tyohn

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by tyohn 18y ago
Yeah but how many clicks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop?
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by tyohn 18y ago
"Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. - Peter Drucker. As Steve
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by tyohn 18y ago
I love great design but in the case of "tools" if the design doesn't help the function and the productivity of the user - and there is something else out there cheaper that does (even though its "ugly") I have to go with productivity.
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by tyohn 18y ago
I have to wonder do the aesthetics of your MAC make you as a programmer more effective?
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by tyohn 18y ago
What's interesting about this posting is unbenost to my co-founder, yesterday I was discussing some of the issues we were facing with a "retired" unix programmer and he talked about early sorting and searching methods. It was quite remarkab
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by tyohn 18y ago
Cool site... I liked looking up my site :)
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by tyohn 18y ago
I've got it, lets create a virtual experience dating site. That way you never have to meet the person - you can just do things together from a distance ;)
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by tyohn 18y ago
Well, I guess I don't get out enough :) But I remember reading something about Adobe opening up the .SWF format but we were already crawling and indexing when I read about it.
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by tyohn 18y ago
"If you aren't growing organically (and FAST), you need to very critically ask yourself why." Thank you for your thoughts. You could be completely correct for all I know. I don't mind serving a very niche community. But as far as organic g
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by tyohn 18y ago
look for body parts ;)
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by tyohn 18y ago
Sure, we'd be very interested.
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by tyohn 18y ago
And we are in process of a re-design. I have to wonder if I should keep working on it...
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We've been working really hard on our startup and now this
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by tyohn 18y ago
Your comment made my day - thanx :)
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by tyohn 18y ago
Same here
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by tyohn 18y ago
Nice to hear. I was beginning to think I was getting to old for this stuff ;)
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by tyohn 18y ago
I think I'd start by watching the startup school video http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...
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by tyohn 18y ago
Hi Mark, I added my email to the about section in my YC profile. Feel free to email me.
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by tyohn 18y ago
Good point but I'm playing with another concept at the moment. When I can I just like to lend a hand to other startups - I was thinking the people I know might like the ClutterMe site.
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by tyohn 18y ago
It's cool! I like the site. I like the idea. What group of people do you think will use it? I was thinking thinking this would be great for "unsophisticated" users. When I worked as the webmaster for a large school division in Virgina - I
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by tyohn 18y ago
Interesting but - $59.00 per month for the service?
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by tyohn 18y ago
6 weeks? Why so long? - (just kidding) I am building a search engine as my current project. It took all of a weekend to get it up and running. I didn't do it alone my friend helped so I guess maybe that doesn't count ;) We've been craw
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by tyohn 18y ago
Using the "request for some restaurant recommendations" example; couldn't potential advertisers put a coupon some where in the "conversation" that might sway the requester to visit their restaurant instead of the other options?
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by tyohn 18y ago
Nope, I don't know the guy or the company just the book. He does seem to have a good reputation but like I said I don't know...
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by tyohn 18y ago
I know of an example from the book "How to license your million dollar idea" by Harvey Reese. He thought of an idea, drew it on paper, faxed it to a company and got a deal - all in one day. Although: He did quite a bit of business with the
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by tyohn 18y ago
I guess the question is how do investors know an idea is "obviously good"? Did anyone/everyone know that the pagerank algorithm was "obviously good" before they tested it? And if it was - did they build it/think of it in one day?
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by tyohn 18y ago
So are you saying that someone thinks of and idea - like a car powered by toenail clippings. They never do any research, they don't build a prototype, they don't even know if it will work but they want to sell the idea?
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by tyohn 18y ago
I believe that Tesla sold several of his patents.
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by tyohn 18y ago
Nikola Tesla
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by tyohn 18y ago
same here - I'd be willing to pay a small fee

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