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co-founder at Amura Marketing Technologies, India.

http://www.pratikrokade.com http://www.amuratech.com

email: pratik@amuratech.com

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Where is hacker news for business?

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www.ottawacitizen.com 13y ago

Flip of earth's magnetic field overdue

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sethgodin.typepad.com 13y ago

The race to the bottom

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sethgodin.typepad.com 13y ago

The difficult challenge of media alignment

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com 13y ago

Google acquiring social-media startup Wildfire

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meteuphoric.wordpress.com 14y ago

Value realism: Is value objective or subjective?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How to conduct interviews to identify hackers?

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www.cultofmac.com 14y ago

Instagram Wanted $2 Billion From Facebook, And Here’s Why

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hipcrime.blogspot.com 14y ago

Money and the Power of Symbols

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www.zdnet.com 14y ago

Anonymous: LulzSec returns on April Fools' Day?

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

What Women Want - 6 Lessons from 100K Pinterest Visitors

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mjperry.blogspot.com 14y ago

Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall to 50-Year Low in 2011

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www.puranikbuilders.com 14y ago

I just launched landing page with pitch in video. Feedback?

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

MeUndies: Online Underwear Subscriptions

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freshplum.com 14y ago

Freshplum contact form puzzle

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What is best way to send bulk emails to marketing lists?

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www.lumieredigitale.com 14y ago

Lumière Digitale: Short Animation Film Festival - Call for entries

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www.simplyzesty.com 14y ago

20 of the most innovative Facebook campaigns

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todoist.com 14y ago

Todoist is down due to database corruption

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smo.infinigraph.com 14y ago

Google Launches Hotel Search Tool With Room Price Data

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www.boston.com 15y ago

Drug prices will fall sharply as patents expire

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Why can't Facebook sue Google when most of UI ideas in G+ seems to be copied?

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matadornetwork.com 15y ago

Will the world end on Dec 21, 2012?

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

Hacker Poll: Do You Want to Develop with the Google Plus API?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Anyone working at Facebook: what happening at Facebook on Google+?

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lifehacker.com 15y ago

What Blekko, DuckDuckGo and WolframAlpha do better than Google

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strangrchat.com 15y ago

Review my weekend project Strangr Chat

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Standard economics. As you start penetrating potential audience its going to get saturated after some point until you reach all of the audience. As impressions to get one more click are needed more, google needs to exhaust their inventory more. Apparently CTR is going to degrade, and google will start increasing marginal cost per click. Cost per click is curve is often going to be marginal cost curve, where maximum profitability is at lowest point on the curve. Its not about profitability of google adwords but the profitability of the media you're bidding for. When saturated you can always expand your potential market (audience) by adding more keywords/placements.

yes, there are lots of publications that write quality articles but don't have place to weight them based on community opinions. every article has comments, but those wouldn't be in order of priority of reading. also business news are big enough so that every publication eventually covers it, what remains is the community insights about the news. that is why I like hn -- because of community opinions than content that is posted.

App vs. Business 15 years ago

building app has started to become commodity, most of these are built over the weekend and left after that. What we need to understand is that user acquisition and retention are the most critical factors of the startups in this era. I don't want to go into negative but every hacker knows that we should build something that solves pain for the users and try to monetize that. And every weekend project submitted here seems to be solving some kind of problem at least for that particular niche market. But to grow such apps into business one needs to work on user acquisition, retention, building credibility and customer loyalty which can not be commoditized. These are completely different aspects of business than writing code and should be taken as serious and aggressive as writing code.

Don't. Waste. Time. 15 years ago

I think lean methodology goes best with this. What matters in initial stages is working prototype, validation and then MVP. Most of the initial time is supposed to be dedicated to this than spending it with operations.

I think you can try out forum as service. We've been servicing our clients for 2 years and had faced need of this. Well integrated under custom domain, white labeled and customized forums are something that I won't mind paying for.

This is true with assumption that both products are offered in same segment of the market where cost per click is same. Often, products with $2 pricing are offered to much wider demographics than products with $64 pricing. For lower priced product there can be bulk targeting strategy as well where word of mouth and viral sign ups can also be seen. Also as pricing increases you go into B2B sales where complete different marketing/sales strategy needs to be adopted.

Obviously that seems logical. Tomorrow if G+ opens ad platform and Faecbook starts advertising I'm sure google won't approve those ads. Its against policy as well, any direct threat to their business will not be approved.

Actually its very oddly distributed in India. Being all economy centered in cities, it depends where land is located. Land is very cheap in rural areas but highest valued in cities like mumbai, delhi. In fact land in mumbai has become most expensive in the world now a days.

Optimizely. I can't remember other big ones but there more. App engine has proven to be serving millions of requests per day without any issue. There are some case studies around, also some web caches hosted on app engine.

I'm not sure if he meant this but Microsoft is investor in Facebook so apparently Facebook getting access to the Skype technology.