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   by breckognize 16y ago

   I'm going to take the opposite view and suggest that this is not a good idea. While I whole-heartedly endorse bootstrapping when you can, there is a huge risk to not having a professional look at your incorporating documents, especially whe
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   What to do when users tell you one thing and data tells you another?

   5 points by breckognize 16y ago|5 comments
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   by breckognize 16y ago

   I graduated from CMU CS in 2009 and chose to start up instead of doing grad school ( http://www.shoefitr.com ). We were funded by AlphaLab and are still based in Pittsburgh. I, too, was looking to work on something cool and new, and you ca
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   by breckognize 16y ago

   One really cool startup in this space is cloudfab.com (AlphaLab '08). They're a platform/market for the mass customization the article describes.
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   by breckognize 17y ago

   Isn't all for-profit news suspect? Free market advocates would argue that, over time, people will realize that certain news agencies aren't accurate and would then pay (either with their wallets or their eyeballs) for the more reliable news
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   Can you succeed living a balanced life?

   2 points by breckognize 17y ago|4 comments
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   by breckognize 17y ago

   One reason for the proliferation of Pittsburgh startups are the efforts of a number of people/programs that want to see the city make a comeback. AlphaLabs is one, but IdeaFoundry and Lenore Blum's Project Olympus are two more that deserve