jsomethings

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Growth hacking your way to virality(medium.com)
24 points by jsomethings 13y ago|4 comments
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Superhero Noir Posters(airows.com)
2 points by jsomethings 13y ago|0 comments
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Gmail Blue(gmailblog.blogspot.ca)
1 points by jsomethings 13y ago|0 comments
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by jsomethings 14y ago
Safari already blocks most third-party cookies, yet Google Analytics works in Safari. An explanation of how GA pulls it off can be found here: http://webpolicy.org/2012/02/17/safari-trackers/
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by jsomethings 14y ago
This is the company naming article you're probably referring to: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/04/22/before-naming-...
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by jsomethings 14y ago
I actually fully agree. I originally chose that copy to reflect how good our prices are relative to the "old guard" domain markets, but it's too unsubstantiated of a claim. I've replaced this copy with something better. Thanks for the const
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by jsomethings 14y ago
First line of the article: "I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal." Pretty upfront.
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by jsomethings 14y ago
Every startup name will have pros and cons to varying degrees. None will individually be perfect. The Strong & Weak examples are to spell out the extremes of many positive and negative criteria so that you have a base level to compare a
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Before naming your startup, read this.(thenextweb.com)
127 points by jsomethings 14y ago|65 comments
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by jsomethings 15y ago
The comparison of domains to sports and movie stars (when it comes to being un-replicable and heavily influenced by taste) is very interesting. Maybe I'll start telling people that domains are like movie stars :) An interesting question tha
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by jsomethings 15y ago
That was the purpose of linking to the Fred Wilson blog post comment. It covers almost everything you just mentioned. This post is an outline for others to handily reference.
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by jsomethings 15y ago
As both you and I already hinted at, you can get a name in a different TLD (or even prepend "get", e.g. "getAPP.com"), but you're taking a hit for a variety of reasons (perception, confusion). My point was only that you won't ever replicate
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by jsomethings 15y ago
I completely agree. Something to keep in mind is that the domain name system is almost unlike any other commodity -- in that only one of each exists, and it can never be replicated. For example, no matter how rare a baseball card is, there
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Five Reasons I Love Linsanity(julianshapiro.com)
1 points by jsomethings 15y ago|1 comments
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by jsomethings 15y ago
Much appreciated. Good idea re. pricing. It's actually in my to-do list to talk about that, as well as SEO/SEM (and what I've learned by plowing through nearly $1,000 on Facebook/Microsoft/Google Ads).
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The Clever Bootstrapping Guide(julianshapiro.com)
3 points by jsomethings 15y ago|3 comments