silvia77

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by silvia77 16y ago
Question: what if you have a launched business + the trademark to the name and someone still owns and won't sell the .com URL? We own the .co and all other extentions but the .com is preferred, would you go about thr same way groupon did it
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by silvia77 16y ago
Here is a direct link to web2.0 Expo's last html email campaign http://recp.mkt41.net/servlet/MailView?m=35580090&r=NTUy... (link is a little long) It's not spammy but it does include graphics, colors, layouts, etc. Also I could be wr
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Email, Metrics, & Optimization. How to Increase Your Ticket Sales(thestartupdigest.com)
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How a Bunch of Silicon Valley Rookies Out-Launched the Veterans(blog.udemy.com)
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YouTube Leanback etc will not break us away from traditional pay TV services(crunchgear.com)
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Want To Become An Angel Investor? YC’s AngelConf 2010 Will Show You How(techcrunch.com)
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Back to the future: how email is helping build profitable Internet startups(econsultancy.com)
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Can Entrepreneurial Collaboration Bring Peace in the Middle East?(socialentrepreneurship.change.org)
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A Startup Event for Peace, Tel Aviv Startup Weekend(thestartupdigest.com)
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SD5 - Top 5 SF Bay Area Startup Events this week(thestartupdigest.com)
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Venture Pimp: Startup Digest, Best way to be updated about Startup Events(venturepimp.com)
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Startups, linking to your competition will help you – no, really(eu.techcrunch.com)
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Gowalla Looms Large Over New York(techcrunch.com)
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by silvia77 16y ago
We pulled all of these localized resources from the city specific StartupDigest's we publish. Thought it would be a good idea to put them all on page and accessible outside of the email newsletter. Would appreciate your thoughts and if you
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Startup Resources from Around the World(thestartupdigest.com)
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Wall Street Journal Throws A Softball To MySpace(techcrunch.com)
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by silvia77 16y ago
wow.. really?
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by silvia77 16y ago
If you are targeting restaurants (if not pick a good segment, small business is huge) then I would suggest going at off hours (very early or late), going in person, and talking to the owner face to face. Most likely if its a small business
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by silvia77 16y ago
Never used Groupon, but you might want to try emailing/calling some of the Retailers that have used Groupon in the smaller cities and see firsthand how effective it is. Might be hard to find a "Retail Owner" here on HN.
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by silvia77 16y ago
Second this, have had a great experience with 99 designs in the past.
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by silvia77 16y ago
I actually tried that (I thought it was that simple too) but the formatting came out all strange. I sent a note to Posterous support, and they said that Posterous was not meant for email newsletter archives and I should not use it for that
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by silvia77 16y ago
actually a big opportunity is to be able to take newsletter archives and turn them into blog posts. It's actually a big problem in the email world. If you are interested in this space email me chris at thestartupdigest.com
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by silvia77 16y ago
Open rate varies a lot city to city but we see anywhere between 20%-60% opens across all of the issues. We still use twitter/facebook to spread our blog posts, archives, etc but email is our main channel of distribution. For us we see twitt
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by silvia77 16y ago
This was a post we wrote up in follow up to this HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488170 Gives our personal account to why email lists are so valuable and some of the metrics we collect to track this.
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by silvia77 16y ago
here is the link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489352
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by silvia77 16y ago
just wrote a follow up piece on HN about our personal story on why email newsletters are worth so much: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489352
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How Steam stopped me from pirating games and enjoy the sweet DRM kool-aid(crunchgear.com)
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by silvia77 16y ago
In our experience, once you hit above 50k subscribers it starts to get the attention of advertisers. Also important is how long you have been doing it for, it takes time to build up trust.
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by silvia77 16y ago
There was just a HN story asking about non-developer success stories (sorry don't have the link, writing this using the HN iPhone app) this is a perfect story for that discussion. A large % of companies were started by non-coders, and this
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by silvia77 16y ago
Was hoping for more discussion around bootstrapping and being cheap as opposed to iPhone development. Is there anything wrong with being cheap? My company is currently barely "ramen profitable" and being cheap is more of a necesity vs a cho

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