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Get out of your inbox: meet people at conferences!
Communicating electronically, be it via email, Twitter or anything else, is never quite as good as meeting people in person. Rapportive shows your contacts' happy smiling faces in your email, which...
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Rapportive for developers: Bitbucket, GitHub & Stack Overflow
Here at Rapportive we're a pretty technical bunch of people, and we spend a lot of time communicating with similar people: many of our friends are developers, job applicants are developers, the people...
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Your address book and inbox: together, at last.
I love business cards. There, I've said it. Business cards have names and photos. They have jobs and companies. They have email addresses, phone numbers, and wide variety of usernames. Business cards...
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Claim your email addresses!
Hurrah! Rapportive users now lookup more than 50 million profiles every month. We want Rapportive to be the best way to understand and connect with your contacts. We also want lots of people to use...
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Write better emails: be astute, personal, and effective
When somebody emails you, Rapportive is great! You can immediately see what people look like, where they are based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. And you...
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Rapportive Acquired By LinkedIn!
Hey there! This is Rahul from Rapportive. Our vision is to make you brilliant with people. Not just good, not just effective, but actually brilliant. That's our dream. Since we accidentally launched,...
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The new Gmail menu bar
Today Google released a new design for the menu bar on Gmail to a small percentage of users. It looks nice, but sadly it also had the effect of breaking Rapportive for those users who had been randomly...
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Welcome to The New Rapportive
Today, we are launching a new design for Rapportive! We put a huge amount of effort into this design, because we deeply believe in great user experience, and we know that our users really appreciate it...
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Rapportive integrates Gmail People Widget
Google has just announced a new feature in Gmail called the "People Widget". The widget is a sidebar which shows you job titles, calendar availability, recent conversations, shared Google Docs, and...
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Follow, Reply, and Retweet from Gmail!
We want Rapportive to be the best way for you to connect with your contacts. This is why, since our accidental launch, we've shown your contacts' recent tweets:Our Twitter widget has always given you...
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Down at the Open Angel Forum
After launching in March, attracting 10,000+ users on the first day and many more since, Martin, Sam and I decided to raise seed funding for Rapportive. Anybody who has raised funding knows that it...
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10% of your emails aren't from real people
Email can be a pretty painful experience. We all get a ton of emails; some of them are personal messages from real people, some are notifications sent by a service, some are newsletters. Some are...
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The Accidental Launch
We accidentally got 10,000+ users in 24 hours, and funding from Y Combinator just a few days later. This post tells that story. We were determined to take part in Y Combinator, so we spent weeks...
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Effortless Scheduling with Tungle.me
Scheduling a meeting shouldn't take longer than actually having the meeting. Yet we spend so much of our time playing calendar battleships. Back and forth our emails go, trying to find that one...
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Will Freemium Work for You?
Ruben Gamez says freemium doesn't work. Yet Dropbox, MailChimp and Evernote say freemium does work. So, does freemium work or not? This is the wrong question. The right question is: when does freemium...
View ArticleGrow your network with Rapportive
We've never had more demands on our time, or more ways to spend it. It's never been easier to neglect things which aren't urgent, but which are good for us. Like eating well, exercising, or filing...
View ArticleBuild Rapport over Facebook
We believe that companies will increasingly compete on treating people excellently. How do you treat people excellently? You respond to people quickly. You help people feel like they belong. You...
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