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by jbail 16y ago
Has anyone on HN used AngelList? What was the outcome?
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by jbail 16y ago
Really? I'd be curious why this is so epic. 3dogmedia (the company that was acquired) has less than 50 followers on Twitter. That doesn't seem very epic.
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by jbail 16y ago
Does it go any faster than that?
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by jbail 16y ago
I am. I've begun development and have working prototypes for #1 & #2 of the 3 ideas. I'm looking for rockstar marketing/sales talent and rockstar graphic design talent. The three startups: 1) Automated UI testing (can't say more) 2) HTM
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by jbail 16y ago
I agree. I've been "Lead Developer" on development teams of one - and I didn't give myself that title. That's what the corporation gave me and printed onto business cards. For me, I felt most uncomfortable when I first got hired as a "senio
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by jbail 16y ago
An entrepreneur is someone who takes risks to start a company. That's the definition I've always used. If you assign more weight to the title than that, that's up to you, but I don't see anything wrong with someone calling themselves an ent
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by jbail 16y ago
2k a day is well over half a million dollars a year. That's far from sad. Notch's earnings are exceptional. He is probably the only indie game developer (or one of a very small group) making $350K a day on his own.
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by jbail 16y ago
AOL doesn't want to die alone.
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by jbail 16y ago
No. ...assuming the startup is bootstrapping. Why? 1) Ugly designs are often very effective. 2) You can polish it later when you're making money. Your site might look amazing. Your site might look crappy. If no one knows about your site or
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by jbail 16y ago
Everyone thinks their sh*t don't stink. Honestly, Chicago smells too.
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by jbail 16y ago
I was wondering, "What self-respecting web developer would suggest using IE?" Then I see Microsoft is listed as producer. Case closed.
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by jbail 16y ago
Cool idea, but how does it work against spambots? That's the whole point of CAPTCHA. It's not supposed to be a place to add marketing copy. It's supposed to ensure actual humans are using your service. This seems like it's going to be incre
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by jbail 16y ago
Does this mean I have to buy into my own stock? Yes, but most people don't exercise their options until a liquidity event (company gets sold, goes public, etc). When this happens, you hope the shares are worth more than your option price.
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by jbail 16y ago
It's simple and it works.
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by jbail 16y ago
This does nothing except give more free publicity to the Koran burners. They'll just find another company to host their site, which will have even more traffic now. I know we probably can't, but could we just ignore them, hope they get bore
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by jbail 16y ago
Your generalization could be correct (as a male, I would not even try to generalize women), but I think more women don't apply simply because there are less women in tech. The fear of rejection keeps men on the sidelines too. There are just
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by jbail 16y ago
I don't know what being a female has to do with your post. Good tips for a founder of any gender though.
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by jbail 16y ago
You can do that in HTML5. You could use CSS3 with animated gifs/pngs --- or go straight to the canvas. Either way would get it done. I'd vote for using canvas. I'll leave it to someone else to implement. I've got real applications to build
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by jbail 16y ago
I think if you're Apple, you probably could create a blank page with a Buy button to increase revenue.
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by jbail 16y ago
If your idea is just Facebook without the privacy issues --- then it's not different enough for me. Diaspora got attention (and lots of funding) because their approach is radically different than Facebook's. While I agree that I don't see a
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by jbail 16y ago
In this case, deliverability is MailChimp's job...not ReturnPath's. MailChimp says so on their site. They have feedback loops with ISPs to show you opens, bounces, spam complains etc. The "Inbox Inspector" add-on shows screenshots of what y
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by jbail 16y ago
A couple suggestions: The tagline "The Online Small Business Management Solution" doesn't scream bookkeeping to me. If I hadn't read your HN post to know this is primarily a bookkeeping app, I would have never known. Also, trim down the lis
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by jbail 16y ago
I have an EVO. I read tech books on it with Kindle for Android. If my screen were any smaller, the code samples (which are images and don't scale like the text) would be too small to read. So for me, screen size is a feature. It opens up po
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by jbail 16y ago
A comment or two down, jedberg explains they use reserved instances from Amazon, so their hosting fees are more like $22,390.37 a month.
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by jbail 16y ago
Taking your thought a step further, let's also save the comments you make on others' blogs and bring them into your journal/blog as well. At the end of the day, I don't need another blog or a slight variation on blogging technology. I need
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by jbail 16y ago
The title should be changed to read "Video chat for Android in 30 lines of XML." It's all Flex configuration. I don't see any Android code at all. That's kind of what I was excited to see, but there are no algorithms to look at whatsoever.
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by jbail 16y ago
Or it helps me justify not working out because everyone else got fat too.
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by jbail 16y ago
"[It] is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny..." Seeing that my high school classmates have gotten fatter helps me control my own destiny how?
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by jbail 16y ago
The original post on VentureBeat includes a comment from Fred Wilson himself. He was speaking at an event and was being a bit controversial on purpose.
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by jbail 16y ago
The "too many choices" point gave me a good laugh.

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