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giftrocket.com
Company blog · giftrocket.com/blogbusinessstartups
giftrocket.com is the company blog at giftrocket.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Y Combinator application checklist and for startup marketing ideas, such as a method for finding bloggers to contact for publicity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-11
- YC Application Checklist (apps due in 1 week)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
- GiftRocket - Gift Cards to Anywhere2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-23
What Hacker News says?
I recently saw an interesting strategy for finding bloggers to contact: "I wrote some code that pulled the top 500 environmental blogs and their descriptions from Technorati along with their site descriptions." This is quoted from: http://www.giftrocket.com/why-marketing-bd-should-learn-to-c... . I intend on trying this to get some publicity for my sock subscription site - sockpanda.com
Comment linking /why-marketing-bd-should-learn-to-code
on “Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy”Submitted Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For as a story · 207 points
HN discussionGiftRocket (giftrocket.com)- San Francisco (no remote, no H1B) Community Manager- employee #1 We're a small YC-backed company (W11) working in the gift card space. We have been growing like crazy over the past year. We're looking for a technically minded community manager to help us handle customer support, gather and analyze feedback, and help with portions of our marketing efforts. The position is also employee #1…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)”Submitted Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after) as a story · 207 points
HN discussionFor all those applying, this blog post was really helpful when we applied. We were in the W12 batch. http://www.giftrocket.com/yc-application-checklist
Comment linking /yc-application-checklist
on “Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding”Submitted Don't Burn Bridges: A Guide to Networking in Silicon Valley as a story · 168 points
HN discussionYou can buy your brother a GiftRocket to a place right next to where you live, like a coffeeshop down the street. Yelp also has a lot non-businesses. For example, here's one in the middle of the Presidio in SF: http://www.giftrocket.com/send-a-gift-to/inspiration-point-p...
Comment linking /send-a-gift-to/inspiration-point-presidio-san-francisco
on “Meet Y Combinator's Latest Class”Submitted Does Paul Graham Get What He Asks For? [infographic] as a story · 149 points
HN discussionA few observations: 1) GiftRocket http://www.giftrocket.com/ Why would I use this? Why not just give cash? I can see how some people might think of giving cash as tacky or thoughtless. Is GiftRocket supposed to overcome that? I get the feeling that there's something I've overlooked here. Feel free to set me straight. 2) GrubWithUs http://www.grubwith.us/ This is fascinating. They're not just trying to start a compan…
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on “Meet Y Combinator's Latest Class”Submitted YC Application Checklist (apps due in 1 week) as a story · 110 points
HN discussionhttp://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/k0xm5/practical_ad... http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/yc-application-checklist http://www.quora.com/How-should-I-fill-the-application-form-... http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-advice-for-a-startup-a... http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/ycombinator-application-guid... and, of course: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
Comment linking /blog/yc-application-checklist
on “YC Application Resources”Submitted The Underground Guide to Press Coverage for Startups as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSimilar to it, but different in the sense that these aren't grand projects like solving global warming or developing artificial meat. For example a sample post could be like this. https://www.giftrocket.com/blog/startup-ideas-we-would-pay-f...
Comment linking /blog/startup-ideas-we-would-pay-for
on “Ask HN: Reverse Kickstarter for Product/Services”Submitted YC Interview Stories and Advice from 7 Companies in YC W11 as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why your startup should never release numbers as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gift Cards Are Worth Less Than You Think [data viz] as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Bombed Middle School Art But Still Designed A Remarkable Website as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Bombed Art Class But Still Designed a Remarkable Website as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Send digital gift cards within email clients as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restaurant gift card market bigger than NASA space exploration budget as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is the future of infographics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GiftRocket - Gift Cards to Anywhere as a story · 2 points
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