need it to buy equipment, raw material, real estate or physical stock of something. Unless your revenue model is to do 5 rounds of financing and then move on to the next start
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by avimeir 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your learnings. If you are available maybe we can do something together in Turkey. We will be very happy to get customers there and our product works perfectly for the type of customers you're describing (small and mid-si
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by avimeir 13y ago
For us "launch" means the date that we can start charging money for our product. We did the part of telling our friends/family when we had the closed beta ready, but there is a big difference for us between the closed (free) beta and an ope
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Ask HN: Best way to launch your product?
9 points by avimeir 13y ago|17 comments
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by avimeir 14y ago
Sounds like the world described in the book Ready Player One. Awesome read BTW.
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Show HN: Hotel Ninjas. Cloud-based Hotel Management(hotelninjas.com)
2 points by avimeir 14y ago|1 comments
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by avimeir 14y ago
Hey Everyone, We are a small team based out of Barcelona, Spain. This tool is a public beta for our cloud-based hotel management software. We're trying to help the long tail of hotels to better manage their properties at lower cost. The too
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Show HN: Hotel Ninjas, Cloud-based Hotel Management(hotelninjas.com)
2 points by avimeir 14y ago|1 comments
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by avimeir 14y ago
Good idea, I'll give it a try.
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by avimeir 14y ago
Upgraded the day it was released, last few days I feel that you could cook an egg on my MBP after 2 hours of working (nothing fancy, IDE and browsers open - no heavy GPU usage). Do more people feel that 10.8.x overheats the machine?