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Hilariously well put. =)

Congrats Justin & Co. - Exec was a great experience for us at Mixpanel. It has that "just works" feel to it which is incredibly hard to create.

A large part of our success thus far is due to that at Mixpanel as well. The founders in our batch gave us tons of feedback for everything they could want.

In fact, 60-70% of every new Y Combinator batch is generally using Mixpanel prior to launch - Exec being no exception ;)

It's separate and free, however the JavaScript you paste is the same for regular Mixpanel and Flow. So if you already are using Mixpanel then you can just login.

Congrats guys!

It would still have to be maintained so those resources are better used elsewhere. Nobody wants to work on products that aren't getting much attention either. For Google, I imagine it's about focusing on a few things that have massive potential (to really win) and they simply do not find it worthwhile spending more resources on selling it off.

Sad :-( to see all the work from fellow sliders go away. It'll be survived by all the companies people from slide have now started:

Mixpanel, sosh, quixey, pathjoy, formula am, etc

The problem with most companies that do this is simply that they want ultra-qualified leads. Truthfully, it's tough to determine whether a sign up is going to be worth $10 or $10K/mo. The other problem is, depending on the product, the sales cycle can be long. It's not that any B2B company wants to spam you, but it's that they want to remind you of their existence as much as possible so that when you start thinking about your options, they are first on your list.

Here's the logic re: Alex's points:

1. Requiring a sales call helps qualify real leads.

2. Lack of trialing the software is in part due to wanting to have a conversation with you.

3. Hiding your pricing is simply the way to have a conversation and to qualify leads. It makes price discrimination also possible. Think about selling a startup vs. IBM.

4. Whitepapers are just old school. It's useful for when lower-tier decision makers need to present something.

5. Newsletters are simply a way to be in the conversation with your company prior to when you buy--constantly.

6. Larger organizations sub-divide their resources into people who can do X or Y. Where X sometimes primes the customer for Y. It's not done to the customer's benefit, but rather to the organizations.

7. Old school.

8. Well, the truth is, cold calling can work even though it has a fairly low conversion rate. You have to start somewhere.

I am not saying we do any of this at Mixpanel necessarily, but it's the simple logic of enterprise.

Small plug but we're always looking for awesome people to join our ops team! Link: http://mixpanel.theresumator.com/apply/Xm0tLy/Software-Engin...

Mixpanel is hiring and we 1 TB of data every month - We'd love interns or full-times at our SF location.

http://mixpanel.com/jobs

Nah,you can get a nice 1bd in SF for $2100 a month and save $1k/mo

Good luck guys - this is exactly what it's like. Stay persistent.

We're simply looking for more people and our bar is high enough that we don't always find the right people.

Mixpanel is hiring. We power analytics for huge destinations and process billions of actions every single month.

We're looking for engineers: http://mixpanel.com/jobs

Out of curiosity, what made many of you even use GoDaddy? I've always felt it was a bit sketch due to its:

- Commercials

- And it's shady ability to add $60 worth of crap to your cart when you want to buy a $9 domain.

I found Namecheap and never found anything simpler and less sketch. Even looking for domains on Namecheap 3-4 years ago was much simpler.

Was it just the registrar you had heard of first?

I did not shutter a startup during 2011.

My biggest lesson is that the word "no" does not mean "no", it just means "not right now." Sometimes you have to stick with it before you see profound growth.

Mixpanel is hiring - http://mixpanel.com/jobs

We're looking engineers who want to help build product and push our front-end.

Good luck guys.

Mixpanel is always looking for engineers to either fill out our backend team (working on a real-time data crunching datastore we built in-house) or on our front-end team (building out JS infrastructure to accelerate how fast we can build products for users).

Email us at jobs@mixpanel.com or head over to http://mixpanel.com/jobs

Check out our dev blog too: http://code.mixpanel.com

Softlayer manages our boxes so none of us are waking up and driving down to any datacenters.

For us, you should keep in mind, the big takeaway is consistent performance not just price.

To be honest, I've never had more sleep in the past 2 years ;).

Congrats Jude & Immad.

We are not getting acquired or acquihired.

Neither--We heavily plan to do what we did yesterday: keep our heads down and continue to work.

Design is always about the details.

Email me suhail@mixpanel.com and I'll be happy to give you a run down of 10 things that make our UI substantially different. Alternatively, feel free to play with both products and get a sense of it yourself.

Ah, our backend supports that but our UI does not.

Nope, we surveyed around and 10 out of 11 of are big funnel analysis customers liked a greyscale version of the horizontal funnels.

This had nothing to do with removing objections =)

Does Segmentation solve this problem for you? http://blog.mixpanel.com/2011/07/20/introducing-much-better-...

Mixpanel is hiring. We write Python, C, and serious amounts of Javascript.

You can find our jobs page at http://mixpanel.com/jobs/

We're moving into a new office today: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4426180253_21043a8ab9_b....

Photoshop

Eric Ries once told us the following: "Just fucking ignore them."

That was the best advice someone could have given me for a situation like that. I'd advise it.

My ancillary advice would be: Use it as fuel to absolutely destroy them in a race of producing incredible product value to your customers.

Our startup competitors have existed 1-2 years before we did.