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by timjahn 14y ago
Don't build anything yet. Go out and talk to your potential customers. If you don't know who those are, figure that out first. Learn about their problems, their pain points, how you could fix things for them. Then start with the simplest
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I'm just tuning in now, as I happened to see this here on HN and my company is a SendGrid customer (used for transactional emails). Am I understanding this right - transactional emails for my company may be interrupted because of some rando
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Why Using Technical Recruiters Is Like Building With Duplos(matchist.com)
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I used to use it as a local database for desktop (and CD-ROM based) Windows apps I created with Flash, wrapped in a SWFStudio wrapper. :)
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I always thought Flippa was for solely online businesses where the website was the core of the business. The business in question here isn't one of those though. A significant part of the revenue is generated through offline happenings, al
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Ask HN: Where does one sell their online business?
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I think this would only work if the VCs had been regularly paying attention to the company long before Demo Day, and had done their research. I don't think they'd want to invest immediately after seeing the company for the first time.
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Same with Chicago. I live a whopping 12 miles from the center of downtown, IN the city of Chicago, and they told me they don't have people out "that far" yet.
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"that far yet" This is exactly what I mean. "Chicago" can mean very different things to people who live in Chicago and Chicagoland. Chicago to me means 1) the city of Chicago (which I live in) and 2) Chicagoland (which actually encompasses
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Ah, that's comforting. So many times these types of services launch in X city and really, they mean just the 10 square blocks of downtown in X city.
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60656.
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Says they include Chicago but apparently that means downtown only, as they claim they have nothing for my zip and I'm on the northwest side.
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Go to where your customers are. When we launched matchist ( http://matchist.com/talent ) a few months ago, we wanted to get developers on board first. And since we knew a lot of quality developers hang out here on HN, we posted here. About
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned building matchist so far ( http://matchist.com/talent ) is that there is a delicate balance between when my opinion is king and when data is king. In my opinion, GroupMe isn't solving a problem with t
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New web TV show launches to promote St. Louis entrepreneurs(techli.com)
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Micah is an amazing presenter and someone with a hell of a story to tell. It's great to see him always being open with other founders and spreading the knowledge from his experiences.
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WordPress.com Launches Business Accounts With Custom Domains, Unlimited Storage(techcrunch.com)
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Uber Partners and Drivers(partners.uber.com)
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SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (US only) matchist ( http://matchist.com/talent ) is looking for web and mobile developers to work on a variety of projects that come through the pipeline. Specifically, we're looking for developers interested i
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Sometimes escrow is a feature and a selling point of the app.
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Why We Won’t Be Attending SXSW This Year(blog.iwearyourshirt.com)
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I agree with alaskamiller - you need at least a co-founder. Having somebody to bounce ideas off of and ask questions to is invaluable. More importantly though, forget about the technology. After reading your post, it sounds like you're fru
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Chicago Wants To Be the Smartest City on Earth(mashable.com)
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The amount of ideas my wife, her sister, and many other women in their lives get from Pinterest is amazing. It's a household name now in our family. From birthday gifts to children's crafts, I'd venture to guess at least 1 idea every 1-2
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MTV And BET Faked Their Own Hackings For A Marketing Stunt (businessinsider.com)
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You'll still need/want some alone time, each to yourselves. Sometimes it comes naturally due to schedules. For example, before we had our little guy, my wife was a teacher. So she'd go to bed at 10 or so, and I'd work on stuff from 10-mid
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You're 19. A lot is going to change in the next 3, 6, 10 years. And you're going to learn a lot along the way. Enjoy where you are right now and every moment as it happens.
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Great post and completely agree. In general, I think more of us need to look at problems that "real people" have and how to solve them.
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We're always looking for solid developers with API experience at matchist ( http://matchist.com/talent ).
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Best site ever. :) Our goal with matchist is to create the best experience for both parties. We're not trying to sway things in the way of only one party.

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