newchimedes

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by newchimedes 15y ago
I'm still waiting for Startup Canoe...We have startup weekend, startup bus, startup ________ ... but I want to build a startup while on a canoe!
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by newchimedes 15y ago
Alright, someone smarter than is going to have to explain the popularity of this site... I checked it out real briefly and didn't get the allure. Is it just like the misconnections section on cragislist...only this is for a specific college
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by newchimedes 16y ago
That is a great idea. How long have they been out? I'm surprised it hasn't caught on yet. Seems like a win/win proposition.
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I like the fact that you don't need to login to play... The only issue was i couldn't find any opponents to play :( Tetris Battle on Facebook is pretty addictive...they always seem to have someone to play against (though sometimes I think I
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I would have thought they would have included a link to the app in the android marketplace on the home page. I clicked it and it just takes you to the android marketplace home. So far no luck finding on Android...
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I'm really curious to know why did Kickstarter get traction when there were other similar sites doing the same thing before them? If memory serves me right there was at least one other company one with the exact model, but that one fizzled
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Great job with Tout. As someone who has emailed a lot of people it's nice to have the ability to have templates for different groups of people. I watched the video and was curious if there is a way to bulk message again a pre-defined a grou
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by newchimedes 16y ago
It's actually quite interesting. I didn't know about these guys, but was thinking through this idea a few weeks ago. My version was called "Money Drop". I concluded that technology was cool,but I couldn't think of a compelling reason to use
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Rebecca Black is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's another business idea...get kids parents to spend $2000 and then produce their kid's music videos.
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by newchimedes 16y ago
While vision is important I do agree with the article how sometimes you discover the vision by doing small things. Facebook I don't believe was any more visionary when they first started. It first started as a knockoff of hotornot (if memor
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Definitely an interesting concept, have you talked with any merchants? Curious to see how easy/hard it is to convince to use a new tool...
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I feel like the leader board that yelp uses to track how much people are drinking I would think encourages more drinking. Cause you know once you got a leader board you have to become "mayor". I've seen this effect with portable breathalyze
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Which YC companies started with a non-technical founder?(quora.com)
6 points by newchimedes 16y ago|3 comments
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I've decided that i'm going to tell people at tech events and investors that I'm building "a hundred dollar company". And then I'll have my almost as smooth as JT co-founder jump in and say "you know what's better than a hundred? a THOUSAND
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Just curious to see, just how profitable are you? Are you saying you launched the app without rewards at first and were making money from day 1? If so that's impressive.
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by newchimedes 16y ago
It's a great interview. I really liked his thoughts on monetization. It's common sense of course, but it's a refreshing reminder on how we should approach business models. QUOTE: You need to have a fundamental proposition that the people wh
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by newchimedes 16y ago
You know where the real business is? Not building web apps, but providing extreme startup challenges. People pay you money to participate in coding and building apps in extreme conditions. Heck, you could probably pitch this as a reality sh
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I didn't hear about this case. I can understand the parents of the kids featured in the video being upset, but charging him with child pornography I think is way too much. Even this part is ludicrous, "While out on bond, he is restricted fr
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I don't know if this will work as well in the United States. I think the majority of people are more pre-occupied by more important issues like who should win American Idol, the cast of Jersey shore, what shoes Kim Kardashian recommends. Am
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I'm surprised this didn't get more points. It's an interesting study. Not surprising the findings, but nice to see it written down and documented.
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by newchimedes 16y ago
I'm probably in the minority, but I don't know think badgeville will be as big as people think it will be. Sure it's kind of cool to earn little badges and unlock achievements, but it seems too gimmicky for me. Right now people are trying
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Definitely an interesting case study and the first time I had heard about CampusNetwork. I didn't understand what Goldberg motivation for taking down his high school social network was... From the article: "In the meantime, Goldberg had la
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How much would you have sold Yelp.com for?(web.archive.org)
2 points by newchimedes 16y ago|1 comments
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by newchimedes 16y ago
i like the idea, but do have a few reservations/questions. I am thinking about using this for my family (cousins, aunts, etc...). Is there only one group owner? Or can there be multiple owners/admins? I'm thinking like how yahoo groups
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by newchimedes 16y ago
It's looks like a cool service. I'm really curious to see how it does...keep us posted, have you decided how you plan to market the service? Press releases, book clubs, etc?
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by newchimedes 16y ago
Wasn't a big fan of this post. it would have been more interesting if he showed some examples of his three sentence replies to actual emails. 3 sentence emails sound great in theory, but really after a while if you are sending such short