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by wensing 18y ago
25 according to CrunchBase.
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by wensing 18y ago
Or maybe it's a really hard problem that we don't fully understand. The problem seems simple in one sense: uncontrolled growth, no?
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by wensing 18y ago
I'd rather be http://www.crunchbase.com/company/craigslist
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by wensing 18y ago
I was also going to add that I would say for B2C relations this doesn't seem to matter a lot. In fact, I prefer it, as it makes us seem more single point-of-contact and personal (for some reason I have no confidence whenever I email a supp
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by wensing 18y ago
We've thought about it, but it's never been a priority. I guess that's strange, eh?
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by wensing 18y ago
September was a month I won't forget for a while! The SWF is something we wrote ourselves, but all of the sources/images/layers are public info. For example, you can download the base imagery from NASA here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.g
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by wensing 18y ago
Stormpulse was politely turned down by YC in 2007. I'm sure getting accepted would have changed things in a good way, but I can't complain about the way things are going; a YC-no-thanks is not a fatal judgment.
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by wensing 18y ago
What do you consider an invention? Is creating a new breed of cat an invention? What about a car that runs on water? What about a duck-horse? I think we want to reserve 'invention' for only the out-of-nowhere, bizarre creations.
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by wensing 18y ago
Given how news print publications are moving these days, I'd say it's probably just out with the old.
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by wensing 18y ago
If nothing else this does provide a nice alternative for form design. The sign-up form might not be the best use-case, however.
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by wensing 18y ago
We've put about 5 man-years into the project, spread out over 4 years time. That time includes 3 years of full-time effort (myself for 1 year, co-founder for 2). To be completely thorough, we ended up spending a lot of our personal savings
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by wensing 18y ago
Internet killed the print newspaper star? Not really. It's a little more complex, as I've learned. * Early 2000's: Newspaper uses soon to be outdated technologies and eyeballs strategy. * Mid 2000's: Housing boom allows newspaper to rake
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by wensing 18y ago
I work at a newspaper. It was just announced that our presses are shutting down and our daily print edition will be printed on the presses of our mortal enemy that is no longer our mortal enemy (expect that to be a trend). Newspapers are f
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by wensing 18y ago
I used it to find out that I knew someone that knew a CEO-type at a potential acquirer. That was cool.
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by wensing 18y ago
To suggest that everyone can be equally talented in a particular element is to demean the trade and the people in it. Maybe. But I would argue that most people's talent is the result of persistent hard work in that discipline. And that
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by wensing 18y ago
Perhaps my son's CS education won't cost $400,000/yr after all (he's 8 mos old). Yes, of course he'll be interested in programming.
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by wensing 18y ago
i am VERY surprised the solution isn't here yet Not to go all DHH on you, but you could create content people are willing to pay for.
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by wensing 18y ago
do they not understand that the internet has the eyeballs of more people in the world than any other medium ever? Fun fact: There are not enough eyeballs in the world to support the CPM goals of the newspaper industry.
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by wensing 18y ago
Wow. The lowest burn rate means spending more in two months than we've spent on Stormpulse in 2 years. Either I'm way out of my league and everyone else has amazingly-capitally-expensive ideas, or we're the cockroach on the cockroach's bac
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by wensing 18y ago
Sometimes it's more about execution than product inventory. If you go to http://pixlr.com/app , you immediately get a Photoshop interface. If you go to http://www.picnik.com/app , you get to wait for a minute while the app 'fluffs clouds'
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by wensing 18y ago
Seems completely reasonable to me.
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by wensing 18y ago
Bravo! (With extra kudos for having the design sense to include the 'Jump In' button) Now let me point you to the S3 bucket, web directory, Picasa, flickr account, etc. where I store all of my photos. I might not have to buy Photoshop for m
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by wensing 18y ago
As an iPhone user and geo-buff, I must say this is exciting. I wonder if they'll make it possible to add your own KML files. One thing I've noticed already--the Current Location is less accurate than in the built-in Google Maps app.
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by wensing 18y ago
It's just acutely sad that the paper of record is no better off than the rest.... Speaking as someone at a newspaper, I can tell you that the NYT is better off than many of the rest. In short, they've been making moves towards becoming
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by wensing 18y ago
Steve Jobs emphasized the same 1-2-3 in that NeXT pitch that floated around HN and VentureHacks recently: http://venturehacks.com/articles/steve-jobs-pitch At Stormpulse we created an embeddable version of our Stormpulse map and got it on
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by wensing 18y ago
How ridiculously easy to use is the G1? For example, how many clicks does it take to capture a photo and email it to a friend? On my iPhone I count 6 clicks to get into the "To:" field in the email, and then 1 more click to Send. And where
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Poll: Could open source produce an iPod killer?
3 points by wensing 18y ago|6 comments
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by wensing 18y ago
Yes
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by wensing 18y ago
No
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by wensing 18y ago
The horse was described as tired and old, so its fate may have been no better wherever he bought it from.

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