joshuabaer

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by joshuabaer 8y ago
Not your typical Silicon Valley startup...
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Why we decided to shut down BackupMyTweets(austinpreneur.com)
6 points by joshuabaer 14y ago|1 comments
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by joshuabaer 15y ago
I've been using GetSatisfaction for years but it grew out of control. I'm looking forward to a simpler solution.
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by joshuabaer 16y ago
AUSTIN, TEXAS OtherInbox is kicking ass with more than a half million users and our first revenue coming in the door. We need a kick ass Ruby on Rails developer to join our awesome team in Austin. http://www.otherinbox.com/company/career/
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by joshuabaer 16y ago
We're doing this at OtherInbox.com with our Organizer solution. I saw another company doing this in the TC50 demo pit last year but I can't remember the name. Most of our Organizer logic starts with heuristic matches on the From address and
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by joshuabaer 17y ago
Most startups aren't an invention like electricity. Many new companies these days are pretty easy to re-create once you have a working model to look at - ie. a less competent programmer can probably recreate your site in less than half the
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by joshuabaer 18y ago
It's a Google form that pipes into a spreadsheet. We can't really control the display of the * but its important that they are all marked as required so it won't let you submit the form with a field that's missing.
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by joshuabaer 18y ago
Our intentions are not financial (see the philosophy page). All of the mentors in Capital Factory are doing it because we love working with young entrepreneurs. We've all built and sold companies and even getting a 100x return on $5k won't
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by joshuabaer 18y ago
We're just doing 3 companies this year because it's the first year and we want to start simple and make sure each company gets lots of attention. We'd like to see it grow to 10 companies in future years.
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by joshuabaer 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback Owkaye - the current website is just a Typepad blog that we threw up for the launch, but we have a designer doing a custom template for us that should be up there soon. We'll focus on making the text more readable.