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I was running an agency up until recently which did mobile apps. Always an interesting conversation walking into a new client meeting with my "burner" Nokia 1610 and explaining that I knew what I was …

So it's different in that Olark can't be used by two sides of a marketplace without using a chat application like Adium and having accounts?

The full story here: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down... …

You jest but a Boeing patent on a specific satellite manuever had the effect of decommissioning a satellite. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6116545 …

We had a slide in our pitch deck from Joshua Schachter where he was trying to find someone for a similar problem. @joshu: "Business idea: CSS helpdesk. Because I am about to rip my hair out" @joshu: "…

They get this when the finish the program, not at the start.

Great post Dave, and somewhat inspiring for someone nearing the end of their twenties who feels like he's only just hitting his straps now.

I think this is partly because whenever I've had an abrasive moment with someone like this, it's rarely because of the relatively minor issue at hand.

I read a bit of subtext into this. If you've got 2.5 weeks to turn a hackathon project into a "company" to pitch to investors, it could be that the underlying issue your cofounder has isn't related to…

Adding "your mileage may vary" (YMMV) to the end of that sentence might not have been quite as poetic. I'm ok with that.

As per the text in the link he's had to play at "smaller" and "newer" venues who aren't locked into those contracts. This means he might have to play more shows at a particular venue if it's smaller.

We've used a whole heap of tools to try to track brand pages and it's always a pain the arse. No one has a clean interface like this and guys like SocialBakers charge like a wounded bull.

This is pretty good. What's the game plan with it?

This assumes that you're only ever going to build one app and that you learnt nothing from the process. It also assumes that you want to consult for other people rather than building your own projects…

I'm glad that he's actually thinking about this stuff versus pure profit.

In the example image it's a message that has been sent to a group.

Feedback welcome :)

That is exactly what they are doing.

I actually thought the blog post was the opposite of how you read it. They're basically saying "it doesn't matter that we got funding - our users don't care" (which they don't) but they also know this…

Why is this getting downvote?

Note the site is powered by VHX.tv so I think they might have beat you to the punch here. If memory serves me well that team is ex-Boxee.

Nice. And then maybe high scores and leaderboards?

Nice work, it's an interesting mechanic. You might want to look at some kind of scoring system + sharing of that score to increase sharing of the application. ie "I guessed 10/20 of my friends profile…