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by tstegart 14y ago
The benefit would be the return on investment, just like any other start-up they fund. In this case, their investment would be the time and effort they put into mentoring their companies and the legal fees they put into launching the crowd-
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by tstegart 14y ago
The important part is not the money, its the opportunity for people like me to invest in growing companies. The money is just the way the risk is transferred. Obviously, I would want the crowd sourced company to be a part of YC. The mentori
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Ask PG: Can you start a HN crowd-funding venture?
158 points by tstegart 14y ago|82 comments
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by tstegart 14y ago
Ah, got it. Well, its the only suggestion so far. I guess not a lot of people think about it.
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by tstegart 14y ago
Do you mean to ask them who I should contact over there, or to learn the language?
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Ask HN: How to expand in China?
1 points by tstegart 14y ago|5 comments
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by tstegart 15y ago
Legal terms cannot be copyrighted, so feel free to take a look around and cut and paste from some sites you like. Most of the terms can be figured out pretty easily, its the ones you leave out because you're not a lawyer that will come back
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by tstegart 15y ago
Still broken. Maybe its me and not your site.
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by tstegart 15y ago
We have mostly normal hours, although my co-founder less so because she works a real job during the daytime. We're kind of expected to have reasonable hours because we're a travel magazine, and all work and no play would be bad for our imag
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by tstegart 15y ago
I agree with the above. the laptop is not IP, just property. If it's wiped clean there isn't really an issue. You get a $1500 laptop in exchange for your shares. If you don't think it's worth it, then ask for some more cash or something.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Good luck! Clickable: http://ellarum.com App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/family-matters-from-ellarum/i...
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by tstegart 15y ago
11.0, the latest version. Chrome works just dandy though.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Maybe your wife can approach them instead of you?
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by tstegart 15y ago
Yeah, I second this. I don't get many emails because I've taken myself off the all lists. Can't the OP do the same? No twitter notifications, no FB notifications, remove yourself from all RSS feeds that you never look at, all mailing lists.
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by tstegart 15y ago
I can't get it to work, it just sits at the loading screen for me. Using Firefox on Vista.
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by tstegart 15y ago
The amount of traffic generated by being on the front page is huge compared to not being on the front page. Our launch resulted in 41 website visitors total for the day. So having a hook and catching the HN community's attention with someth
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by tstegart 15y ago
Thanks, its always great to see how things went.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Its http://betali.st/ betalist.com is not in use.
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by tstegart 15y ago
I'd wait. Just money spent that you don't have to if your project doesn't get funded.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Build out an MVP.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Ah, I can see why you might not have gotten a great response. That's something very specific that a person wouldn't really be interested in unless they're hiring or need a job. Its also something people would wait and see how it turns out b
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by tstegart 15y ago
That's not much to go on. What's your business about? It could be that your idea is great but your launch page didn't do a great job exciting people.
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by tstegart 15y ago
Ugh, "learn to code." That's lame advice. Seriously, its like saying "you don't need someone to write your first round financing document, just learn to be a lawyer." I'd still be figuring out the hello world tutorial if I'd listened to th
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by tstegart 15y ago
Social networks act like them sometimes. If you get everyone using your network, it becomes so valuable that its almost impossible for a competitor to break in.
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by tstegart 15y ago
I would second both the above posts. Don't do anything now but launch. There may be room for two companies and you'll do just fine. Go after the larger market first, you can always pivot later. Just getting your company launched takes a lot
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by tstegart 15y ago
Congrats! Did you get it on through PR or was it out of the blue?
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by tstegart 15y ago
Ask HN: Do you email people when they have spelling and grammar errors in blog posts about their launch? Or do you just let it slide by and hope they notice later..?
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by tstegart 15y ago
Thanks!
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by tstegart 15y ago
It is a painful task. I have a spreadsheet of most of the U.S. app review sites if you want it to make sure you didn't miss any. Just email me. I couldn't find one anywhere else so I started compiling one. They disappear quickly. We launche
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by tstegart 15y ago
Can I ask where you seeing are the best response from? We launched yesterday and we're only two people too.

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