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Trevor Blackwell: Building a balancing scooter(tlb.org)
3 points by hwijaya 17y ago|0 comments
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Great work. I think it would be great when you guys start cover the region, like Indonesia. I hardly can find any Indonesian startups so far. Unfortunately, i don't live in the country.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
I am in Sydney. Feel free to drop me a line. Our startups actually work in some of the area that you described (haven't launched yet). But, i agree with other comments, research around ...most of the time, it won't be unique. But, you'll le
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by hwijaya 17y ago
So far, i only read about 35% of the content. I think what makes it unique is the language that it used is quite casual and it gives a lot of example per cases. It emphasized a lot about validating your assumptions. All in all, i highly rec
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by hwijaya 17y ago
That's what makes technology industry interesting. Things are quite unpredictable and like it or not, none of us knows exactly how things will pan out. Google's strength is obviously in brand penetration when it comes to search engine. Afte
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Sure. I can understand that. I am no expert in legal system, but, is it illegal to send out something that is legally correct AND/OR maybe accompany by another letter that practically is more human-readable? After all, what's the point of t
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Totally agree with you here. I wonder if any of the management team read Steve Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany" book. Cuil sounds like the exact example being outlined there.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
They definitely deserve some merits. IMHO, though, i think the normal search engine becomes more like a marketing game now. Same as "most people prefer something other than Coca-Cola in blind test", yet they are still the biggest seller by
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Reading this email or the one by Autodesk's founder ( http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_22.html ) sometimes leave me with questions on why most people can't take this more "like-a-person" approach in communication. Most letters
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by hwijaya 17y ago
I second this. It makes the team much harder in coming up with innovative solution. Instead of taking 3 days, it might takes 2 weeks.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
The thing that i don't like about outsourcing is that it loses that brainstorming-creativity of the team. From experience, outsourcing is good for work that don't require innovation (populating content etc). If you're startup though, you're
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John Doerr's Startup Manual (1997)(fastcompany.com)
14 points by hwijaya 17y ago|4 comments
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by hwijaya 17y ago
I think, what he is saying is... since he has done most of the reading and experiments, that actually save us having to go through the same amount of literature. I know personally, when i do those type of reading, they all give a very confl
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Just a side note. Few companies that are mentioned in Jim Collin's "Built To Last" are examples of companies that are going great even after the founders left. 3M, P&G, Disney, Walmart...
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Ah, the classic debate of part time vs full time again. Sigh.. I think it's depend on people to people. I personally know that i'm not the "part-time-and-do-it-safely" kind of person. I get too comfortable. I function much better as soon as
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Okay. We'll make sure to iron out that bug. We'll try to reproduce it based on your information. Thanks!
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Thanks. Yes, we're looking into making no 1 and 2 happen asap. We've look at few JS libraries, but, they're not as good looking as Flash one. What is the major drawback of Flash you think? Isn't most people's machine got Flash installed the
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Not sure i understand your question correctly. For our case, i just started it with a long-time friend of mine. I did talk some part of it in our blog. Maybe you can find it relevant in addressing your question. http://blog.blindoptimists.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
I think design/usability are acceptable. At least i can understand it after playing with it for less than 1 minute. The only thing that you need to be careful of is probably a market-risk. This type of site is platform model and usually run
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Thanks for a lot of your suggestions. That jott service is definitely very interesting. I'll let you know again when we have new releases.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
So, you're saying, you prefer to be able to input using the currency that you set? Or, just for display? Example, you can input "Books from Amazon UK for £10.95"? Or, simply just for display? Thanks
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by hwijaya 17y ago
I second this opinion. Start attending meetups. That will widen your network and you surely have more awareness on what other events to follow. Eventually, you'll end up in a group of hackers and startup founders.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
Wow. Thanks a lot for your quick reply. Yes, we would like to decentralize the whole process of inputting transactions from web. Well, we build this to solve our own problems, and from years of experience, we know we hate having to sit in f
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Ask HN: Please review. Are we making something that people want?
5 points by hwijaya 17y ago|13 comments
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by hwijaya 17y ago
It's very interesting read. Quite refreshing actually.
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by hwijaya 17y ago
It's amazing what credibility/track record can do. Even in the recession time they still can raise $50 million more than planned. I think, this is a great proof of "investors invest in people"
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by hwijaya 17y ago
The problem with screen-shot is how do you test part of your page that is password protected? I tried the BrowserLab this morning and i can only test the public page.
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How to make your place in the world(blogs.openforum.com)
3 points by hwijaya 17y ago|0 comments
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by hwijaya 17y ago
This is certainly true. I always said to myself that running a startup is like running a marathon. If you can just move one step at a time BUT KEEP MOVING, soon, you'll arrive. That's what i did when i finished my marathon last year. Just o
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Eric Schmidt's Keynote Speech at Carnegie Mellon(youtube.com)
3 points by hwijaya 17y ago|0 comments

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