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by tom 18y ago
Presently on my fifth startup. Next time I think I might give this a try - though maybe not 48 hours - maybe a hundred. I am looking forward to checking out the live site whenever those 225 minutes are finally up. Crazy to think of launc
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by tom 18y ago
I'll avoid the "Boston stinks because ... " part and just tell you about a few things that rock here. 1. If you're old enough to sit in a bar (you are, but for others reading this), go to Chez Henri ( http://www.chezhenri.com/ ). Get a cub
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by tom 18y ago
Margins are not huge for this sort of business. This am on NPR they were talking with a baker who said that his flour costs had tripled in the past year, his egg costs had doubled, and all of his supplies now had "fuel surcharges" tacked o
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by tom 18y ago
Building on what Brian said. A few more characteristics of a start-up: 1. Technology (often web based) plays the key role in the interaction between the company and it's clients / users. 2. The present market either doesn't exist, or func
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by tom 18y ago
Facing South (towards Rt 12), standing at the highest point overlooking Silver Lake in Barnard - I can get 1 bar with my iPhone - barely. Yes, AT&T's coverage is essentially non-existent in VT. When I'm up there though, this is a posi
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by tom 18y ago
I know we've seriously beaten this dead horse, but where is the line between "new business" and "start-up" these days. It would seem to me that everything is being called a "start-up", when in fact, many are just new businesses. I would n
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by tom 18y ago
A new baby (especially the first) is an interesting combination of 1. dang I have no time, and 2. I best get working so I can afford to but this little one through school! Three weeks old today. Wowzers.
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by tom 18y ago
All of the skills you mention are valuable if you can find someone with "seasoned startup experience". They're not growing on trees (last I looked from my perch). A couple of questions for you to think about. Do you have the experience in
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by tom 18y ago
There's no free lunch - especially when Apple and AT&T are the restauranteurs and servers. But, for some the incremental cost is easy to forget because they are getting such a "deal" on the hardware. IMHO the $20 all you can eat was a
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by tom 18y ago
Agreed. If you don't mind having another window open, Safari's developer menu is pretty powerful.
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by tom 18y ago
Amen. Nothing wrong with taking a piece of Google's pie. If folks really want to use Yahoo, set your home page to Yahoo and ignore the search box. Problem solved.
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by tom 18y ago
An interesting take on the age old "person can do this" and "company wants to pay someone to do that" how do we unite the two parties problem. It'll be fun to see how the "fuzzy" criteria can help improve matches with some real, more rando
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by tom 18y ago
But you're not paying $200 less, you're just redistributing your payments over time.
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by tom 18y ago
A kid in high school? Try getting things done with a 3 week old! I think the swing should get Founder status with the amount of time the little one spends swinging side to side cooing while I'm sitting next to him hacking. And while I agr
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by tom 18y ago
Somehow in the hoopla (or was it that I was actually working while the world stopped for Steve?), I missed the in-store activation requirement. One of the best things about my phone was peeling it open at home, sitting with my mac, and get
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by tom 18y ago
Firefox has Firebug. It is such a timesaver for me, I want to hug the developers on a daily basis (well, maybe just shake their hands). But for most of my actual browsing, Safari it is. It just feels faster on my machine...
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by tom 18y ago
Simple idea and an apparently nice implementation. It's interesting that they plan to sell to HR folks when their site will undoubtedly make some HR folks lives much harder. This feels like a total "why did this take so long?" site. Nice
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by tom 18y ago
I got the message and was asked if I wanted to forge ahead anyway. So that worked for me. Glad to hear you're working on Safari 3 compatibility. For many new Apple owners, Safari is it.
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by tom 18y ago
Great news for these guys. Always nice to see a totally new take on an old idea that actually works. Kudos. And Kudos on being close to profitability - no small feet!
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by tom 18y ago
Ahhh, a sales guy. :) Bit of a brain dump here, but I've been on both ends of this - the hiring end, and the sales guy end (and the tech dev end - wait, can you be on three ends?) Like any sales jobs, have numbers. Show what you did, wher
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by tom 18y ago
Be honest with the co and yourself. Self select who you interview with make sure its where you want to be. Large corporate jobs can bounce back from bad hire easier that a small co. Don't snowjob them, be honest, and make sure its a good
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by tom 18y ago
While a one pager will work for some very, very small sites, there a compelling reasons not to do this. People have been trained to look for navigation cues such as Contact Us, About Us, What's New, and Home. These are standard becasuse t
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by tom 18y ago
Well, the PS2 is cheap and approachable. The games are generally no longer $40 and $50 and good games can be had for under $20. The PS3 and 360 are still very expensive machines. Not just in initial outlay, but in keeping up with the Jon
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by tom 18y ago
Interestingly, the one thing that really jumped out at me from the first installment was the fact that YC has 22 groups this summer. Wowzers - that's a lotta people. Agree with the first commenter at G&M - give us an RSS feed though .
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by tom 18y ago
Dang, did I end up on "tech gadget news" again? I totally meant to to Hacker News. I am not good at the internets ...
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by tom 18y ago
What? Twitter went down? I'd demand a refund immediately ...
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by tom 18y ago
Hmm, well I wouldn't call it hatred ... at least not out loud. The thing is, for these fans, for Sports fans in the US there generally are places to do this sort of thing. Most of it happens via blogs or blog-like sites ( http://joyofsox.
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by tom 18y ago
Ok, honest review coming. No hard feelings. I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but what's the "start-up" part of this. This looks and feels like another comparator, this time with micro-communities built around it. A neat spin o
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by tom 18y ago
Have you folks looked at what's actually available with the AppleTV for rent? Not a strong selection either - and they're hitting you every time you want to rent a movie or buy a TV show. For a series, that really adds up. I think the al
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by tom 18y ago
This is a neat little app. Not really ground-breaking, but hey, that's not a pre-requisite for success. That said, I think this is just a web base comparator, not a startup. I must be missing something, but what pain point are you soothi

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