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gomox

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About gomox

Startup advisor & investor. Currently CRO @ InvGate Formerly CTO @ Sherpals Formerly head of Product @ Avature Formerly CTO @ InvGate

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    Comment #48675402

    You have no idea what Klue is

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    Comment #48675344

    No, Klue is a competitive intelligence tool for sellers. You use it to keep track of "battle cards" (i.e. if they are selling a deal vs. 1Password, sales rep would go into Klue to …

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    Comment #48445784

    Was the AT&T monopoly period of 2007-2011 have substantial social media adoption? Seems to me like the early iPhones were just a very capable phone & texting machinery.

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    Comment #48362592

    Both, but the cat is out of the box with LLMs and Google no longer monopolizes the firehose of consumer purchasing intent even if OpenAI disappears tomorrow. Someone else will come…

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    Comment #48267263

    I would have loved to be in the room when this decision was made, but my guess is that they decided that it was better to face some subtle nerd backlash now rather than having this…

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    Comment #48235204

    Importantly: OpenAI doesn't need to outcompete Google, it just needs to show it can bleed. As to the rest of Google's dominant position, it's an advantage for sure, but every leadi…

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    Comment #48229784

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend

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    Comment #48221988

    OpenAI starts from excellent UX and needs to prove that they can monetize all those empty pixels. They will no doubt succeed. Google starts from horrid UX where every advertiseable…

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    Comment #48221889

    Actually I believe Google is the one caught between a rock and a hard place here because their stock will reprice once the market realizes how much their position has weakened re: …

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    Comment #48182090

    A term is born

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    Comment #47838235

    You mean, other than describing 5 possible approaches to the "bootstrapping a marketplace" problem, including a specific solution that worked in the real world to get to 7 figures …

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    Comment #47838011

    I wrote about this many years ago: https://gomox.medium.com/i-have-a-marketplace-business-idea-... At the time I was actually doing this exact business idea and one of our founders…

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    Comment #47671291

    Off the top of my head (don't expect any revelations here, but mostly for people wondering how to approach this type of thing for the first time): * Parents/students hang out at sc…

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    Comment #47670731

    Tell me who you think your customers might be? Or ask ChatGPT what's a good watering hole for them, it will definitely come up with some reasonable guesses.

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    Comment #47670593

    Depends on the audience, the not-so-technical marketing term for the concept is a "watering hole". First step is guessing who your customers might be.

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    Comment #47670508

    Not sure what you mean, I am definitely a CS grad and I run a Sales/Marketing org I built at a company I used to be CTO of :)

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    Comment #47669966

    Message me I'll do 2h of being your marketing cofounder for free. Source: CS grad turned revenue person

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    Comment #47274922

    From the title and the beginning, I was sure this was going to be about the imminent brand age in software with the commoditization of the software engineering discipline brought o…

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    Comment #46919541

    Don't worry even if your heirs have the password, it's extremely likely that Google will find the login attempts "suspicious" and try to verify your identity by sending SMS codes t…

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    Comment #46048998

    I think porn came slightly later, in Duke Nukem 3D

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    Comment #45748653

    Why for a day or two?

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    Comment #45678238

    Story of when it happened to my company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366

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    Comment #45464600

    Chrome and Gmail don't really make any money for Google.

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    Comment #45368611

    Yeah, I was waiting for an actual 9 headed hydra of crap, featuring: * a whole page of sponsored-yet-indistinguishable-from-organic results * a confidently incorrect AI snippet * t…