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Got a zombie startup? Find out with a marketing kickstart(startmake.com)
1 points by sga 13y ago|1 comments
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by sga 14y ago
True. It's like a ghost town in there. #failwhale
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Ask HN: Who plans to attend the International Startup Festival in Montreal?
5 points by sga 14y ago|3 comments
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Monotonous Walls of Text are the Enemy of Conversion (sightmetrics.com)
2 points by sga 14y ago|1 comments
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by sga 15y ago
I'd suggest a Comp. Sci. and Statistics combination.
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by sga 15y ago
I get the desire for differentiation, it's important otherwise why would someone choose your product over another. I think it's key though to better understand the words that your competitors are using to describe the problem/space coupled
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by sga 15y ago
I agree with the sentiment regarding the keywords. I tried for a few minutes to read your on-page copy and distill your products keywords but found it difficult. It could be that I'm not familiar enough with the space/problem that your se
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by sga 15y ago
Can't attest to anything about this company but I remember reading about it here on HN: http://www.hellofax.com
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by sga 15y ago
You might consider at some point in the future (when the backlog of essential work dies down) doing some testing on the impact of displaying the dollar symbol versus the pound symbol in the screenshot of the app. Or better yet based on ip
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Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.5 billion(techflash.com)
1 points by sga 15y ago|0 comments
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by sga 15y ago
Best bet is to replace x÷y by x*(1/y) as division is not commutative while multiplication is commutative. Therefore 48÷2(9+3) => 48(1/(2(9+3)) => 2
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by sga 15y ago
"I would work from home sometimes and have days off pretty much anytime I like (within reason)." I would strongly suggest that you get the working from home piece in writing and I'd also have the amount of vacation specified in writing. It'
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by sga 16y ago
Where are you located in Canada? I'm in Guelph.
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by sga 16y ago
I realize Excel is fairly ubiquitous and can get certain jobs done but I can't help but cringe at some of those IF statements and the maintenance that must go into some of these sheets. If you find you've reached the Excel Ninja level you m
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by sga 16y ago
I really like the design of the site. When I visited http://3pics.me/1 my first response was to click on the text that said "Click to vote for pic X!" as opposed to clicking on the pic itself.
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by sga 16y ago
I see you implemented the changes. Hope it helps.
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by sga 16y ago
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
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TED 2011: Swedish Company Creates Flyovers in 3D(wired.com)
1 points by sga 16y ago|0 comments
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by sga 16y ago
I'd replace your title tag: (original) <title>Quiz Cafe - Download, print and play in a matter of minutes. | Free Quiz Questions - Free Quiz Packages - Free Printable Quiz Questions</title> (proposed) <title>Free Qui
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by sga 16y ago
It's in his profile. Visit http://reflect7.com/
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by sga 16y ago
The following article from seomoz speaks to this: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag Highlights: - "70 characters is the maximum amount of characters that will display in the search results" - "Place Important Keywords Close to the
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Finding Business Insights in Text(technologyreview.com)
2 points by sga 16y ago|0 comments
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Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project(scribd.com)
1 points by sga 16y ago|0 comments
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The MBA's last gasp(canadianbusiness.com)
1 points by sga 16y ago|0 comments
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by sga 16y ago
I'll bite, I'm in Canada tell me about what you're working on? Based on your personal site and Funky Monkey it's tough to discern what you might be up to.
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by sga 16y ago
You can get most of the way to an MVP with base Drupal, a couple of user contributed modules, and some custom views. http://drupal.org/project/votingapi http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down
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by sga 16y ago
The redesign is much better than the original! The proposition is clear and I like being able to interact with it. That said I don't think there is sufficient value yet to compel people to fork over cash, given that your target audience is
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by sga 16y ago
I like the concept of "the most popular move for the day, voted by the group, will be taken as the group's move". It would be interesting to use this concept in a game where the set of possible moves could be ranked in order of best move fo
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by sga 16y ago
I noticed that when I follow: http://boulder.usehipster.com/explore I'm presented with the text 'Here's what popular in Boulder today:'. Seems you're missing an apostrophe s on the word 'what' or just 'what is'.
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by sga 16y ago
The best thing to do is to start along the path (as there's no magic bullet): 1. Pick a language (python, ruby, php; if you know someone that programs well with one of these choose that language) 2. Learn to program with that language (if y

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