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flooha
18y ago
I sure hope they didn't base any decisions off of the quality of the video. Posterous hacked it up like a baby bunny through a wood chipper. Condolences to all who got rejected. Take it in stride.
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flooha
18y ago
Don't waste your time. I spent weeks struggling with this software. The documentation is non-existent, the only support is through the google user group. You have to run your own name servers which is the wrong approach for this kind of s
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flooha
18y ago
aaaand...? The site is cold and impersonal and gives no real details about their strategy or vision. I mean, c'mon...one paragraph + a few one sentence FAQs? It's almost like, yesterday, someone at Google said, "Hey, we should do that too.
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flooha
18y ago
Originally, the Thai company did do all the packing. The original shipment had seepage of the lubrication, so he sent them back. The reason he had to do a lot of hand work was because, after receiving the new shipment, he realized that: "
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flooha
18y ago
This would have been a perfect fit for "sell before you build". If he would have secured a large order from a retailer and then put it in production, he would have been successful. Not securing a large order would have told him it just wa
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flooha
18y ago
Really depends on what it sells for, but I have a much riskier and expensive startup which I would fund from the sale of the first one.
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flooha
18y ago
Agreed. You just have to set priorities and know yourself. My "goof-off" time is mostly used for research on various topics and that takes priority over blogging for me.
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flooha
18y ago
Here's what works for me: Keep a SIMPLE running list of tasks in a plain 'ol text file and sort them by priority. If you find yourself "spacing out", grep the list for the easiest thing you could possibly do and do it immediately. This oft
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flooha
18y ago
Props to the YC crew for giving all of us this opportunity and hacking (machete, not keyboard) their way through the applications. I hope our video isn't too boring. We tried to keep it light, but we had to script it to say everything we wa