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It's probably more than creating awareness for their dev services. From what I can see, they're rapidly increasing partnership efforts for their ad-based products (e.g. AdX integra…

Singapore :)

I’m looking to try my hands on marketing other people's projects in my free time. I live in Asia, so my after hours coincides with your waking hours (assuming you’re in the states)…

Yes, exactly! I'll like to add a few more points. - The approval process for FB ads is dead simple. Ads are usually approved in minutes vs Google day(s) long wait. The longest it'l…

There is a problem with a focus on getting "likes". It doesn't convert. Neither does it increase sales. It's a vanity metric. I just wrote a post to explain how small of a mileage …

Hmm, this is interesting. What we've found is the direct opposite. Facebook is 4 times cheaper than Google for us. But I suppose the nature of our companies are different. We're in…

Basically, private Hacker News for organizations to share and discuss online articles. This is awesome. Something that I didn't know I need but now I just can't wait to try! One of…

This can even happen in a tech company. More often than not, this is an issue with managers who are non-techie. They're not sure what automation will do, and since they don't know …

There are actually many opinions to this. Another supplementary reading to this has been covered by Mark Suster: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/27/should-startup... In …

Hmm, the huge difference between US and US are mostly self-imposed I think. Self-serve ads are only available for businesses or individuals in US. Outside of US, to even participat…

> If you are bootstrapping in your side, you will likely work 19 hrs a day and face failure after failure with nearly everyone around finding reasons to make you and your decisions…

Agree. What Google did replaced plenty of functionalities that are available on desktop (math, spell-check, dictionary). But their recent card-based solution to a lot of searches s…

I believe they have Facebook envy and now wants to keep every visitors they get on the site for as long as possible, just like Facebook. This is a departure away from their origina…

Google probably review their top searches periodically to determine utility related keywords and custom fit solutions to them. It seems that if they continue to do things this way,…

"Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes". That's the most precise way of looking at life I've ever seen. The example of Google can further be boiled down to jus…

One thing not mentioned here is how much the Chinese value brand new properties. By brand new I mean, properties that have never been used/lived in. It's a common trend in real est…

Sometimes people misrepresent themselves in a presentation. The explanation wasn't clear or they've described themselves as something that they're not. That can turn anyone away if…

Hah it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun working on Trello Gold, building the feature that everyone seems to mock just for the fun of it.

Off the top of my head, content acquisition. Which content to acquire, from which production house, with which actors, in what language, how did they do in the theatres. You can co…

It always felt like Microsoft was chasing after markets that people are trying to leave. Bing trying to replace google search while google is desperately trying to expand their sou…

The greatest thing about faking is you'll actually end up believing it, even subconsciously, which is great. A great way to start is just by changing postures. Related: http://www.…