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by ericabiz 13y ago
Actually, girls can have ADHD too (I should know--I am one, and I've been diagnosed.) Also, as someone who's been diagnosed with ADHD, saying "boys being boys" is not only untrue, but also dismissive of what IS actually
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I wrote something similar today, only I called it "When the Sh-t Hits the Fan with Your Startup": http://www.erica.biz/2013/startup/ In the post, I wrote: I firmly believe no outside problem (running out
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Heh, just saw this. Brian is my fiance and I run a funded startup here in Austin (see my profile, although we're about to rebrand.) So it's not a fair fight. ;)
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by ericabiz 13y ago
The finance guys are always the worst. (See my above post; as a hobby, I help friends negotiate on cars.) Here is what I do: I always scout for the finance guy beforehand, and let him know I'm going to say no to everything. They always
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by ericabiz 13y ago
It's a trend with certain dealerships. In my experience, the low-end car companies tend to do this more often. As a hobby, I help friends buy/negotiate cars, so I've had experience with several dealerships. Here's my lis
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by ericabiz 13y ago
StormPulse is awesome and I would highly recommend working with Matt, Brad & co.
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by ericabiz 13y ago
As a data point from another SaaS company owner, we thought this would be temporary too, but we found out it was so valuable in increasing customer retention and engagement that we are now planning to make it permanent (see my post above-
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Hey Patrick--as the person who (may have) introduced you to this, I should share what we're doing. We are just about to hire another full-time person to help us with this as we scale out our consulting-as-onboarding process. I promise
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> just for reference, the service is _not_ operational Your product looks really interesting and it sounds like you got some traction. What happened, if you don't mind sharing?
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Perhaps not true any more. I came across this article yesterday: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227436 "Austin ranks as the No. 1 place to launch your business, according to a new ranking by GoodApril, a San
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I had to have a chuckle at these numbers... "The population is also growing. From 2000 to 2010, 28,500 new San Franciscans arrived in the city. From 2010 to 2012, the city welcomed another 20,600 inhabitants in just three years."
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Hey Nathan--Glad to see you over here. I know you personally and I know Patrick personally, and Patrick is definitely one of the good guys. I've been super impressed with him, having both worked with him (we both consulted at WP Engine
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> How did he jump from a book in 2009 to having several products on what basically amounts to life coaching (dream job, earning money on the side, resume improvements, etc)? The funny thing about Hacker News is you never know who's
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by ericabiz 13y ago
They're great fun. I live in Austin, TX and we have several in the house. They obliterate mosquitoes with a satisfying "POP" noise. The mosquitoes literally explode into tiny pieces when you hit them with the bat. It's a
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I'm not Ixiaus but I am his best friend and co-founder (and totally going to give him hell in the office tomorrow for posting on HN when he's supposed to be on vacation. ;) Anyway, he gets up at 6AM every day and runs through a sp
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Probably the Windows indexing service. It's configured to run when you're not using your computer. You can turn it off and see if that stops the hard drive noises: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&#x
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by ericabiz 13y ago
As a front-end dev, you should be getting paid pretty well. Here in Austin, front-end devs make $75K/year or more (more if you have extensive Javascript experience.) Living in a city that allows you to live frugally (like Austin) would
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Yes: http://norml.org/ Please join, support, rally with NORML for better drug laws. The facts: 55% of federal prisoners are held for drug law violations 21% of state prisoners are held for drug law violations via http:&#x
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I'm just going to leave this here in the hope that @Rakathos reads it. It's all about why "small business owners" are a terrible market: http://www.erica.biz/2013/new-business-ideas/ I cite some good examples of markets in there, as wel
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> I'll get on a way to sell it in advance. Awesome. Really glad to hear you're ready to take the initiative. > where I would sell an annual deal on the server for 25-33% off You may not get people to commit to a year up front if you
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I can quickly tell you why you've had 0 luck finding a co-founder. My background: I am both a web hosting industry veteran, with a successful high-end hosting company under my belt (see http://www.erica.biz/2009/the-end-of-an-era/ for my
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Ah, finally found it! http://brianarmstrong.org/blog/my-next-project/ Ctrl-F 'Erica' and read the whole thread of him/me! :) (He did launch the biz, but shut it down not long after that. Coinbase is doing much better! ;)
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Oy. Do NOT self-host an email autoresponder. I wrote a great comment about this a few years ago on Brian Armstrong's blog--and he's now doing Coinbase after deciding the email stuff wasn't worth it. Look in my profile to see who I am and wh
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Your link is from his Microconf 2012 talk, where the OP's link on Slideshare is from the talk he did this year, a few days ago. Complete notes from all Microconf 2013 talks (including Patrick's, Jason Cohen's, mine) are here: http://www.it
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by ericabiz 13y ago
On a Mac, you can just two-finger scroll right to scroll right on a browser window. (Still doesn't excuse dumb developers who don't test on multiple browser widths, but it does make it easier to deal with them.)
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Hi Tim--thanks for replying! To show my full hand, I'm the business/marketing co-founder/CEO at a software company--though I have a strong tech background, I chose to go into the marketing side because I love psychology and analytics so muc
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I agree with you that perfect sizing is the future of fashion retail--especially online. However, I completely disagree with your methodology. This demographic is going to be won over by marketing , and you didn't have the correct marketin
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by ericabiz 14y ago
FYI, your website is completely broken on my Nexus 7 tablet. It appears to be some sort of fixed-width design that goes off the left side of my screen.
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Google Gets Competition: AT&T Announces Plans for 1Gbps Fiber in Austin, Texas(engadget.com)
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by ericabiz 14y ago
The great thing about working for an Internet company (I'm assuming you do since you've been on Hacker News for a while) is that you can really live anywhere. I moved my most recent startup to Austin after living in the Valley for 10 years

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