michaelaiello

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   by michaelaiello 15y ago

   The team here at http://www.lifeensured.com launched ( http://www.netclosehq.com ) which helps families recover online accounts of the deceased.
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   by michaelaiello 15y ago

   Thanks. We hope so too. End of life validation is a tricky problem we think we've become good at solving by combining several validations. http://www.blog.lifeensured.com/end-of-life-validation-on-li...
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   by michaelaiello 15y ago

   Don't want to be spammy here but we recently asked quite a few folks "what do you want to have happen to your on-line accounts when you pass away" and there was a split for many of them. Some people want their accounts suspended/deleted whe
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   by michaelaiello 15y ago

   Hi, I'm the founder of LifeEnsured. We're that app. We let you do define what you would like to have happen to your on-line accounts after you pass. http://www.lifeensured.com .
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   by michaelaiello 15y ago

   It believe he's got a bad kind of metric. Tracking "hours I spent thinking hard about computer science research problems" will reward you for spending more time, but not necessarily delivering results. Why not put up all of your problems on
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   How to "Kill" Someone on Facebook. End-of-life validation is difficult.(blog.lifeensured.com)

   1 points by michaelaiello 15y ago|0 comments
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   by michaelaiello 16y ago

   Company Name: LifeEnsured Company Size (number of people employed): 4 Company URL: http://www.lifeensured.com Positions: Developer, Marketer Contact Email: jobs@lifeensured.com Skills Needed: Integrity and drive Bonuses: Location: SoH
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   by michaelaiello 16y ago

   Thanks. We toyed with the idea of charging different prices based on age. The problems we encountered are. 1) difficult to verify age online 2) creates a weird step when registering [who asks for my age when I register for a site?] 3) imp
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   by michaelaiello 16y ago

   Thanks. Entrustet has made some good headway in the space. We hope the LifeEnsured feature set, positioning and execution help us become the most trusted company in the space.
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Thanks. Clients set up the (email) notifications themselves. When we receive verification that you have passed, we send out these emails on the client’s behalf. To perform verification that the client has passed, we call the folks who are l
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Thanks for the encouragement and acknowledgement of the need. If you’ve got any lingering thoughts / ideas on the topic, it would be great to hear them. Feel free to send me an email Michael.Aiello@lifeensured.com or give me a ring 347-227-
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Agree – cracking this market is an interesting challenge. One of the biggest hurdles we’ve got is that people really don’t like thinking about their own demise. As for estate planners, we are working with a few and the feedback so far has b
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Thanks. It’s tough (but usually fun) to try to think about how to build something that will be around for decades. The idea with the 100MB today is that it’ll hold any important documents which you’d like. As the space requirement increases
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    One of our free services is making an HTTP POST or GET (authenticated if you'd like) to a web server when we receive notification of your passing. We hope you chose to use it for something a bit happier - like triggering your private keys t
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Thanks. Our social security end-of-life detection is US only. You can still use the service outside of the US but this feature won't work (unless you have a SSN). We don't have an option to be paid by the estate - claims to an estate are ge
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. We debated quite a bit on the design/colors/name. We tried to optimize for what will best communicate 1) We are trustworthy 2) we'll be around forever and 3) this is going to be easy to do. Once we get some more use
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Hacker News Invite Code: YCHN LifeEnsured is a service which lets you control the distribution and care of your on-line assets after you pass away. We will modify, transfer or erase your on-line accounts, send final email messages and pass
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    Show HN: LifeEnsured, privately manage your on-line life after you pass.(lifeensured.com)

    36 points by michaelaiello 16y ago|27 comments
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    http://www.difrwear.com Also selling men's accessories (5+ years now) - send me some emails if you want war stories =)
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    http://www.difrwear.com was a success I've had about 20 fails. Here they are http://www.artofcyberwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mike...
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    I'm currently writing a web application with perl catalyst...
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    I've been using eLance.com to source VAs for the last 5 years. Went through the full cycle (trying to do it as cheaply as possible and getting burned.. to now paying a reasonable rate for a US based VA who I can pick up the phone, speak wit
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    Be willing to spend money on things that are valuable. Don't kill you business by being a cheap bastard.
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    There is a "time wasted dealing with my credit card beign stolen" bit that most folks don't attach too much value to until it happens.
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    I'm the founder of a company that sells RFID blocking wallets and passport cases http://www.difrwear.com . I met with Adam briefly back in 2008 at HOPE when he gave this talk and gave him one of our wallets. I ended up quite dissaponited t
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    See everyone there! =)
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    I want to go on a deep sea submarine ride, so that I see bioluminecent fish. Road Block(s): No packaged trips to do this, no network with marine biologists/researchers who own the subs
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    by michaelaiello 16y ago

    I am in the same boat - almost killed an idea because of this but am going to go through with it any way. There are quite a few opportunities if you break the security best practice rules that will work just fine. Paypal had a similar appro
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    Oxford Business School Venture Fund: Call for applications closes in a week(sbsventurefund.wordpress.com)

    2 points by michaelaiello 17y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelaiello 17y ago

    * The economist: Technology quarterly, weekly news update page, analysis instead of opinion