damonpace

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by damonpace 12y ago
I grew up in Navajo County(Holbrook & Snowflake) and now live in Downtown Palo Alto. I understand the drastic change you've experienced more than anyone on HN. These Ivy league pricks have no idea. No matter what you do...don'
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Flag for Internet Freedom & Privacy(github.com)
1 points by damonpace 12y ago|0 comments
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by damonpace 12y ago
Instamotor's CEO bought a car using Carlypso and decided to copy the model. That's the Instamotor story.
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by damonpace 12y ago
"many startup founders had some deep personal trauma in their early lives." --- Can you elaborate on this quote? What makes you say this?
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by damonpace 13y ago
I built something like this about 4 years ago called BigStartups.com. It was built to help network the startup community and was moderately successful. Unfortunately, there were co-founder issues and we shut it down. I often think about wha
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by damonpace 13y ago
Thank you! That is what I needed to hear. The 7 day transfer delay needed to go bye bye. Do we have an eta on that? Also want to say I would love to pre-pay into the balance to avoid overages as well.
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by damonpace 13y ago
This basic premise(MVP) exists on American Indian reservations, quasi-sovereign states. The BIA and the Tribe distributes an equal share of funds from either the government or gaming to each tribal member. As long as you can prove you are a
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by damonpace 13y ago
In my 20's I built a thriving web business in Phoenix on my own. There was no support, no venture capital, no community, etc. Nothing to help me build my business. I eventually moved to SF...and brought talent with me. Arizona doesn&#x
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Minding the Entrepreneurial Gap(3daycoder.com)
1 points by damonpace 13y ago|0 comments
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by damonpace 13y ago
I'm leaving that up to the coder and you to decide how to handle long term work/maintenance. Ideally, there will be other coders who can pick up where the other left off. That's why we are having people add skills.
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by damonpace 13y ago
Thanks, I just launched it officially yesterday.
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by damonpace 13y ago
I built this to bridge the gap between full time development and getting your startup funded or ramen profitable. If you are a developer starting your own project, please sign up and create your profile. There are a lot of companies who wou
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Show HN: 3 Day Coder - For Bootstrappers(3daycoder.com)
8 points by damonpace 13y ago|6 comments
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by damonpace 13y ago
A VC fundable startup is one in which you KNOW you can turn $1 into $20. Once you figure out how to do this, you will want as much money as possible to make that happen as many times as you can. That's when VC's are needed. You take VC mone
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by damonpace 14y ago
I grew up in the back of a junkyard and watched my father collect "stuff" my entire life. It's a minor mental disorder, irrationally rooted in a fear of having nothing. To my father it was his security blanket. He would look out across the
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by damonpace 14y ago
Subscribe and curate is a great model for e-commerce...but don't cram the products down my throat. ShoeDazzle learned their lesson and switched to a choose from curated products model instead. Keep your eye on this space, as it's evolving r
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by damonpace 14y ago
Repeat after me...You do not have to suffer to build a business. So many stories like this are sensationalized in the media and it convinces so many young entrepreneurs that it's a right of passage to struggle while building a business. It'
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NDA's are for amateurs(damonpace.posterous.com)
1 points by damonpace 14y ago|0 comments
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by damonpace 14y ago
General rule of thumb. If your company has solid revenue or is close to profitability...you will be fine when the bubble bursts. If your company is not even close to profitable...you will need to polish that resume some more. The better opt
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by damonpace 14y ago
I wouldn't say they use a sledgehammer approach. I used to own and operate an anonymous email service until the FBI called me one day for the user data. I never ended up giving it to them, but I immediately shut it down after that. They wer
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Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted(support.godaddy.com)
116 points by damonpace 15y ago|32 comments
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by damonpace 15y ago
Exactly. Business people are what make a business go around. It's not always about product, but also about being able to sell the product. Programming is becoming ubiquitous and available around every corner of the world. If I want to build
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by damonpace 15y ago
I'm guessing in the $750k plus range...unless they've owned it for years.
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The Hustling MBA
1 points by damonpace 15y ago|0 comments
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by damonpace 15y ago
Great iteration of the slide deck. If I were an investor I would prefer this over powerpoint any day. So much smoother.
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by damonpace 15y ago
Good luck guys...don't let all the negative comments get you down. Power through and stay on task.
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How would an idea hacker fix the USPS?(damonpace.posterous.com)
2 points by damonpace 15y ago|1 comments
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by damonpace 15y ago
The only problem I see with patents is the legal process (legal bullying). It should not take 2 years and $1 million to prove your innovation does not conflict with another patent. That's ridiculous! Ideas & companies are killed by the
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by damonpace 15y ago
I see this as a talent/technology grab instead of a revenue play. Obviously, Skype will be able to integrate the technology and find a way to monetize it with their user base. There have been multiple companies purchased before they even la
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by damonpace 15y ago
I thought of the exact same thing when I read this. I still like it though.

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