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by roberte3 15y ago
If you want a decent chair, see you can find a cheap clone of the eames management chair for $200 at Target and a few others. I used one that I bought for about $150 for two years. http://www.target.com/p/Executive-Mid-Back-Leather-Chai
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by roberte3 15y ago
Years ago I found a marriage proposal code in the 'After Dark' screen saver. I've always wanted to know what the back story on that was.
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by roberte3 15y ago
Tucker the man and his dream.
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by roberte3 16y ago
The crux of the problem is the following: 1) You don't say what your giving anywhere . a) You don't say anything about what organizers pain points are, or how your going to solve them. 2) The goal of all sponsors is develop their bran
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by roberte3 16y ago
I'm going to say a strong NO to this, and I strongly advise others to do so as well. The thing about sponsorships of things like barcamps and heck any other event is the fact that you negotiate what you give up for the money. Here they are
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by roberte3 16y ago
O yeah. I just organized one that netted (after expenses) three times my annual salary as an IBM consultant.
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by roberte3 16y ago
A monorail. 500 Feet long, held two passengers, guts were a rewired electric wheelchair. http://www.flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/5008514139/in/set-...
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by roberte3 16y ago
I did this last weekend, it made one of the best steaks that I have ever had in my life. I used a cheap cooler, so I cranked up the temp by 10 degrees above what I wanted the steak to be at when it finished. One thing that isn't brought up
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by roberte3 17y ago
"If the fucker doesn't cost your your life, it isn't a quest." Which I lifted from gapingvoid.com
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by roberte3 17y ago
Also consider the Npost.com events, Saturday House, Startup Drinks (seattle.startupdrinks.com), Andy Sack's Open Coffee, the East Side and Six Hour Startup events. Also Seattle Barcamp is next weekend ( http://barcampseattle-09.pathable.co
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Why you should write a business plan. (npost.com)
2 points by roberte3 17y ago|0 comments
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by roberte3 17y ago
Usually the combination that I have been using for the events that I have planned, has been eventbright with pathable.com Eventbright handles a lot of the registration problems very well. Although it falls down in the following areas, Paypa
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by roberte3 17y ago
Remember we have lots of other hacker news type of organizations here in Seattle as well. SaturdayHouse groups.google.com/saturdayhouse - is a weekly meetup at various peoples houses. Hops and Chops www.hopsandchops.com/ - Dave Schappell (T
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by roberte3 18y ago
Its a symbolic reward. There are actually a bunch of triggers for getting the $100. Like getting outside investment, deciding that the business won't work and quiting, and a pile of others. Its like getting a coffee cup at work with the com
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by roberte3 18y ago
1) The name recognition of advisors is part of the joy of the Portland technology scene. Which hopefully this program will help fix. Portland has astounding things happening, but no one ever hears of them or the people doing the work. 2. Th
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by roberte3 18y ago
Actually I know the people putting this on. Long story made short, its a training program to get your business to the point where you can can take outside investment. This is a very solid program developed by an expert in the fund raising p
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by roberte3 18y ago
Ugh. Portland is way to proud of a middling effort at best. The city has no immigrants (I make a habit of counting the number of non white people when I am there... High score was 15.) Also the tech scene is middling at best, for example if
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by roberte3 18y ago
Here in Seattle we have a group called Saturday House ( http://saturdayhouse.org ), its a great meeting place, for meeting smart people who are working on great projects. (The tag line is a barcamp every weekend.) Usually at the end of Sat
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by roberte3 18y ago
Former midwestern guy myself. There are very few midwestern 'startups'. If you don't want Chicago (My first choice for midwestern livable/startupable city). You might consider Indianapolis - its fairly diverse considering how close to KY it
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by roberte3 18y ago
You also want to try npost.com Lots of startup jobs in various companies around the US. And they do really great networking events here in Seattle.
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by roberte3 18y ago
A NASCAR = 1/2 PBR and 1/2 Redbull
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by roberte3 18y ago
beanstalkapp.com - We used it for the last Six Hour Startup Project and it worked well. Also it is supported out of the box with the pretty Versions program on OSX.
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by roberte3 18y ago
Not really when you realize that we are a small group of hackers trying to put on an event. I personally try to let my work speak for itself. The goal of this conference isn't for us to become rich and famous, its to get us the answers we n
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by roberte3 18y ago
Six Hour Startup runs monthly free events on every Second Saturday of the month her were we build really great cool projects like timelope.com, poormikes.org. (our next project is on May 10th. The conference is being run as close to at cost
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Seattle Startup School May 31st Sixhourstartup.com(sixhourstartup.com)
12 points by roberte3 18y ago|19 comments
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by roberte3 19y ago
The problem was in the solicitation of people to participate in a share issuing entity that wasn't registered with the government after they paid money to participate. (basically selling shares). The law is setup to prevent people from buyi
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by roberte3 19y ago
A year and half ago, I did some research on MI/IN/OH. There were only 5-6 Venture Funded companies in the three states. The only way to make a firm grow in the midwest is to self fund based on your revenue. With out that it is just not goi
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by roberte3 19y ago
Check out the groups website http://saturdayhouse.org , we are essentially a geek group that gets together twice a week to hang out, work on projects, do gameing and other fun activities twice a week. (Wednesday night and all day Saturday
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by roberte3 19y ago
Something that is close but it is a print magazine. Is called "The Weeek" magazine. Very Very high signal to noise ratio. They do exective summaries of the news, one page or less covering issues from all sides. They just launched a new we