NEPatriot

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by NEPatriot 16y ago
In order to buy shares in a private company you must be an "accredited investor" (make over 200/k for 2 years or 1M in net worth). In order to sell shares to the public I think you need permission from the SEC. And once the SEC gets involve
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I agree with you here. But the only problem is... you need the stomach for the enterprise sales cycle. Meaning 6-12 months. Anybody looking to jump in should do lots of homework here and if a willing corporate pre-buyer is there, line them
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
More like never trust anyone who says yes too quickly.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
You should checkout squareup.com/features - I don't work for them. No monthly fees. 2.75% + $.15 if card is present. Though I think they are in beta and people in the forums were complaining about not getting the hardware last I looked abou
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Step 1: Give the problem a name. In the war of art that name is resistance. You have to grapple with it every day. Attack it - make it your enemy.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I'm with you and see this as the solution to this mess as well. Give me a high % no monthly and lower my risk, once I've gotten some business and scale we can do the monthly thing.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
The things that you avoid most are the ones you must attack the hardest. Read the War of Art by Pressfield.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I suggest keeping a list of items you executed. Just anything that you accomplished in your project. So that way when you get down you can stare at the list and be reminded that you've already come this far and done this much.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
YC batches startups. Why can't we batch our MVPs? See what looks the most promising, shelf the others and go for it?
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Force people to pick a side. Galvanize them to love you or hate you. But be genuine about this.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
"Getting out of the building" is not a task you want to outsource. Speaking to initial potential customers is critical to the start up and must involve the founders. Once you establish product/market fit outsiders can come into play.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
As would I. Kind of like a crossfit.com or dailyburn for education. Social, community based learning.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Checkout venturehacks' interview with Sean Ellis. The site seems to be down so I can't link it. It should be one of the popular posts called "how to bring a product to market".
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I would say that in creating something one's skills are almost irrelevant. Does it matter the skill of the creator if the art is beautiful or the application just works?
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
What about painting? Or any art form?
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The Future of Computer Science And Why Every Other Major Sucks(techtv.mit.edu)
44 points by NEPatriot 16y ago|29 comments
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Would he ever consider angel investing? Or in any way connecting startups to money?
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I wonder if they hired psychologists for this?
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I deal with it by setting aside time. Setting a date night. And agreeing ahead of time that we will spend 3-4 nights/week together.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Success is tied to internal driving/motivating factors. Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great because at his age (30) Alexander had conquered the known world. He compared himself to Alexander and tried to live up to
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I don't think so. Their stated objective is to change the world's social networking platform. Not start a lifestyle business or pet project. If they had gone into it with a hobbyist's approach 170,000 users is success.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I agree strongly. If I can paste my url into a demo site, and and get a taste for how easy this would be for me to a/b test my next question is what do I have to do to make this happen? A blurb telling me all it takes is copying and pasting
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Anyone else notice the spelling mistakes? "For example, if you looking at a page on your computer than you want to take on the go (something I do all the time), you can now just use a Chrome extension and with one click, it automatically ap
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
checkout zimride.com for the carpooling idea
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Clicker.com Introduces new UI(clicker.tv)
1 points by NEPatriot 16y ago|0 comments
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Perhaps include some translation samples
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
I think you could aim this at non-native English speaking folks who write tech support emails in English.
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
Customer Dev talks about stating assumptions - you should definitely have the ability to quantify the results of the assumption validation process. I think if you combine this with A/B testing you have a very powerful tool on your hands.
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Comcast's New iPad App is Full of Surprises(videonuze.com)
1 points by NEPatriot 16y ago|0 comments
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by NEPatriot 16y ago
You can scare the general public pretty easily. All it takes is one example of what could go wrong and all of the sudden there is a boom.

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