pkmehta

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Mattermark has relaunched as an independent company(mattermark.com)
3 points by pkmehta 8y ago|0 comments
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CrunchBase Announces New Terms Of Service(techcrunch.com)
4 points by pkmehta 13y ago|1 comments
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Nik - good stuff. Was there ever a monetization plan when you were building it or was it always just always viewed as a complementary asset to TC as you highlight above? Comment from TC article left by IronToby which is a great point: &quo
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by pkmehta 13y ago
This article is well-written and The Verge's production quality is tremendous. Can we get more like this? On Everpix - pretty shocked at the candor/level of disclosure in this article including from the founders and Index Venture
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by pkmehta 13y ago
I think the comments by Matt Kaufman (president of Crunchbase) about the damage that can be caused by "Crunchbase replicas" reflect the knowledge on AOL's part that Crunchbase is a potentially very interesting data asset. An
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Crunchbase admits it may need to learn more about Creative Commons(techcrunch.com)
63 points by pkmehta 13y ago|11 comments
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by pkmehta 13y ago
I wonder what this means for startups building their product on Crunchbase like Datafox.co, Mattermark and Inkwire.io? Seems analogous in some ways to what Twitter did with its API and data and developer some time ago.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
This is going to increasingly become common esp as governments try to cover budget gaps. We just went through a sales tax audit for our SaaS company and so are expecting a good size bill for taxes not paid + penalties. Yes - fun stuff. Ho
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by pkmehta 13y ago
No. According to Glassdoor, it says 16-50 employees - http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-PrivCo-EI_IE659... LinkedIn has them at 50 employees. Safe to say it's definitely not a one man shop.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Inspired by this thread where Fred Wilson called Privco's data garbage, their response was a bit of a case study in how not to respond to criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5746763
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How your startup should not respond to negative feedback(betabeat.com)
11 points by pkmehta 13y ago|3 comments
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by pkmehta 13y ago
SiliconValleyVC - this account has to be the worst attempt at astro-turfing I've seen in a while from a company employee or founder. Does anyone talk like this about a vendor (much less a data company) -- "I respect PrivCo from my working
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Whoa - this is so spot on. We get lots of I'd be willing to pay X and we always send them a link for exactly that amount. And they never pay. We even follow-up just to give them the benefit of the doubt and they still never do. Being the l
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Writers/editors from major techh publications don't seem to trust Privco's data or practices either it seems - https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/336949975634296833
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Worth noting that "A spokeswoman for Spark Capital disputed the accuracy of the report" Privco were the same guys who did the LivingSocial hatchet job a while ago which was proven inaccurate. Privco's MO seems to be wild claims to generate
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by pkmehta 13y ago
The point about vesting is one I hadn't considered. Thanks. Re: the burger analogy, that also makes sense in the context of there being competition for this deal. But aside from a puff piece in TC which looks placed by sources (aka Tumblr
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Saw this one earlier by Fogcreek guy - TOMA where his phrase was that they'd use their blogging to "achieve TOMA" -- still have no idea what it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732024
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Can someone explain to me why you spend $1.1B on this if the company was running out of cash, had investors skittish about funding a new round and there were no competing bids. Why didn't Yahoo just let them get desperate and buy them then?
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Great points. Perhaps a dumb question but what is TOMA? I google'd and Urban Dictionary'd and I came up with the "Tennessee Osteopathic Medical Association" which my gut tells me is not what you're trying to achieve. Thanks for clarifying.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
You could goto Bloomberg.com or Yahoo Finance and get real P/S ratios but you used the uncontested paragon of financial data - HuffPo. And you said it's high but still used it in your headline cuz you thought would have a higher chance of g
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Exactly. What makes it worse is that Tumblr has lots of soft core porn and other unsavory content which brand advertisers don't want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Plus, the P/S of 10x looks pulled out of ye' olde arse. Google's trailing P/
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Sorry - sarcasm never translates well in writing. I totally agree with your point. Apologies for confusion.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Your conflating two unrelated things here - being objective (or real) and being dismissive.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Have you earned the right to have this much attitude? Strikes me as odd that as someone building a startup about startups that you'd be so dismissive of others on HN - a startup heavy community. Interesting PR strategy.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
VCs don't like that type of company. As a result, you should not aim for that goal.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
You're drastically overestimating how many people care about startups (and will pay for a product related to them). This is a small market and VC as an asset class is shrinking (so it's getting smaller). VCs are terribly intuition driven a
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by pkmehta 13y ago
If you can really do that, become a VC or full-time angel vs. starting some silly startup index SaaS platform.
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by pkmehta 13y ago
Revenue is a vanity metric. That's a new one. This seems like an interesting way to justify shortcomings of dmor's momentum index. So: - Mentions in TechCrunch > Revenue - Conference presentations by CEO > Revenue - Klout score &#6
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by pkmehta 14y ago
Good point. So far, the midwestern call center folks I've been dealing with have been nice but utterly useless so your point is spot on. Thx.
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by pkmehta 14y ago
Credit unions. Hadn't even thought of them as I thought you had to be a "member" or something. But that's prob just ignorance on my part. Thanks much for putting me on to this as an option.

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