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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Links aren't clickable in the initial submission.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
You won't get traction without knowing who your target audience is. Incidentally that doesn't come across on the landing page, but even if you sorted that out, you'd still need to contact academics and get them to start using it. Visit a lo
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Just had a quick look at your site code. It's actually nicely done, and shouldn't be too difficult to get a CSS guy in to start to knock it into shape. I think the basic layout is there, but you need more of a lightness of touch, that you w
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Have you tried divshot? http://www.divshot.com/
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
This is not really a well thought out discussion.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
"A players" are, by definition, not the weird ones.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Is there anything like an art based product design class? It's what I did and found it great because it totally avoided all maths - the idea was that you came up with the ideas, you built the prototypes, solving engineering problems by doin
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
OK. I think we all struggle with procrastination. I seriously doubt you are alone in your level of procrastination. If you ever get a chance to flick through "The Procrastination Equation" you'll get why we, as humans, are programmed to pr
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Financially speaking this is your baby, but it sounds like you never set out what the ownership / responsibility split would be from the beginning. This is your biggest problem, and is what is causing you to resent the arrangement , not ne
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Got that right. But not just celebrities... also people in places who you otherwise would not have a direct channel to.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Have you looked at Big Door? http://www.bigdoor.com/
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
I totally agree that actions speak louder than words, and a app or site with traction certainly demonstrates that an idea works, but the point you missed is the money point. If you have money coming in, why do you need to raise more money?
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
You don't say where you are from. I know people who didn't choose shopify because of language/translation issues. They ended up choosing prestashop. Like you they were not programmers.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
I can answer the point from a different perspective. You are right in what you say, except in the UK for example you won't raise any money at all without a business plan. It answers questions like "what are you going to spend our money on?"
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
"What would make it ideal is a usable keyboard with a usable trackpad built into it" http://www.amazon.com/MeshWe-Bluefin-Seamlessly-metallic-sil...
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
What about inviting other people to contribute to creating courses? They will hopefully promo the course for you in exchange for a cut I guess... that should start to bring in more traffic the more people you involve.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
What an awesome response. I speak from experience.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Recruiters know nothing about anything, but I wouldn't dismiss this just because the person was trying too hard to make it attractive. At the end of the day, the client is the person that can properly tell you what it's about and I haven't
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
I thought the point of pre-fixing with "Ask HN:" or "Show HN:" or "Tell HN:" or any other such tags was to make sure that it appeared in the "Ask" section, and ranked separately?
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
As a proportion of my few submissions (21 at this point), yes. I don't read much else on HN apart from the questions, as I find the news feed can't compete for my money with Twitter, so I guess it's natural that if I do put something forwar
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Ask HN: why do my Ask HN posts get bounced?
5 points by chris_dcosta 14y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Can anyone share a Projected CashFlow P&L or Balance sheet with me?
1 points by chris_dcosta 14y ago|0 comments
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
"I wanted to give my team, technical head and management enough confidence to work as easily without me" Why? I can guarantee that the minute you walk out of the door, they will tear up anything that you wanted them to do. Whoever will repl
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Or you can negotiate. You are in the better position, simply put you can say "it's not making you any money, you've had it for ages, it costs you to maintain it, it's going nowhere, so why not accept my offer?" and name your price. Your a
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Not sure about it being money laundering or this being your only worry - what strikes me is that you appear to be able to obtain credit card numbers from other countries with which you are proposing to use in substitute for the persons actu
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
I get the smart but slow thing ALL THE TIME. When on contracts I often have quite heated debates because everyone who is running, is almost always running right into a brick wall that they refuse to acknowledge... until it happens. And then
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
I agree with this. I have a separate dev user on my machine that has no email or any other distraction and I keep my browser clean and purged. This means it's a pain in the a*se to login to sites I visit in normal life.
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
In this what Angel List does?
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
Just out of interest... what was your successful startup? Why did that work and the others not?
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by chris_dcosta 14y ago
This is a good start but what I'm really looking for is a from scratch plan - that is to say, I actually have no idea where to start. Ok, I know I could pull out of the air a figure for the target nr users that would probably tie up with th

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