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Re: Introducing Yesware Mail Merge

Seth Blank — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:05:54 -0000

I'd love to be able to use mail merge from an existing contact group within gmail.

It's super annoying to take an already existing list, export to CSV, clean up all the fields properly (sigh, google export), and then re-import to mail merge when yesware's already sitting in gmail with access to the contact list.

Either that or an automated tool on yesware that'll take a google contact list export and clean it up to a usable state for the mail merge tool ;-)

Thanks in advance for any help!

Re: B|P + FB = OMG

Seth Blank — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:11:35 -0000

So. Damn. Awesome. Congrats guys!!!

Re: http://jtaggert.tumblr.com/post/15254345586

Seth Blank — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:56:34 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Trove

Seth Blank — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:46:37 -0000

Hah. We just posted the results exactly as polldaddy gave them to us. But, uh, valid point ;-)

Re: 20 Year Old Founder Jessica Mah Raises Over $1 Million For Indinero

Seth Blank — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:43:49 -0000

Congrats Jessica! This is very well deserved!

Re: http://nwc2.tumblr.com/post/556552799

Seth Blank — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:09:32 -0000

Lojacked members + theme songs

Re: Stop Comparing. Start Building.

Seth Blank — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:09:27 -0000

For what it's worth, I left NYC for SV in early 2006 because at that point NY just didn't feel it could sustain a really viable tech startup and associated community whose ambition wasn't quick flip.

But after having spent nearly three months back in NY at the end of 2009, I can honestly say that the situation in NY has already changed dramatically for the better.

NY even has one thing going for it that SV sorely lacks: deep associations into non-technical markets. For instance, if a founder is SV is starting a health care company, there is a large chance she must scour her network, send intros, rent a car to go meet someone, etc. just to get to the resource if that resource doesn't look like "tech/hacker god". In NY, that person's at the coffee shop at the corner, or the person sitting next to you at NYTM can introduce you to the person you're looking for in one shot.

To put it another way: SV networks are deeply focused back on themselves. It's a tight mesh where the majority of the outlying connections focus back into the thick of the web. NY's networks are strongly externally focused. The edges of the network reach out into into a gazillion places, health care, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, fashion, the list goes on and on.

SV is a great place to start a deeply tech-focused business. But if you want to start a business that caters to a non-technical industry, I'd say NY is skyrocketing to the top of the list (if it's not already there) of places to start that company.

Sorry for the NY/SV comparison. They're just different environments with different strengths. And NY is much stronger now than when I left almost four years ago. I'd love to come home and start something new in the future (and I'd be comfortable doing it now)!

Seth / @AntiFreeze

Re: Getting Computer Science Into Middle School

Seth Blank — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:59:57 -0000

I can't recommend Zamansky highly enough. Definitely reach out to him!

He fought for, and got, intro CS to become a required course for all freshmen at Stuy. As a result, a whole world of students got introduced to and excited about CS.

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

Seth Blank — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:59:20 -0000

GetSatisfaction link to restore @ replies here: http://getsatisfaction.com/...

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

Seth Blank — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:14:39 -0000

Right, but even then, just because a tweet starts with an @ doesn't mean it's a direct reply to that person!

For instance: @orian just told me the funniest thing: he values my advice!

No one would see that!

And an easy way to tweet that differently and keep it short enough for twitter? You tell me, I'm at a loss.

I think the whole filtering replies thing in any way should be ditched and we should all just seem the uncensored streams of those whom we follow!

Re: Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings

Seth Blank — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:06:15 -0000

Amen. The problem wasn't the setting, it was the complete lack of a reasonable explanation of it on twitter's end. Removing the setting (that brought me tremendous value and allowed me to discover new and interesting people my friends were having conversations with) totally cripples the most valuable part of twitter for me: that discovery of the interesting.

Bad bad bad idea twitter. Way to cripple your service.