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by zkinion 19y ago
Its not that hard to talk to those people. Those who really want to, will. I had no problem last year, and got to meet a lot of the speakers as well. Hint: don't approach a "huddle", or even wait for a "huddle" to form. Its a trap. Fin
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by zkinion 19y ago
Hosting content that users submit, that is actually the property of massive media conglomerates, is not my idea of breaking ethics. Look at myspace -> started as a full blown illegal spam operation. facebook -> supposedly started
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by zkinion 19y ago
American Idol mainstream tv advertising != Facebook
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by zkinion 19y ago
So? All the power to them. If they're close to getting acquired, this could be a very good strategy, and could even be a catalyst for an acquisition altogether. This is a VERY nice end game move. Those "big" lawsuits don't happen till nor
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by zkinion 19y ago
I'm surprised nobody else has responded here. Even if the traffic is miniscule and sucks, appearing as though your ad space is filled or partially filled can be a benefit, so its a good idea what you're doing. My company is still in Alpha
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by zkinion 19y ago
As in my response to the other guy above, "isn't all that special" really was referring to being able to compete as enterprise software against the set in distribution channel. Yes, asterisk is great. Its probably even better now than it w
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by zkinion 19y ago
very straight to the point blog post, but i do like the quote: "I promise not to keep ideas in my head, unfulfilled and full of promise - not to let these vague outlines of future actions give me false confidence and security in the abstra
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by zkinion 19y ago
I see nothing wrong with this. You'd be surprised at some of the stuff startups have to do to get out there and get initial traction, not limited to spam and "faking it till you make it". The only thing that surprises me is that they were
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by zkinion 19y ago
Hmmmm, I guess I wasn't posting to news.yc standards. My apologies. My point was that I didn't see it destroying cisco/avaya any time soon, due to the nature of enterprise software and the sales distribution channel. Linux is still not the
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by zkinion 19y ago
Asterisk isn't all that special. I used it extensively a few years back with my last business. Its still a bitch to use and get going right, especially for businesses with crappy IT going for them. It goes back to that PG quote, that went
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by zkinion 19y ago
sent
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by zkinion 19y ago
Don't fund with credit cards unless you absolutely have to. The interest rates on those are often too high for any legitimate business to make enough to sustain payments once the "teaser" rate is gone.
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by zkinion 19y ago
Excellent read. I think there is something in the air or water in the bay area that has been poisoning people into making startups that have very little chance of ever actually making any money. Having a good business model does not mean y
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by zkinion 19y ago
Yeah, I was going to use it for my online gambling (legal) site, and found the dynamic IP problem to be the real decision maker for me. I use smartfox server as a socket server, and renewing a license with a new ip address takes 24 to 48 h
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by zkinion 19y ago
This is a very nice article; I was surprised. Too many people out there are depending on some crazy stuff to happen.
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by zkinion 19y ago
Yes, google adsense depends on a lot of things. Its not always the best way to monetize a site at all. The payouts are just really low unless you can bring good traffic to good key words channels. There's alot of companies out there now j
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by zkinion 19y ago
Isn't this the same thing as jumpbox?
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by zkinion 19y ago
This is getting out of hand. People are reaching into the web 2.0 hat, drawing out some features or another niche they can build a "social networking site" around.
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by zkinion 19y ago
I understand spending a decent amount of time on YC news, but after a while, isn't there other work that needs doing, like building/running an actual startup instead of reading about others'?
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by zkinion 19y ago
I am extremely adept and comfortable with PHP. I've been using it for years. I'm learning python, but I'm still deciding if I'll need to learn rails or not. Is the time it'd take me to learn rails, really saving me time in the long run?
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by zkinion 19y ago
An un-holy amount will charge out the ass. Many have few clients, so their business model depends on charging each client alot, almost scamming them. Web design is not rocket science. With all the tools and stuff available to designers to
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by zkinion 19y ago
BAN THIS SPAMMER!!!! ;)
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by zkinion 20y ago
I'm all for it. I'm in the SF area until Sunday. During the day is the best time, probably Friday or Saturday. Lets make it then. I have no idea where a good meet up place is, so someone familiar with the area should choose. also, em
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by zkinion 20y ago
The main way to do this involves hacking/cracking firmware. Go onto p2p and you'll find ready made images for a variety of phones. However, it is a painful process for each phone, and phone model type. You're basically working on many to
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by zkinion 20y ago
Is this the same group of people that I met at startup school, who were showing their stuff to Mitch Kapor, or a whole other group of people working on the same thing?
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by zkinion 20y ago
Is this a free-411 service for euroland/oceana? Is that why the name is strange/hard to pronounce-to-type? That might be a viable startup. How do I reach your website through my cell phone? Maufait.com?
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by zkinion 20y ago
Yes, this very much confirms my theory that startups must do unorthidox methods to gain traffic, especially when the users of the site impact other users. spock is worthless without other users on spock. What is a phone book/directory wi
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by zkinion 20y ago
is it just me/my browser/whatever, but all those links to his success series seem to load right to his latest blog posting... I've tried in safari/opera/firefox. All are redirecting to his mainpage. grrrrrrrrrr time to break out the ole
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by zkinion 20y ago
You might get alot greater response with some kind of presentation/video/plan on what you actually want to accomplish.
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by zkinion 20y ago
"business-type" and having a Jobs to match against a Woz are two completely different things. Business type qualities can be shared across several non-business types easily. When you see startups without the business type succeeding, its

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