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by faramarz 16y ago
My last resort is to cold call. Though i'm not sure it will get me in the room with senior guys. How do I introduce myself? As a founder or ceo? or biz dev and sales?
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by faramarz 16y ago
I did not think of this. I'll have to brush up my profile first, then ping them. Thanks.
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Ask HN: I'm building something for the airline industry..
5 points by faramarz 16y ago|13 comments
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by faramarz 16y ago
The whole notion of Less is More has to do with the end result, at the consumption/interaction level. Of course there's complexity behind the minimalism, and that's the true art of it. This article isn't touching on anything new, I was ex
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by faramarz 16y ago
Agreed. Plus, it's something they use themselves and is crucial to their project management process. Their clients are encouraged to communicate tasks with the engineers through the Tracker. It's a utility (for us and them). I'm not concern
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Day and Night cycle created using only CSS3(eriksharp.com)
1 points by faramarz 16y ago|0 comments
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by faramarz 16y ago
Here, I cropped the icon 57x57 to make it easier for pg. Don't worry about the gloss or round corners, iPhone takes care of that. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1226601/apple-touch-icon.png
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by faramarz 16y ago
He's probably one of the people who donated 2k for a box, pre-installed, just to study it. I like this move regardless. it's showing his personality, great PR story too.
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One Laptop Per Child's next move: the $100 tablet(theglobeandmail.com)
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by faramarz 16y ago
Paul, while you're on subject, please explore the 'purpose' finding journey in a blog post. If you think out loud about this, I'd like to read it.
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by faramarz 16y ago
I admire this guy so much, Hope things pick up for Tesla. It's a float issue. not like he's totally broke or financially incapable of taking future risks in his capacity with Tesla.
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by faramarz 16y ago
Thanks for the reminder Alex. Maybe I'll catch you at the next Sproutup, good to see locals here.
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BlackBerry Partners Fund Expands with $100MM Affiliate Fund in China(blackberrypartnersfund.com)
2 points by faramarz 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Anybody know what the status on fbfund is?
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by faramarz 16y ago
Actually most of is to get legs on ground in fear of anarchist protests. The Olympics was an investment, not this. Now looks like the auditor general is getting involved to find what caused the spike in the security budget. again, more cost
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by faramarz 16y ago
This could possibly lead to an early election, thats how bad the situation is right now. For the love god, keep all these G summits at the same venue every year, or lease the UN building. What is wrong with these politicians? We are spendin
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Canada is spending $1 billion on security for the G8 and G20 Summit(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by faramarz 16y ago|4 comments
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by faramarz 16y ago
Buy a few houses/condos near your local University campus and rent it out. Rinse and repeat. :) Spend a few grand to renovate, put lock on each door etc. and just sit back and watch the money come in. (not much sitting back really, you need
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Physically packing your troubles away actually works study finds(rotman.utoronto.ca)
1 points by faramarz 16y ago|0 comments
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Legendary psychiatrist Viktor Frankl on Human search for meaning [vid](youtube.com)
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by faramarz 16y ago
Awesome product! I have to add a comment/suggestion. Have you thought of allowing tweets to register as events on the timeline? This is a problem that plagues TV NEWS anchors. Every time they blowup twitter.com to show viewer responses o
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by faramarz 16y ago
I disagree. Three is better than two. no more, no less. Look at Youtube as the perfect case study. Jawad, the thrid foudner, gave up operation dutities togo back to school. he still advised, and was paramount in the early stages of the comp
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by faramarz 16y ago
..but, are you looking for investments? C-Corp has an advantage that allows you to have unlimited stakeholders. this can vary from individuals to Angels, VC's and institutional investors. You're basically getting rid of any friction for a p
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by faramarz 16y ago
Why not target those people with a specific landing page? The language could be something humorous like this: "..wait, don't click the back button cause i got something to show you.." or "..We're so happy that you're a new visitor, here
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Usability.gov - Usability guidelines for (government) web designers(usability.gov)
15 points by faramarz 16y ago|2 comments
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by faramarz 16y ago
It is and that's probably the biggest reason the model works well for internet media. It's cheap to create, test and deploy. Sometimes even traditional markets such as Healthcare could use web innovations to suite their bottom line. i.e. He
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by faramarz 16y ago
Would love to learn more about Omar. Perhaps a Mixery interview is in order? What a character! I remember seeing his Scoble interview and you just walked away VERY impressed by his personality and business acumen. Thanks for Sharing!
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by faramarz 16y ago
I say take the most challenging option as mahmud mentioned. There is a certain level of magic when you are at the forefront of startup and that everything you do shapes the outcome. This is an opportunity to make a name for yourself.
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by faramarz 16y ago
I find that i'm much more open to subscribing today than I was say 2 -3years ago. The industry etiquette has improved a lot, I actually value 80% of emails I get or they provide some value. (even the endless linked discussions notifications
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by faramarz 16y ago
Thanks dude. I had initally turned off ClearType because smaller texts were too blurry or you could see a hint of red in some letters. Found a tool that optimizes the contrast http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx

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