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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. I’ve often wanted to wire up a bell to sales data, so that when we make a sale, we literally hear the cash register ring. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Without a basis for comparison, you first have to drive home the need, then you will have an easy time making the sale (after all, youre the person who they trust to bring it to their attention).