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by papa 17y ago
Lol, I first read that as kid v2.5 Sometimes I do feel that kids deserve their own version numbers. After potty training you jump from like v.95 to v5.0 ...or so I felt :-)
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by papa 17y ago
2 kids. 7 year old and 3 year old. Started my current company when kid #2 was born (maybe not the recommended course of action for everyone, but I survived). People ask me what my hobbies are these days it's pretty much (1) the kids and (2)
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by papa 17y ago
Nice work. This is a useful service and I'm bookmarking it since you've provided some neat naming ideas. Only gripe, mentioned by others, is that I was a little confused by (a) the custom settings on the side and enabling them properly and
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by papa 17y ago
Seriously, I'm impressed that the monkey (rta) only pushed the button for a mere 16 hours a day :-)
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by papa 17y ago
Lots of excellent pointers from others...I'll add a few I haven't seen posted: - InstantShot: nice little screenshot utility (I use it daily) - VueScan: swiss-army knife of mac scanning apps if you need to hook up a scanner. Costs a little,
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by papa 18y ago
Exact same reaction I had. I thought it was Safeway's house-brand as well. Sadly having a big image of an orange and very clear indication of what type of OJ it is (pulp free, lotsa pulp) are pretty much what I look for. Guess I'm a simplet
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by papa 18y ago
I'm in the Bay Area, but really I find the "I have a startup" only has the desired affect on similarly afflicted individuals. If I say the same thing to my relatives, no matter where they live, I get the same blank stares. I personally thin
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by papa 18y ago
I'm living the dream ;-) (more like jumped off the corporate cliff into the scary, vast unknown)
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by papa 18y ago
So true from my experience as a parent. My first child has about a 5:1 advantage in baby photographs. The upside is that the younger sibling gets the invaluable experience of a sibling from day one. But regardless of what happens or doesn't
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by papa 18y ago
In some ways, building the product is the easy part. Getting traction is the really dicey problem. Check out some of the SEO/SEM sites like seomoz. SEO is very important. Link-building is also important. Look at getting some reciprocal link
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by papa 18y ago
Having done both, I'd say: 1. In a startup you do it* 2. In a big company you document it * that's not to say you don't do some planning and sketching and the like, but you don't need a ginormous stack of docs. It's worth remembering that o
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by papa 18y ago
Another great resource from SEOmoz that some might miss (b/c it's not exactly easy to find on their site) is their "Search Engine Ranking Factors" report (it's free). http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors The report tries t
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by papa 18y ago
Looks neat, I'll have to try it out. Admittedly for someone like me working with a very small team pencil/paper layouts are fastest (and cheapest). Previously, if I needed wireframes of the sort that Balsamiq appears to be good for, I'd use
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by papa 18y ago
I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right. Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?
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by papa 18y ago
Obviously they are not (despite their myriad problems). But nice link-bait headline anyway.
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by papa 18y ago
I enjoyed this post. For what it's worth, I often think of my startup as a kid (the analogy works both ways). Once the startup website went "live", it reminded me a lot of dealing with an infant. Site goes down any hour of the night, needs
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by papa 18y ago
Go for it!!! Don't let anyone tell you that you are too old to do it. I'm 36 - over-the-hill by startup standards ;-) - am married and have 2 kids. The biggest issue to overcome is fear and losing the corporate financial/benefits lifeline (
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Solo Entrepreneurs: Big Bucks from Tiny Computing Startups(informationweek.com)
47 points by papa 19y ago|17 comments
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by papa 19y ago
Jeff Bezos? Mark Cuban? the guys who founded bluemountainarts, Stuart Skorman? Though I'll admit that many of these are either online retailing enterprises or internet/media type companies. But clearly, there are successful examples on bot