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Spokeo tracks friends across different social networks. This blog talks about our experience in building Spokeo from the grounds up, and our thoughts on the social network market.
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Ad Model vs. Premium Model
As most of you would agree, the Web 2.0 era is long over. Web 2.0 was categorized by ad-based business models. Everything has to be free, and advertisers would somehow pay the bills. We entrepreneurs chased after user counts, and th...
How many users does Spokeo have?
I hear that question all the time. And I have finally made my peace with it. User growth is good. However, obsessing over user growth in a product under development is bad because it breeds unhealthy stress and leads to shortsighted decisions. I rea...
Our friends at Midomi
There’s a proverb, "Birds of a feather flock together" (Chinese has a similar proverb, "one takes on the color of one’s company"). When you see many of your friends have started their own ventures, you’ll feel an in...
5 + 1 = 6
If you happened to check out our company page today, you’d notice that Spokeo got a great marketing boost in Mital. She is very lively, a fireball of energy, a human Mount Vesuvius. She is exactly what we are not, so it’s a great fit, a...
Grading Spokeo - 50%
Ten rules is a wonderful post for startups written by a great web entrepreneur. I’ve read it many times and even taped it to my wall, but I am still not happy with our performance on several rules. I only present the rules here. Please refer...
Slow Creeping Growth
Slow creeping growth… Does that even sound like a good thing? Yes! After months of reworking the idea, tweaking the usage flow, and streamlining the interface, we have advanced out of stagnation. During our monthly review today, we official...
Customer Service
This past week I visited some family in Asia. For lunch one day, we went for a meal of spicy noodles and pork dumplings at a small family restaurant. When we were done eating I raised my hand to ask for the check. A second later, a waitress said &...
Awesome Users
Once in a while I come across an awesome user. Sometimes this user helps us nail down a feature set with his feedback. Sometimes this user writes an FAQ section more clearly that we originally wrote it. This time, flameape was able to find two bug...
Our Ears Are Finally Wide Open
Our website has been live for 8 months, and I have to admit, we’ve been terrible in customer service. We’ve read your feedback only to do… absolutely nothing about it. We’re ashamed about this episode, and before you give u...
