rcmorin

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   by rcmorin 15y ago

   Musicians and film production companies need to start acting more like tech startups. Bootstrap, find an audience (traction), raise funding to pay for production costs (friends, family, fools, or kickstarter.com), distribute in iTunes or el
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   Android Developer Console - single email, single publisher

   1 points by rcmorin 16y ago|0 comments
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   Global in-app purchases for iPhone

   3 points by rcmorin 17y ago|1 comments
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   Here's a diagram of the fund structures: http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ikea-...
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   where is your contact information on your executive summary?
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   drew: i'm in boston. here's a project i'm working on: http://www.slideshare.net/rcmorin/say-hi-presentation let's connect. rcmorin (at) gmail.com
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   I'd ask myself a blunt question: why do I need this guy? Why am I so attracted to this compelling idea? If you're a smart engineer, you can be the idea generator and the coder. That way you can retain full ownership, and then recruit the bu
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   Tom excellent point. There is a huge market for innovation in the enterprise space. At the financial services company I work for, the average employee uses about 25 applications and has a different username and password for each. And most o
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   by rcmorin 17y ago

   Of course they do. Sure, co-founders can fight over product design, what type of pizza to order for lunch, or which programming language to use, etc. But where I've seen most startups collapse and fail is over contentious issues such as spl
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    I'd go further. Patents are nice to haves for VCs and investors and look pretty on glossy business plans (look at our shiny algorithms and wireframes!). Don't bet the success of your company on your patent portfolio. The fact is, no startup
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    There is never an "easy" way to do this. But in the early stages of your venture, there should be very few battle making decisions. Lead by persuasion and team-building. You're only 2 people and don't need a general calling the shots just y
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    lucifer - I'd turn the tables on this deal. What is the value proposition of the non-technical co-founder? What is he bringing to the table? Money, ideas, customers, investors, partnerships, IP, co-founders? He generated the idea: yipee. Bi
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    Should I offer equity to a potential business partner?

    1 points by rcmorin 17y ago|1 comments
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Hi ivan. Drop me a note if you're interested in mobile startups. We use a hybrid of back-end "cloud" services for the back-end: GAE (Python), Amazon SQS for message routing, and another server for push messaging (PHP). If you're curious, wr
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    In Cambridge/Central Square. Perhaps we can coordinate something on meetup for Boston. rcmorin [at] gmail
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    What is your company going to make? (YC '10)

    2 points by rcmorin 17y ago|0 comments
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Cambridge, MA mobile startup here. Our dev team is located abroad, graphic designer in Silicon Valley, and we could use the additional dev help (front-end/server-side) in Boston to work on the next iteration of our app. New platforms, new s
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks, Joe. Again, the behavior of this age group is very concerning to me. I'm 26 and don't remember these problems with AIM when that was in its heyday. Or maybe I'm just clueless. Even with services like Loopt, I've heard complaints tha
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks paul. I think the most immediate answer is: improve the product and keep pumping out features. In the short-term our costs are really under control. I apologize if my initial thread sounded like I was shouting "fire" in a crowded the
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Of course, thanks jhancock. In the end, the total initial capital (pocket money, friends/family round, and credit) was comparable to the amount invested using the YC seed formula of $5000 + $5000n.
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Correct: we are a chat message application. You can find friends and exchange messages with online/offline users based on location-based proximity. Offline messaging is available in the next iteration, v.1.2.
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks, tptacek. Actually from a founder's perspective, my BATNA is maintaining the day job and surviving on Ramen noodles. Which in the short-term is a distraction but can keep the project going while controlling the increase in the userba
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks Micah. The free version was dropped very quickly...although it was exciting to be in the top 25 free downloads for those few days. It was an experiment to get some sort of quick market validation (for ourselves and potential investor
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks for your well thought out comments, cmos. And I apologize for not including the link in the original posting! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
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    by rcmorin 17y ago

    Thanks for your reply, Jacques. This was helpful. We released on GAE and we're also using Amazon SQS. At our peak load, we were getting over 1.5-2k users streaming in during the initial price drop. CPU Time was our biggest drain: we've comb
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    How long can you survive on bootstrapping?

    24 points by rcmorin 17y ago|30 comments