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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by mahmud on Monday August 23, 2010 @02:07AM (#1626001)
Shoot me an email, and a description of your idea, and I will take an hour of my time to draft a road-map for you that you can take to any developer to execute. Gratis.

[My commercial interests are online advertising, education software, semantic web, data-warehousing and everything middle-east. My Open Source interests/hobbies are Lisp, Android and the JVM. If you're not doing any of these, your ideas are guaranteed safe with me, at least for the next 24 months. And you have the whole of HN standing witness to this.]

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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by nrr on Monday August 23, 2010 @02:14AM (#1626007)
If I were the OP, I'd seriously jump on this opportunity. Having someone do this gratis for an hour in this community can, in some circumstances otherwise, cost an awfully pretty penny.
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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by anemecek on Monday August 23, 2010 @08:29AM (#1626572)
Do you think that you could eventually post this road-map online? I'm sure more people would be interested. Fell free to remove any sensitive data.
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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by jiganti on Monday August 23, 2010 @02:25AM (#1626021)
I'll send you an email in a minute, I appreciate this a lot.
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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by mahmud on Monday August 23, 2010 @02:34AM (#1626029)
FWIW, there are about ~5 startups, all started by HNers that I have done this, or something similar for.

(if anybody I have yakked at over the phone is reading this, tell the poor guy what he is in for.)

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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by jacquesm on Monday August 23, 2010 @06:20AM (#1626345)
You can't go wrong with Mahmud.

He's spent quite a bit of time trying to get me to understand some obscure stuff that I'd like to know, the guy is honest to a fault. Be prepared for take-off though, a 10 line email from Mahmud will expand in to a month of reading ;)

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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by jules on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:20AM (#1626443)
You should put your email address in your profile.
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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by jules on Monday August 23, 2010 @12:42PM (#1627220)
Or drop me an email. Address is in my profile.
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Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. ... by jiganti on Monday August 23, 2010 @02:26PM (#1627538)
Ok, I put my email in my profile- I had it in the "email" box but apparently that's not visible to other members. Thanks for making me aware of this.
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