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by friendstock 15y ago
My sincere apologies!!! John
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by friendstock 15y ago
It was my impression too that the photo could be appropriate. EDIT: I've edited my comment to make it more constructive. Brian, I think you are doing a great job with AirBNB and handling this situation. Please take these comments as constr
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by friendstock 15y ago
not bad as a viral video
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by friendstock 15y ago
No it doesn't. I've booked on AirBNB using paypal.
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by friendstock 15y ago
Actually, I've used AirBNB multiple times -- hosts CAN talk to the guests... but it's done through the AirBNB messaging system which actively removes real identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers.
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Ask HN: any good alternatives to Pivotal Tracker?
5 points by friendstock 15y ago|8 comments
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by friendstock 15y ago
Agreed! Yes, engineering is a commodity and companies must do customer development... but people will need strong technical backgrounds in order to make the right decisions.
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by friendstock 15y ago
wow, I almost fell over when I saw the new logo. Not very attractive.
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by friendstock 15y ago
Is this part of a general trend? YC is down too: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ycombinator.com&geo=...
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by friendstock 15y ago
Good points, but Beijing is the internet startup hub of China.
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by friendstock 15y ago
how is this possible? I don't know anyone who uses StumbleUpon... do you?
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by friendstock 15y ago
elaborate... how would this work in the dating context? Phase 1: I'm not interested in dating. Phase 2: I've got a dinner date tonight, do you want to meet up afterwards?
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Campfire Integration Trick(blog.cardinalblue.com)
1 points by friendstock 15y ago|0 comments
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by friendstock 15y ago
Singapore is pricier than other countries, but might be a god starting point, given that it is English-speaking, very modern and has a startup community (hackerspace.sg). As for Indonesia, I think Jakarta is not that pleasant to walk around
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by friendstock 15y ago
One of Dave's stated investment principles is to invest (at a lower valuation) BEFORE product-market fit or traction. I think it's normal in incubator/accelerator programs for some startups not to launch their product publicly before demo d
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by friendstock 15y ago
yes, it's perfect for a developer-oriented website
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by friendstock 15y ago
Yes, this seems a bit too anecdote-based. It would be good to pair the anecdotes with statistics.
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by friendstock 15y ago
Streaming here: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned
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by friendstock 15y ago
Actually, status.heroku.com is up for me. But heroku.com is not loading for me.
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"A million balloons, a million stories" - written during the EC2 outage(blog.cardinalblue.com)
1 points by friendstock 16y ago|0 comments
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by friendstock 16y ago
Can someone give TL;DR summary of this post? My, does it go on and on...
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by friendstock 16y ago
Is there a name or model of this phone? I can't tell from the video...
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by friendstock 16y ago
wait.. this isn't a spoof?
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by friendstock 16y ago
Also, check out Burn Rate: http://www.cool-studio.net/
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by friendstock 16y ago
Regarding 1and1 --- agreed! We had a bit of trouble with them on credit card billing... Also, we found it hard to use their interface to change configuration settings.
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In "Homefront", Korea invades America... is Korea a stand-in for China?(nytimes.com)
2 points by friendstock 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Heroku is down for us... is this affecting anyone else?
1 points by friendstock 16y ago|3 comments
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by friendstock 16y ago
Question: why don't the US military forces get involved in the rescue effort at Fukushima? Is it because the Japanese government does not want the US to get involved due to political considerations, or because there's not much the US force
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by friendstock 16y ago
yes... we even had an outage for 20 minutes this morning
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by friendstock 16y ago
The "panache" is not the issue... the issue is whether your startup is in a location where young people want to live or commute to. I worked at a telecom startup located in Bedminster and must say that it was not a convenient location for t

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