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by noahc 16y ago
A few points: 1. If you are right, that's why it's better to use your own product and scratch your own itch. It aligns your companies goals with your own. 2. I don't think you're right. The reason they don't respect the competition is inco
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by noahc 16y ago
Tumblr also helps send traffic to your website. This is great when first starting out. My first post on noahc.net went to the front page. I've started a few different blogs, but seeing a few thousand visitors from the front page kept my
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by noahc 16y ago
PG listed hard skills. But a general willingness to work hard, be tough, and be resourceful will go a long ways. Startups should be defined as the ability to manage a shortage of resources for an often changing goal.
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Treat your Startup Projects Like Marriage, not a first date(noahc.net)
2 points by noahc 16y ago|0 comments
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by noahc 16y ago
I think a few things are happening here. 1. Reddit and HN are not mutual exclusive. There could be stuff that could be cross posted. Also, Reddit is a startup, is a YC company, and the founders are very active in the startup community. A
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by noahc 16y ago
I've never used any of the services, so I'd be afraid to recommend any. There are some free and some paid. Pretty much any web design forum will offer feedback though for free. The google 'web design feedback' and you'll get a list of 20
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by noahc 16y ago
There are two issues here. Learning how to design and learning the tools of design. I took two digital art classes in college. You could tell who struggled with design and who struggled with the tools. The kids who struggled with the des
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by noahc 16y ago
It appears that the cancer relative donation isn't actually to the relative, but to a charity. I don't know if that makes much difference to your point, but I think it is the right move if you're going to put up a donate button.
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by noahc 16y ago
I think you've just hit on two schools of thought. One school of thought is due unto others as you would have them due unto you. I believe PG once told a startup that they should pay back all other investors first. This is an example of t
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by noahc 16y ago
My point was more that as you engage your idea by actually doing something it becomes more real by facing real world problems. During this process it starts to suck. That doesn't make it a good idea, it makes it an idea grounded in reality
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Why Your New (Startup) Idea Doesn't Suck Yet(noahc.net)
31 points by noahc 16y ago|7 comments
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by noahc 16y ago
Hey Emile, Here's what I'd do: 1. Pick 3 - 4 startups you have to work for. Like would die to work for. 2. Identify 3 or 4 projects you know they know they need done. It might be web design related, sales, marketing, etc, etc. 3. E-mail t
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by noahc 16y ago
People work at google and Facebook or xyz startup because of what they believe. You need to tell us what you believe. We can build web forms and plug them into a database anywhere. Simon Sinek would call this the "Why." Then tell us how y
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by noahc 16y ago
There are a lot of reasons to do things this way. First of all it was originally distributed as a pdf e-book. An ebook even if the same length as a long blog post makes you more professional, or at least appear to be so. Once you have the
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by noahc 16y ago
Another way of thinking about this is to ask about things that benefit the other person. It gets complicated, because I might assign a utility of greater than $8 for a cab ride, if it appeared that I was helping a person that fit a particul
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by noahc 16y ago
If it's marginally related the story can read: "Two Companies Take on Gmail" And then you can run a story on how the war for e-mail is heating up. If only one company does it, it's not a trend. So the hope is that you get caught up in a t
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by noahc 16y ago
A better way to ask this questions would be: "I've tried x,y,z and y worked the best. Here's why I think so.... I want to try a,b, and c. Which one do you think would work better" What can you do for me that Netflix can't? All I want is
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by noahc 16y ago
Why not just submit it to HN or Reddit Programming. I'm sure you'd get more than enough help making it better! I think you've introduced too many barriers to helping you. The first rule of getting help is to make it easy for someone to he
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by noahc 16y ago
Post a correction as a reply at the top level. Users will typically vote it up.
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by noahc 16y ago
As a job Seeker, I'm looking for high quality jobs and low noise. What this points out to me is that it needs to be a curated list. You could go with letting users vote up good jobs and vote down bad jobs, but this creates an incentive to
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by noahc 16y ago
You need to add this to the description. When I read this I get the impression that you asking for recon info basically!
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by noahc 16y ago
Here is what I would recommend: 1. Have her pick 10 companies she really wants to work for. Dig really deep and read everything she can about them. How many of those 10 does she still want to work for? Maybe 2 Maybe 7. 2. Since she's dug
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by noahc 16y ago
I know that some online personalities have mentioned dual facebooks. [1] Some people choose to go by a name that closely resembles their real name or in someway psuedo-anonymizes them. I think this works in some ways, but if anyone really
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by noahc 16y ago
All they have to do is wait for the C&D and then take it down and not put it back up. In America at least, this is often a first step. Of course, if the value of a single particular image/video is so high that they could justify fighti
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by noahc 16y ago
It's not that you are over thinking them. You are just giving up too early. Let's say there are two girls. You go on a first date with one and you see all the potential. By the time you're on your 67th date, there are a lot of flaws you
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by noahc 16y ago
Here are a few pointers: 1. Find a way to help everyone. Tell them, "hey, give me your e-mail address and I'll e-mail you x" or "Hey, e-mail me and I'll send that website/book/pdf I was talking about." Don't even talk about your projects.
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by noahc 16y ago
Maybe this is the wrong way to go about it, but could I do it without a framework? I've read a little bit about MVC design, and I was thinking, I'd hack everything together and try to make it work my self. And then go back and try to make
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by noahc 16y ago
It was originally only for ONE college campus. What this means is that you can't just pick programmers. You probably want it to be the place to find python programmers or perhaps even a more specific niche.
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by noahc 16y ago
The best of both worlds: Boxer Briefs? I prefer Under armour over cotton. But to each his own!
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by noahc 16y ago
I've already looked at that, but I was looking for something without the webapp framework. Unless I'm mistaken it uses the webapp framework.

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