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by blacktar 13y ago
Have you checked out the completely free course on how to build a startup by Steve Blank? It's not as dumb or cheesy as it sounds. The guy knows a bit or two about what he's talking about. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/ep245/ Giv
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Crowd Funding Troll is Crowd Funding Troll(stopmebeforeiblogagain.com)
5 points by blacktar 13y ago|0 comments
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by blacktar 13y ago
There's the Evernote "Smart" Moleskine http://evernote.com/moleskine/ though. Anybody had any experiences with it? Speaking of Evernote, they also recently introduced their no-equity accelerator http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/04/16/a
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by blacktar 13y ago
I still use a Moleskine from time to time, but mostly the iPad, to take notes - especially when doing customer interviews. Yeah, I agree. Starting niche is a good thing. The question is if you want to stay niche or if there's growth potenti
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by blacktar 13y ago
I'm interested to see where this can go, if there's a market of some scale for a paper product for this niche. What do you think?
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by blacktar 13y ago
Could be prettier as an app, but serves the purpose very well IMO. Reminded me to brush up on my pitch too.
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by blacktar 14y ago
I have a project where this would be useful. I can haz? :)
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by blacktar 14y ago
l33t h4xx0r. Server down. Sorry, guys. I'll go investigate what's wrong. Update: Server back up and running. Sorry for the momentary inconvenience.
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by blacktar 14y ago
No worries! I'd love to know more about the dangers of solving your own problem becoming an obsession, how to identify it and knowing when to quit or press on.
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On why I co-founded 'Gauss - The People Magnet'(stopmebeforeiblogagain.com)
12 points by blacktar 14y ago|5 comments
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by blacktar 14y ago
I like the design and the ux. Task management is a pain in the backside and I'm still searching for something that will actually work for me, for both my personal to-dos and the organizations and groups that I help manage. I do agree with j
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by blacktar 14y ago
And we're back in control at the original meetup.com group. Guys, thanks for your support and thanks to the guys at meetup.com com for handing the group back to the community.
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by blacktar 14y ago
meetup.com has a 36h reply policy and to their credit, they did get back to us well within that trime frame now and we're now working to have the group restored.
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by blacktar 14y ago
We are also in touch with the dev people at meetup.com voicing our concerns about the ease of automated group scavenging. ;)
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by blacktar 14y ago
Update: Meetup.com support finally got back to me and is now working to restore the group, fully or in part depending on the damage done. Before we rush to conclusions, please consider that no decision has been made to continuing using meet
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by blacktar 14y ago
And it's gone. http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Cologne/ == "The Meetup Group you're looking for doesn't exist."
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by blacktar 14y ago
This just in. The name of the hijacked group is now "Hacker News - Deleting - Documented extreme libel by members" and the "Meredith" character has removed their profile image. Keep calm and carry on.
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by blacktar 14y ago
And it has now been renamed again to "Cologne Startups".
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by blacktar 14y ago
We'll keep you posted what the community decides on using instead in our next meetup.
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by blacktar 14y ago
It would be cool if everybody who posted the URL to the previous Hacker News Cologne meetup.com group on their blogs or profiles would update it to http://hncgn.org and help reach out to everybody informing them of the change. Thanks!
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by blacktar 14y ago
First thing I did was to save the members list. :) I've already reached out to 99% percent of the members but we still need everybody's help getting the word out: http://hncgn.org
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by blacktar 14y ago
Let's get everybody to leave the meetup.com group.
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by blacktar 14y ago
For HNCGN people stumbling on this thread, I've posted an official announcement of the next and 11th Hacker News Meetup Cologne http://stopmebeforeiblogagain.com/hacker-news-cologne-meetup...
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by blacktar 14y ago
And now I was removed too. Yay.
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by blacktar 14y ago
I don't see why someone would use their admin privileges to downvote this thread, though. Maybe just the effect of falling off the front page? We had no intentions of making this public ourselves (as to avoid feeding the troll) and we're ju
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by blacktar 14y ago
Were there any further messages or mails sent from the new "organizer"?
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by blacktar 14y ago
I noticed. What do you think caused the drop?
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by blacktar 14y ago
It seems there was a concerted effort to take over the meetup.com group where the hijacker joined with two profiles in two steps with a clear intent of a hostile takeover. First they joined with one (profile X) to listen in, then a second (
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by blacktar 14y ago
I hope we can all refrain from personally attacking this person. Let's keep it nice and clean. No need to escalate.
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by blacktar 14y ago
Yes, the group name was changed from "Hacker News Cologne Meetup" by the new unsolicited "organizer".

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