bigtoga

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by bigtoga 18y ago
I smell a rat. It's pretty common for spammers to create an account on public forums, let it sit for 30-60 days, and then come in and create a generic, link-bait style post which they later use to post links in (once the post has been arou
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by bigtoga 18y ago
* Maybe listing fees (whether paid by buyer or seller) is the wrong business model. That's called craigslist...
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by bigtoga 18y ago
And hell, if you could solve that problem, you'd have a legitimate PayPal alternative as well.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
"Confusion creates opportunity" as they say...
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by bigtoga 18y ago
"Recommendation #1: Find out if your bank and the other institutions you depend upon for financial security are safe. " That's it. I'm out.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I think the article's author confuses a perfectionist with a workaholic. A perfectionist isn't by definition a workaholic and vice-versa yet the article seems to infer that your perfectionists are killing your productivity. Look - I'm guilt
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by bigtoga 18y ago
To expand on that a bit, you need to have 90 day and one year milestones at a minimum . You also need a strong Buy/Sell that includes what happens to your/partner's stock when you/he die/divorce/quit-working-for-the-company/etc. Lawyers ar
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Great examples. I think functionality overrides appearance, at least until competition steps in. Reddit and YC are examples of spartan design but great loyalty among readers young and old. It's the idea and the execution first followed by t
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I just recently tried out smart draw for "Gantt Charts and what not." http://www.smartdraw.com/ Visio, PowerPoint (for presentations), MS Project (I'm a Windows person)
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Most people don't have that option though, do they?
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Listen to this person.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Then write up a legal agreement that says she must be with the company for "x" years to earn the equity. Add in a little extra incentives for signing it ("Dual monitors!"). Once she signs it, fire her. Regarding legal costs, I've used Pre-P
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I think it depends less on the app and more on the negotiating power/experience of each party.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Well, you could use on of the YC post datasets and come up with the stats yourself? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182374
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I've used both time-based and value-based and my answer is an unequivocal "It depends on the project." I'm a pretty creative person and I hate to box myself in by saying "Never do it this way", especially when some very smart people have ad
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Why threadjack when you could've created a separate thread? This guy made a post and you totally are trying to threadjack. Make your own"Ask YC" thread and post it there.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
that is the single worst url in history. Congrats!
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Found the link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/01/safari_for_win...
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Firefox as main, IE7 as backup. Do you have the link to the article that says Safari is up 3x? That's like saying Xobni has 50k users b/c 50k people have downloaded it.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
One problem w/ y combinator is there is no easy way to report spam. Maybe it isn't a big deal today while it's small but if it grows then it will become an issue.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Nice - thanks for posting.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Huh? One company valued xobni at $20m - how is that the be-all, end-all of valuation? If I value my company at $500,000 and someone offers me $100,000, am I wrong or are they wrong (or are we both right) when I turn them down? Answer: you d
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by bigtoga 18y ago
With what basis do you have to say $20m is a weak offer? I'm not clear on what numbers you are using to base your view on. I'm not privvy to the internals at Xobni so I couldn't even guess whether $1m is weak let alone $20m.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I'm with you - I tried it and didn't find it useful at all.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Xobni != Outlook search. At all. And Google Desktop Search is not the only really viable way to search Outlook. ???? Do you even use Windows?
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I would assume that most people who do SEO also do all the other aspects related to site design and optimization. SEO would just be one aspect of one's time. Just guessing though.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
| my stake will be protected from dilution at all stages. So you are being given preferred stock? That's the only stock that I can think of that would prevent dilution during later stages. I find it difficult to believe that a smart start
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by bigtoga 18y ago
Maybe it's just me but I couldn't begin to guess what the best advice I've ever received is/was. I'm only 37 but I'm guessing that there have been 1000 pieces of great advice that, if I hadn't received, I'd be far worse off.
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I guess I don't really understand the question. My first thought was "Just put the code in your footer in your template(s) so that it is on every page". Isn't that how it's done? Perhaps I'm being a bit naive; my understanding of GA is defi
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by bigtoga 18y ago
I would estimate that there are just as many startups using .NET than all the other languages combined. And when I say startups, I mean serious ventures; I'm not talking about some guy with a day job who writes a front end for Amazon or GoD

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