Timzzz

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by Timzzz 3y ago
Thank you for being human. You are the best. :-)
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by Timzzz 3y ago
She raised expansion capital from traditional loans. It was a not for profit and she has a badass MBA. Yeah the margins were rough, distribution deals even rougher.
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by Timzzz 3y ago
>>Build tech isn’t on that list. ACTUALLY HUGE KUDOS THANK YOU FOR THAT!!! Yes, exactly what I thought. She would do so well with another person who cares about the retail experience as much as she does. THANK YOU AGAIN!!! :-)
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by Timzzz 3y ago
Thank you for that. I think I have solved for n. n=1
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by Timzzz 3y ago
I agree wholly. But fear is real and understandable. My playbook used to be: 1) Have an idea 2) Identify any customers, Ideally one who is in a terrible emotional distress that they do not have that solution you have come up with. If you ca
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by Timzzz 3y ago
wrt #2: She believes you need money first.
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by Timzzz 3y ago
I know :-) What I wanted was to be wrong. Really wrong.
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by Timzzz 3y ago
If you are serious about this so am I. I want to go to the Kauffman Foundation to do this. Also a gentleman named Bob Cringely wants to do something like this and started... then stopped. He will hate me for saying this but gentle persuasio
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by Timzzz 3y ago
I wanted to leverage my age and experience by not applying and just getting on a building it. But I have a founder who is convinced that you need money first then prototypes.I assured her that there is nothing in her proposition needs any
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by Timzzz 3y ago
>> acquiring customers is not free No it is not and you are right. In the fossil days of startups (1985 - 1995) you bootstrapped or literally built the first solution for a customer who is desperate for the solution. Oracle was launch
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by Timzzz 3y ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. And I want to say that the next big thing amongst sane new entrepreneurs will be "Grant-strapping". Check out Rupak Doshi at TurboSBIR and AFWERX. Use Google and Linkedin. $250k cheques, equity free. No more incubat
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What was the age of the oldest person admitted to Y Combinator?
39 points by Timzzz 3y ago|28 comments
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by Timzzz 15y ago
http://www.piepdx.com/
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by Timzzz 16y ago
Get a lawyer dude - FAST
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by Timzzz 16y ago
Dude, are you aware that this is a federal crime in the US? They have extradition treaties with AUS. You need to get your parents to get you a lawyer - FAST
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by Timzzz 16y ago
I think this is a Federal Crime in the US. If he was an idiot and actually disclosed his details, they can find him and actually extradite him from Australia for this.... not a lawyer but wow, but he did not think this one through
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by Timzzz 16y ago
Thanks man.... I have ammmo for the arguments now.:-)
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by Timzzz 16y ago
frikking love this. Thank you. Can we only get this if we have the beta sign up at PHPFog or can we do it otherwise?
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by Timzzz 16y ago
nice work!I hope to use it when I can get an account. I just hope it is as easy as they say.