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Re:Show HN: what's the smartest way to sell this? on Monday April 15, 2013 @12:29PM (#5552380)
My friend and I(from Nigeria) built 'Becky' which is typically an event aggregation and social discovery app. running on Blackberry. To be honest, we are out of cash since we are bootstraping. I will love to get any advice on what may be the best way to launch an app. like this. We are the first of our kind here.

Noting we are launching in extreme cases of zero dollar funding.

Thanks.

Re:Stop Fetishizing Failure on Monday January 28, 2013 @07:50AM (#5128270)
This post reminds a lot of a post by 37 signals' Jason Fried one time about startups and failure. This days failure just seem sexy. Its never good and cool to fail and will not. At no time should you plan or consider the option of failing. Its like preparing for divorce on your first day of marriage and then again I could be wrong.
I love Google and will always do. I have some fears for facebook though and also Larry should try to mind his business. I will always prefer Google+ to facebook but I just cannot move all my friends over. This could sound weird but I would suggest Google does some facebook login and consume some facebook open APIs but they won't because of arrogance and if they do out of humility, I won't be shocked if facebook block them.

Anyway, long live Google.