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- Karma
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- July 30, 2007 (18y ago)
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NYC -> Denver
entrepreneur/dev
startupschwag, iconmetrics, allify (betaworks), rescueid, priceadvance, maxloren, refreshthing, treetini, etc
- Family Offices Have Spoken (medium.com)
- Enigma machine coming up for auction (edition.cnn.com)
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After 6 months of development and thousands paid with no milestone notes or evidence of progress, a biochemist I've hired has become completely unresponsive. His most recent communication suggested that he'd like the…
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We've been working on a site as a side project for ~2 years now. It's had great media attention, good growth. It's profitable, there are clear models for greater profitability, but we've hit an inflection point; we…
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Startup Schwag is a surprise bag of schwag (promo materials) distributed to web types monthly. Some past bags have included schwag from TechCrunch, reddit, tipjoy, disqus, socialthing!, pownce, etc. We've posted this…
- Space Hackers - Italian brothers track sputnik (1958) (forteantimes.com)
- IL-Celerate Applications Due June 20 (IL-based YC clone) (ilcelerate.wordpress.com)
- PriceAdvance Launched out of Beta (now supports IE, too) (priceadvance.com)
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I'm on Aetna's individual plan. They seem to increase premiums around $50/month every 6mos. I don't think I should be spending $300/month on health insurance (I haven't been to see a doc in over a year, no other issues,…
- When Free Content Remains Captive (internetevolution.com)
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A recent comment about TipIt ("feel sorry for these guys, going up against a well covered and now leader TipJoy") made me wonder (as tipjoy is brand new) how one would measure that. What do you use to measure awareness…
- PriceAdvance Beta Launch (priceadvance.com)
We submitted our app in October not expecting anything and got asked to come talk to YC. We put together a tight demo, couldn't sleep the night before, waited until late Saturday night after the interview to hear they'd…
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The situation: one support / customer service email address and 2-3 people keeping track of incoming email / responses / etc. Is there something well designed that we can set up (or subscribe to) to allow us to share…
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I am the creator of StartupSchwag.com, a subscription tshirt/chochki of the month club. We currently print one startup's shirt per month (startup pays nothing for this) and accept stickers/chochkis for distribution to a…
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I'm working on a business model that requires charging something for a web-based service (not consulting/nothing hourly). I've never known where to begin the process of arriving at the 'right' price. Clearly, there are…