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Re: Trading Private Company Stock Though Contracts - The Gong Show

immad — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:35:46 -0000

What happens if the exit happens and the deal terms are never made fully public?

Re: The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World - Immad.me

immad — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:58:21 -0000

That only happened in March so I doubt its that impactful yet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World - Immad.me

immad — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:42:30 -0000

The problem is patents don't protect startups since startups don't really have the ability to go after incumbents in lawsuits.

So the only people they help is the large companies with massive pools of patents.

Re: The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World - Immad.me

immad — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:41:32 -0000

Really good point about iPhone only being out 5 years.

Its at least a compromise from what the current position is and still gives reasonable protection to some harder to market ideas like hardware.

Re: stdout.heyzap • heyzap's engineering blog

immad — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:56:35 -0000

Putting the links under a "links" key is a really good idea. That part was unclean in the API. I will try to incorporate it too.

Re: stdout.heyzap • heyzap's engineering blog

immad — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:01:40 -0000

Good point. Going to fix that in a bit. It should work in general if you just don't pass in .json since it defaults to JSON, but I see how a plugin could do it.

Re: 4 versus 1 (Buttons): Usability on Android and iPhone

immad — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:30:43 -0000

I think Android should keep the home and back button and drop the menu and search button.

Search only makes sense in a subset of situations and you never know when the universal search button is available. Since no one uses menu all the functionality is duplicated somewhere on the screen for good apps so its redundant.

The back button is a big usability win over iPhone imo.

Re: SoundCloud

immad — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:02:39 -0000

What do you mean by "audio exhaust" from gaming?

Re: Simple Way to Extract GET Params from a JavaScript Script Tag

immad — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:05:29 -0000

Great solution James. We should use that more in Heyzap :)

Re: Presentation and Pitching skills for Entrepreneurs

immad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:17:15 -0000

You often have different audience types in larger presentations. Main thing
is to convey how exciting the market/team/product is and not go in to all
the specific financing details. Just say you will have more time to go in to
details in follow up meetings. Generally if its a business competition than
what the audience wants to know should be similar to what you would tell
investors.

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:59:22 -0000

Good point about AOL.

I have mixed feelings on AOL. The have made some bad moves (buying Bebo and not doing much with it)m but they do other things right (like games.com is good and AIM is still doing well).

They are really low right now and have a lot of users and do . I would have probably put them in the Neutral section, if they start innovating more and using there user-base they could go higher.

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:54:11 -0000

Which infrastructure companies did you have in mind?

Agreed that the second question would be interesting. I should try answering that.

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:59:30 -0000

yum yum. Happy new year!

1. Agreed completely. If I had time and was actively investing I would look at more financial fundamentals. You can take this post more as a review of the companies I think have successful positioning/strategy than as a stock analysis. Though not that many people invest in the 10 year mind frame any way.

2. Yes, they are awesome.

3. Reading Fail.

Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:59:49 -0000

Oh yes. I love Skype. Adding it now

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:57:16 -0000

Oh wow, how did I miss that. Removed. Thanks

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:25:04 -0000

Did I say they did? I don't understand your question.

Re: Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FACB?)

immad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:26:44 -0000

Wow, good point. Corrected.

Re: Heyzap Viral and Analytics Products Unleashed!

immad — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:46:17 -0000

Hi,

We just went live with custom event tracking. Tackles most of the interesting stats that you might want. More to come!

Cheers

Re: Heyzap Viral and Analytics Products Unleashed!

immad — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:25:57 -0000

Hi,

Custom events are high on our list.

Currently you can do that to some extent using Heyzap Viral, i.e. you can fire custom events and see stats for them (you can suppress the viral popup if you don't want that)

Full support of custom events with time tracking, uniques, funnels etc are on the Analytics road map. Let us know if you try it out and tell us what you think, it is trivial to drop in to games.

Re: New Community Area for Developers and Publishers

immad — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:54:19 -0000

Hi Tobias,

Thanks. We have a ton more features to add but we are very excited about flash games+MTX and working hard.

Give us an email as you are developing your game team (AT) heyzap.com. Happy to help with ideas on MTX and help integrating.

Re: How OpenID works

immad — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:48:19 -0000

Hi,
Can you try the forgotten password procedure through heyzap.com/forgotten

What page can you not log in to? What error do you see.

<http: heyzap.com="" forgotten="">Cheers

Re: Heyzap.com Looking for an Engineer!

immad — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:50 -0000

This is for an onsite job.

Cheers

Re: Heyzap story Q1-Q2 2009 :)

immad — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:14:40 -0000

Once you played a few thousand games you get over it :P.

I will try to write more in depth stuff, but in aiming for that I end up writing nothing, so I will try to reach a good balance.

Cheers

Re: Heyzap Payments Launched!

immad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:49:34 -0000

Thanks for the comment axcho. Correction made.

We are equally excited. Talk soon.

Re: Heyzap

immad — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:05:46 -0000

That is a great idea. The game could easily swap certain graphics to change the "ad". It will probably take a while to get to critical mass with advertisers and game developers to make such a system.