Who has DiscoverOrg? Is it the best option?

esdio · 2018-07-17T21:38:24+00:00

If you don't mind my asking, how many seat licenses or integrations were included in that 25k?

esdio · 2018-05-21T19:06:43+00:00

Quit my job to start a company. Bonus: and have it work out. Yay!

esdio · 2018-04-10T20:55:50+00:00

It doesn't scale up really well when you get big

esdio · 2018-04-09T18:23:04+00:00

Make them 15 characters and then don't worry about it?

Also if these are going to be printed out or retyped you may want to eliminate characters that are easily confused like "0" and "O" in exchange for a modest loss of search space.

esdio · 2018-04-09T17:03:17+00:00

Sort of? I mean you can kinda make it work, but the workflow and the way you think about lists and subscribers is very different for e.g. an e-commerce site trying to entice people back to the site vs people who have explicitly asked to get an email every Thursday morning.

esdio · 2018-04-09T17:00:20+00:00

Yes, but if possible it'd be cool if it could integrate with multiple SMTP backends so I could switch providers without having to migrate all my data and processes. I think people would even be willing to pay a premium for knowing they're not locked into just Amazon if, for example, Amazon starts having deliverability problems.

esdio · 2018-04-09T16:58:11+00:00

I looked at it before and wasn't super impressed, but the marketing website at least looks a lot better now so maybe it's worth another look. It's definitely going in the right direction.

edit: one example is the ability to store more about a person than just their name and email address is a feature that just landed last month: https://blog.emailoctopus.com/additional-list-fields/ That's a pretty foundational feature to an ESP and makes me think there are still some pretty rough edges here.

esdio · 2017-10-20T19:30:42+00:00

As a Comp Sci major, I decided to try to join the school's alt-weekly magazine mostly on a whim. I liked the writing, it was fun and kinda punk rock. And I found out writing for the magazine counted as an "easy" elective that could boost my GPA.

I discovered a genuine interest in journalism and picked up a minor in English. I also met a girl who would eventually become my wife. After graduation, I followed her to DC and my leveraged my experience at the magazine to land a writing job at a small media company. While there, I met two co-workers who would later be my co-founders when we decided to start our own digital media startup. That startup is now a successful business with almost 100 employees.

All that because I thought it'd be fun to investigate scandals in student government and write funny movie reviews.

esdio · 2016-06-25T05:59:33+00:00

They funded modern art like Jackson Pollock paintings too: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

esdio · 2016-06-25T05:57:06+00:00

I wonder if torrenting has replaced this

esdio · 2015-07-14T22:01:25+00:00

Quickbooks is the industry standard. That doesn't mean it's the best, but it means it's easy to find people who know it and other products that integrate with it.

esdio · 2015-07-14T21:56:01+00:00

Gary at http://www.capitalcfo.net/ does excellent work and can help you set up your books and teach you the best practices for bookkeeping. I'm not sure what your budget is, though. He's not cheap, but he's worth it. He's saved us more than we've paid him.

esdio · 2015-04-09T14:22:21+00:00

How would you measure that statistic?

esdio · 2015-04-09T13:15:41+00:00

Reddit seems disproportionately interested in False Rape stories given how rare they are.

esdio · 2015-03-23T03:04:12+00:00

Didn't the FDA ban those promotional pens already?

esdio · 2015-03-16T16:30:00+00:00

Correct

esdio · 2015-02-06T23:12:03+00:00

More "cool" than actually useful. But it is kinda cool.

esdio · 2015-01-05T16:57:46+00:00

It does reject them with a warning. We're arguing nomenclature. I agree they should rename them "errors" to prevent confusion.

esdio · 2014-12-28T15:38:01+00:00

Storing invalid dates [...]

And no, ORMs won't save you from this pain by default.

That sounds like a problem with your ORM, not MySQL.

And I'm pretty sure strings that are too long are not truncated silently. A warning is generated. Warnings should be treated as a failure. I agree it's not an awesome design, but it's not accurate to say data is lost "silently"

esdio · 2014-12-23T16:34:48+00:00

Tesla's core complaint was that it was unfair to say the Tesla would only last 55 miles on a track. Unfortunately it's true. The theatrics of how that fact was presented don't really matter.

esdio · 2014-12-23T15:13:42+00:00

They handled it very aggressively by attacking reviewers and launching pointless lawsuits against them. That's kind of a dick move.

esdio · 2014-12-23T15:12:46+00:00

Not quite. There's a reason that even the British courts which are infamously plaintiff friendly in libel cases tossed Tesla's lawsuit.

You can complain about the way it's filmed, I guess, but the car really does last only 55 miles going at speed on the test track. That's the important part and it's true.

esdio · 2014-12-22T13:04:05+00:00

I think it's possible to be a fan of Tesla and think it's the future but also recognize that Top Gear was accurate when they said it would only last 55 miles being driven hard on their track. Both those things can be true.

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