ChristianPerry

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Ask HN: What are some of your current startup ideas?
1 points by ChristianPerry 16y ago|0 comments
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by ChristianPerry 16y ago
I've mediated for ten years. My grandma started practicing zen meditation in the 1950s, when it first was introduced to the US. She taught my mom, who's now a teacher, and introduced me to the practice when I was sixteen. Meditation, I find
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by ChristianPerry 16y ago
I moved from SF to Boston about six months ago. SF is a great place to build a startup, but a lousy place to live. I never felt like I could really be myself there (despite meeting hundreds of supposedly like-minded people). Bostonians are
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Yet another reason why Paul Graham is more leet than you(imgur.com)
5 points by ChristianPerry 16y ago|0 comments
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Analytics & Ethics: Is Big Brother Watching?(brickroll.com)
1 points by ChristianPerry 17y ago|0 comments
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
You're absolutely right. This was one of our biggest failing points from the time we started. We built a cool, graceful, elegant solution... that ultimately solved little.
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
4) Yes, you're right. Naysayers do abound. I refer to the world's "collective" opinion because, yes, it's all too easy to find a token naysayer who's eager to shoot you down. That said, once you have a beta out, or some kind of working conc
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
You're right -- "founder" is a tough measurement. A lot of times -- as in the case of my own company, RFOP -- one person starts a company, sees a bit of success, then quickly brings on a small group of peers who join with the "co-founder" m
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What I Learned From My Startup Failing(snapsummit.com)
72 points by ChristianPerry 17y ago|27 comments
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How many people are willing to give up their day job to risk a startup?(trogger.com)
13 points by ChristianPerry 17y ago|11 comments
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
I disagree with your assessment of sociology as a discipline "filled to the brim with Humanities-Style-Thinking." Sociology uses rigorous, analytical, and quantitative methods to shine insight on the modern condition. It allows one to bette
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
Josh Porter (a social design expert and author of the blog Bokardo) told an interesting story about Amazon. He was doing some user testing for a competing e-commerce site, and the tester he was interviewing asked if they could go to Amazon.
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
I felt the effect of being in Silicon Valley the moment I moved out here. The area is not only teeming with endless talent, energy, and enthusiasm, but (and this is important) we have an entire culture that makes this talent, energy, and en
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised. I saw James Hong from HotORNot talk about virtual gifts a while ago. You know what one of the biggest sources of revenue on their site was? Flowers. You could send three different kinds of flowers to someone -- a ch
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by ChristianPerry 17y ago
Silly as they may seem, gift cards are a $46.9 billion industry: http://blogs.creditcards.com/2008/04/fed-study-deflates-size... Now you've just given me a business idea: a gift card that works across different virtual worlds.
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What do people think about paying for virtual gifts / goods?
9 points by ChristianPerry 17y ago|14 comments
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
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Startup Tropes(trogger.com)
1 points by ChristianPerry 18y ago|1 comments
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
I agree. I ran a company that started making serious revenue its second year in operation. My partner and I made the choice then of paying ourselves salaries, keeping a considerable portion of the revenue in our business bank account. It wa
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Eight Ways to Unwind from Work and Relax(troggerpath.wordpress.com)
2 points by ChristianPerry 18y ago|0 comments
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
You're absolutely right. (I'm the author of the post, btw.) I've brought up these issues with Facebook in the past, and I've yet to receive satisfactory answers. Using FBConnect is a calculated risk for us. It gives us the chance to grow fa
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Pros and Cons of Building a Site around FBConnect(troggerpath.wordpress.com)
25 points by ChristianPerry 18y ago|7 comments
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
Yup. The takeaway from our post is simple: if you're working with people from successful companies, mention them. If your lead engineer was a high-ranking team lead at Google, that carries more weight than if his latest work was, let's say,
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
Hey, just to make sure credit goes where credit is due, this post was written by my awesome co-founder, Cassie :)
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The First Investor Meeting(troggerpath.wordpress.com)
14 points by ChristianPerry 18y ago|5 comments
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by ChristianPerry 18y ago
I haven't used mTurk personally, but I know people who have, and I've looked a lot into their model. Here's the deal: For a small amount of money (1 to 5 cents, or more if you like), you can pay people to take a specific action on your site
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by ChristianPerry 19y ago
Congrats, guys! Getting in the WSJ is a HUGE accomplishment, and you should be extremely proud.
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by ChristianPerry 19y ago
Yeah, there are other companies going after the college market, too, but so far none of them have made a major impact.
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by ChristianPerry 19y ago
Indeed -- fewer than 10% of colleges work with TicketMaster, or for that matter, any ticketing service at all.
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Co-founders wanted for TicketMaster killer.(zaptix.blogspot.com)
23 points by ChristianPerry 19y ago|22 comments

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