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Re:Ask HN: How do you find out if your idea is new? on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @07:37AM (#9380211)
Ask a few people that you would expect to know about something like this and if none of them have heard of it then practically speaking it doesn't exist. The added bonus is you can see if these people think it would be useful.

Ask HN: Strategy to raise money for smaller market size

We have a niche business for a particular industry but with very good domain expertise and traction. We have a few hundred enterprise customers and over 10 paying enterprise customers after just a few weeks since a first product was released. Investors are saying the market size is small. Total addressable market in the US is about 150M$ and around the world 800M$ per year (we are being...

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I think you also need a valuation for the company so that as they continue to put money in (and assuming you will not) you know how much you should get diluted by.
Re:HN Meetup Tel-Aviv on Monday January 04, 2010 @12:37PM (#1030714)
interested
Re:Ask HN: Sales Resources on Friday December 11, 2009 @11:43PM (#991169)
Books by Brian Tracy
Re:Ask HN: What small problems do you face frequently? on Monday November 23, 2009 @11:23AM (#957589)
Yeah. That is cool and I was thinking the same thing. I also thought that the more real time it will be the better, so you can get into the discussion while people are still reading it :).

I would love to talk more about it.

Algorithm for sorting of comments on hacker news

How does the algorithm for sorting the comments in a given thread on hacker news work? I get the feeling that new comments that come in late don't stand much of a chance to stay at the top relative to old comments that got voted up. Doesn't it need to be weighted based on how high it got rated up relative to the time it was posted and how many other ratings took place during the time it was up?

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Re:Apple's Mistake on Friday November 20, 2009 @08:48AM (#952378)
But is the app store (like Microsoft Windows) a good thing from the perspective of the users? App store makes it easier to buy software for the users. Even if it makes life harder for the developers. It also lets developers get paid for stuff that otherwise might be hard for them to get money for.
Re:Ask HN: Take a Look At My Site - Studylance.com on Saturday November 14, 2009 @12:37PM (#941872)
You are protecting against spam right? Or why would you want this? You might try testing alternative question posting options and see which gets a high follow through. Obviously you want some way to protect against spam but by adding as little overhead as possible. You also have captchas in the registration - maybe it's enough.
Re:Ask HN: Take a Look At My Site - Studylance.com on Saturday November 14, 2009 @12:01PM (#941840)
Overall it's pretty nice.

I like how you can post your question and it gets you to sign up slowly step by step. UI is pretty nice and also fast.

About us should have some more meat. FAQ and Contact us at the top don't work. Should have a similar quick way for tutors to get started like you have for questions. Clicking on cost to sort by cost causes an exception. Overall maybe a bit too many rows with links which is a bit confusing. Maybe simplify the navigation a bit. Why have the see all categories? Why not just show them all? NOt that many anyway.

I wish you a lot of luck!

It's too hard to follow the order that someone types. Is there a more user friendly way to present this information?