Ideas about start-ups

Posted by andrewbaron on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:16AM
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http://weblog.blogads.com/2010/03/09/19-ideas-for-start-ups/

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by gr366 on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:31AM (#1195756)

Reading the title I thought this would be ideas for actual products or services that a start-up could pursue. Rather it is 19 points of advice for startups to follow.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by ledger123 on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @11:12AM (#1195850)

That's why I first see couple of comments before jumping to the article.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by papa on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:23PM (#1196029)

Good strategy. I was expecting the same.

There was an interesting link to a public google doc with a load of interesting startup/product ideas a few days back. I forgot to bookmark it and am having trouble locating it via google. Anyone know the link I'm talking about?

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by dho on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:34PM (#1196069)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by papa on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @01:53PM (#1196348)

thank you sir!

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by timf on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:39PM (#1196080)

"If you’re hiring someone with a significant other, you’ve got to meet that person. He or she shows a lot about your potential hire."

If you're hiring, you can't ask people about their marriages, their kids, etc. Let alone meet them, what the hell.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by JangoSteve on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @02:16PM (#1196400)

I think this bit of advice makes more sense if you replace "hiring someone" with "finding a cofounder" and "potential hire" with "potential cofounder".

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by Estragon on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:59PM (#1196148)

Good point. And that was the only point in the page which stood out to me as interesting. Oh, well.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by SamAtt on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @11:32AM (#1195897)

I'm starting to think people post stuff like this just to get to the top of sites like HN. In this list I only see 2 items (Interview by E-mail and meet a potential employee's mate) that aren't common sense.

The rest boils down to Work Hard, Hire great people who get along, use Social Networking and Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. All advice that's been posted here 100,000 times in the past.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by nkohari on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @11:52AM (#1195953)

Meeting a prospective candidate's mate might be a good idea, but at least in the US, it's illegal (or at least dangerous). To avoid discrimination claims for sexual preference, you can't even ask if the person is married or has a significant other.

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by NEPatriot on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @11:57AM (#1195966)

You're assuming common sense is common

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by oceanician on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:58PM (#1196147)

Not rocket science, but good to hear repeated often all the same.

For ideas see the shed load (67 just now) over at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...

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Re:Ideas about start-ups by inboulder on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @05:42PM (#1196905)

This is some seriously trite advice, and from a spammy site no less, who upvoted this?

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