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You're right. Just because it isn't the first doesn't make it right. That being said, Disqus has been around since 2007 and after six years of building trust with businesses and th…

In the dark of night, without notifying their users/customers, Disqus made a change that negatively affected their users and their users' commenters. Whereas before, you could logi…

Any "startup" that meets your criteria is not a startup, but either a) a very successful business with money to burn, or b) riding the VC train to shutdowns-ville. Ask not what you…

We are an early customer of Tracelytics. We are also a happy New Relic customer. They are both great tools and not necessarily an "either or" decision. New Relic gives great info a…

I think the product is the obvious part of brand experience and the one that most startups think is the silver bullet. It isn't...there is no silver bullet. It is about delighting …

From the post: 3. Creating a genuinely useful product.

While this data is not specific to "explainer" videos, it is data compiled over the viewing of business videos. http://wistia.com/blog/does-length-matter-it-does-for-video/ Bottom …

Hey, I don't want to come off like I'm just shilling for my company, but what you are trying to do may possibly be more easily done with a video hosting platform with an API. By ta…

For software products, I would recommend using Screenflow for the Mac. It is by far the easiest and most powerful of the screencasting tools. It allows you to record the screen, re…

Check out SwitchMarketing ( http://www.switchmarketing.com/ ). We've worked with these guys quite a bit and they do amazing work.

For a larger demo of the Slimlist in action, check out here: http://wistia.com/product/playlist

Clicktale does this ( http://www.clicktale.com/ ). They only capture a subset of the page views and are somewhat expensive. We tried it out for a month or two when we were very ear…

We work with the Common Craft folks quite a bit. Knowing the amount of time they spend doing each video, I would advise doing a screencast rather than the live action cut-out style…

The guy he hired was in a middle eastern country.

Actually the guy who Chris ended up using was based in a middle eastern country. The average wage there is $15/day, so $3 per hour is a significant upgrade.

In addition to individuals who do this, there are also online services that bids out local concierge services. I know that Chris (the guy who wrote the linked post) has used TaskRa…

I sort of watched over his shoulder as he went through this process and it was quite amazing to observe. The guy he ended up working with, for $3 an hour, was quite sharp and motiv…