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rjjacobson

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About rjjacobson

Ron Jacobson rjjacobson.com twitter.com/rjjacobson

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    Hey -- I'm Ron, CEO of Rockerbox. We're an NYC based attribution company helping companies uncover how to grow their businesses. Check out an article on out tech stack "Building a …

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    Is the Government Down?

    Stay up to date on if the Government is down!

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    Comment #5682309

    Yahoo is really upping the mobile aqui-hires. I wonder if people are excited to actually go work at Yahoo or if they're just happy to be acquired.

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    Comment #5682276

    Definitely agree on the virtue of doing stuff as manually as possible. Really hard though mentally as you always want to do things the right way. I guess at such an early stage tho…

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    Comment #5664821

    Primarily discoverability. For example, if I know I want a new iPod dock - sorting through all of the potential products and processing all of the information associated through ea…

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    Comment #5664758

    Amazon is great for getting a pricing point of comparison - can't argue with that. In fact Amazon is great if you know exactly what you want to be / for finding the best price. I'd…

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    Comment #5629440

    Thanks! Fixed.

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    Comment #5629430

    Rocker boxes used to be used by gold miners to separate gold from sand / gravel. We're trying to do the same for products - helping you find the "golden" product that is best for y…

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    Comment #5629404

    Exactly. We're trying to actually learn what you'll like and showing you only those products. Not just a "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..."

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    Comment #5629397

    Nope. You swipe through products, liking or disliking each one. We learn what sort of things you like and guide you to the right ones. We want to help you browse for products.

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    Rockerbox - Your machine-learning personal shopping assistant

    Check out Rockerbox! Rockerbox learns your unique tastes and guides you to what you'll actually want. Shopping used to be hard...until Rockerbox.

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    Google Maps Direction Shortcut

    Stop wasting time and use Google Maps more efficiently.

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    Lessons Learned - First Product Launch

    I recently launched penguit.com. Here is what I learned from the process.

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    Comment #5343834

    I'm going to change the landing page to call this out more clearly.

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