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by amac 15y ago
Useful summary of the challenges (and opportunities) in social networking. He's written two other good summaries too: http://markmhendrickson.com/three-pillars http://markmhendrickson.com/content
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by amac 15y ago
Circa 7500 hours or 10 months. I'm hoping to launch at the month end. Lean is what you want it to be e.g money, time and other things you sacrifice. In most cases I'd imagine, the more you sacrifice, the more you will be likely to succeed.
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by amac 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER Social business website, Lion. Interested in UI Design person for remote contract work. Knowledge of Python/Django, other web development and community web applications would be beneficial. Contact via profile.
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by amac 15y ago
Remote is fine right, if that's your choice in business. Surely though, the joy is in building something with others - products, services, cultures etc regardless of success or failure. If your business is your life's work, I can't see any
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by amac 15y ago
Be yourself. You will grow as a leader over time regardless of your personality. Your success will, ultimately, be in your abilities to hire great people. Groups of people make amazing things, not individuals.
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by amac 15y ago
I had hundreds but either let them expire or sold them - now I have four.
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by amac 15y ago
9 months into my latest startup, Lion. Started this year with the intention of programming more after a break since college. Hired another programmer to help work on the website. The site itself will be a social business website; a communit
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by amac 15y ago
You are Edinburgh based right? Weirdly enough, I'm further north yet it was not as bad here. (Inverness)
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by amac 15y ago
Yes, if you want to build something in technology (software more precisely) then Silicon Valley is the best place to do this. It has to be said you can build a technology company in Norway; Opera is proof that you can build software, Tandbe
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by amac 15y ago
At one time, I had similar thoughts e.g you have to move to another place (usually a large city) to be successful in business. Then, I figured out that by whatever billionaire list or financial metric you choose to look at e.g Forbes, FT -
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by amac 15y ago
Is Oracle struggling? They certainly aren't struggling to make profit.
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by amac 15y ago
I use Google Bookmarks with Chrome (switched from Delicious) and you're right, you can't sync the two right now. See more here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=10... Edit - The above link shows you how to create
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by amac 15y ago
Crunchbase is the de facto startup knowledge base. It's probably the most valuable piece of the TechCrunch business in my opinion.
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by amac 15y ago
Sound advice. I'm doing exactly what you're saying with my current startup, Lion. The way I'm doing this, via consulting, should help me figure out whether or not this will work out.
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by amac 15y ago
I tried to sell my website, Lifemall.com, on eBay however unfortunately it turned out to be a wasted exercise. Similarly, I also used Flippa but again no sale. Can anyone suggest another venue for selling a website? (On a related note, if
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by amac 15y ago
Interesting. Why did you decide to re-brand as Lookk from Garmz may I ask? (I took about 12 months to find the Lifemall name for my site)
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by amac 15y ago
Shai Agassi.
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by amac 15y ago
Define 'use' I guess. Most professionals I know have a LinkedIn profile. In terms of active usage however, I'm not entirely sure that many visit the site regularly themselves. Recruiters and people from other organizations are probably more
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by amac 15y ago
Good point re. specific items, I guess I'm generalizing in many ways. The overall idea is to find things that matter to people other than the usual things - namely these days, price.
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Ask HN: What metrics do you use when you buy stuff?
1 points by amac 15y ago|3 comments
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by amac 15y ago
The title is mis-leading in many ways though the premise is rather interesting. (Basically that we've been using the 'reference web' until the recent development of the 'social' web.) It's a intriguing idea - can we have separate 'webs' for
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by amac 15y ago
The startup I co-founded Lifemall, I think improves lives. We help people sell things they don't need. We help other people buy second-hand things if they can't afford to or choose not to buy new. Since we're relatively new, I can't comment
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by amac 15y ago
I use blogger, have done since it was the first blogging service. (www.alexmacgregor.com) There might be valid reasons to switch for sure but I like it's uptime, it uses static html and how I can login with my Google account.
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by amac 15y ago
This is similar to a marketplace website I co-founded, Lifemall.com. The relationship between social and commmerce is quite complicated i.e not everyone likes to share their shopping habits with their friends or people with similar tastes.
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by amac 15y ago
Looks interesting but alas, not ready for production. I am looking at something that I can deploy in 1-3 months time. Drupal is awesome though, an ideal Windows CMS would offer the same level of customization whilst allowing the average per
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by amac 15y ago
Good point about not switching. I'll go into more detail; I should have mentioned that I also act as a bridge between our IT dept and our admin, marketing, sales dept's. In an ideal world, I (and our employees/stakeholders I guess) see our
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Ask HN: Best Windows CMS?
1 points by amac 15y ago|5 comments
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by amac 15y ago
Maybe excluding Apple, is anyone better positioned in the digital goods market than Amazon?
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by amac 15y ago
Good question. Maybe the answer is, 10 years on, someone now has to do this: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release749.html Opportunity to really change enterprise software through the Internet?
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by amac 15y ago
Mine too. Worked in the Oil industry as a buyer during college and Octopart was pretty useful at finding things I had in my RFQ's.

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