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I'm not convinced. Here is my test run: "Big cats eat mice Noone knows why 100x improvement"

Your Headline's EMV Score:

33.33%

This score indicates that your headline has a total of 33.33% Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) Words. To put that in perspective, the English language contains approximately 20% EMV words.

And for comparison, most professional copywriters' headlines will have 30%-40% EMV Words in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines.

A perfect score would be 100%, but that is rare unless your headline is less than five words.

While the overall EMV score for your headline is 33.33%, your headline also has the following predominant emotion classification:

Spiritual

Your headline carries words that have a predominantly Spiritual appeal. Words that resonate with Spiritual impact are the smallest number of words in the language. AMI research has found that Spiritual impact words carry the strongest potential for influence and often appeal to people at a very deep emotional level.

Words with Spiritual impact are best used with people and businesses desiring to make an appeal to some aspect of spirituality. This does not mean religion specifically, but any product or service that resonates with “spirituality” oriented markets are appropriate. The clergy, new age, health food and related markets all respond favorably to sales copy heavy with Spiritual impact content. Women and children also respond strongly to words in the Spiritual sphere. Marketing documents with strong Spiritual impact content can make for the most powerful presentations in the marketplace but must be used with considerable skill.

Would also be great if it refreshes automatically. Over time I am sure you can also create an algorithm to predict the fluctuations in surge pricing. For example, you can get my address and then tell me how likely is it for surge pricing to die down based on historical data and predictions.

curiouscats- Just curious, what course are you taking on Coursera thats experiencing similar issues?

I was wondering how 'scaling' Coursera model would affect them. QA becomes very critical once you associate top university brands to the courses that are offered. I hope Coursera will learn from this and really evaluate every course before going online.

I would be curious to know what you think of our self learning site called LearningJar.com, where we are helping people figure out the best resources to learn skills and follow their progress.

Thanks for your inputs! We fixed the bug and so you should see the LearningJar panel on the side.

We are working on alternate authentication. Would love to get your email address. You can send it to ritu@learningjar.com

Haha. yes! I think we should just say that straight up.

Great insights and feedback. Thank you.

The idea is to inspire people by showing how you can gain skills informally. Individuals featured on the front were either college dropouts and/or achieved their goals via informal education.

We will be adding quotes from them, videos with them and also will be highlighting others in the industry that have achieved their dreams by constantly learning.

Its not an ad play, but instead a way to just inspire. After all, we all seek mentors and get inspired by great stories.

You can go through the website and learn without logging in at the moment. But if you would like to 'Follow' any new roles, we are requiring people to login for that. Having a demo is a great way to summarize the value we bring in. Thanks!

We actually want to and looking to add more people! LearningJar is started by two women and we strongly believe in diversity.

We are working on adding other authentication options as we have heard that feedback :) The reason we started with Login with Facebook is because it makes it easy on users. They dont have to upload picture and fill out more forms for LearningJar.

Thanks for your feedback! We are helping people figure out the skills they need for a new role, connecting them to disparate content via our partnerships and then in the backend integrating with those content providers to track your informal learning in one place so you can use it to apply for jobs.

Will definitely try to get that across better with our landing page.

What you have mentioned above "Your personal email list is one of the best ways to drive initial traffic and build awareness" only holds true if they are your 'right audience'.

When we first launched a closed beta for my startup LearningJar, we ran an experiment of sending it to my contacts and then to people that had genuinely showed interested. What I quickly found out is that your friends/contacts will not be as engaged because they dont have a need and further more, they will not be honest with you because they want to encourage what you are doing.

On the other hand, 'real' users will give you real feedback that will make a more effective awareness campaign.

Therefore, it means a lot more if a complete stranger finds my product valuable and then promotes it to others than my friends doing it just because they like me.

Finally Google is moving in the right direction. There is still a lot more they can do with semantic search. For example, wouldn't it be great to see the related topics in a concept map, have meanings and history right there, but also let people curate this knowledge graph.

Check out InstaGrok. It does something like that- http://www.instagrok.com/

If you are interested, check out the comparision of Inkling Textbook vs. Apple Textbook http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/wat...

When I started my little idea 7 months ago, I was really scared about this reality of looking for a cofounder. Now, I not only have a kickass co-founder who believes in my vision, but also have a team of 6 people who are driving our product to launch, all of this without getting a single penny or equity in exchange (not yet, but something I am changing as I want these people longterm).

