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Apple Sold More iOS Devices Last Year Than Macs In 28 Years(businessinsider.com)
2 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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RAVN, the Pandora of Event Discovery Apps(wired.com)
5 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest’s success(eu.techcrunch.com)
8 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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LinkedIn Is Acquiring Rapportive(allthingsd.com)
3 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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Are Your Titles Irresistibly Click Worthy & Viral?(seomoz.org)
1 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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Marketing Right vs. Left Brain Advertising(ritholtz.com)
1 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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Venture capital investing hits 10-year peak, sparking bubble talk(geekwire.com)
2 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called “Dash” This Month(techcrunch.com)
4 points by jwu711 15y ago|0 comments
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by jwu711 15y ago
Definitely, I think it's the main thing I heard from speaking with investors; you have to be really authentic and the problem you're solving has to be personal. It was what really helped Airbnb and Etsy make it through the struggles of buil
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by jwu711 15y ago
RAVN is the easiest way to discover and book fun activities. Use invite code HACKERNEWS to get a sneak peak.
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by jwu711 15y ago
If you're interested in checking out RAVN, you can use invite code "HACKERNEWS". Just for the HN community.
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by jwu711 16y ago
We just finished the incubator program with i/o ventures ( http://ventures.io ) I think it's certainly a different experience that you would get from YC. The biggest reason why I wanted to join the i/o class was because of how small it is.
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Google's Login Is More Popular Than Facebook Connect(businessinsider.com)
4 points by jwu711 16y ago|0 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
I am still waiting for the day someone takes down opentable. I'm at an incubator right now, and one of the partners had suggested we compete with them head-on because they operate so traditionally, especially with their equipment and high f
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by jwu711 16y ago
Nice to see, clearly I didn't read that when I applied =)
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by jwu711 16y ago
I like the comparison of the arts industry to the technology industry. The same can be said for finance and consulting industries. I feel there has been a complete loss of the apprenticeship and mentoring model because of the growth of info
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SF start-up Skyara aims to be the Etsy, Airbnb, Meetup & Groupon of experiences(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
3 points by jwu711 16y ago|0 comments
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Tea with Ron Conway(skyara.com)
23 points by jwu711 16y ago|2 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
Craigslist allows posting through it's api for housing things, guessing that's how airbnb does it. If you've ever used thumbtack, a marketplace for services, they have an auto post to craigslist as well that is pretty interesting.
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by jwu711 16y ago
I would actually be interested in not how did you get your first customer, but how did you get the ones after that. We launched just like the usual via TechCrunch and Wired, so we made our first dollar and got our first customer quite quick
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by jwu711 16y ago
I can just imagine that reporters are just going to be flying in and out now so they can get some create articles and stories from all of this
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by jwu711 16y ago
I am, but that's because our costs are incredibly low. I have a team of 3 with a monthly burn total of $1,000. We have our seed funding from i/o ventures. Company is called Skyara if you want to check it out.
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Groupon Sues Fellow Group Buying Site MobGob Over 9-Year-Old Patent(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jwu711 16y ago|0 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
Very vague on what your service is. If it's possible, I would actually just let them use it for free and use it as a case study to reach out to other larger potential partners. If that doesn't work, an advertising split may make sense, alth
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Paychecks at the top tech companies - Facebook pays more than anyone on average(cnbc.com)
2 points by jwu711 16y ago|2 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
That's completely ridiculous. Makes me want to travel even less now ...
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Yet Another Hot Startup Leaves A Gaping Security Hole In Its iPhone App(techcrunch.com)
27 points by jwu711 16y ago|19 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
seriously about time ... now if they only let you set your outgoing phone number so i could really convert just to one.
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Ask HN: Building momentum for a localized marketplace
1 points by jwu711 16y ago|0 comments
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by jwu711 16y ago
Such a lack of detail in the story. I wish they told a bit more details into whether or not the email was set accidentally to one person (Got the wrong Bob) or if some idiot just sent it out to people out side the UBS network ...

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