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by christonog 17y ago
>I have enormous respect for business people who have no technical knowledge, and behave accordingly. Conversely, if you know that you know nothing about parts of what I do, then why do you feel it's necessary to have input into it? I a
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by christonog 17y ago
Dan, I can't speak to all your questions, but I'll try to help out where I can. in my experience the easiest way for a techincal person to respect a "business type" is for the business guy to know a thing or two about coding and software de
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Brand Community: Creating differentiation through consumption(venturerepublic.com)
1 points by christonog 17y ago|0 comments
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by christonog 17y ago
Coming in from NC, taking sometime off from work.
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by christonog 17y ago
I'll be there.
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by christonog 17y ago
I'm a little bit more complicated. A wanna be entrepeneur turned wanna be hacker aiming to become an entrepeneur, though you could argue that being an entrepreneur is more of a lifestyle choice rather than a job title.
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by christonog 17y ago
Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. Sorry about that, had my email in the email field instead of the about me field. Anyway, it's added. :-)
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by christonog 17y ago
I'm coming in on Sunday, so anything Sunday night would be great to meet some folks before the actual event. If anyone wants to get together, I'm down. Just shoot me an email at the contact address in my HN profile.
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by christonog 17y ago
I mean, $15K is just their first month, who knows how much their revenues have grown since then. I feel that with the manpower they currently have and their traction, they can scale much higher (and in turn spend profits on new hires) on or
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by christonog 17y ago
$15,000 in revenue in the first month is impressive. I wonder how many business dev and customer support people they need to want the 250K. It seems that the business is healthy enough to hire based on revenue, which is what I would do inst
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Ask YC: Ever consider contacting start-ups to invest?
4 points by christonog 17y ago|2 comments
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by christonog 17y ago
It certainly does make sense, the NYT does have the branding and clout to pull this off. Offering local editions does remove some of the fat in the newspaper business, but isn't there a risk of "the wal-mart effect," especially if the NYT m
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by christonog 17y ago
Anyway you can make a page for Startup Bootcamp?
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by christonog 17y ago
Though probably not a start-up anymore, I don't think Zoho has taken any VC money.
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by christonog 17y ago
1) Pick a problem and solve it. Interesting, Christian never mentioned any of the "problems" Trogger wanted to solve. It does seem, at first glance, that this idea was a solution looking for a problem.
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by christonog 17y ago
Very cool, how valuable was the course for you, and was it mostly online? I'm on the fence on whether I should continue with my informal study or bite the bullet and take a structured class.
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by christonog 17y ago
I used to be one of these folks. "Hey now, I have a great idea! But dang, I can't program. Let me find a co-founder that does." Needless to say, none of my ideas got anywhere. You need to be able to sell your idea, and I think the best way
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by christonog 17y ago
SAS institute is one of those rare companies where the founders did not sell or go public, but still created a hugely valuable business. Just comes to show that there are other routes you can take with your startup and be successful with en
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by christonog 17y ago
The purpose of a start up is to serve their customers. I think that we at HN tend to downplay the importance of business guy's role in this task. They abstract many of the "mundane" tasks of scaling a business and let the technical guys foc
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by christonog 17y ago
This has happened to me as well and, for lack of a better term, it sucks. Especially when they've executedso much more brilliantly than you could. The way I try to deal with these types of cases is to try my best to not get emotionally atta
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by christonog 17y ago
By actually writing it down and tweaking the idea into an oppotunity, doesn't that constitute as action? Is it smart to skip this whole process altogether?
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Ask HN: You have a start-up idea. Now what?
21 points by christonog 17y ago|31 comments
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by christonog 17y ago
1. Ask HN feature. 2. Comments and discussion.
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by christonog 17y ago
Raleigh here. +1 for scorching heat.
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by christonog 17y ago
One suggestion I think would work is cater to user or student study groups. Maybe offer a discount to the group if enough show. Or possibly reserve seating for a nominal charge, or with a minimum $ purchase. I know it would have been benefi
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by christonog 17y ago
No, but I realize how the title might be misleading. I realize now this question was maybe geared toward those who started YC companies, which I haven't.
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by christonog 17y ago
I'm really finding Evernote a great tool for syncing my daily to-do lists.
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by christonog 17y ago
"Matter of fact Gee Chaung has and is a member of freenapkin and registered in December of 2008. His idea is not spur of the moment and this post about ‘ebay of free’ for free auctions needs more attention." So he signed up for the site and
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by christonog 17y ago
Not sure why you downvoted, I thought you made some great points. However, your example helps illustrate what I've been saying. Say you want a car. You may want to go to the dealership and just buy one (Toyota's automated process, thus lowe
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by christonog 17y ago
"That '_commerical_' support you're referring to doesn't scale worth a damn" Please elaborate on this comment. Redhat has basically been the poster child for the free software/commercial support business model for over a decade now. I belie

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