What I am trying to say is that, I think looking for a cofounder depends on what you are trying to build. If you are trying to build a long-term sustainable company, then the fact that you can influence and motivate someone to join your vision is very powerful. Therefore, getting a cofounder to join your cause is a huge testament to how well you can succeed, something that should not be discounted.

That being said, its also important to evaluate the skillsets you need to have a successful company and to slowly enlist a cofounder based on those needs. I hung out at every tech event, spoke to as many people about what I was doing and slowly started to see that there was an ecosystem of people that started believing in my story.

So, its doable, thats all :)

The key question that still remains is, how do you find the best learning sources and how do you get credit for it? Are badges the right solution? Its great to see that these many people are embracing self-paced learning. With the democratization of education, it has opened doors for anyone to create a curriculum online now. But all this will soon cause an information overload in terms of self-paced learning opportunities and it will become critical to start organizing this plethora of resources

When you say 'browser bars' I am thinking of an address bar in browsers today. Is that what you are referring to?

I am thinking of something that does not interact with the user but captures some of their web usage based on their consent. Would love to share it with the community when its ready!

Question- Would people be more willing to let a platform track browsing activity if there was 100% transparency? Asking this question for the startup that we are working on, where we want to get permission from users to follow their certain activities- which is directly applicable to the platform value.

I was trying to test the same hypothesis too and the fact that there was only 1% increase in students with math proficiency told me that perhaps the gap between the two groups is not closing. Otherwise, you would see a much higher number of students with math proficiency today compared to a decade ago.

I wonder if this experiment will just remain an experiment because politically Stanford is not ready for open free education. I remember reading an article recently in NY Times that highlighted how Stanford had two opposite camps of opinions. They are bidding to open an engineering campus in NY, which expands their formal education at the same time as starting these free courses, which is all about informal distributed learning. From Stanford's president, it didn't sound like something he was keen on expanding... a classic disruption in the education industry. Reminds me of newspapers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/opinion/the-university-of-...

Thats strange, its not working on my Firefox version 4.0.1. Otherwise great on Chrome and Safari

Wow! This is great. I wish I knew about your just 3 days ago when our developer spent a few hours creating our custom blog :) I am still thinking of switching to this because of the automated Twitter, Facebook and Google+ add ons. Very impressed!

One feedback is that when I was customizing the blog theme, I was not able to see how the sidebar would look in the blog. As a result, I went through the entire process first time around and then went back to revert the 'add sidebar'.

Some thoughts- Instead of teachers and school plans, have you thought about having a parent/student plan? Every time to sign up to receive messages, you get X free and then you have to pay to receive the rest. This way you are pushing the burden to purchase on the parents's shoulders and this will also ensure that there is a parent 'by-in' for ClassParrot. Did you survey parents and students about this?

Also, if 1 credit = 1 message, then why not just call it a 'message' to keep things simple. So you get 500 free 'messages' and you pay for 500+ 'messages'.

To emphasize your value prop and highlight the safety, landing page message could again say 'secure' instead of 'hassle free'. My rule is that repetition is good.

We just submitted our application and I have to admit that YC's application questions themselves are a great exercise for anyone who is starting a new business. I felt that all the questions really made us think about each and very aspect of our platform and challenged us to articulate it in simple words.

We are excited to see what comes out of it and good luck to the rest of awesome ideas!

I couldn't agree with you more. What you just said reminded me of how IBM first reacted to personal computers. The crux of innovation is disrupting the existing model. Thats what Apple did with its iPod and iTunes product.

The author has mentioned very few education companies outside of the standardized tests/textbooks/tutoring model. Companies like Wireless Generation, Khan Academy, P2PU are the ones that are really disrupting how education is delivered. Another education company called Zinch which was purchased by Chegg turned the admissions process on its head. These are the type of innovations that education industry will have. It will be sad if we all sit around with our arms crossed thinking that it can't be done for the next 20 years because the technology is ripe and so is adoption...

I would not be worried about this style of hiring, it is much better than the traditional cold 'interview' with questions and answers because working at a startup is a two way street. Doing a project, internship or just contract work for a while before joining full-time gives the potential hiree a good sense of the startup he/she is joining. Its a small organization and therefore, its critical to make sure that you are joining the right team and its difficult to evaluate that just by a series of interviews where everything can be perceived as rosy.

I am not propagating that anyone should be allowed to have a truck on the NYC road, but why is it restricted only for movie studios and utility companies? Why not look at other industries that might value from such a permit. Even the author seems to agree with that evaluation.