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by wavesplash 15y ago
Issued patent != patent pending. Patent pending has no legal standing and is non-defensible. It just means something was submitted and may or may not be approved sometime in the future (possibly years from now). Talk to a lawyer, but I
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by wavesplash 15y ago
Consider only offering enterprises a yearly pre-pay option if they want invoicing. That reduces your paperwork and lets you put the cash to work. Once you're only dealing with yearly invoices, the collections challenge is simpler. If the
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Starving entrepreneurs outbidding each other to sit with two rich guys? It is just me or does this seem backwards?
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by wavesplash 16y ago
For context: in contrast to other early stage investment groups and many superangels, his firm ( http://www.oatv.com ) invests in a very small/selective handful of deals per year.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
I hear FoundersTable will be kicking off again in 2011. That covers the gap you were discussing: http://stirr.net/founders-table/
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by wavesplash 16y ago
I'm testing on Chrome 9.0.570.0 dev on win7 right now. CTRL-N causes a new window to open. Curious if this is platform specific. Can you switch to dev and let me know what results you get? If different than a new bug is warranted.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
I'd love for this to work universally but it looks like capturing CTRL-N (line-down) is a wontfix in chrome :( Should we lobby and open a new bug? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Yes. The main crux of their business is turning ids/email-addresses into personal profiles.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Brilliant. Any thoughts on Oauth2 and Facebook Graph support?
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by wavesplash 16y ago
As the ecosystem around Twitter has discovered, the platform owners will sooner copy a good feature than buy it if it's cheap enough to build. It's not about OAuth or IMAP, it's about some GOOG PM copying the featureset and putting it in t
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Awesome. I'm an FLStudio fan since version 2. re: soundcloud Consider removing the reference to soundcloud. The best it can do is give give the lawyers an excuse to go after you for UI Copyright infringement. re: value prop The intro page
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by wavesplash 16y ago
It all depends on your business. Enterprise salespeople are used to long sales cycle, high-contact, high dollar sales. If that doesn't fit your business model, then you want to find people who've done something similar to your model.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Thanks for reaching out Bret. Some suggestions going in order from user focused to app/site focused: 1) Fix graph.facebook.com to respect user permissions. graph.facebook.com/userid publicly leaks real names and UIDs even when users ask t
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Sure. The hidden iframe allows you to do 3 things: 1) preserve state across view changes (mail vs. preferences, etc) 2) isolate code 3) reduce over-the-wire data size because all the rendering/UI generation is happening in-browser. If yo
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Gmail's interface is unique in that the rendering is being done by a Javascript Controller in a hidden iframe. Gmail itself only requests raw data over the wire. If you just want the look and feel of Gmail, there are plenty of frameworks r
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by wavesplash 16y ago
It's all about context. On RWW Start the startups with exits are the headline grabbers. Delicious carries much more clickthrough appeal/legitimacy than AOL. Always lead with a grabber.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
You know how it goes in the press, the easy to recognize goes first in the headline. ;) Congrats mate. If I was still investing I'd join y'all.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
There are optimizations in most modern group dispatch systems to attempt optimal traffic routing and predictive placement of idle elevators. The fancy stuff OTIS has played with gets into AI, but the simple algorithms work nearly as well.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Or perhaps you could get in touch with the http://lilgrams.com founder and join forces. That'll solve your prototype challenge too, since it's already done. Email me if you want an intro (contact info in my profile).
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by wavesplash 16y ago
While you're technically correct, the difference here is that the growth Google sees could easily be sustained. Google can expose more users in a few hours to Chrome(for free via a well placed link on their search homepage) than Mozilla co
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Anyone who's interested in working on #1, has some time, and can work with Rails3/Ruby, send me a note. Contact info in my profile.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Would love to see a big fat link on the front page that says "Help make the best Ruby implementation ever. Join us!" with a link to the google group. Clear call to action. Blog wise: Bubble up some of the great activity going on behind th
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Congrats to Evan and the team! Now that 1.0 is out, how about adding a blog and a mailing list? I'd love to see Rubinius pick up a large following. IRC-only makes it a challenge to build a thriving community.
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by wavesplash 16y ago
Due to a very poorly structured deal MSFT was able to use Sybase's own code to compete against them. Be careful who writes your contracts.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
That's exactly how dogster.com started, a free dating site for dogs (walking dates, etc) which lead to more than the occasional real date for single owners. There are/were a few clones too. One question is why dogster.com, who was clearly
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Unless you've started a product company recently that you're not sharing with us, all the above plus your website says you're not an entrepreneur anymore. You may have been one 30 years ago, you may like being around entrepreneurs, but cat
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Jonathan runs Hackers and Founders as a sideline to something else he does. He does it for love and the desire to be around others like him. You run a consulting firm that feeds on startups. Your breakfasts are a marketing/leadgen program.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Mate, take a tip from iamelgringo. Call it out upfront and state clearly what the organization is. From what I see Bootstrappers Breakfast is a lead generation opportunity for your business. Many events in the valley are run by current fo
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by wavesplash 17y ago
If you're going to blatantly self-promote your event, how about a little disclosure?
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by wavesplash 17y ago
"So there it is. SQL doesn't scale (effectively or efficiently)" I think you just re-iterated the author's reason for writing perfectly. Instead of saying 'SQL' (the query language) doesn't scale, perhaps you can say full ACID doesn't sca

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