thomaspun

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   by thomaspun 13y ago

   You are right. We should have tried to sell harder before building. Lesson learned. To be fair thou, we did interview about 10 companies before even prototyping to get feedback. Two of them ended up paying after we launched.
2. 32.▲
   by thomaspun 13y ago

   Thanks Alex. Glad you enjoyed it.
3. 33.▲
   by thomaspun 13y ago

   To be honest, I don't know if my honesty will hurt me later on. I didn't want to sugar coat the reason. Startups don't die until founders quit. You always have a way to make it work if you want. We had founder issues early on
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   by thomaspun 13y ago

   We always have an alert box shown up when the audio and video recording is turned on.
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   by thomaspun 13y ago

   Thanks for the tips, Kenneth! Would you be interested in helping me review my future posts? Yes I'm just starting to blog and I do want to get better by practicing. English is my second language although I've used it for all of my
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   Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO(medium.com)

   62 points by thomaspun 13y ago|38 comments
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   by thomaspun 13y ago

   There are actually more competitors [1] but none of them was the reason of our failure. As PG once said, startups don't die until founders quit. And yes post-mortem is coming. [1] Apps: http://blog.hipmob.com/post/
8. 38.▲
   by thomaspun 13y ago

   Thx for your kind words. Ease of integration was crucial to us and the team worked hard to deliver that. But as pedalpete noted, we lagged in other areas and eventually failed to succeed.
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   Handybook acquires Exec(techcrunch.com)

   2 points by thomaspun 13y ago|0 comments
10. 40.▲
    by thomaspun 13y ago

    Congrats to Garry. hooande has said it best.
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    by thomaspun 13y ago

    There is also http://delight.io
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    Why is there arbitrage on BitCoins?(btc123.com)

    2 points by thomaspun 13y ago|1 comments
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    by thomaspun 13y ago

    Great post and thanks for being open to what happened. I'd say it's actually a good thing that your would-be-cofounder quitted early thou. I think it'd be worse if he quitted after getting in YC OR right after getting invest
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    by thomaspun 13y ago

    I never use their service but I have been following them. It's sad to see them go as I think they have a good product. From the comments, there seems to be a consensus on not charging enough. It'd be interesting to hear from the t
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    Exec shuts down errand service(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by thomaspun 13y ago|0 comments
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    Fleep: IM on top of email protocol?(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by thomaspun 13y ago|0 comments
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    Internet of things: baby monitor(owletcare.com)

    1 points by thomaspun 13y ago|0 comments
18. 48.▲
    WellsFargo ATM redesigned by IDEO(ideo.com)

    10 points by thomaspun 13y ago|2 comments
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    Xiaomi (China's Android phone) Nets $2.16B In First Half Of 2013(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by thomaspun 13y ago|0 comments
20. 50.▲
    by thomaspun 13y ago

    Nice. Mentoring on demand. What will your pricing model be?
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    by thomaspun 13y ago

    Great post, Harj! I went thru two breakups. This struck me the most. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't bring up what's on your mind. If you feel like you can't, then you should probably question whether you have the right co-
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    Spoon by FileSquare: Elegant mobile wireframe kit(blog.filesq.com)

    5 points by thomaspun 14y ago|0 comments
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    by thomaspun 14y ago

    Thanks, Bubs. I felt better reading your post already. You are one of the founders I admire, especially on how you are able to balance between startups and family.
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    by thomaspun 14y ago

    I have gone thru this state of mind. We got A+ investors but we failed to deliver. We had founder breakups early on and I was made a single founder for the last two years. I ended up working twice as hard to make up for my founder's departu
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    Nail your sales pitch with VPD(tomtunguz.com)

    4 points by thomaspun 14y ago|0 comments
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    by thomaspun 14y ago

    Congrats guys!
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    Creating a game brand - 5 questions to ask(facebook.com)

    4 points by thomaspun 14y ago|0 comments
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    Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work(techcrunch.com)

    14 points by thomaspun 14y ago|1 comments
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    by thomaspun 14y ago

    I changed the interface to what I think it's more 'Ruby'. If you are looking for in-place solution, we should use the ! to indicate it's more 'dangerous' than the other solution which returns a new copy. I'm new to Ruby so I'd love to hear
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    by thomaspun 14y ago

    I just got my Nexus 7 and can't wait to try it out!