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by wensing 17y ago
So the lesson is ... don't earn revenue?
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by wensing 17y ago
Not saying I agree with the 'misjudged' comment, but it seems baseless to think that raffi couldn't have held out for more, later.
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by wensing 17y ago
Are you talking about partnerships or what sort of bizdev efforts?
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by wensing 17y ago
You have a comma out of place on slide #10. Just saying. :-)
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by wensing 17y ago
For our site, Cubestat's "Estimated data" is completely and horribly wrong compared to compete.com and alexa (which are only mostly wrong).
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by wensing 17y ago
Startups are a lot of work. I'm guessing it's fairly indisputable that $15.7m funding can really help your growth. Case in point, employee count: FanSnap 21, TicketStumbler 2. Given that tidbit, I'd say TicketStumbler is still doing a ver
577.
by wensing 17y ago
That is basically what we're doing with Stormpulse.com.
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by wensing 17y ago
Startup idea: hack customer service into a product that scales.
579.
by wensing 17y ago
Can't believe I'm asking this, but how is that cyclical?
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by wensing 17y ago
We definitely need more funds like these. It's been our experience that raising this amount of money is inordinately time-consuming. I wonder what kind of proposal/plan/due diligence an entrepreneur needs to present to get $150,000.
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by wensing 17y ago
The point of ramen profitable isn't to eat, of course; it's to extend your runway indefinitely such that your odds of getting rich significantly increase.
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by wensing 17y ago
We do. Email me stormpulse at gmail for details.
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Ask PG: The right reason to take investor money
10 points by wensing 17y ago|5 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
Which is exactly how many startups are born.
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by wensing 17y ago
I agree that YC would increase your chances of being successful, but I wanted to encourage you that you can do it either way.
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by wensing 17y ago
Don't focus on YC.
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by wensing 17y ago
It's a sad day when raising your kids equates to sacrificing your dreams. Sad day for the kids.
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by wensing 17y ago
"Men constantly choose to have their cake and eat it too. They have careers, but they also have families." There's not much special about have -ing a family. Almost anyone can create children and/or get married. The question for both men
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by wensing 17y ago
How about some sort of browser plugin that works with Amazon or other sites and automatically shows your openness numbers for whatever device I'm looking at?
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by wensing 17y ago
What is "open" and "openness" and why should I care? Would your target audience know?
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by wensing 17y ago
I like the story as well, because it's a nice example of a startup that has nothing to do with social networking, but rather a nicely defined niche (not to say it's a small industry--I know it's huge, I used to be a part of it).
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Stormpulse goes freemium(stormpulse.wordpress.com)
2 points by wensing 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Making a free site pay-for-only
12 points by wensing 17y ago|6 comments
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by wensing 17y ago
I wonder how many of the dollars no longer being spent on these ads are being captured (as pennies) by Google (and perhaps startups?). I worked at a metro paper from 07-09, and the 2nd largest local ad seller was Google, with their local s
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by wensing 17y ago
Depends how long is long. Fred Wilson stated that their latest VC is about having a war-chest for the purpose of convincing people that they're going to be around long enough to make it worth your while to build twitter-based services. ht
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by wensing 17y ago
Good tool. Specifically, though, I'm hoping to reach Wufoo. And without their site, I don't know how. HN is a stab. :)
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by wensing 17y ago
VC's and the like are very bullish on twitter, ergo investment in things related to twitter, and undoubtedly pressure for many portfolio companies to somehow bolt twitter on to their app/service. I happen to like twitter, myself, but I agre
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by wensing 17y ago
Does anything prohibit someone from hacking together a way to scale their DB using this service? i.e. fire up instances that of a certain ilk? Not sure how detailed CloudWatch is, but you could conceivably automate anything that involves
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by wensing 17y ago
As a startup based on EC2, our greatest risk last year was not scaling in time to meet demand (yes, even on EC2). That makes this fantastic news.
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by wensing 17y ago
"The main failure of PlayCafe was marketing." Sort of buried at #5, so felt it worth repeating (and conversation here).

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