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25,806karma·4,167submissions·September 7, 2007
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Howdy. I'm Sebastian.
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My email is sgutierr@alum.mit.edu. Open invitation: if you're reading this, I'm happy to receive email about any deep learning / data science / software / startup / etc topic from you at any time.
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This is a follow up to the article and discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856068
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I would have liked to see more data. Step 1 - change text email to graphics every thing else stays the same. Step 2 - Change the wording. Step 3 - Leave step 2 wording and go back to ext email. Thi…
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Just because there are rules saying that something should happen, does not mean in reality that the thing will happen. Reasons why cab drivers could not pick you up: 1.) shift change in 15 minutes. S…
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"If you want my reviews because your business runs on user-generated-content, you are going to need to do better. Stroking my ego no longer works." I think this is missing the point. Businesses like …
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"In dealing with institutional customers, I even take it a step further. Before I invest any time in the sales cycle, I have them teach me what it takes to get a sale, exactly what I have to do, and h…
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One thing that might come up that's worth thinking about is IP. Giving that it is your senior project, you've had 4 other people working on it, and a co-founder who is leaving - who owns what share a…
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I always appreciate when companies do this. They build social capital ahead of major outages. This is something I try to keep in mind when helping other people or working on my projects - How can I …
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I agree with you and with Sebastian. As in most things, context needs to be given. In settings with 1 or 2 bullies, a show of strength is enough to have someone back down. In other settings with ma…
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Got it - Would be worth reaching out to the octoparts guys. They could give you some good feedback.
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so facebook / basecamp for the EE crowd?
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It sort of depends on the size of the businesses you are approaching. If they are mom/pop stores or regional stores it should be relatively easy to approach owners/managers to give them the pitch. If…
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Is there a reason one of the three developers couldn't pick up the 40% platform/language? I am not sure the situation needs to be so black and white.
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This is really interesting. Have you started applying it to work as well as your personal life?
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I would think it depends not so much on whether your users can afford it, but whether you can sustain development on $2.95/month. The price difference between 0 and 0.01 is huge, but between $2.95 to…
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Making your logo clickable would help. Otherwise, looking forward to checking it out.
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Hi - looks awesome. Looked through your profile to contact you to ask some questions and found this link - " http://hnofficehours.com/profile/wushupork/ This doesn't seem to work. Is there another…
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Signed up for all of them. All the courses are from 6:30pm - 8:30pm so they shouldn't get in the way of other stuff you are doing. There are 5 free courses being offered, 4 of which are on mondays and…
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It really depends on whether you are collecting emails or whether you are collecting emails that you are then going to use as a list of people to inform. For collecting emails, you can setup a wufoo f…
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From the article - "I am not an entrepreneur, but I don’t think it’s that simple. Entrepreneurship is all about overcoming the odds." Seems dangerous to read too much into what the author says until …
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Looks great, looking forward to reading what people have put up. My initial reaction is that there is way too much stuff going on right away. Make your key graphics and call out much bigger.
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Being inspired just means hating/loving something so much that it causes action. You don't hate your job enough to leave it so try thinking of something you love so much that will cause you to leave …
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Good luck. I just spent the last year trying to get a startup going where the marketplace didn't really know that it needed my product. It proved an uphill battle from start to finish. My initial th…
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Perhaps you could develop your argument a bit more before trying to tear down a substantial post on someone's experience? I think that would be a more valuable contribution to the discussion.
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yes and no i would think to "the best customer acquisition strategy is building a compelling user experience". yes - if you already have customers looking at your product offering. no - if you are sta…
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From the blog - "Our particular struggle is with our marketplace, in the whole it doesn’t know that it needs our product." Do you have a well defined repeatable way to reach your end customers? If no…
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The short story for me is saved enough to give me a full year's runway and quit my job. For you, since you are still employed at your job, I would suggest that you start chatting to people in your are…
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From your comment "it's not good enough for me" tells me that there most be some way of refining the idea so that it does become good enough for you. As a first step, talk to people who use your compe…
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"The reason is that almost everywhere I turn, I hear clients and employers complaining about how they can’t find enough good developers." There are good developers for every kind of job. A good devel…