<story><title>Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? MixRank (YC S11) Is A Spy Tool For AdSense</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/want-to-see-which-ads-perform-best-yc-backed-mixrank-is-a-spy-tool-for-adsense/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>il</author><text>I&apos;m one of the founders of MixRank (we&apos;re in the YC S11 batch). If you guys have any questions you can post them here or send them to the email in my profile.&lt;p&gt;The part that TechCrunch left out was that the idea for MixRank started as an Offer HN post(remember those?) where 150 startups asked me for marketing advice:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I realized that I was giving the same basic suggestions over and over again, and wanted to productize and mass produce strategies for building successful paid traffic campaigns- which usually involves doing market research and figuring out what&apos;s currently working in the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robryan</author><text>With this and other keyword spy like tools I always wonder whether they are at any time likely to get blocked by google. Do you guys have any assurance from google that what you are doing is allowed?</text></comment>
<story><title>Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? MixRank (YC S11) Is A Spy Tool For AdSense</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/want-to-see-which-ads-perform-best-yc-backed-mixrank-is-a-spy-tool-for-adsense/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>il</author><text>I&apos;m one of the founders of MixRank (we&apos;re in the YC S11 batch). If you guys have any questions you can post them here or send them to the email in my profile.&lt;p&gt;The part that TechCrunch left out was that the idea for MixRank started as an Offer HN post(remember those?) where 150 startups asked me for marketing advice:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839163&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I realized that I was giving the same basic suggestions over and over again, and wanted to productize and mass produce strategies for building successful paid traffic campaigns- which usually involves doing market research and figuring out what&apos;s currently working in the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callmeed</author><text>How do we know you won&apos;t get AcquHired and shut down the service down like AdGrok?&lt;p&gt;Yes, I&apos;m being snarky but all these talent acquisitions erode my trust that startups are in this for the long haul. Why give you my time or data if you won&apos;t be here in 9 months?</text></comment>