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by jjb123 14y ago
It was effective; in getting more press because of the cute little anecdote. Which is the reason they did it anyhow. I would imagine that what a company has on its walls has never materially affected its future.
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by jjb123 14y ago
You can use Crowdtilt for it :) We'd love to help, and if it's for open source - use this promo code, and we'll waive the Crowdtilt fee: ctdevs123
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by jjb123 14y ago
Samstave, I agree with this ^. Can't imagine the emotional stress, and writing a note under such stress can easily make you do/say strange things. And as strange as it was to read, this could very well be the case.
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by jjb123 14y ago
It's not the mentioning that seems off; it's that it reads like a teaser, not therapy.
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by jjb123 14y ago
I can totally understand if it's his therapy, it would likely be mine... That doesn't answer the confusion in a teaser of a big work/unrelated announcement being in there though.
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by jjb123 14y ago
Am I the only one that was confused about that last line of "already working on something new and hope to announce that in February"... He's gone through something as traumatic as a lawsuit, a resignation, potential for trial, potential emb
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by jjb123 14y ago
As someone that has had a sibling take her own life, and another that has had suicidal thoughts frequently, this article was extremely helpful in seeing the cognitive layers beyond the emotional layers. Pretty eye-opening. I wonder if the c
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by jjb123 14y ago
What gets made is what people want. We didn't get flying cars at $250,000/car. We got 140 characters for free because that's what people wanted. We didn't get hoverboards, not for lack of technology, but it just turned out that we wanted to
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Tech Startup Trends of 2013(blogs.wsj.com)
54 points by jjb123 14y ago|28 comments
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by jjb123 14y ago
Don't mean to seem skeptical, but I doubt this approach comes across as "genuinely interested."
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by jjb123 14y ago
The landscape in total may have changed, but in my opinion, it seems the theme of success stories hasn't changed that much... Groupon had humble beginnings, chatroullette was completely lacking in design, and reddit is seeing it's heyday as
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by jjb123 14y ago
Email us at internships [@] crowdtilt.com. There may be a unique opportunity to do something remotely with our API (just launched to the public this week).
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by jjb123 14y ago
Project creators/campaign administrators must use wepsy to set up their merchant account. So, that is indeed not false (completely or otherwise).
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by jjb123 14y ago
it's funny you should say that...
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by jjb123 14y ago
we'd love to see that too. as well as uber here in sf. like my co-founder said here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912389 ), we'd love to see people build all kinds of things like crowdfunding-as-a-service (think kickstarter meets w
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by jjb123 14y ago
Among other things: One, wepay isn't international. Two, you have to send users off your site to use it. Three, you can't plug in your own credit card processing if you use wepay (you have to use theirs). Additionally, their api doesn't pro
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by jjb123 14y ago
"take your job seriously and yourself lightly." -herb kelleher
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Crowdtilt is growing rapidly - hiring front-end developers(jobs.github.com)
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by jjb123 14y ago
this. this is what a status page should be.
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by jjb123 14y ago
>Doesn’t FB realize that is far easier for a user to opt-out of a feed by unliking a brand/person/page that has done a poor job of communication than it is to mess with all the account settings or for them to try to tweak their algorith
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by jjb123 14y ago
Extremely valuable competencies for marketplace payments - excited to see you guys grow.
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by jjb123 14y ago
Excellent to see Balanced getting love for the great product they've built! Congrats guys!!
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Halloween party-yacht in bay area: "Largest crowdfunded party to date"(venturebeat.com)
21 points by jjb123 14y ago|8 comments
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Crowdtilt (YC W12) is hiring - Front End Developer
1 points by jjb123 14y ago
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by jjb123 14y ago
Does a man drifting at sea feel like he has escaped humanity? Even a wealthy man?
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by jjb123 14y ago
They mention that they must sell 1,000 for them to go into production (near the bottom).
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by jjb123 14y ago
Just downloaded it. Curious - from start to app store, how long did it take?
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by jjb123 14y ago
thanks man. and while we're on hackernews, we might as well use this as a good opportunity to say something we've been dying to say for a while... perl, bitches! :P
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by jjb123 14y ago
But does this stat of ~72% success rate (28% failure rate) include canceled/removed projects, which happens quite often after a failed attempt?
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by jjb123 14y ago
Is the funding goal about the financial significance? I'd argue it's more about the significance of proving there are 10,000 paid members as the foundation for the community (a notion of PG's that Dalton has referenced). I'm a backer, and I

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