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nedwin
2,285karma·763submissions·March 10, 2009
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@nedwin
Australian in SF
dwyer.ed@gmail.com
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Love your work. Had to work on a video capturing project 18 months ago that nearly killed me. Zencoder reduced some of the pain but we still blew months on the project.
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I definitely agree it's part art and part science. "The higher the growth needed, the lower the fees need to be." I don't think that's strictly true. If you had two companies and one had three times t…
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TechCrunch yesterday: "If you think 10% is a good transaction fee for your marketplace, then you will struggle"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/16/marketplaces-businesses-are...
TechCrunch today: Chec…
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Not sure if this would work for them but it would definitely deliver a shitload more emails for their database.
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Random location (in a rough geographic area) to random location (in much larger geographic area) would be pretty crazy search. I think for most travellers it's fair to say that they know what their st…
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I think finding a business guy that gets servers is going to be a struggle in and of itself. Have you tried to do sales? How do you know you're building something people want?
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Hey Andy, I'm pumped for you to get the exit. Sounds like a great outcome for you personally and for the Refer.ly team.
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So it was a sub-$100k acquihire?
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This is a really nice interface to encourage people to follow "best practice" by creating unique messages for each social account. Great job guys.
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I'd be checking out the latest Indinero.com offering. Cloud-based but includes book keepers, accountants and a platform to run it all on.
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Thanks for the shout out Brian :)
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WPEngine.com all the way. Bulletproof IMHO.
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While I agree that the proliferation of subscription based consumer product services looks crazy, I think this post includes too many assumptions about how and why VC's are funding consumer startups. …
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I have had similar issues so mostly a "nap" for me is closing my eyes while laying down in a dark room for 20 minutes at most, often with my hands behind my head. I always feel really refreshed afterw…
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Nailed it. I'd add in "Use Rapportive Gmail plugin to determine email address of relevant contacts"
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You guys have a great product, good to see the brand coming to the table. Looks great.
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"There's no such thing as "buying a license", legally speaking that's called "renting"" Is this your legal opinion as a lawyer?
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Hopefully they've got remarketing tags setup to the hilt.
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Did you get much / any negative sentiment?
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Absolutely. And it should bother you. You being bothered by this is a sign that you care about your work. These people, it would seem, do not. It sucks that these people might trash your work, just re…
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Not at all, in fact we've had a couple of applications for physical products - definitely something we're interested in.
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Tweaky is for small business owners and non-technical people.
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We want to show people how easy it is to use Tweaky to hack together an MVP. Out of this we'll build some case studies we hope to get PR out of and hopefully that will lead to more people coming onto …