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After trying everything under the sun, I’ve found the Sculpt to be one of the most comfortable ergonomic keyboards out there, and its priced really well too. The issue is that stupid dongle, I keep loosing it, and the dongle needs a dongle to adapt it to usb-c… I have been waiting for years and hoping they release a bluetooth version without the dongle

Yeah, noticed that. Personally hate having to download to get the content, and even though I've tried several times I couldnt get it to work on my ipad or iphone.

Love the agressive user acq strategy, just wondering if its working

The salary is dependent, its in another post: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/12/salary/

Big fan of skitch, hope they dont kill it! Evernote is getting bloated...

I've heard anywhere from .50 to 1.50, but you can sell them for anywhere from 3-$7 if you're an agency :-)

Didn't they already sell to AOL?

Adobe.com has a pretty solid interface and lots of functionality, and there's a free version for individuals.

Slideshare just launched PowerPoint sharing with video with their Zipcast features.

Salescrunch is about to have some really cool tools for more sales oriented presentations

I think the accusation is that it is somehow a "low brow" startup.

See NY Mag's approval matrix: http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/71237/

All I can say is wow, they scaled super fast (scaled real people), and thats not easy

I wonder what the stats are behind this, the odds of finding a crush as it scales...

Given how many people seem to use the missed connections section of Craigslist (which seems pretty hopeless), I bet these are higher odds :-)

Its pulp / fluff reporting, and it distracts a ton of people from doing something valuable

I think you're spot on. With the top apps, you're buying into a platform.

Evernote is web, desktop, ios, etc, etc

Remember the milk is everywhere... so is Simplenote

I can never remember to "sync before you go" , glad I bought Omnifocus

Why can't they use the me.com sync, like omnifocus?

I use Screenflick for OS X - http://www.araelium.com/screenflick/

REALLY like that saying about 50% problem 50% distribution.

I think you hit it spot on. I see Groupon, yelp, foursquare, all as going after the local space. Some people saw it as a tech problem, some people just looked at it as a distribution problem.

GroupOn found the low tech extremely scalable solution, and is reaping the benefits.

Companies like Foursquare are probably a couple of years away from having enough businesses do self service on their tech solution...

Any of you get paying customers before you had a product? How did that work?

Also, how do you handle all the feedback from early customers on product changes? Obviously some are great requests, but many customers make requests are outside of the scope, and could tempt you to change course (if you're on the right course :-)

I like the recipe ideas, there's not a lot of good recipe content out there, and photos are key

Theres still a strong trend in angel investing to remain quite and lay low. Thats changing with the new guard (sacca, lindzon, dave, etc) and its starting to trickle down to other parts of the country.

Soon enough I think people will see the benefits of being visible and having good deals come to you, like Fred and AVC....

I've been using Grancentral ever since it was aquired by google, and its been great.

The main use was so that I didn't have to give out my personal cell phone number for work, and so that I didn't have to carry a second phone.

Having a separate voicemail box just for work has been great, and I've even used the call recording feature when someone was giving me very important detailed instructions.

No concerns with spam, and I haven't noticed any downtime, so I'd recommend it.

Would love to see more integration so I don't have a whole separate address book in Grandcentral...

Yeah, VCs are looking for massively scalable businesses. Lawfirms require man power, and thats not scalable, or at least not on the scale that a website is....

anyone try this?

Just wanted to provide more details on what innonate said, I do bizdev for Angelsoft on the west coast and in the north east (Boston).

For 2 years now, my life has consisted of selling and training angel group managers and fund managers on how to use Angelsoft to manage their dealflow, screen deals, and do due diligence.

As for what babyshake said,yes, many investors operate as "loan wolves" and might not even identify themselves as "angels". To make our vision possible, the best approach to attract investors in mass was focusing on "angel networks" or "angel groups", where a group of investors would band together to spread risk and get better deal flow.

These groups are typically non profit, and don't have much infrastructure, so they were in dire need of a tool like Angelsoft, and very willing to work closely with us to come up with something for their needs.

The benefits of using Angelsoft for this groups range from having one central location for all of their data, to being able to syndicate deals across all the groups on the platform.

Now that almost all these groups are on Angelsoft and I'm starting to focus more on VCs, Jason has been working on ways to make this platform even more useful to entrepreneurs.

If you've got any further questions about Angels, don't hesitate to ask!