willheim

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by willheim 16y ago
Neither. I have a tablet PC(Lenovo) which is near perfect for ebook reading. Why? 1) I can have Kindle for PC on it. 2) I can have Nook for PC on it. 3) I can read any PDF well 4) I can read all sorts of comics well. 5) I can continue read
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by willheim 16y ago
Yes, That is certainly a useful suggestion. Seems that taking away any barriers to entry to trial it out with pre-populated data would: 1) lower resistance to test the product/service. 2) Eliminate the need for a free trial period 3) Incre
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by willheim 16y ago
So are we talking about an Octopussy like Github and a Fail Whale like Twitter? Cutesy personality stuff like that? May work for some... and certainly throwing down a comical quirkiness to your failings helps to ease the pain of being down
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Ask HN: How do you demo and sell your product/service?
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by willheim 16y ago
It's Apple returning to the Big Why. It worked. Apple at the time was in deep trouble having been the "other PC" for too long. They moved away from their "why" to a "what" and they had copied the "what" of every windows PC at the time to
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by willheim 16y ago
Who cares? It sounds big and scary and really bad... especially to us start-up types but I'd bet that there is nothing that hasn't been patented or could be deemed to be covered by a patent that's been put out on the web. Seriously, start
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by willheim 16y ago
Six by nine. Forty two.
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by willheim 16y ago
"Both Xobni and Dropbox were single-founder startups initially" Initially, I think, is the key here. Am I wrong to assume that you loved the idea, the technology, and the potential of the marketplace and that any concerns you might have ha
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by willheim 16y ago
no
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by willheim 16y ago
Agreed. It's not always easy for business founders to find a technical co-founder right off the bat. In fact, that's probably the biggest hurdle to get over for anyone coming from the business side. If all you have is an idea and no tech
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by willheim 16y ago
I highly recommend you read "Making Ideas Happen" by Scott Belsky (the99percent). I was already using Evernote for much of my idea-keeping but this inspired me to organize it better. The initial idea is but one piece of the puzzle. As yo
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by willheim 16y ago
Absolutely depends on how you present it. If you put down what you did, what problems you solved, what you accomplished (use lots of verbs and don't start with "I": ie Developed database accessed by other 1000 users, or Developed mobile ap
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by willheim 16y ago
I didn't like Quora at all. It allows users to modify your question and tags and some of them misunderstand your question or just don't want it there. One of my questions received no answers, many followers hoping for an answer, and 13 ed
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by willheim 16y ago
A couple of points to make here: 1) A start-up is just a business of your own design. It may be that you're in tech but the whole concept of running the business side of things is really no different from opening your own restaurant, dry
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by willheim 16y ago
A bigger question is Why? Why does RIM feel this need to break into a sector (consumer) they've consistently failed at infiltrating. They remind me of Big Blue back in the day diluting their brand by creating really POS consumer PCs when t
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by willheim 16y ago
Seems to me that there are really two points to be made here: 1) Flash as it is currently implemented is for the desktop. 2) Flash for mobile (10.1) should really be called FlashMobile 1.0 and will need a lot more time and development to gi
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by willheim 16y ago
I tried to submit a question and it came back "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down." I am not submitting too fast. I only submitted once. It's not clear to me what the issue is. Please fix this. If it's some sort of Fail Whal
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by willheim 16y ago
The article makes excellent points all around. The #1 goal of any business is to gain positive cash flow (revenues greater than expenses). Anything else sinks your business. It's high time start-ups learned that lesson. Sure, starting ou
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by willheim 16y ago
Sounds like a BtoB venture. Who are your target clients? If they're well funded/profitable/high end then all you need is the 30 day refund program. If they're bootstrapped start-ups who need to pinch every dime then a limited free accoun
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by willheim 16y ago
Sounds more like your colleagues have lost faith in the project and you want to continue on with it. If that's the case then it may be time to find a J.O.B. and put this on the sideburner. If you have faith in it, have collected plenty of
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by willheim 16y ago
Yeah... I just stumbled on that recently (like 5 minutes before) in a google search was doing. Wild. Too bad google seems to really only know one of my connections and all that they are linked to. Also too bad that that connection is re