JayNeely

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Reasons Startup CEOs Fail(blog.bostonsearchgroup.com)
20 points by JayNeely 18y ago|13 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Good luck with it, dryicerx. Everyone has a first time; do try to help yourself by getting advice from those who have done it before, though. If you're in a place where there's a startup community, connect with it! Smart, experienced people
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by JayNeely 18y ago
A related article I'd like to see is how to take the lead in a divided market. My (unlaunched, in progress) startup is in a space where there are a three or four competitors with a large customer base, and a dozen or so others with signific
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Questions / Feedback: * Who's the target audience for this? * Why are you launching in eight cities when you don't have critical mass in one or two yet? * Bright lime green: why!? * Street addresses don't make for very interesting / differe
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How to Be an Angel Investor (Part 2) - by Venture Hacks(venturehacks.com)
9 points by JayNeely 18y ago|0 comments
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What's military life like for programmers?(tech.slashdot.org)
2 points by JayNeely 18y ago|0 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
It sounds like he's not incompetent so much as he isn't efficient. If he were better at prioritizing, would he be contributing value? I'd first try to get the group to condense the 10,000-feet view into a single document, including prioriti
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Check out http://tiddlywiki.com - They do dynamic display of content very quickly, very well. You should be able to learn from their approach.
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by JayNeely 18y ago
OpenCoffee (weekly, Wednesday mornings): Startup discussion - http://www.meetup.com/OpenCoffee-Cambridge-Meetup/ BarCampBoston4 (April 25th & 26th): Geek unconference - http://www.barcampboston.org/ Information Superhighway(monthly)
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by JayNeely 18y ago
:-/ Insults aren't appreciated when I'm posting a question about how to make sure we're offering value to people. Unless this became digg when I wasn't looking, and insults are cool as long as they're funny?
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by JayNeely 18y ago
The requirements aren't an indication of equity, at all. We're looking for someone who's skilled , not necessarily experienced. Room to grow and a chance to prove yourself is one of the opportunities a startup offers, after all.
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Ask HN: What do developers want from an equity-only job?
33 points by JayNeely 18y ago|43 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
That both oversimplifies his points and bypasses the interesting thought process behind them. It also cuts out the 10 tips at the bottom, a few of which are really useful insights or reminders, depending on your previous reading on this sub
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by JayNeely 18y ago
It's hard enough to build one brand. As a startup, if you're trying to build product sub-brands while still promoting the company brand, you're frakking crazy.
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Self-knowledge: Good for entrepreneurship, excellent for info overload.(socialstrategist.com)
4 points by JayNeely 18y ago|1 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Here are the results for this page using the Site Information Tool extension I have in Firefox: http://www.wmtips.com/tools/info/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Real estate. There's a ton of inefficiencies in this market, as evidenced by the crash itself. Yet it's a market that will always be around, and in fact increasingly valuable as population growth makes undeveloped land even more scarce.
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by JayNeely 18y ago
I think it balances it out. People have a need to express their 'dark side' because so much of what we would normally say or do is suppressed by fear of what others would think of us or other types of social mores. Often we learn where the
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by JayNeely 18y ago
This actually has some useful advice, particularly the second point. I remember when PB Wiki was getting off the ground, they offered free shirts & a free premium account to anyone who presented their product at an event, which seemed m
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Money doesn't have to mean making a quick buck. My current project won't change the world, but it will provide a sizable income stream that my co-founders and I can live off of and use to fund larger future projects.
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by JayNeely 18y ago
The post isn't really well structured, but the key points here are: * Expertise isn't an achievement, it's how we define a certain number or quality of achievements. * Becoming an expert on a skill is about learning that skill's vocabulary
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How to Handle a Press Interview(yourtechstuff.com)
25 points by JayNeely 18y ago|12 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
E-mail Evernote about it. Licensing their software to businesses who want similar functionality but complete privacy for their data could be a business opportunity for them, like the Google Search Appliance: http://www.google.com/enterpris
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Ask HN: New FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski: how do you feel about him?
1 points by JayNeely 18y ago|0 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
So if he handles them in a way you're dissatisfied with, you'd rather him be further insulated from the opinions, suggestions, and questions of the public?
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Internet Dating Conference 2009 - January 22nd & 23rd(onlinedatingpost.com)
2 points by JayNeely 18y ago|0 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Fewer people launching around the holidays. Why would people want to compete with the increased noise, when there's even less attention available? Next week we'll start seeing more things launch. Before/around Valentine's Day I bet we'll se
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Daring Fireball does this. See: http://daringfireball.net/members/info
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by JayNeely 18y ago
So that Google can neglect it into atrophy the same way it did with Dodgeball and Jaiku? I doubt it.
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by JayNeely 18y ago
The device of having a despised phrase turn out to be an unkillable meme is extremely common not just in sci-fi but in heroic tales generally.

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