JayNeely

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by JayNeely 18y ago
Okay. Let's take stock. From what I understand... Your Resources: * A partially complete web app, for patients with chronic conditions; helps them manage their problems & has some social network features. * Feedback from your alpha te
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Xobni has been an excellent utility, and these patents could both enhance that strategy, or allow them to bridge into a medium strategy. As a utility, Xobni works for any user, and with all of their stored e-mails, regardless of whether any
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by JayNeely 18y ago
I remember seeing the Dropbox demo, and I've loved seeing it getting covered in the news ever since. Always nifty to see something in its early stages before it starts to go big. Graphic Design for Coders could be cool, but I'm not sure wha
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Ask YC: Been going to BarCamps? (BarCampBoston3 is May 17th & 18th!)
18 points by JayNeely 18y ago|19 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Nothing personal, but that's the kind of shareholder that ruins good businesses. The language of Ballmer's letter is clearly intended to cause precisely that kind of action from Yahoo! shareholders. The shareholders sue the management, the
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Andrew, I think Mark posted this because he knows that so much of the Hacker News community is San Francisco-based and/or Iron Man fans. You've been around HN way longer than I have, so I'm sure you're comment is made from displeasure at a
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156137 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532 There are
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It sounds like despite their founder-status, they were largely removed from positions of responsibility within the company. They were disagreeing with the decisions being made, weren't meshing well with the new management, and had fully-ear
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by JayNeely 18y ago
I'm sorry, but you've completely ignored the comment you're replying to to make an unsubstantiated point. Nostrademons pointed out current research that states clear demographics interested in advertising. Jakob Nielsen's research presents
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Speaking of investing, now that your startup's been acquired have you thought about becoming an angel investor? Everyone's always saying there's a need for more startup investors who were formerly startup founders themselves. Checking your
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by JayNeely 18y ago
Frocer, I'm in the same position, minus having had a fair amount of programming experience(only a couple of Java classes in college). Would you be up for exchanging IM or other contact info, so we each have someone to bounce things off of a
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by JayNeely 18y ago
This is one of the main reasons I moved to Boston, the #2 area for startups, rather than Silicon Valley, the #1. There's still a huge amount of web tech people around, but not as much of an echo chamber.
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An Endangered Web Species: The Personal Site(zeldman.com)
3 points by JayNeely 18y ago|0 comments
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by JayNeely 18y ago
This article has almost nothing to do with VC vs. Corporate funding. It's mainly about failed startups and entrepreneurs who pick themselves up afterwards and give something new a go.
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ThinkGeek now selling Optimus Maximus Keyboard (113 LCD screen keys)(thinkgeek.com)
16 points by JayNeely 18y ago|36 comments
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by JayNeely 19y ago
Good comment!
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Jet Blue may be great, but airports still suck. And unless Boeing's experiments* with bio-fuels pay off, airlines will continue to face increasing fuel costs that make air travel unsustainable, while the American train industry lets Asia in
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by JayNeely 19y ago
http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/answers http://qwizzy.com/ A main issue with these kinds of systems are that the kind of 'problems' people are best at solving don't necessarily have conclusive answers. And many peopl
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by JayNeely 19y ago
If George Clooney denounced DRM/a patent troll/baby killing, would the denouncement be any less valid? Celebrities may not be experts, many of them may even be idiots, but if they use their celebrity to promote a worthy cause rather than th
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by JayNeely 19y ago
Humor helps, I figure. My serious answer is that we continue as planned. From the moment we realized we'd have to set 'badness' to 'yes', we made sure we were doing things as we would if we weren't going to be a part of YC. For us in partic
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by JayNeely 19y ago
1) Network, network, network. 2) Present to VCs. 3) ??? 4) Exit. Just kidding about the "???" part, by the way. We have at least two of those question marks figured out.
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by JayNeely 19y ago
He means, if you included an online demo, presumably on your own hosting space, check your web stats to see if/when/for how long they looked at it.
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by JayNeely 19y ago
I have to disagree. Depending on how long they've been around, maybe TagCow is at the point where they really should have typed out a basic privacy policy. But to say that it's "one of the first things" a company should consider is a lawyer
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by JayNeely 19y ago
Desire2Learn is the company that's been fighting to have Blackboard's patents invalidated, and they are maintaining a list of all legal documents pertaining to the case here: http://www.desire2learn.com/patent/files.html If you don't mind
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by JayNeely 19y ago
There's some interesting subtext here. TechCrunch is for sale, Mike affirms, in the same conversation he mentions that TechCrunch may take investment to grow larger. The message to acquirers: Would you rather buy it when it's small, or buy
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Second Life Entrepreneurship - The Magazine(slentre.com)
1 points by JayNeely 19y ago|0 comments
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It's all about quality of content. High-quality will get readers, whether that's in print or online. The problems newspapers face are: a) Most of them don't have much high-quality content. The majority of their content is syndicated from ot
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by JayNeely 19y ago
Or you could just be profitable in multiple currencies. Anyone who's building a web startup should realize they have a global business. It's a small amount of effort to provide a Canadian, Australian, and U.K. localized version if you're
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by JayNeely 19y ago
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson - Copywriting (Teach Yourself series), by J. Jonathan Gabay - The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz
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Essentially, they're changing YouTube from a video site to a WWW video platform. The new APIs allow developers to: * Upload videos and video responses to YouTube * Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, f

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