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You expressed the sentiment I came here to share beautifully - thank you. I think a lot of people fail to understand that exercise isn't that important when trying to lose weight. Another issue I think is extremely pervasive is moral l
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What I found most interesting: > "In other words, he (Bosworth) wants to show advertisers when an ad directly results in a sale—even if the sale happens inside a brick-and-mortar store. To do this, Facebook is working with companies
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According to this talk, the work hours were pretty insane to fix healthcare.gov. From the 2014 Velocity Conference in New York City, Mikey Dickerson's keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov: Where Are We Now? https://w
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It can signal a prioritization of values. Startups tend move fast and be flexible, and tend to have less customers so each one is more valuable. Established companies tend to move slowly and often provide worse customer service. By being ho
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Wouldn't appearing weak by not shelling out potentially tens of thousands of dollars for a domain name be, well, accurate? I mean...these are startups, not established companies. I think showing weakness could be to the advantage of a
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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you can't really chug hot liquids...
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How do you remove the tea in order to prevent over-brewing? It seems like you are highlighting tisanes, which can pretty much be brewed forever. Almost all actual tea (Camellia sinensis) needs to be brewed for a specific amount of time othe
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Is there a map of that shows where all of the Wheelys are in real-time? I'd love to see one in Boulder!
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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There's definitely a demand for good programmers. Check out some job boards and I'm sure you'll find something.
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I'm 26. I've been sitting at my computer most of the day since I was about age 10 (Ultima Online, EverQuest, etc.) and it's been my job since about age 17. Just in the last year have I really started to think about my health
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa and Colorado. We are a 3-person digital and design agency that's just getting started. Currently, we’re working on a large project in the medical field, which has forced us to learn new things
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I don't think there's anything wrong with your perspective, but what do you think about the potential in-direct value that could come from a mission like this? Such as inspiring young people to pursue STEM, or the general populati
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa. We are a small 3-person digital agency that's just getting started. Currently, we are also working on our startup, http://agora.sh , but we're looking to take on a significant
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That's a lot of money for a product that's still in Alpha. This seems like a complex problem with many use cases. Are you concerned about product-market fit or have you already done enough beta testing to know you're on the r
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SEEKING WORK - Remote only, based in Iowa. We are a small 3-person digital agency that's just getting started. Currently, we are also working on our startup, http://agora.sh , but we're looking to take on a significant
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Appreciate the honest feedback. Time will tell if our investment in this video was a good idea or not. The purpose of it is to get people interested in the service, mainly on an emotional level, so that they will install the extension. Once
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A promo video for my startup that cost $6k
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Wonderful and enjoyable video. It's sad that the accuracy of it is debatable: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-real...
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Capital makes things go faster. Bootstrapping with a 5 person team instead of taking money so that you can expand to a 20 person team is a perfectly reasonable strategy. There are just trade-offs.
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Been running a software startup in the Midwest for about 3 years now and raised multiple rounds. In my experience, the difficulty is finding sophisticated investors, but maybe that's a problem unique to the Midwest.
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I'm a happy customer of Semantics3, although the number of products they have data for isn't overwhelming.
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Great read. Tweaking your business model to get it right is certainly hard. I'm on the 3rd 'pivot' of my business. I'm curious - why did you decided to build an API and what other directions were you considering at the t
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I'd love to learn more about AI. What are some good resources to start learning?
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We do a lot of live web scraping of product information from retail sites for http://agora.sh . We basically scrape all of the essential product info and offer it to the user in an optimized view (we call it the 'product por
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We do have a lot of really awesome content from our partner, http://goodinbed.com . You're probably right that the app is male focused, although we did try to get input from our female friends along the way.
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