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by lsemel 17y ago
It's a good idea to avoid using trademarks (like "twitter") in your site's name.
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by lsemel 17y ago
You need to put in some hooks to help spread the word about the site. How come you're not encouraging people tweet or post to Facebook right when they sign up?
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by lsemel 17y ago
Why not offer any type of media or product that you can grab from Amazon.com or another source to match on? Books, movies, songs, travel locations, favorite restaurants, etc.
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by lsemel 17y ago
At NY entrepreneur meetings I tend to encounter a few of the same types over and over 1) people who don't actually make or do anything but constantly show up at all the entrepreneur meetings and 2) people in suits Lately this seems to be ch
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by lsemel 17y ago
I tried it out and thought it was a fun site. It will be even more so when there are more people on it.
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by lsemel 17y ago
How are you going to get journalists to discover and pay attention to this?
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by lsemel 17y ago
Anyone creative and determined enough to come up with a lie like that to get around barriers and break into a business, would have creative enough to come up with an alternate route that doesn't involve lying.
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by lsemel 17y ago
SF - 12/7 http://realtimebooze.eventbrite.com/ NY - 12/10 http://realtimeboozenyc.eventbrite.com/
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Twitter developers, entrepreneurs - meetup in SF 12/7, and NYC 12/10(realtimeboozenyc.eventbrite.com)
1 points by lsemel 17y ago|1 comments
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by lsemel 17y ago
The only way I'm able to do this is because I live right in the middle of Manhattan, so I'm always able to go outside and see other people (even if it is just talking to the doorman), intersperse the day with meetings, occasionally rotate a
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by lsemel 17y ago
I guessed as much. Any plans for what to do when you have more than 20k lists to monitor?
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by lsemel 17y ago
How are you pulling in all the tweets from the lists - won't you run into an API limit?
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by lsemel 17y ago
Check out http://listorious.com (a site I made) for a directory of Twitter lists.
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by lsemel 17y ago
It's just a sales buzzword for "lots of features", "covers all aspects of a problem domain", or "does it all".
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by lsemel 17y ago
I'll bet a robust, end-to-end enterprise coffee shop does. None of those dynamically typed, scripting, agile coffee shops for me.
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by lsemel 17y ago
After using a new Mac for two weeks, here's what I've noticed: - The typography is a lot nicer once you get used to it. It's great to look at websites using type as it was designed rather than in the blocky rendering Windows uses. - Keyboa
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Ask HN: Should you release many products to see what takes off?
6 points by lsemel 17y ago|6 comments
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by lsemel 17y ago
I got health insurance through mediabistro.com
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by lsemel 17y ago
Quicken for personal, Quickbooks for business, and the bank's website. Also checking out Indinero.com for business version of Mint.
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by lsemel 17y ago
Availability heuristic and confirmation bias. It's not big news when someone who's 51 strikes it rich, but it's unusual when someone 21 does. So that what gets reported and that's what comes to mind when you think of starting a company.
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by lsemel 17y ago
It does seem to be a spamming tool, and they are right about the trademark. You can't just go and use another company's name as part of your product's name or domain. You need to create and build up your own brand.
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by lsemel 17y ago
Of course, any serious user of a C64 had an Epyx Fastload cartridge. Then you could just type $.
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by lsemel 17y ago
Almost inevitably, shortly after I launch something that proves reasonably popular, I see an ad for someone wanting to clone it on Scriptlance for $200.
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by lsemel 17y ago
Everytime the idea of registering a .ly (Libyan) domain occurs to me, I think of those terrorists from "Back to the Future."
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by lsemel 17y ago
If it's supply and demand then people should be rushing into banking and leaving other fields to take advantage of the high pay, which would bring it into equilibrium with other fields as the supply of workers increases. That apparently is
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by lsemel 17y ago
Do these bankers create so much more value than, say, entrepreneurs, that merits paying them so much? Or is there some other reason banks need to pay such high amounts compared to other types of businesses?
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by lsemel 18y ago
There's a big difference between a family making $75K and $250K a year. I wouldn't lump them together as 'upper middle class'
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by lsemel 18y ago
I'm at http://twitter.com/semel , I'm also cofounder of the 'Oscars for Twitter': http://shortyawards.com . My feeling is that Twitter is what you make of it. People use it for professional networking, sales, customer service, keeping
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by lsemel 18y ago
Big deal -- if you are not a CEO or a CTO who can afford a $25K fee, or a graduate student who wins a scholarship, but instead work as an entrepreneur or self-employed, you can't go.
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by lsemel 18y ago
NY has developed fairly large tech community over the last few years. Go to any Tech Meetup, and around 500 people show up. If you want to live cheaply, most people opt for Brooklyn, where a many of the startups now have their offices.

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