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by tylerrooney 7mo ago
It's ironic that one of the product shots includes a child using a $599 laptop while wearing $549 headphones.
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by tylerrooney 7mo ago
I worked at Amazon 2005-2008 as a Software Dev Engineer. To hammer home company culture, there were two awards which could be awarded at the Quarterly All-hands meeting * The "Just Do It" Award which recognized someone just fixing
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by tylerrooney 8y ago
I realize this article is one data point but I'd offer that I have a completely opposite data point. 1. We accidentally turned off our main Intercom in-trial campaign for a segment of users during an AB test and were surprised how much
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Dave Cutler is Godzilla(twitter.com)
2 points by tylerrooney 10y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Web Services to Add Analytics(wsj.com)
2 points by tylerrooney 11y ago|0 comments
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by tylerrooney 12y ago
Perhaps I should have added more context to the title and text as the purpose of the post seems lost to most commenters. Rebecca Meyer is the daughter of Eric Meyer who you may know through through his two decades of work on behalf of web d
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Let's change the HN title bar to #663399
113 points by tylerrooney 12y ago|40 comments
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Ben Horowitz on Startups, Aristotle, and Swimming the Danube(tylerrooney.com)
30 points by tylerrooney 14y ago|3 comments
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
We have a staggering number of customer who pay us through PayPal because they don't have a credit card or a debit card which clears through Mastercard/Visa (which is the standard in most countries).
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
Perhaps someone who runs their own company can answer this question for me: If you don't use PayPal, how do you receive payment from customers who don't have credit cards? Are your customers exclusively in North America? Or do you just writ
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
I don't know what the cash/stock split was, but it's worth mentioning the LinkedIn's IPO raised $352M* so buying SlideShare was just under 34% of all the money they raised. * http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352...
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Follow-up Case Study to "Need For Speed" Ad CTRs(blog.ads.pof.com)
28 points by tylerrooney 14y ago|6 comments
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Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads(blog.ads.pof.com)
407 points by tylerrooney 14y ago|118 comments
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
Yes, the 100K is based on a back-of-the-envelope, but for a startup with zero revenue every development and design hour we can spare helps us focus on the real task at hand: figuring out our market fit and making a great product. This is le
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
I think you could just use Chrome Frame if it was absolutely required but it's just never come up.
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
Nope. Not even IE10. If they pop Webkit rendering into IE maybe we'd consider it. There also just aren't that many users showing up to our site using IE. That graph in the article is straight from Google Analytics for our main landing page.
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by tylerrooney 14y ago
The sites generated by 4ormat support IE so our user's customers can definitely see their work in every browser. It's the app itself which you can't use in IE which is the overwhelming majority of our development.
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Things I Learned the Hard Way at Amazon.com(blip.tv)
9 points by tylerrooney 14y ago|1 comments
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
I went through the exact same process 2 months ago trying to set up payroll. In general, Canadians get some pretty horrible value out of any small/medium business service. I was going to go with Ceridian but their web app doesn't support Ma
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Awesome Last Minute Gift Idea: Help out an fellow Entrepreneur(awardtour.net)
8 points by tylerrooney 15y ago|0 comments
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Business of Software Conf Streaming Live Next Week For Free(thebln.com)
1 points by tylerrooney 15y ago|0 comments
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
I had been meaning to do this for so long and never did because I preferred Gmail over any native app that was available. Luckily I tried Sparrow ( http://sparrowmailapp.com ) about 2 months ago and never looked back. I think the initial do
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
Considering how tight-lipped Amazon is about everything (including the fact that they've never divulged the number of Kindles sold) I'd imagine Jeff Bezos and Tom Szkutak might be less than happy.
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
I find it pretty obnoxious that someone leaked this. This is classic "ruining it for everyone". That app, when I worked at Amazon, was open to any employee. It would totally suck if they had to restrict access because of some idiot. I alway
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
Credit card penetration is really low so your other options are bank transfers and CVS (paying at a convenience store). COD is actually quite popular but I can't imagine any SaaS could implement that effectively. I don't have any experience
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
I used to work in Payments at Amazon and I don't think people have an appreciation for how complicated and expensive payments in Europe can be. Credit Card penetration in certain countries (Germany and Switzerland for example) is really low
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The case against the Kindle as a low end tablet disruption(asymco.com)
30 points by tylerrooney 15y ago|22 comments
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Eric Ries on “The Lean Startup” - Hour Long Video(rypple.com)
2 points by tylerrooney 15y ago|0 comments
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MicroProductivity: Not a Second Wasted(4ormat.com)
10 points by tylerrooney 15y ago|0 comments
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by tylerrooney 15y ago
Please come to Canada!

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