Travis

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by Travis 16y ago
My company is looking at 1-4% for our first employee. We have the technical chops, so this hire will be a serious expert in our core business. Equity will vary in that range (for us) depending on salary and effort level requirements.
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by Travis 16y ago
Going through this now. We started as a consulting LLC. Then developed IP/ideas, decided that's what we wanted to do (develop one of the major apps / business ideas we had). Had to switch to C Corp. Although that switch was beneficial, a
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by Travis 16y ago
Summary of webservers being used by the alexa top 100: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/18/apache-dominates-the-top... Plentyoffish.com is famous for being built and scaled by one man on ASP. I'm sure Microsoft.com and their other propert
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by Travis 16y ago
No need to laugh. But you should seriously adjust your expectations. For a US firm, $1k will get you a website with around a dozen pages. Probably from a template. Maybe with a contact form or email signup. If you outsource, $1k will g
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by Travis 16y ago
That's a really crowded space. If you don't already have a killer feature or user base, your time is probably best spent elsewhere. Digg clones are a dime a dozen.
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by Travis 16y ago
We're going to do the same thing. Of course, that "dedicated" server will probably be on site and be multi-use. I'll probably actually just virtualize my production environment within it. It's not so much the virtual / dedicated issue be
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by Travis 16y ago
Do you have some suggestions for interviewing interns in particular? I read the blogs on "how to hire as a startup" but none of them really focus on interns.
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by Travis 16y ago
Don't forget that if you're US based, it is likely illegal for you to have unpaid interns. See Mark Cuban's post about this at http://blogmaverick.com/2009/09/05/want-an-unpaid-internship... The line seems to be this: if your interns are
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by Travis 16y ago
Involve the blogs with the product during its feature-spec stage. Not only will you get better press from them once you need it (people like to write about their influence...), but you should also get some good feedback from the blog autho
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by Travis 16y ago
I was just looking at the site and wanted to say, I love your high level pitch, esp that it is prominent on the site: "catalog, curate, and share." That's awesome -- the "curate" really conveys the sense of value.
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm not sure it's a formal philosophy, but I think the attributes you're describing are lean and open.
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by Travis 16y ago
When we did our beta invites, we had about 30% signup. Of course, we were working with a small sample (about 100 invites), all of whom were personal / culled contacts. We used the "beta" label in the old fashioned sense, which I guess is
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by Travis 16y ago
As stated by others, this is a very crowded space. To be honest, I'm pretty happy with the free monitoring services I get from Monitis and Pingdom. Your primary value differentiator (header/response codes against a regex) are more overhead
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by Travis 16y ago
Did you develop it in collaboration with your university? Although bringing them in would cut massively into money you could make, if you just want to bring this guy to market (as I gather from your "open source" attitude), you could use t
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by Travis 16y ago
I second the "let it go" idea, unless you know for a fact that people are getting confused (AND, it's a large enough N that your most important next task is to recapture those people). Most of the time, it's a wiser use of your time to go
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by Travis 16y ago
Both Southwest Airlines and Amazon.com do this in the U.S. They've both called my cell phone before to do it. With amazon, it's actually even easier. IIRC, you can click a button on the site to queue you, and that's what gets you in the q
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by Travis 17y ago
I applaud you for aiming high, and for the confidence you exhibit with your idea! Best of luck on it. However, you definitely have a problem with the scale / scope of your product. As byoung2 points out, there's only 1 ipad, and there's r
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by Travis 17y ago
My dallas VPS seems fine.
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by Travis 17y ago
David, I just shot you an email (from leleu at industrial interface). I'm willing to help out.
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by Travis 17y ago
For SSL, you generally need a dedicated IP address, not a dedicated host. Newer versions of the protocol allow for multiple SSL certs on a single IP, but most places don't do that. If you have only 1 SSL cert, you probably are fine. Godad
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by Travis 17y ago
Ok, I agree that specific ideas have value. However, I think they're not very valuable regardless of quality, because there is little to differentiate a high quality idea from a low quality idea until they are executed. Then your differen
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by Travis 17y ago
Let's play a thought experiment: I'm Paul Graham, and I've got a fantastic, knock-your-socks-off idea for a business. How much will you pay me for it? OR I'm Travis. I've got a mediocre idea, but have spent a lot of time learning about my
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by Travis 17y ago
Vanderbilt University, go 'Dores! CompSci / English double.
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by Travis 17y ago
And I've heard that it will generally select appropriate presets when you do the whole "export for web and devices" option...
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by Travis 17y ago
I don't think the title of this submission is accurate. More accurate would be "summary of sports business conference, ft. Michael Lewis and Mark Cuban". There was little analysis to suggest these limits, really. Further, Moneyball was NOT
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by Travis 17y ago
I'd recommend against it, although I don't have experience. 1) if they're reputable, they will just review you (not charge a fee). Also recall that the FCC requires bloggers to include financial disclosures now, so that will lessen the imp
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by Travis 17y ago
Splunk is very popular, although I think it's software that you have to host. I have no idea how fast it is, but with a recent-ish machine I wonder if you could have it process stuff in a weekly batch with minimum of frustration. They hav
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by Travis 17y ago
I use the authorize CIM for this purpose. It works well. It's just an additional monthly fee on top of the other stuff you pay, so it's not any more expensive to charge cards you have stored.
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by Travis 17y ago
Fair enough, I was just curious exactly how you saw the issue. My concern on security is how do you transmit the PIN used to view the password? Unless I'm misunderstanding, and it's something more akin to pushing a password to another user
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by Travis 17y ago
Can you please define the pain that you're solving with a little more granularity? Is the issue the friction of getting the password to the user, or is it a security thing? If it's a security issue, there's still the problem of key distri

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