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Hmm... I'm Seeing Interactive and not an "HN'er". Yeah, we're from the Austin area but I challenge you to find a start-up anywhere with 250 newspaper relations

Hmm... I'm Seeing Interactive and not an "HN'er". Yeah, we're from the Austin area but I challenge you to find a start-up anywhere with 250 newspaper relationships.

fnid2 17y ago
I remember a conversation here a little while ago with someone from SI. It was many months ago and one of the gentlemen, maybe it was you, maybe your partner -- iirc, both or perhaps it was 2 out of three members of the team at that time participated in the thread, I can't remember the specifics. But you, or he, had been working really hard in the evenings, but it's hard to sell stuff to newspapers in the evenings, and was wondering if he should quit his job and focus on it or keep working on it. There were two of you really involved at that time or maybe two. It was a long time ago, it's kind of fuzzy. I think you were making a few thousand a month at that time and I thought that may be enough to take a chance, but there was a family and a mortgage and credit cards to be concerned with and political capital was running out. You were in the valley of death it seemed and I wanted to get you through it, so you'd keep going. I remember commenting to someone and then someone else coming in and saying, "I'm the business partner." And your name, Lloyd is very familiar. Anyway, I suggested to talk to the employer and see if you/he could take a day off a week and focus on sales during business hours and see if you could build up enough revenue. Unfortunately, the person felt insecure about that idea because lots of concessions had been made by the employer already and it was doubtful that more were available and there was a lot of tension. So I looked up the company and you had three or four products that you were selling to traditional news papers and you were really passionate about saving local news and I was too and I thought it was good idea and I wanted you to succeed, so congratulations! I think you are on your way! :) EDIT: Yep, here's the thread. I was just fnid then, but I lost the password: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035
- lloydarmbrust 17y ago
  Right. I guess I don't understand what part of all this makes you "not really impressed" with us? The other companies in the list you actually gave reasons, but with us you just keep referring to this previous conversation and I do not understand your point.
  - fnid2 17y ago
    I simply didn't remember your name. Months ago when I looked at your website and commented with you here, I was impressed. I was not impressed with SI when I just read the 2 or 3 sentence description, only because of multiple coincidental reasons. First, I didn't remember that SI was your company and I was impressed with your company, so my thought was, why is this company in the list better than the company I remember chatting with a few months back that was struggling, yet passionate and interested in saving local news. I was disappointed that companies like yours weren't represented in the list. It just so happens that the company I was reading about was your company. So you're an interesting case, because I knew about you and knowing about you was why I wasn't impressed with the SI I was reading about, simply because I knew of an impressive other company in the space. It supports what pg is saying, that with deeper investigation, some of the unimpressive companies become impressive, because I had done deeper investigation on you months before and was impressed.
    - lloydarmbrust 17y ago
      Got ya.

Hmm... I'm Seeing Interactive and not an "HN'er". Yeah, we're from the Austin area but I challenge you to find a start-up anywhere with 250 newspaper relationships.

fnid2 17y ago

I remember a conversation here a little while ago with someone from SI. It was many months ago and one of the gentlemen, maybe it was you, maybe your partner -- iirc, both or perhaps it was 2 out of three members of the team at that time participated in the thread, I can't remember the specifics. But you, or he, had been working really hard in the evenings, but it's hard to sell stuff to newspapers in the evenings, and was wondering if he should quit his job and focus on it or keep working on it. There were two of you really involved at that time or maybe two. It was a long time ago, it's kind of fuzzy. I think you were making a few thousand a month at that time and I thought that may be enough to take a chance, but there was a family and a mortgage and credit cards to be concerned with and political capital was running out. You were in the valley of death it seemed and I wanted to get you through it, so you'd keep going. I remember commenting to someone and then someone else coming in and saying, "I'm the business partner." And your name, Lloyd is very familiar. Anyway, I suggested to talk to the employer and see if you/he could take a day off a week and focus on sales during business hours and see if you could build up enough revenue. Unfortunately, the person felt insecure about that idea because lots of concessions had been made by the employer already and it was doubtful that more were available and there was a lot of tension. So I looked up the company and you had three or four products that you were selling to traditional news papers and you were really passionate about saving local news and I was too and I thought it was good idea and I wanted you to succeed, so congratulations! I think you are on your way! :) EDIT: Yep, here's the thread. I was just fnid then, but I lost the password: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035

lloydarmbrust 17y ago
Right. I guess I don't understand what part of all this makes you "not really impressed" with us? The other companies in the list you actually gave reasons, but with us you just keep referring to this previous conversation and I do not understand your point.
- fnid2 17y ago
  I simply didn't remember your name. Months ago when I looked at your website and commented with you here, I was impressed. I was not impressed with SI when I just read the 2 or 3 sentence description, only because of multiple coincidental reasons. First, I didn't remember that SI was your company and I was impressed with your company, so my thought was, why is this company in the list better than the company I remember chatting with a few months back that was struggling, yet passionate and interested in saving local news. I was disappointed that companies like yours weren't represented in the list. It just so happens that the company I was reading about was your company. So you're an interesting case, because I knew about you and knowing about you was why I wasn't impressed with the SI I was reading about, simply because I knew of an impressive other company in the space. It supports what pg is saying, that with deeper investigation, some of the unimpressive companies become impressive, because I had done deeper investigation on you months before and was impressed.
  - lloydarmbrust 17y ago
    Got ya.