Archive for: September, 2008

How Jesus Christ can improve your Conversions.

September 30th, 2008 10 Comments Noah

I was outside of the ACL concert last weekend and this Christian guy came up to my friend and me to convert us to Christianity. Being the great Jew that I am he gave up instantly but he came back to me with a killer question. pic of me at corcovado (christ) in brazil Do [...]

Exclusive: Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed;/

September 26th, 2008 25 Comments Noah

All day on Techcrunch, Techmeme and other tech sites there is a good coverage and some not so good about start-ups that are doomed for failure. Surprisingly, they all missed the story of my resident in the dorms from Berkeley, Johns Wu, who by himself created bankaholic.com and sold it to bankrate.com (a public company) [...]

Let's Tattoo my Body. Ads on my blog?

September 24th, 2008 10 Comments Noah

Okay, it’s not exactly what you think. I love tattoos but how would you feel if I offered $50 for you to have a tattoo of my face on your arm. Any takers? This is what advertising on your blog is about. Someone emailed me this I’m at that point where I haven’t blogged for [...]

What was your first job?

September 22nd, 2008 58 Comments Noah

link At 13 I started working at a Popcorn stand in Vallco Mall. Yours?

How to Usability Test your Site for Free

September 16th, 2008 18 Comments Noah

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. At Mint, Aaron (CEO) was very very methodical and even flew in his dad who is a usability expert. We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles. This was extremely useful in identifying the types of users we may have on the site and especially [...]

Email Deliverability Hack: Adding mark as spam in your own email

September 11th, 2008 5 Comments Noah

With our new startup one of our BIGGEST challenges is getting email into inboxes, and we just started sending them:O If you’ve ever ran a website with more than 20 users, I am guessing you know my pain. I know Ted has written up some great tips on making your email work. So has Auren. [...]

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