JayNeely

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by JayNeely 16y ago
Go to OpenCoffee. Go to Web Innovators Group. Go to Venture Cafe. Go to DogPatch Labs' open hours. There are tons of events where you can meet VCs, and/or people who have connection to them. Check out: http://greenhornconnect.com/events/ca
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by JayNeely 16y ago
Definitely. I'm a 10 minute walk from Davis and Porter Square, and there are plenty of places for $2,000 / month, w/ 4 bedrooms. Diesel Cafe, in Davis, has plenty of startup people hanging out there on a regular basis. And Viximo and some o
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by JayNeely 16y ago
2011: Recent review of anonymized data finds 34% of users on major internet services using "This is my password." as their password sentence.
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Cloud password-cracking tool requires only 20 minutes to crack passwords.(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
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I'm always down for meeting other Boston startup folks, particularly on the Cambridge / Somerville side of the river. You'll usually find a lot of HNers at OpenCoffee, by the way: http://www.meetup.com/OpenCoffee-Cambridge-Meetup/calendar/
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by JayNeely 16y ago
Just recommended NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in another thread.: http://nanowrimo.org It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). The in-person
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by JayNeely 16y ago
Try joining NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month): http://nanowrimo.org It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). Though the focus is on novel writing,
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If you know who they are, specifically, just call them or e-mail them. Say something along the lines of: "Hi [their name], you don't know me but I came across your name on [LinkedIn / their site / industry site], and was impressed by [whate
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Neither http://www.gazopa.com/ or http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ require photographic similarities, I believe.
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Gabriel Weinberg (Duck Duck Go founder) wrote a summary of his experience using Reddit Ads, which he found to be effective: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-... A couple of key points from the post: "My ad ran
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Take internships. Even if they're unpaid. This may not be popular advice, and you do need to watch out for internships that are truly exploitative, but many small startups simply have limited resources, and are looking for people who want
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I'd imagine you'd have the best luck finding someone on Craigslist. You can always ask for links to work they've done for other events, and e-mail those organizers to ask about how working with him was.
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Without knowing what kind of service you're providing, it will be hard for many to offer any advice, or potentially good tactic ideas for you. Some general advice I'd provide is: - Figure out the characteristics of your users. What kinds of
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It's me who's framed them specifically as a Facebook replacement in this post, and certainly what they're doing is a reaction to Facebook's issues. But if you read their project description, it doesn't sound like what they're building onl
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Without having to give up the equity, you mean? True (and good point), but they also don't get the benefits of the mentorship, the alumni & mentor connections, and the shared drive of being with 10 other groups doing the same thing.
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by JayNeely 16y ago
This is definitely a developers' project for developers. I'd imagine the paid hosting (as Wordpress.com is to Wordpress) version would have a major branding re-think, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others used the Diaspora source to cr
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Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested(kickstarter.com)
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On a related note, http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/ serves the #startups channel, which is really the unofficial HN IRC channel on Freenode.
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1. Create a clear next action on your front page. I'd bet you have a significant bounce rate right now -- people arriving from a search engine or linking site, and leaving within 5 seconds because they're not clear what the site has to offe
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by JayNeely 16y ago
Meetup.com is great for this. I'd also recommend being active on twitter; plenty of events spread through there. Use http://search.twitter.com if you need a starting point. Check out http://greenhornconnect.com/ 's events section for st
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by JayNeely 17y ago
http://StartupToDo.com - Provides community requested / rated guides on how to accomplish different startup processes, from making screencasts to getting press coverage. There are a lot of pickup artist communities that offer improved inf
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by JayNeely 17y ago
Kristian, Good idea; your post title alone made me remember Prism, which I haven't used for anything in forever. For a post more likely to get upvotes on HN, I recommend making a more how-to style post than just an idea post. While I know w
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Reddit's Best Life Hacks(reddit.com)
2 points by JayNeely 17y ago|1 comments
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Are you looking for something different than http://www.mint.com ?
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The same text displays as the summary when I try to share this on Facebook. :-/
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This part really hit me: "With lessons like the ones I teach day after day, is it any wonder we have the national crisis we face today? Young people indifferent to the adult world and to the future; indifferent to almost everything except t
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by JayNeely 17y ago
+1 for RWW. The quality of comments is much better on RWW, and their coverage is usually more in-depth than either TechCrunch's or Mashable's. With Mashable in particular, updates are so frequent that I don't think you'd stay on the front p
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Freelance Switch has a collection of good articles on this: http://freelanceswitch.com/blog/explore/#2
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by JayNeely 17y ago
Spreedly has worked really well for us. They have at least 57 services using them, through their kickstart program ( http://spreedly.com/info/kickstart/ ), but I imagine there's a good deal more that simply don't have / want to put $699 u
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by JayNeely 17y ago
If relocation assistance is available, you may want to try again with a title less location specific and more about the type of work (large scale data sets?). It's also unclear between your post and the job descriptions on the site whether

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