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startupcto

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About startupcto

I've built cool stuff and awesome systems so I don't need fluff.

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    Comment #4089743

    It was an acqu-hire exit and was for $25m.

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    Comment #3774584

    I know. Now that I know that for a fact, it does say much about the founder of a website that I'm supposed to trust the privacy of my family and data wouldn't be sold because the s…

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    Comment #3751910

    If indeed UDID is still available down at the OS level, which iAd is working at, then wouldn't this be anti-competitive and ad networks has a shot of getting Apple for it?

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    Comment #3751888

    I take issue to this and it's because iAd is probably using the same approach tracking users. There is no known way to track users across applications ( applications released by th…

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    Comment #3749995

    At minimum this app has a k factor of 1 built in.

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    Comment #3721657

    Buy backs.

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    Comment #3706429

    And I wouldn't work for the CEO of Yammer.

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    Comment #3693569

    Sorry to be blunt. Will this BS all work? As in like SEO etc or even now ASO. Honestly no, what does? Make a great app.

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    Comment #3685811

    I actually had the same idea and eventually decided not to pursue it. The main reason was i couldn't convince myself that people will go though the loop of downloading an app and m…

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    Comment #3650671

    Let's see some of your code on Github before you ......

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    Comment #3645209

    What took you so long?

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    Comment #3616764

    The huge problem I see here is their buttons looks exactly like the "Like" button and could be confusing to Facebook users into thinking their official Facebook buttons/features.

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    Comment #3614198

    irc ? 2012 ? .................................

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    Comment #3612715

    Wow.. This is waiting for a C&D from Facebook. To me, this is a blatant abuse of their trademark. http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php

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    Comment #3612248

    There's no cursor for mobile devices so whatever you think works only works for a percentage of users.

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    Comment #3601379

    With the amount of downloads that they are publicizing "60 millions", I find it hard to believe that they are still in "growth" stage? User retention is probably the biggest proble…

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    Comment #3601227

    At version 3.0 and no clear indication of how they are able to monetize their "network".

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    Comment #3600513

    And Bump is still not profitable.

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    Comment #3581303

    It's the valley. People learn and move on. Same for Hsu and same for the people working there. Most importantly at what price? In this case it's 1.5M and a whole lot of reflecting.…

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    Comment #3508878

    FYI Nimblebit ripped off others before they had Tinytowers.

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    Comment #3433773

    There's a few ways that they can patch this. I'm assuming that there's some sort of auth process in place for their http calls and this could simply be a case where this particular…

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    Comment #3432181

    The wizard says: "Go away and come back tomorrow!"

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    Comment #3431411

    Why isn't anyone testing candidates' ability on reading and working with existing code? I do that all the time with interviewees. Why I do that? The obvious being the potential hir…