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Re:Do you use FriendFeed? on Thursday June 05, 2008 @04:31AM (#209779)
http://friendfeed.com/nickhac
Re:Do you use FriendFeed? on Thursday June 05, 2008 @04:30AM (#209778)
I love friend feed :)

Ask YC: How to setup a virtual office in the Bay Area?

Posted by nickhac on Sunday June 01, 2008 @11:23AM
from the self-post dept.

We are an Aussie startup and are looking to setup a basic presence in San Francisco/Bay Area.Basically we just need a legimitate looking address for the website and for mail, aswell as a SF (415) phone number that can either be redirected to Australia or a low cost answering service.We are on a tight budget as you can imagine.Can anyone recommend a Mailing Service or Virtual Office service that...

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Re:Ask YC: What are the best movies, short films, documentaries about ... on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @08:56AM (#151959)
Hackers and Hackers 2
Re:Ask: OK, I've got my Web 2.0 website. How do I promote it? on Sunday March 23, 2008 @08:17AM (#143959)
Hire a Startup Marketing company :)

We work with Australian Web 2.0 startups to help them grow traffic, conversions and customers.

It seems in most scenarios the skillset needed to build a great web service, and the skillset required to market, promote and sell that service are be totally different.

Something to be wary of tho, the majority of PR/Marketing/Advertising companies really dont get startups at all, and can be a very fast way to drain your scare capital without offering measurable results.

Any questions, happy to help out.

http://www.ShiftedPixels.com.au

Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when hacking? on Sunday March 09, 2008 @08:49AM (#132462)
psytrance or any kind of hypnotic techno music when programming
Re:How to be productive during boring meetings? on Monday March 03, 2008 @08:28AM (#128039)
yagibear, are u in syd?
Re:Ask YC: What CRM do you use? on Thursday February 28, 2008 @09:33AM (#125449)
You got me thinking so i wrote a blog post about our CRM experience.

Thanks for the inspiration YC :)

http://www.shiftedpixels.com.au/blog/2008/02/choosing-crm-fo...

Re:Ask YC: What CRM do you use? on Thursday February 28, 2008 @09:09AM (#125438)
We evaluated SugarCRM and i have heard at least 20+ reccomendtations to use it.

In the end we went with salesforce.com and our guys love it... The outlook integration has made it easy to bake into everyday processes (along with xobni for search etc).

That said ideally we would like to see something more holistic from CRM.

It seems most "CRM" products are really just great at sales pipeline management, and dont really cover the end to end business efficiency features we really need...

Eg Cross Channel Marketing Conversion linked into the sales pipeline management as well Project management, Timesheets, Invoicing, Profitability Reporting, Customer satisfaction surveys etc

Solving the problem of how to best acquire customers is a great problem fix, but it creates a whole new bunch of problems around making sure you actually have really happy customers that are profitable to you (which is just as important to success and may be even harder to get right)

Anyone have any reccomendations for this?

Re:Ask News.YC: Do you know of a world-class startup focused PR firm? on Monday February 18, 2008 @09:05AM (#118112)
I dont know if we are "world class" - but at www.ShiftedPixels.com , we work with a number of early stage technology/web startups and deliver measurable, profitable results in both Traditional and Online PR.

We are startup people ourselves and know the pains in dealing with PR and Marketing jerks. They shirk accountability, they don't get the web and they avoid emerging trends. And worst of all - they still think a 50k+ launch party will make your startup great.

Let us know if you have any questions, we would be happy to have a friendly chat about how shifted pixels online pr can help your startup.

Nick - www.ShiftedPixels.com