davidmspi

This happened to me! I had to apologize to so many people.

fb is the premier social product in a world going social. they have a great foundation. everybody needs to take a step back and allow them to make some mistakes as they build a better product. think about some of the most revolutionary companies out there. everyone of them has a hiccup or two.

If you plot concussions over helmet size you'll see the problem. Bigger/stronger helmets means more concussions. Its fairly obvious, go back to leather helmets or some softer material and players will lead with their head less. Which will mean lesser concussions. I am not saying they should play with leatherhelmets but the bigger harder plastic helmets make no sense. players just become projectiles using their heads as weapons. The helmet should be a silicon jelly ish type of material.

Their strategy seems so shortsighted. The trend towards mobile and screens of many sizes is fairly obvious. I would imagine that if they put a little more time into their work they would have come up with a great RWD solution. They copped out.

Hm, I disagree with that statement. You could give away functional swag. For example, a startup building a web browser for tablets could give away winter special material winter gloves that you can wear while still using the touch screen interface.

"just what on earth has the Office team been doing?"

should read

"just what on earth has Microsoft been doing for the last 5 years?

great post. there is always money to be made when you are making money off of other peoples money.

Agreed. That comment was more of an attention grabber. Although I do believe that most of physical mail could be replaced by email.

I think you should specify what type of critique you are looking for. The hacker news community might not represent who your early adopters are (Do we play sports?). In that sense, we might not be able to critique the market validity of your startup. And, we may not be interested in "critiquing" your new startup.

On the other hand, if you specified that you are looking for a critique on your site's design, usability, etc. then I am sure you could get feedback.

That being said, I responded with this insight because I fit into both categories (I design products for mobile and I played baseball at a D1 school).

People do not seek problems. People seek experiences. Experiences uncover problems. Problems do not instantly lead to ideas. Ideas are created when the mind takes quantum leaps in thought to create. The feeling of having a business idea is so profound, the ahha moment is so strong, and the quantum leap in thought feels so unique that we tend to speak about ideas not problems. In reality, they are 2 sides of the same piece of paper (think mobius strip).

Ideas are not a bad place to start a startup.

Bad ideas are a bad place to start a startup.

Very interesting post. I'm on the business side of the coin and I am struggling with the same issue. I'm in my early twenties. I graduated from Umich in april. As an undergrad everyone around me worked at top corporate firms so i followed suit and interned for a prestegious bank during a couple summers.

I learned very quickly that I hated doing the same thing for someone else every day. I always felt that anyone could be doing what I was doing.

On the other hand I worked on a startup at school and i loved it. I felt like I had a purpose creating something new that nobody else had seen or worked on before.

Unfortuanetly that startup didn't work out because the team wasnt right. But I'm not giving up on my dream to create. I wont be working at a coppration anytime soon. Ive been working on my own startup since graduating and It's been working out quite nice. I just raised a seed round from a great development/incubator firm based out of nyc.

I'm looking for a cto to manage our development team if you are interested. Email me at [email protected]. You'll never have to code for us!

Hey, really cool app. I am actually working on something similar. Would love to connect with you to talk shop. There could be some great synergies between what we are working on. Email me at [email protected]. Hope to hear from you soon!