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by ezl 15y ago
Yes, I think the ladder analogy is true for all startups. This is largely written for my family and friends who aren't involved in startups. I don't think its true that all startups are for all founders. We realized that the "right" track
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Death of a startup: Spaciety post mortem(ezl.tumblr.com)
22 points by ezl 15y ago|5 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
Why not. Saw someone had posted a byproduct of their startup, so I did. Not as cool as the other guys, but it was something I built as part of a "marketing" (ok, airbnb style spam) strategy for my last startup. It searches for tweets based
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Show hn: Twitter spammer - sharing a byproduct(twitterspammer.com)
6 points by ezl 15y ago|1 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
Makes total sense. Using registration/authentication as a deliberate strategy for selecting/segmenting your market is underrated. Startups too often get in a cycle of wanting ALL the customers, instead of wanting the right customers. You'r
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Any Houston hackers want to hack?
1 points by ezl 15y ago|1 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
I thought this was hilarious. Reminds me when @joshu raised and spouted a bunch of jokes for the idea he was pursuing (1). I can't imagine being in that position and NOT using the media as a vehicle for your personal amusement. (1) http://
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by ezl 15y ago
Love. This isn't a piece about china, or developing countries, or even internet businesses. This is "rich vs king". (1) There are tons of opportunities out there, but a lot of the good ones are decidedly unsexy. Getting the most press !=
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by ezl 15y ago
(having just wireframes eliminates ~0 risk) Wireframes might not eliminate risk, but "has wireframes" is a great metric to add to the list for selecting a bizdev guy. The leap from "idea" to "screens/wireframes that outline how the fanta
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by ezl 15y ago
I'd like to hear about how they've attracted the volume. I never see ads for them and 1mm searches/mo seems bigger than the set of "techcrunch + hacker news readers".
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by ezl 15y ago
Spas and salons Andrew and I are working on http://spaciety.com (think "Spa + society" for pronunciation) -- I've been calling it the "Expedia/OpenTable for Spas", but same idea. We're at the Brandery in Cincinnati Ohio now trying to blow
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Bitcoin thefts at MTGOX (Bitcoin exchange) confirmed to be CSRF vulnerability(forum.bitcoin.org)
68 points by ezl 15y ago|48 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
Wow thats brutal. Poorly organized. Nobody knew to show up.
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by ezl 16y ago
check out quant.ly
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by ezl 16y ago
windust, i'm around the corner from your office, would love to chat.
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by ezl 16y ago
I have worked with and known adennis4 for 4 years and want to vouch for him. What he's leaving out is that he's incredibly motivated, hard working, and doesn't take no for an answer. He is one of the most outgoing and charismatic guys I kn
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by ezl 16y ago
I will vouch for ashraful -- I've worked with him once before and am mid-project with him now and have enjoyed the process and results.
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by ezl 16y ago
inconceivable!
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by ezl 16y ago
the girls who share tastes with me on tastebuds.fm are way hotter than the girls i'm meeting in real life. clearly i'm doing this wrong.
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Seed Fund Reject Still a Ne’er-do-well(foundersblock.com)
17 points by ezl 16y ago|2 comments
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by ezl 16y ago
ah yes, we suck. We were hoping it wouldn't get discovered until we had a second weekend to really deploy it.
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by ezl 16y ago
Oh poop. I'm the ezl from the github repo where that source lives. Was hoping we'd have more time to fix it before being embarassed. HNOH was intended to be a quick weekend project (famous last words). We didn't quite make it in the week
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by ezl 16y ago
Was it weeks/months/years until you felt comfortable writing an entire Web app with basic functionality? Comfortable? I don't know. Capable? a few months. Starting to flesh out your ideas? Within 1 month of starting an EARNEST effort t
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by ezl 16y ago
Every television food/restaurant ad I've ever seen. I've never eaten at Red Lobster but oh MAN do I want to. That half lobster, flames lapping up and engulfing it, charry grill lines, being dipped in fake yellow butter.... mmm... And Olive
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by ezl 16y ago
I don't understand why anyone complains about Google Instant. It requires one less mouseclick. If you want to pretend you're using the old Google, you can just close your eyes while you type, randomly click your mouse, then open your eyes.
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by ezl 16y ago
Looking for the number as well. Sort of an interesting exercise... Can you find it? If that piece of information is available online somewhere, how would you get it (calling all of your stoner friends is probably the fastest way, but disal
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by ezl 16y ago
Rare and refreshing. Too many hours of my life have been spent hacking broken Excel spreadsheets with recorded macros.
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by ezl 16y ago
@jrockway: I'm curious about this, do you have any links to texts you've read about this or is this from personal experience? In my experience there are all sorts of reasons why different desks WANT to price things differently. When 2 in
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High frequency trading firm is charged with quote stuffing and manipulation(businessinsider.com)
2 points by ezl 16y ago|0 comments
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by ezl 16y ago
http://snail.dustincurtis.com/ is one such app. I don't recall seeing any revenue numbers on it though.

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