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by jmtame 13y ago
Ha thanks. Admittedly, this was pretty rough and we're all new to this. None of us have any stage presence at all, but we had fun so we'll keep doing it :) As with anything, I suspect we'll get better the more we do it. Put your e-mail in t
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by jmtame 13y ago
I sent him an e-mail asking if he would reconsider a fairly absurd trademark infringement claim against our startup ( http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/with-friends-joke-goes-here... ). He forwarded my e-mail to their corporate counsel, comp
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The Best Choice Problem(medium.com)
2 points by jmtame 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 13y ago
Hmm, not sure Airbnb was the best example to start off with to support that YC has contrarian thinking. PG thought Airbnb was a stupid idea, and only agreed to invest on them on a whim. It was a Black Swan event how Airbnb ended up at YC th
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by jmtame 13y ago
Thanks, that's helpful to know. We're working with some IP folks on this right now.
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by jmtame 13y ago
No worries. I appreciate your comments in this thread, even if we both disagree about the reach of the trademark.
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by jmtame 13y ago
To be honest this was not intentional and I was kind of surprised by the initial email--as the search for new product names usually goes, we started by looking at what domain was available.
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by jmtame 13y ago
I think it'd be one thing if we were a gaming company and used a thought bubble with the same look and design that Zynga uses for their With Friends family of marks, but there's no possibility of confusion there and on top of that, we don't
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by jmtame 13y ago
Their claim is that it'll cause confusion, but my thoughts are: if you're going to trademark a common English phrase, you should be prepared to deal with some amount of confusion. People have been doing stuff with friends before Zynga came
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Algorithms don't predict compatibility(jtame.com)
13 points by jmtame 13y ago|2 comments
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by jmtame 13y ago
Their attorneys did draft the letter. I'm not sure how serious they actually are in this case. They're claiming that we dilute their family of marks.
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Zynga wants me to change the name of my product(jtame.com)
14 points by jmtame 13y ago|11 comments
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by jmtame 13y ago
That's fair. Will you try it out if we remove the free drinks for you and give you a free Uber ride instead?
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by jmtame 13y ago
If it bothers you, you can ask the matchmaker that you don't need to have drinks paid for and we'll credit it back to your account. We have no hidden agenda here. All that we care about is that our members enjoy the experience, and we see d
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by jmtame 13y ago
You can ask us to delete it and we will, at any time. Our e-mail is hello at wednesdaynight.me.
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by jmtame 13y ago
I think you're misunderstanding how it works. The ratio is irrelevant. We have 70,000 users on our internal network already, but we've got more options. Our matchmakers can go through their personal network, find people while they're out, o
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by jmtame 13y ago
The grandparent must be joking. We would never pay someone to go out on a date with one of our members. If anything, there's already plenty of incentive for them. Free round of drinks and we've already vetted the guy? Couldn't be any easier
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by jmtame 13y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Matchmaking is already going on and successful relationships have been established that way, we just make it more affordable and transparent. Linx Dating charges $30,000 for 11 dates spread out over 2 years, and th
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by jmtame 13y ago
Would you mind e-mailing me? Would like to talk to you about this. I'm jared at wednesdaynight.me.
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by jmtame 13y ago
I don't understand why you're automatically implying that I haven't; I have.
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by jmtame 13y ago
Online dating is a huge time sink though. You not only need to setup a profile, you have to actively find and message girls. The finding part is interesting because all dating sites lie to their users--80 years and 400 studies reliably show
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Wednesday Night’s Human Matchmakers Take Some Of The Work Out Of Online Dating(techcrunch.com)
33 points by jmtame 13y ago|41 comments
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by jmtame 13y ago
+1 for the Robert McChesney reference. I remember taking the class Money, Media, and Power at UIUC which he instructs, and it was one of the most interesting classes I've taken in my 6 lengthy years in college.
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by jmtame 13y ago
The network of YC alumni is quite awesome. Everyone’s willing to help each other out. It’s the second most helpful community I’ve ever been a part of. The first? Hacker News. Ask for feedback and you’ll get it. Ask for help and you’l
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The story behind White Boy 7th Street, one of the top 100 YouTube channels(youtube.com)
2 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk ( http://vimeo.com/36579366 ). I went to the lecture he gave at Stanford back in February ( http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2013-... ) and meant to ask him
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by jmtame 14y ago
Very much looking forward to seeing what happens if you venture out into startup land again :) By any measure, Palm Powerups was very successful.
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by jmtame 14y ago
He's more on the side of genius, but less on the side of practical. I think he'd do really well if he tried a startup with someone who could help push him in the direction of building things with more practical use.
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by jmtame 14y ago
I hadn't thought about that perspective before. It's possible that many co-founders that wouldn't stick together are merely together because of the perceived success. Makes me even more grateful for co-founders that stick around even when t
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by jmtame 14y ago
I don't think the overweight tag would be interesting, but just figuring out the basics of a person without having to read through a long essay. School, occupation, personality traits as described by friends, etc. My theory is the problem o

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