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by ncash 15y ago
We use CakePHP. Our MVP was hacked from Drupal, but we trashed that quickly due to performance issues with our project management system. I think there are plenty of startups using PHP. It just isn't quite as trendy, so you don't hear about
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Ask HN: Anyone have experience with Amazon's Flexible Payments Service (FPS)?
1 points by ncash 15y ago|0 comments
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by ncash 15y ago
https://www.dwolla.com/ I know the guys who put Dwolla together. It shows a lot of promise, and is a huge boon to merchants because of the extremely low transaction fees (flat $0.25 per transaction vs Paypal's 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
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by ncash 15y ago
I faced a similar problem when I was starting college. My father is disabled and my mother passed away during my junior year of high school, so I had zero financial support from my family for school. Due to financial considerations, I chose
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by ncash 15y ago
I've been using Catch (www.catch.com) to organize and record just about everything. Their mobile app is pretty well designed, so I'm able to record any random thoughts I'd like to revisit later without much of a hassle.
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by ncash 15y ago
"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. " ~Randy Pausch, Last Lecture ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo )
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by ncash 15y ago
I'm primarily self-taught, and at the age of 21 I'm comfortable listing 8+ years of C/C++ development on my resume. I built my first web site when I was 11, and I started learning C when I was 13 so that I could add features to a multiplaye
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Ask HN: Should we raise money from people who aren't accredited investors?
6 points by ncash 15y ago|6 comments
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The Most Difficult CEO Skill: Managing Your Own Psychology(bhorowitz.com)
2 points by ncash 15y ago|0 comments
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by ncash 15y ago
Investors and raising capital are the top ideas these days. I also think about how if I could go back in time and change one thing at my startup, it would forcing myself to get a co-founder. As a solo founder it is already difficult to work
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Ask HN: Any advice for our first meeting with an angel investor?
8 points by ncash 16y ago|7 comments
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by ncash 16y ago
The guy who won Entrepreneur magazine's Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 did so with the idea of paperless/digital receipts. You can see his service here: http://www.3secondreceipts.com/
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by ncash 16y ago
Burnout sucks, and it can be hard to deal with. I began work on my startup in my spare time in college because it was fun. Once I jumped into it full time it turned my life on its head. After several months I was tired of working solely on
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by ncash 16y ago
Also this. I started teaching myself programming when I was in middle school, and by the time I got to college the only thing I found in our CS department was disappointment and boredom. However, the economics department was fantastic. We a
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by ncash 16y ago
You are certainly not alone in this! The best way I've found to avoid burnout, even with things you enjoy, is to do things in a balanced manner and adopt good habits. Don't spend your life putting in tons of time squashing fires and then zo
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by ncash 16y ago
I was in a similar position at the end of high school. I opted for college/internships, and I often regret that decision. While college has some unique benefits, especially in the ways of networking and unusual opportunities, you will find
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by ncash 16y ago
Paying for Pandora has been one of the best investments I've ever made. With a little tuning you can get stations that play endless amounts of music you enjoy with no intervention on your part, and you never have to stop listening. If I had
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by ncash 16y ago
My startup lives in the student business incubator at the University of Northern Iowa (along with 9 others). We don't get any startup funding like you would through YC (they are working on that), but we get a free office, furniture, compute
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by ncash 16y ago
It definitely depends on what your product is. Some customers will not be very forgiving while others will be relentless champions for you. Our approach has been somewhat unique. Our MVP is mostly a throw-away version we got out into the wo
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by ncash 16y ago
Combine steps 1 and 2. It is free to list your book with Amazon, so go ahead and do it from the start in addition to selling on your own site. Alternatively, you can use a distribution service. I run Book Hatchery (www.bookhatchery.com), a
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by ncash 16y ago
One of the biggest reasons you see acquisitions is for realized gains for investors (including the founders). When you seek investors for your business, you'll find that they expect you to have an exit strategy; this is because they eventua
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Any insights on fair compensation for a startup's first few employees?
2 points by ncash 16y ago|1 comments
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by ncash 16y ago
I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so "silence" for me means non-stop high pitch ringing. Thus, I use Pandora just about every hour I'm awake and around a controllable sound source. For coding I usually pick techno, electronic