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Re: Aol Exposed. You’re actually indicting Google.(ownlocal.com)
11 points by jeremymims 15y ago|2 comments
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by jeremymims 15y ago
You know, I really hope it is obvious to most people. Somehow, it was a lesson I missed for the past six years. If anyone else figures this out earlier than I did from reading this, I'll be quite happy. Life is too short to be working on th
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"Thank you. That was a lot of fun."(ownlocal.com)
40 points by jeremymims 15y ago|6 comments
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by jeremymims 15y ago
The assumption is that you've set up a desktop Windows machine. Printers are fickle things at best, made cheaply, and have mechanical in addition to software problems. He's either got to buy a compatible printer (extra cost) or set up a win
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by jeremymims 15y ago
I'd be careful about giving this computer to your family. It sounds good, but there are some issues: - Your family can't screw up the software, but they're not going to understand that they can't run a bunch of programs they'd expect. - Woe
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by jeremymims 15y ago
It's clear we're going to a place where local storage is going to be less important. However, there's only three groups of people I buy hardware for: my family, my employees, and me. - My family wouldn't have any clue what to do with this.
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by jeremymims 15y ago
Yep. You're describing pretty much what happened. It's always a nice when you get sparks and smoke though. :-)
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by jeremymims 15y ago
This. Over the past five years I have had to replace four Apple power adapters. Two caught on fire, one just stopped working, and one only worked when I duct taped it to death. They replaced all but one under warranty. But when I asked the
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Attack of the Owns - What We've Discovered at OwnLocal (YC W10)(ownlocal.com)
24 points by jeremymims 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeremymims 15y ago
This is a very fascinating set of comments. We have people that believe that the news is irrelevant, mere entertainment, a form of brainwashing (!), and something that only encompasses quick hit reporting. Then we have those that argue for
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by jeremymims 15y ago
Thanks Jacob. As the writer, this was exactly my point.
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by jeremymims 15y ago
Yep, you just described my two biggest problems with my Senz. Add a curved handle and a pointed bottom (even just a replaceable metal nub) and now you've got the perfect umbrella.
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by jeremymims 15y ago
Upper East Side. $950 per person for a nice corner unit in a walk up. Mostly I want to dispel the idea that New York is prohibitively expensive for startups. It's not if you're resourceful.
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by jeremymims 15y ago
Damn Dude. You cost double what I do in the same city. I live in a nice-sized apt in Manhattan, eat well, and go out. - Get a roommate and cut out nearly half the rent and half the utilities (two bedrooms aren't much more in a walk up). - Y
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by jeremymims 15y ago
I think this analysis is probably correct for many people. However, the 27" iMac can now be used as a pretty terrific monitor when it's outlived its current lifespan. Considering the equivalent Apple display costs about $1000 new, that make
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by jeremymims 16y ago
The biggest problem with journalism right now is how to pay for it. We help solve that problem. (As a side note, it works really well for bigger media companies too.)
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Local markets benefit from fragmentation(ownlocal.com)
32 points by jeremymims 16y ago|4 comments
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by jeremymims 16y ago
We're usually all about sharing, but we have a few important puzzle pieces coming out in the next few weeks and I'd hate to spoil the surprise.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
In a nutshell, we're a one-stop shop for small businesses to get online. We work with small business customers through their existing long-time relationships with local groups and publications.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
We couldn't agree more.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Sorry, Digg executed their way to a top 100 website. Right now it's number 111 in Quantcast. How do you define success?
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Hi Kevin, this isn't a pivot at all. It's another product we can sell to our newspaper and local organization partners. We haven't met a newspaper yet that is happy with their daily deal provider. They asked us if we would make a solution a
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Yeah, we're not too happy with Rackspace right now... Edit: And we're back.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
We couldn't agree more. That's why we don't go it alone. We work with local publications and organizations to very quickly build a sales funnel out of existing contacts and relationships. This is the way we work for all our products.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
This is certainly among the best things we can do. We view it as a complement to all the other things we're doing to save local journalism. You can view a deal going on for The Press-Enterprise (one of our top 100 newspaper clients) here:
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Sigh. You do know that almost all of us are on your side, right? Do you have any idea how often the topic of the difficulty of hiring women comes up when I talk to fellow entrepreneurs (male and female)? Personally, I've tried recruiting si
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Almost all VC funding is done through introduction. That's the way this game works. It's one of the reasons so many people apply to YC. As a VC, you spend your days trying to figure out which teams will be successful in the future (even if
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by jeremymims 16y ago
Congratulations Wil! I love the pivot.
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by jeremymims 16y ago
You've chosen a very unfortunate name for your project. While chattel is defined as "moveable personal property", the word has a very close association with slavery in America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
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by jeremymims 16y ago
A lot of this advantage is from correctly hitting the buzzer in time. When my college roommate was on the show, he said very often the trick was not buzzing in early and getting locked out. It was apparent that most contestants knew the cor

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