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Re:What Vehicle Should Startups Use For Seed Stage Fundraising? on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:50PM (#4839743)
Your legal costs shouldn't approach 100k in a seed round! 3-5k ...find a different attorney.
Re:Everlane Closed on Black Friday on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:45PM (#4823391)
That small 'join now' in the top right corner?? Oh man horrible! I had to go back and search for it as well!
Re:How to Get Startup Ideas on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @12:25AM (#4807859)
I love your quotes! I am myself a founder just getting to market and these serendipitous encounters and random acts seem to pop up out of nowhere and solidify my progress. Cheers and thanks!
Dreeves~ Loved the post myself! Thank you for sharing. I at times wonder about my startup name, but your criteria laid out does help rationalize a decision. Still am curious about names with numbers...37signals, or 86..
Re:HN saved us millions; we need to change our name on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @06:19PM (#4781190)
Rockdale would be my choice!
Re:Nobody’s going to steal your idea on Friday November 02, 2012 @02:41PM (#4734112)
Ok But I think you are missing the point. They reached out to a firm "Matrix Partners" to help them execute by financial means and that firms individuals chose to spin off an exact duplicate of their startup?! Sham! ~That firm should be frowned upon and ridiculed and avoided by all entrepreneurs.
Re:Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites on Monday October 29, 2012 @09:30PM (#4715583)
I think as a startup, you have to say screw prior patents. Focus on your product. Build build build and when you've made it, fight back.
Re:WSJ Ignores 5 other Square co-founders on Monday October 29, 2012 @06:09PM (#4714777)
Some companies go public on the stock market and don't even raise 200m of cash. To raise 200m in VC capital alone is an enormous task. As for PR, people love public figures and leaders. They want to associate with the individual strife to the top! It makes for an incredible story about your product/service and this is what you want to do. You want to strike an emotion with your users!
Re:How we got a Y Combinator interview but blew it on Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:08AM (#4696585)
May I ask did PG, Trevor, or Robert have and Ipad or computer in front of them during your demo? -I'd love to know!
My question is this...why doesn't a service like Heroku which acts as a Paas...have this built in? I'm on their blog now trying to understand their complete setup..
Thanks for the link Rory, I had to go searching a little deeper to actually find an image of the Falcon 9 Air. Pretty cool: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/pictures-and-information-fr...
Re:SpaceX ISS Dragon resupply mission is today on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:46PM (#4623668)
Exactly. And what is the end goal of space exploration? Colonize another planet? Do you know how impossible that seems -air, food, facilities?? Billions spent for what exactly...mining operations?
Re:SpaceX ISS Dragon resupply mission is today on Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:37PM (#4623639)
From what I have read on Forbes, Quora, and the link below, it looks like wikipedia might be incorrect. http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/spacex-dragon-takes-f... and http://satellite.tmcnet.com/topics/satellite/articles/171190...