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by tgriesser 16y ago
It really depends on whether you look at the startup as the means or the end. For example, while the creation of Microsoft did not directly fix the problem of healthcare or hunger, it allowed for Bill Gates to create his foundation, and thu
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Love the stream of lifeboats leaving digg for reddit
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by tgriesser 16y ago
One thing that I think is ridiculously misleading, is that when watching the video for "how groupon works for busineses"... they have the "we only make money when you make money" premise, and show bags of money piling up on both the busines
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by tgriesser 16y ago
i remember thinking the same thing when i saw this: http://xkcd.com/768/ maybe they cost so much now because there's only one engineer left who remembers how to make displays that crappy
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by tgriesser 16y ago
i like how clean the site is, but it could use a little more content... i think you could probably do something better with the links at the top, they feel too spaced apart and the arrow box thing feels really disconnected. maybe if you add
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by tgriesser 16y ago
also, to the point of the bit of work to write and manage code hitting the various external API's... most times the developers for these organizations have created well documented API's and code samples for simple implementation of their fe
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Without knowing the target audience of the product, or the actual product itsself, it is difficult to say whether people would use these features and whether your site would benefit from having them or be at a disadvantage by not having the
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Ask PG/HN: Founder Combination
14 points by tgriesser 16y ago|4 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Step 3: Test your assumptions and Step 6: Do your research Probably the most important steps in the process, and I'm glad they were addressed here...identifying a potential market, testing the viability of the potential market and coming up
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by tgriesser 16y ago
i'll take it.
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Clickable: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip
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Ask HN: One Red Paperclip
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|4 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Everything is turning into a screen, from edge to edge. Once it’s all about glass, it’s all about software. This is assuming that once it's all about glass there isn't anywhere to go. Apple has become a leader in UI design and glass happe
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by tgriesser 16y ago
In your essay about the application process you discuss figuring out what the combination of founders are (e.g. two hackers, one business one hacker, two hackers one business...different stages of their careers) and you have seen about 20 o
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Google Invests In Human Monorail Shweeb(gigaom.com)
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|0 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
clickable [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503 [2] http://www.conceivablytech.com/2530/products/microsoft-paten...
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Ask HN: Patents in Startups
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|1 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I haven't seen it posted on here (or elsewhere) yet It will probably get uploaded to the scribd http://www.scribd.com/ycdocs once released
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by tgriesser 16y ago
clickable [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503 [2] http://www.conceivablytech.com/2530/products/microsoft-paten...
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Ask HN: Patents in Tech
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|1 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
thanks, that's exactly what i was looking for about the timeframe and whether or not the name dropping service was worth it
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Ask HN: Tips for buying a domain in redemptionPeriod
1 points by tgriesser 16y ago|2 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
There is a faucet to open, and a big one at that. The fact that they have gotten to the point where other companies are able to build majorly successful (Zynga) businesses based on their platform, and the fact that they have become ubiquito
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I agree with this, braintree is by far the best payment solution I've seen out there, apparently used by many of the big web companes (github, 37signals) and it shoulders the majority of the pci compliance work - which can be a big concern
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Startup Business - Stack Exchange(area51.stackexchange.com)
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|0 comments