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by brm 16y ago
I'm missing something, how they are hacks? Surreal juxtapostions yes, but hacks...
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by brm 16y ago
Point of order... It wasn't a series E, it was $120 million in purchases on the secondary market http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/28/elevation-invests-another-1...
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I Know About Old Things(psmith.posterous.com)
2 points by brm 16y ago|2 comments
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by brm 16y ago
Making a poor business decision and then somehow blaming Groupon for it is no better than building a house in a flood plain and not having flood insurance. Groupon works wonderfully for businesses with predictable fixed costs and decreasing
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by brm 16y ago
Realism. Nothing is more bothersome than buzzwords and bulleted lists of cross-disciplinary requirements that no person you would actually want on your team could fill. Speak Human.
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There are no small changes(contrast.ie)
5 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments
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by brm 16y ago
If nothing else this has been a great lesson in hardware manufacturing That said, I would still like some sort of verification that my preorder has been cancelled and that I wont randomly be getting charged 45 dollars sometime in the future
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by brm 16y ago
Either way, when your ad campaign is the most remarkable thing about your product you still have a problem.
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by brm 16y ago
So does Noah Everett from twitpic
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by brm 16y ago
Email threads. Start an email with the subject heading of the idea. Add replies as it evolves. Use a gmail label to track them so they don't fill up your inbox
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by brm 16y ago
Or you could just make something awesome and make it for yourself as the customer and stop needing tricks and strategies to keep people involved and "converting" I see game mechanics, landing page optimization, and the like as compensations
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by brm 16y ago
Learn a little bit about typography and then peruse fontsquirrel.com, pick an interesting font and let it do the work for you. Most enduring logos are not graphically complex. Simple Logos: Bayer, 3M, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo etc I also se
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Ism Schism(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Are Our Cars So Dumb?(alexbogusky.posterous.com)
1 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments
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by brm 16y ago
Its always interesting to me to see people's reactions when moving from poorly planned sprawling cities to some of the better planned more organically laid out cities in the US (DC, NY, Chicago, Portland, SF, etc) your quality of life chang
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by brm 16y ago
Judge a user not by the depth of their profile but by the quality of their previous comments and contributions.
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by brm 16y ago
I'll say it, as long as you realize that the "make this look good" part is on equal footing with the app development and are willing to compensate them as such... you can find them on http://collabfinder.com
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StartupQuote.Tumblr(startupquote.com)
5 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments
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by brm 16y ago
The money makes things interesting even though they've made nothing yet. Imagine how things change from a momentum standpoint if they work on the 10 or 15k they planned to this summer and use the rest of the money to get people like Chris M
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by brm 16y ago
Frankly I'm confused why this has 8 votes. I like Crowdspring but I really wish they'd stop vote spamming HN with posts about links that they've linked to.
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by brm 16y ago
So let me get this straight, they went to a business with the potential, brains, and resources to steal their idea, had virtually no barriers to entry, and told them about it freely? There are several things you can cry poor sportsmanship f
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by brm 16y ago
I believe distributed to be unnecessary. Build almost the same thing facebook is now but be good. Follow flickr's community guidelines and minimal design. Allow me to have a profile picture, give status updates, message friends, write on
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by brm 16y ago
Why not link to the original source?
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by brm 16y ago
Headline: Women Navigate More Efficiently Than Men Intro: Women Navigate More Efficiently Than Men IN SOME CASES Real story: Women expend less energy than men while picking mushrooms says a study of a Mexican village If nothing else this
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by brm 16y ago
If you don't know Grellas you should. He's one of the most giving and knowledgeable contributors HN has on a subject where a lot of junk normally gets tossed around http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas
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Darpa to Develop Flying Cars by 2015(wired.com)
2 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments
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by brm 17y ago
They've also made it relatively impossible to figure out how to abandon a pre-order...
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How Do You Charge?(kennedysgarage.com)
2 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Focused Generosity(copyblogger.com)
1 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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by brm 17y ago
No I doubt its normally a 40k mistake but he didn't elaborate... he said it cost the business 40k, he didn't say they paid out 40k. Both Sachin and his detractors are speaking in overly broad terms here. Sachin's getting hammered though be

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