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Posted by
dotmatrix on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:23PM
from the self-post dept.
A lot of debate has been raging whether or not the Valley has racial undertones that inhibits minorities from succeeding.This post is purely my opinion on this topic, coming from my perspective as both a business person and entrepreneur of middle eastern descent.Before I jump into my personal opinions, I wanted to give you some background about me. I started a company in college and sold it to...
Yes I believe so, that is key.
A friend of mine who completed YC told me that there was a guy who got rejected 4 or 5 times before getting accepted. Just remember always be positive and keep working hard :)
Cheers!
Hey Hansy, the items are new or vintage items that come from their creators/brands, not necessarily donated. You could even go as far as to imagining ordering a baked pie for example that could either be delivered or shipped to you and part of the proceeds goes to a great cause. The types of items are either consumable or e-commerce goods.
Thanks Heelhook for the great feedback.
Posted by
dotmatrix on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:35PM
from the self-post dept.
We would love to get your feedback on this project. It's a cause driven e-commerce platform. Think kickstarter meets amazon, but for cool stuff. Essentially you find something you like and pre-order it, once the item has hit a number of pre-orders the item goes on sale and for each purchase of that item some of the sales go to a goal towards a cause. It's a dead simple idea, but we are not...
Posted by
dotmatrix on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @05:16PM
from the cnn.com dept.
Posted by
dotmatrix on Sunday October 16, 2011 @03:57PM
from the self-post dept.
I came to Silicon Valley in 06' in pursuit of doing something great. In fact I boarded a flight on one of those low cost air carriers you have never heard of just 4 hours after I finished my final exam from the University of Minnesota to start my new life in a place called Santa Clara.A guy name Greg Soroka, who was Chegg's first Product Manager was kind enough to pick me up from SFO. I...
Posted by
dotmatrix on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @09:51PM
from the self-post dept.
My name is Ousama Haffar and I was one of the early guys at Chegg.While Chegg isn't a Zynga or a Facebook story that attracts the oohs and ahhs of Silicon Valley, I would love to share a bit with you about what I learned about entrepreneurship and being scrappy during my time at Chegg as founding member of the team from 2006-2010 and how we went from $0 to over $100M in revenue.Chegg originally...
There has to be a strategy here. Either they are incredibly intelligent and not disclosing this strategy or they are banking on mass downloads to figure it out in real time?.. Either way this is going to be a great case study for business to-do's or dont's.
Posted by
dotmatrix on Monday May 25, 2009 @11:48PM
from the digizal.com dept.
http://www.digizal.com
Ok, so were adding a lot more apps to this. Would love to get your feedback, its just fresh out the oven! Please submit your feedback or apps to [email protected]. We already were given a couple funding offers but want to grow the community first.
Guys- I think being an entrepenuer is seriously what matters. Once you make money what do you do with it? Spending it gets boring so you start a new challenge. What's important is that you stick with what your doing and be the best at it! I also think at the least applying for Y combinator is at the bare minimum an exercise that is good for understanding your product better.
No, it really doesn't. And thats not true either, ive met plenty of maried and with kids entrepreneurs that rock it! Dont hate, its totally uncool.
I usually attend its a great meetup. Although i think the bayarea is a bit boring compared to NYC..make it really boring
Age is seriously but a number. Who cares if your 18 or 52. In fact having a dynamic team with experience people and young people is great. Our company is run by a guy that is in his late 30s and the co founder is in his early 30s and I can honestly say that a young guy couldnt do half the stuff these guys can...
Sometimes age is totally a good thing :) And btw im 24 and on my second startup so I beat you 18 year old shits.
im looking for a technical co-founder,. i think i have the funding bit figured out if i found a technical co founder. at least i know a bit of people wit moola
i got rejected too :)
If someone wants to be a technical partner with me just email me [email protected] its a e-commerce company that will make money off the bat.
Plus I at least know a few VCs if I were really serious about funding, I just need a technical co-founder which is why im guessing I got a flat out rejection.
I will have to agree with mattmaroon on this. I dont think Myspace is in for trouble, I think every social network will see a saturation point like any other company. Then it becomes pure optimization.
Build for long term growth.
LOVE THE FISHER CAR more...Way cooler
Love it or hate it, Microsoft is biting back
Thats a bit dramatic i would say...
Thats exactly what I need.
Hey Ajay,
We did meet at a HN meetup, I believe you said you were developing an iphone app last time we met.
Yeah, using a set language could be unattractive, but I am building a release product right now and its already underway. There is always room for input on what technologies we choose its just that PHP/MySQL was the most affordable and available at the time I started the project.
Hahaha, gotta love the cash4gold banner ad below the flame!
Posted by
dotmatrix on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @12:20AM
from the self-post dept.
I am looking for technical co-founder in the Bay Area to partner up with for my startup called digizal.com, an e-commerce platform for a disruptive industry.If you consider yourself a guru in PHP, Javascript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, MYSQL and other languages and just love to hack stuff please send me some info about you and your projects to [email protected]. As a co-founder you will be responsible...
Posted by
dotmatrix on Saturday March 21, 2009 @03:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Say someone joined a company at a very early stage, just when it secured its seed funding and there were only 6 employees. Today out of those 6 first employees there is only 1 more that has stuck around, meanwhile the company has grown to over 100 employees and has raised enormous amounts of funding and are planning to be very profitable.Now say you have generated the company millions upon...
We still have the knowledge, so assuming that knowledge is utilized i guess you could answer that question by simply reverse engineering the amount of time it took to obtain the knowledge of achieving a significant process and then determine from that point how long did it take to implement the solution. Since you would be implementing the solution only you would then need to know how many key solutions are you re building and you could figure this question out quite easily.