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by jdavid 19y ago
i have thought about that too, my firewall even has the ability to block certain sites during certain hours, but i figure that I will just end up trying to hack my own router. not because i really want to, but because it would become a game
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Should news feeds be separated by topic
5 points by jdavid 19y ago|12 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
you might find our google group helpful. http://groups.google.com/group/fireseed-fs3-omecc we have been collecting information for a year about using gpus and ps3s for Artificial Intelligence and Physics research.
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by jdavid 19y ago
the current consulting job i have, was via word of mouth, and it was because i was instramental in getting our local barcamps going. i have always found bennifit in having a lot of things going on, especially in community building. people
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by jdavid 19y ago
I have a sweet deal now, where I choose my own consulting hours. The company I work for puts up with it because they feel like, because of my start up, I can keep them on the edge of cool and now. If I did not have that freedom, then I wo
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by jdavid 19y ago
http://www.siliconpastures.com/ http://www.kegonsapartners.com/ http://www.goldenangelsnetwork.org/ http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/events/earlystage/
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by jdavid 19y ago
We are in Milwaukee, WI We would be happy to meet anyone in a couple hundred mile range.
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by jdavid 19y ago
Cool, but its driving me nuts. I once wrote a countdown timer for an enterprise workflow app, that counted down until the average form completion time. It turned yellow as it got near the time, and turned red as you went past it. We were r
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by jdavid 19y ago
have you heard of torque? its a great game engine that a lot of schools use, like ITT Tech Green Bay. A friend of mine http://justinbosar.net has started some development in torque. he does post production for hollywood movies.
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by jdavid 19y ago
thank you.
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by jdavid 19y ago
but the % share is a good reason to turn down the deal if you have other options. I just think it's to know what yc investors are told behind the curtain, and how much you are worth. It's nice to know what expectations you should live up
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by jdavid 19y ago
I would be really curious about those dollars, and what percentage get an investment of 1 million plus. 6% seems like a 200% profit if each yc startup generates a 1 million dollar investment. If the VC deal rate is closer to 1 in 10 or 1
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by jdavid 19y ago
what is the list for?
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by jdavid 19y ago
I am located in Milwaukee, WI you can meet all of our alpha geeks at http://barcampMilwaukee.com which is happening on october 12th-14th We are a sponsor of it with http://socialhelix.com and I know a few people in the st.paul area that
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by jdavid 19y ago
28 + BS. Computer Engineering with near minors in art/ anthropology/ math/ and theo-philosophy 180 hrs attempted 148 accomplished. 3 semesters of continuing edu in japanese
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by jdavid 19y ago
paul, if there is a standard process, is the % based on the number of founders, an evaluation, or both?
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by jdavid 19y ago
this was a big ear mark in the crossing the chasm book
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by jdavid 19y ago
I think given personalities, different solution sets are viable. A charismatic person might bet more heavily on their charisma and ability to sell something, while a technical person might assume a "build it and they will come" strategy.
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by jdavid 19y ago
@webwright, i guess i do not yet understand what value you have in you're business yet. are you doing this to pay the bills, create a revolution, change the world, pay your future offspring's bills, or just to create something cool? when i
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by jdavid 19y ago
What do you need the money for? Employees, Patents, Legal, Technology? Marketing? What sort of conversion rates do you expect with your user base? It looks like right now its a free service, and if 1% convert to paid buyers at 10-50$ a yea
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by jdavid 19y ago
I used to love happy hardcore, acid jazz, progressive house, and electro metal, but now i mostly listen to electroclash, eurotrash, synthpop and all of the other hipster variations.
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by jdavid 19y ago
In the Midwest in dollars per hour, newbs bill for 30-35 per hour. junior programers 35-55 senior 50-80 niche jr 50-85 niche sr 85-150 enterprise niche 100-250
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by jdavid 19y ago
I hate to say it because i only wish that it was not true, but women seem to question authority a lot less. Maybe a YC for women would work better to attract female founders. Another difference I find is that women tend to gather more infor
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by jdavid 19y ago
We are doing our business plan in beta during our product launch, for a few reasons. 1. its defining our feature set 2. as software folk, we are still learning about business, and its easier to walk first, and then run 3. we need the money
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by jdavid 19y ago
I am changing the world, and sometimes its a distraction from my startup, and sometimes it loops back in to help us out. Its a give and take relationship. I started a casual think tank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to discuss problems like these
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by jdavid 19y ago
The goal of any startup is to find out early and often how customers will react to your vision. If you have a vision of charging for a service, and you give it away for free; you may find people leaving to a competitor. If ads are your vis
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by jdavid 19y ago
Anyone that is using EC2 is using a customized version of zen. We have started the process to move our services over to ec2. first, vmware, and then we plan to make AMIs for ec2.
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by jdavid 19y ago
i find it funny, because as i write this response, i am in a cafe, working on a consulting project, i think this is as close as i will get to a real job, until i have a huge company to run. I was hopping to hear some really good ones, so fa
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Prize economics?
1 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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How do you answer, when are you going to get a real job?
8 points by jdavid 19y ago|17 comments

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