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Show HN: Lemonade Stand(youtube.com)
27 points by shiftb 16y ago|14 comments
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by shiftb 16y ago
Congrats guys! Was awesome watching you build it.
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Mick Johnson Talks About StartupBus 2010(blog.startupbus.com)
9 points by shiftb 16y ago|3 comments
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by shiftb 16y ago
This feels a little like when AOL switched to providing their webmail for free. For AOL it was a huge shift in strategy, but a necessary one. I'm not sure I completely understand how this helps RIM much, though. BBM is about the only I miss
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by shiftb 16y ago
Obviously the one clear course of action is to leave your current company. You hate it there, and it isn't taking you where you want to go. If you're talented, you won't have any trouble finding work in SF. You could take a small amount of
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by shiftb 16y ago
I like a mix. I'm energized working in a really open shared environment (like Hacker Dojo or Pier 38), but I also love working from home. Too much working from home gets really lonely. Now that I've left my last job and starting on my own
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by shiftb 16y ago
I think you're right. It wasn't perfect, but it was good enough. :) And the constraints forced everyone to focus on only what needed to get done. I think we can share it. We'll probably open source the map component. We're rebuilding it thi
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by shiftb 16y ago
How it worked last year: - Internet: We had 3 Sprint wifi hotspots on the bus. You could connect to any of them, but if one started to get overloaded it definitely slowed down. California, Arizona, and Texas were fine, but Sprint seems to b
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by shiftb 16y ago
I just bought codestocknation.com. What are we doing with it?
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by shiftb 16y ago
It completely depends on what you're trying to build. I've built some things in a couple days (maprejuice.com -- for Node Knockout) and others over the course of a week. I estimate my current project will take a month.
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by shiftb 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.itschris.me
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by shiftb 16y ago
Excellent! I did the same thing about a month ago (although I left another startup, not a BigCo). Haven't decided whether or not to move in with Mom & Dad though. The savings would be nice, but I live in Santa Clara already and they're
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StartupBus: Is your application applicable?(blog.startupbus.com)
12 points by shiftb 16y ago|7 comments
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by shiftb 16y ago
That's so awesome. I've wanted this forever.
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by shiftb 16y ago
English and Portuguese! (I speak spanish well enough to have a conversation, but I wouldn't say I'm fluent. Got a 5 on the AP test in high school, but if you don't use it you lose it. :( )
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by shiftb 16y ago
Definitely possible. 2 Examples: 1. Miche Capone - one of the founders of Photovoo and a mentor at 500 startups. I've worked with him before, fantastic designer. Got a CS degree, never officially trained in design. 2. Jason Putorti - Check
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by shiftb 16y ago
As a coder, I've historically tended to think poorly of non-technical people who have the "next big idea". The truth is that a really great business person with the right skills can be immensely important! I didn't fully understand that unt
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by shiftb 16y ago
When I first signed up for SendGrid their confirmation email went straight to my spam. Not really auspicious beginnings, but I haven't had any problems with them since and I think they're a great company. Here's hoping the same will be true
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by shiftb 16y ago
I understand this completely because I'm one of those who undervalues themselves. However, I'm quickly realizing that your value is not tied to your abilities. Simply, you are worth as much as you think you are. The final value is what you
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by shiftb 16y ago
Unlikely, the css class names are pivotal, pivots, etc which seems pretty unique to them.
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Headwall Software: stolen IP from Pivotal Labs?
10 points by shiftb 16y ago|4 comments
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by shiftb 16y ago
Soylent Green is made of People[1]! At the very least it's a clever name. Really smart, interesting concept. I'm not sure I trust other random people to correct my grammar though. [1] Thanks to Mr. Kenuda, 11th Grade Physics teacher, who co
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by shiftb 16y ago
You took the instant, barebones style and turned it on it's head with a beautiful design. Could be slightly smoother, but loading images sucks (especially from Amazon). Also, works perfectly in my iPad. Great job! Couple questions... * You
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by shiftb 16y ago
I'm frantically trying to figure out how to justify Ender's Game as a business book so I can mention it here.
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by shiftb 16y ago
I completely agree that the whole standard job process is broken. We've been doing a ton of interviewing recently, and when it comes down to it I don't care one bit what you know or how long you've been doing it. All I care about is: 1) how
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by shiftb 16y ago
Hate to admit it, but I set one up for my name about a month ago. So far it's been extremely relevant, but as far as I can tell there are only a handful of people in the world with my name anyway. Vanity is my favorite sin.
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by shiftb 16y ago
Singin' dollar dollar bill ya'll (dollar, dollar bill ya'll)
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by shiftb 16y ago
Exactly! this was one of the thoughts we had. Can you imagine someone like farmville implementing it? Lots of potential revenue. Would also be great to donate cycles to educational or non-profit teams.
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by shiftb 16y ago
I see one of these posts every few months. Yawn.
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Ask HN: What settings do you use to tune Passenger and Rails 2?
1 points by shiftb 16y ago|0 comments

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