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Letter from Space on September 12, 2001(nasa.gov)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
What field is it in? For ours ( http://feefighters.com ), which is b2b app, we have a 6 pronged attack which works pretty well: 1) SEO - people find us when they search for credit card processing and lots of long tail keywords. This is a lo
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Is it just me or does this look EXACTLY like Kissmetrics? It seems like it is a complete replica down to minute details, like how it's shaded, where dropdowns are placed, etc. For reference: Kissmetrics UI (this is slightly old, mixpanel ac
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Always amazes me that there are people out there who have $265mil to give that you can barely find anything about on Google. (Bill likely has a lot more too, as he is expected to give a very large gift to the University of Pittsburgh). More
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Re zoning and unsafe going hand in hand- that may be true in general, but typically a property like this that looks on the up and up is probably structurally sound. I have done a few significant conversions / redevelopments, and zoning issu
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I am not a resident, but have been there several times and have friends there. My understanding is that the issue has nothing to do with it actually being unsafe and more to do with zoning. Basically what was there previously was a restaura
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Groupon Cancels IPO Roadshow, SEC Wants Answers On Leaked Memo(businessinsider.com)
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Changing Your Company’s Brand Can Change Your Company Completely(mixergy.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
INTERN - looking for a PR/Marketing intern at http://feefighters.com We're in Chicago, you don't have to be, though it would be preferred. We've had great luck hiring programming interns from HN and have already hired a social media/marke
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by pitdesi 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER (remote Infographic designer for http://feefighters.com Here's what we've done. We hate some of these (hired the wrong guy) http://feefighters.com/blog/infographics/ Job description: http://feefighters.com/jobs/infog
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by pitdesi 15y ago
They now have a pretty small Palo Alto office (<100 people) and over 3,000 in Chicago. I don't actually think it's that relevant as they started and got huge (Google wanted to buy them for $6Bn huge) without the presence in SV
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I don't yet know enough about the single founder bit, but there is one unrelated sentence that you write that gives me great pause in the way you chose to write it: "But, if you want to do something big in the tech sector, you absolutely mu
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Solyndra (SV Solar Startup that got $535m guarantee from govt) fails(forbes.com)
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The Post-PC Era(bcgperspectives.com)
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August 2011: The Worst Month for Failed IPOs in a Decade (blogs.wsj.com)
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Playboy Interview With Steve Jobs (1985)(scribd.com)
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Can Tim Cook Keep Apple Afloat?(techland.time.com)
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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology(readwriteweb.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
This is why we started FeeFighters. We owned small businesses and were tired of the bullshit. That being said, we haven't been able to avoid it altogether... you do have to put in average transaction size and volume but you can just make it
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I think Square is a fantastic company and they have a very disruptive product, but this is a puff piece. Using a $3 average transaction size plays to its strengths. Square is in fact cheaper for anyone with a small transaction size. However
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Certainly makes sense that there would be some growing pains, which is the case with any company. How do you measure how well the startups "do"? Is it just a gut feeling of how far along they've come at this time in the summer?
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Is Y Combinator growing too quickly?(quora.com)
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Square has a new website(squareup.com)
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Libya Live Blog (Libya appears to be on the cusp of freedom)(blogs.aljazeera.net)
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O visa - US Visa for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bring On The Google Hardware Labs(techcrunch.com)
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That Remake of AOL? It’s Still Being Written(nytimes.com)
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‘China’s YouTube’ Tudou raises $174M in U.S. IPO(venturebeat.com)
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Ballmer sells windows 1.0(youtube.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Carnegie Mellon: http://www.cmu.edu/itunesu/ MIT: http://web.mit.edu/itunesu/ Michigan: http://itunes.umich.edu/usingitunes/ All have pretty good lectures, though on entrepreneurship the ones from Stanford seem to be best

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