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   Ron Conway: Silicon Valley Stronger Than Ever(news.cnet.com)

   1 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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   Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram(techcrunch.com)

   296 points by kloncks 15y ago|39 comments
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   Craigslist Runs Anti SOPA/PIPA Ad Prominently On Homepage(nyc.craigslist.org)

   9 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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   by kloncks 15y ago

   As someone who's dropped out of college (three months ago) to start a company in Silicon Valley, I would urge you to think a lot about this decision. I know I have. It's a very serious decision and one that a lot of people take hastily, not
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   by kloncks 15y ago

   Speaking of coffee, a lot of his early deals were based on him going around to Merrill Lynch and buying people there coffee, then coming back later saying "I'm Michael Bloomberg. I bought you a coffee. Can we talk?"
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   Chicago Plans A New 140,000 Acre Park To Dwarf Other City Parks(fastcoexist.com)

   1 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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   by kloncks 15y ago

   They raised $600k back in July and just raised a $2.7 Series A on December 30 Interestingly, the solo founder and ceo Keith Teare is credited on his Crunchbase page with being a co-founder of TechCrunch From what I’ve gathered so far, the
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   by kloncks 15y ago

   Many of these issues can be solved by grouping people into lists. Unlike Google+/Circles, Facebook introduced this later in the game, but it does fix a lot of those problems. I have 'Close Friends' that I care a lot about, then I have class
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   What the Arab Spring Could Mean For Solar Power in Sahara(good.is)

   2 points by kloncks 15y ago|2 comments
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    An Architect's Massive (Green) Plan To Save Chicago, Great Lakes(good.is)

    1 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Yup! Took a leave of absence senior year with three classes left to move to SF and go through AngelPad for http://www.kout.me
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    As an American, our immigration policies make me so damn mad. I know both Leo and Joel quite well, having went through AngelPad together, and they were building a solid company that should have stayed in America. The fact that wealth-builde
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    Prince Al-Waleed (Saudi Arabia) Invests $300m in Twitter(bloom.bg)

    1 points by kloncks 15y ago|0 comments
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Drug dealers!? Please elaborate.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    I don't understand why either.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    I love HN. Totally understand what you're talking about. After reading, give back to the community by commenting. In my personal experience, that's the best thing on HN.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    As an American, our immigration policies make me so damn mad. I know both Leo and Joel quite well, having went through AngelPad together, and they were building a solid company that should have stayed in America. The fact that wealth-builde
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Thanks :)
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Keep in mind I had nothing to do with the submission to hn. My original plan was to randomly have the CrunchFund folks stumble onto the page themselves.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    An even nerdier bonus of the name, our one-page checkout urls: https://chec.kout.me/DHjPci
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Haven't yet been contacted by CrunchFund. I'll update all this later with a blog post summarizing what happened. Crazy traffic and a nice collection of emails so far.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    I'm not sure why I veiled it a bit. I suppose it doesn't matter now and I made this some time back... We're not a payments processor. What we are is very simple selling (payments included; part of the simplicity) that enables you to sell ac
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Creator of the page over here. Woke up to a really nice surprise here, especially having made this page two months ago. Submitting it to HN wasn't my plan; someone else randomly found the page and did that. Yes, indeed, it's Kout.me...if yo
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    For an incredibly candid interview done by out-of-character Stephen Colbert, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg It's extremely worth it and mentions a lot of the same points he makes in the two AMAs.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Not sure about Berkeley, but when I moved out here I was told one consistent thing about housing, "don't live in Oakland"
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Let me jump on that as well. We'd love to talk to you over some consulting on a domain. Email in profile :)
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    That's an unbelievable price for a four-character domain.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    One of the highlights of this article was hearing how SV Angel thinks about this. It was sane, pragmatic, intelligent and succinct. I haven't yet had a chance to work with them, but my opinion of them is constantly increasing.
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    Kout Intern or Full-Time (NYC, SF Bay Area) Kout was a part of the latest AngelPad class. Our investors include six ex-Googlers and two top Silicon Valley VC firms, in addition to a nice seed round we're about to close. We're looking to hir
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    by kloncks 15y ago

    How inefficient is Ruby really? This tool surprised me. Can any Ruby-ists chime in? http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/statements/programs-...