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by Flemlord 19y ago
"It's a completely new market," and "we have no current competitors" are usually looked upon with suspicion by sophisticated investors. It's rare to have a completely new market--Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook... they all had competitor
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Not to nitpick, but I wouldn't call that a marketing analysis. Marketing analysis is more like how big is the market segment? Who are the biggest players in the space, what are their products, and what are their weaknesses? These are questi
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I agree. I've taken a salary significantly less than market value after an acquisition and would never do it again. I actually think it caused other people at the company who weren't involved in the deal to discount my ongoing contribution.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Similar thread on project management software: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124253 Top 3 were Trac, Basecamp from 37 Signals, and Fog Bugz.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
So I guess I'm creative. Neato.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I would open up the alpha only if you have third parties (or customers) who want to write to your API. Then you should get it into their hands as soon as possible. Otherwise, wait until you have a solid beta. If you screw up your first rele
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by Flemlord 19y ago
The reason [the site was slow] was not the traffic... but the number of visitors who were creating new accounts. The only better startup problem than that is "the site was slow because so many people were trying to give us mone
908.
by Flemlord 19y ago
If you create a good product, some people will take you seriously and buy it.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
The Kindle is roughly the size of a paperback, and comes with a nice leather case so it's not awkward to carry. But it's the integration with Amazon that really does it for me. You can select books online, and have them sent to the Kindle.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
War on Terror the Boardgame. It appeals to my sense of political irony and it's actually a pretty fun game.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I concur. I'm a top-10 reddit poster and Hacker News is my first site of the day now. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to ban the idiots. Now if only somebody would set up a "Political News" site using the same code base...
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Unit testing should be at the absolute top of the list. My current project is thoroughly wrapped in unit tests, and it gives us the power to make deep structural changes very late in the development process. I've never felt so confident tha
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Insightful--this will actually happen. I've already been in some telecommuting relationships (professional) where we just leave the ip video phone on constantly. You don't have to call to communicate, you just talk to the phone as if the pe
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I have a Kindle and love it. It took a month to arrive, but works perfectly. I buy everything on the Kindle now, with the exception of technical books. I've lost count of the number of people who have seen me reading it, played with it, and
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by Flemlord 19y ago
My cat feels superior to me, but I don't think it is. Not by much at least.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
With my first startup company, we only had about 2 weeks to prepare for our first VC presentation. I needed a quick way to build a professional-looking spreadsheet with projections. John L. Hesheim, author of High Tech Startup, sells a spre
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Building Professional Financial Projections(nesheimgroup.com)
1 points by Flemlord 19y ago|1 comments
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I obviously need to work on my Powerpoint skills.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
This article made me laugh out loud. My first startup was a bootstrap with $20k in the bank. We were eating hotdogs for lunch and drinking tap water, trying to make our money last. If somebody had given me startup advice that included "buy
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'll disagree here. I've been through several successful fund raising rounds, exclusively from corporate sources. Granted, this was not inner-circle silicon valley VC. But not a single deal would have happened had we not had a 20+ page busi
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Silverlight is a subset of WPF so we should be able to compile it as an EXE, put a different template and tabstrip on it, and have something that looks like a Microsoft Office 2007 app. I don't know any way to do that with Java.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Mainly because we get a desktop application for free, and partially because we can deliver a next-generation experience compared to existing browser apps. As far as liking it? Haven't written a line of code yet, but I love working with WPF
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'm about to use Silverlight in my current project.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'd much rather have her bring home more bacon than, say, more sausage or more eggs. You can never have too much bacon.
925.
by Flemlord 19y ago
Thanks. I just overnighted it from Amazon. My coding partner wants to use recursive database queries to do this--I want to avoid it because it's slower, breaks our object model, and makes the application non-database-agnostic. (Currently, w
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'm working on a project where we're in the process of storing de-normalized links for a recursive table relationship, so we can query from the top-level table directly to the bottom-level table without worrying about the messy inbetween. O
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 702-278-XXXX
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I found it faster than Gmail and like the interface better. I'm focusing more on the Silverlight vs. Ajax side of this so I ignored the pervasive ads and mail receive speed issues.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
It's quicker and snappier. It has tasking, a better contact manager, and a full scheduler. It feels like a desktop application, and doesn't have any of the odd performance delays and quirks that you see with Java apps. And I'll guarantee AO
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Peak, or level off?

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