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jitnuton How We Became Profitable in 3 Years

Inspiring read Venky! Good that your Momo store didn't took off :-)

jitnuton How Ruben Gamez dealt with churn and used it to his advantage to grow Bidsketch

Yeah, it came as a surprise to me as well. May be once customer settled down a bit after cancellation, he might be receptive to such calls.

jitnuton BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz

As long as they can figure out to stay on top new social properties whether is snapchat / instagram / whatsapp / something new, I think they will do fine. Of course not the same hockey stick growth. I was reading an piece on Buzzfeed growth http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/buzzfeed-secret-growth-... . Seems like they gonna hire people just for that.

jitnuton I was a $200K VC, now I’m a $0 entrepreneur – first thoughts

Welcome to the other side of the table!

jitnuton I was a $200K VC, now I’m a $0 entrepreneur – first thoughts

Guess he lost all of it and now back to zero.

jitnuton Ask HN: Responsive As A Service (RAAS) – Would you take it?

Yes exactly, we want to make it as seamless as that. You upload your files and we emailed you back the html in 2days to a week depending on plan. $299 was for a simple website but we might have to come up with attractive fixed price plans. Yes we do formatting to make the site mobile-friendly as well.

jitnuton Ask HN: Responsive As A Service (RAAS) – Would you take it?

Clickable link: http://raas.co

jitnuton From 0 to $7000 worth of clients even before launch

Also as a developer do you find such service useful? Would love to hear your thoughts.

jitnuton From 0 to $7000 worth of clients even before launch

Hey thanks mate for comments 1. Guess we need to work on it. 2. Right now it manual, I think I would definitely A/B test that. 3. Yes that's why I put Worth $7000 but we are actually discussing money at this stage. And just confirmed $2k of that :-) Again, thanks for taking time out to reply.

jitnuton Review my startup: Pepnest-plain text alternative to Mailchimp, Aweber etc

Thanks for checking out! yup tinyletter does that job but misses on some of business requirments e.g. groups within a list. Mailchimp puts tinyletter as a app for people whereas we are looking at businesses as well who wants to send simple emails to customers and would build a required functionalities around it.

jitnuton Review my startup: Pepnest-plain text alternative to Mailchimp, Aweber etc

Here is a clickable link: http://www.pepnest.com

jitnuton Shutting Down a Dream

Dan, I admired the fact you hanged on to your dream such long. It takes lot of courage and perseverance. I have been in your shoes and have felt the pain when its time to let go of the dream. But when you clear it off, it feels great. Once i met a founder of startup who gave advice 'You should be passionate about your idea but not disproportionately passionate' All the best!

jitnuton Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

you nailed it honzzz! somebody should just a content focused on the first step: how to find a meaningful problem to solve.

jitnuton I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas

Much needed! just submitted http://pepnest.com :-)

jitnuton Free email address validation API for web forms

This is cool! One thing- as a mailgun user, can i use it to check the valid email addresses when one of my client sends an email to his customers? That would save some email credit him and reduce bounce rate.

jitnuton Ideas for Computing

Loved the idea of EmailMetaData. I was thinking on similar lines on creating a smarter email system for businesses.

jitnuton Ask HN: Review my startup - GrexIt: Build a Knowledge Base out of your email

Great Idea, I have seen enterprise focused solution developed by MNC similar to this and it turned out to be quite useful for them to improve productivity.