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hikari17
17y ago
The mouseovers work for me in Firefox 3.5.2. But I'm still not smarter than you...
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I'm currently taking an SEO/SEM class through Digital Bootcamp in Chicago. Jerome Harvey is our instructor. Based on my admittedly brief experience with him so far, I can enthusiastically recommend him. He's already helped improve our site'
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It's not too late to find the right co-founder before the application deadline, and it's worth working hard to find one: Your YC application will be strengthened not just by having a co-founder but by the process of seeking one out. The
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At it happens, I'm currently looking to sell 3 Haro BMX bikes that I bought for a Scout group aways back and never ended up using. It's tempting to think I could pull off what these guys did and get a good price for them, but I can't back u
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I like that when I see a comment that I'm tempted to downvote (if I could), several people have already taken care of that for me. Also, the amount of cross-disciplinary knowledge the community brings to bear on most issues is pleasantly hu
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I'm a co-founder -- along with my wife and a friend -- of http://www.genlighten.com , an Etsy-like marketplace for genealogy research services. My role includes pre-code IA/UX design, usability testing, customer development, sales/marketin
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Wilmette, Illinois, USA
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I would like to look back on the sale of our startup with the feeling that the buyer and I could sit on a entrepreneurial conference panel together and talk in a warm, genuine way about having come to terms that were fair to both of us. So
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Still working nights and weekends on http://www.genlighten.com , our "Etsy for Genealogy Document Retrieval" app.
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I just stuck a carriage return in after each line...
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http://www.genlighten.com A genealogy-oriented site with a decidedly older target demographic. Monthly uniques only around 1-3k. 1. Firefox 52.31% 2. Internet Explorer 37.00% 7.0 20.86% 8.0 9.66% 6.0 6.47% 3. Safari
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My wife is a beginning fiddler and currently uses www.learntohear.com. [She cares a great deal about ear training and music theory.] She likes how your site lets you choose songs that correspond to specific intervals.
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I'm working on getting our bootstrapped genealogy research site ready for private beta: http://www.genlighten.com .
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My two are 25 and 20, respectively. They're directly supportive, but they're also indirectly motivating, since I'm eager to transmit to them the potential upside of the entrepreneurial mindset (along with the downsides, of course.)
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We're planning on applying next year, by which time I'll be 49.5. Like Ben Fountain in the Gladwell essay, our success will be "highly contingent on the efforts of others."
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I'd add gliffy (for diagrams), balsamiq (for mockups) and onebox (for phone service) to the list...
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What about thawte?
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returnpath.com
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USA as a Restart
(earlystagevc.typepad.com)
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Startup Valuations, Business Models and Social Leverage
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I work for the fiber-optics division of a multinational electronic/optical connector firm. We're very interested in solid-state lighting as an area for near-term strategic investment. I'm currently monitoring several startups in this area