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tlong

63 karma · joined October 2, 2012

Private equity investor and operator.

@tomleelong

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tlong··on Ask HN: How the hell do I Market to CTOs and CIOs?
Nice. Thanks for this. I should do that more.
tlong··on Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through
Weak Crystal. Maybe the ad bloc guy will release one. He's cooler
tlong··on Ask HN: To Bootstrap or Not to Bootstrap?
Yeah. I'm used to doing the same. Thanks
tlong··on Ask HN: To Bootstrap or Not to Bootstrap?
Nice. Thanks. Hearing a lot about bourbon lately but haven't tried it.
tlong··on Ask HN: To Bootstrap or Not to Bootstrap?
Nice. Haven't tried Skeleton. Maybe this is a good compromise. Thanks
tlong··on Ask HN: To Bootstrap or Not to Bootstrap?
Haha. This is awesome.
tlong··on What do you think of my Front-End?
Thanks :)
tlong··on Ask HN: Is my pricing fair?
Lots of different channels. Many from Reddit, HN, Quora, Guest blogs, etc.
tlong··on Ask HN: Is my pricing fair?
Thanks. The App is SSL, but the marketing site is hosted separately, so we didn't add the cert. Great advice though. I'll definitely get that added in.
tlong··on Ask HN: Is my pricing fair?
Thank you. For some reason users are bouncing off after viewing the pricing page, and I'm not sure why. I think the pricing is fair relative to competitors.
tlong··on Ask HN: What's wrong with my launch page?
Where's your traffic coming from? Are you sure it's the right target audience?
tlong··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Growth Hacker in SF Bay Area / Silicon Valley

Need someone to help grow portfolio companies @ http://www.bertramcapital.com/

and launch startups like: http://www.happyapps.io/

tlong··on Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime?
Nice. Why did you switch away from Pingdom. How do you like New Relic.
tlong··on Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime?
Nice. Thanks. So RUM is a big value prop? Do you use an analytics service also?
tlong··on A new approach to uptime monitoring with Grails
I personally haven't used grails much. But here's another good post from my friend David Estes: http://www.redwindsw.com/blog/2014-01-15-moving-from-rails-t...
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks Justin. I'll let you know if I find the silver bullet ;)
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Great. Thank you
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Great. Thanks. I'm trying to get out of the building more this week to talk to folks at meetups and coworking spaces
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Nope. Looks interesting. Thanks
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks. That makes sense
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks. We currently offer 5 free checks
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Ha. Great point. Don't think I have updated by HN profile since day 1. Just updated.

The app is http://www.happyapps.io/

tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks. Great post
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks. I think we can do a better job of communicating the value prop. Here's what we have so far http://www.happyapps.io/

Maybe not very clear. Working on it...

tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Unfortunately someone submitted it very early on and we didn't get much of a lift. Maybe we can submit again when we launch the app
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks CyberFonic. I like the idea of solving problems and demonstrating the value. That seems to be a common theme.
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Thanks. Great advice. What are some of your favorite blogs now?
tlong··on Ask HN: How the Hell Do I Market to Developers?
Ha. Nice. Thanks guys
tlong··on Poll: Do you think we're in a tech bubble?
It all comes down to low interest rates. As long as rates stay low, the bubbles will build.

Fred Wilson wrote a good piece on this last year: http://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/

tlong··on Data Analytics for Marketing
Downside to GA is that it doesn't store personally identifiable information, so if you want to track and interact with users at the individual level, you will have to create a unique identifier in GA and then export it and match it to your user database.
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