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Re:So what does your product do exactly? ...and why should I care? on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @08:05AM (#5096877)
Hi Pete, I'm the author and defining the market straight away is a way for both customers and/or investors to empathise as early as possible.Of course you can leave that part out if you feel it's superfluous.

I'm glad you feel the footer does a better job of describing the product, that was written after this blog post :-)

Re:Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @10:36AM (#5067217)
Choosing pricing plans was something we went back and forth with for a while. In the end we took a look at our prospective customer groups (agencies of varying sizes and freelancers).

Thanks for the feedback though it's something we'll definitely consider maybe just 2 plans a 'Freelancer' and 'Team'.

Re:Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @07:46AM (#5066554)
Nice site, with Draft we wanted to focus more on organising the feedback on our designs as well as the annotation of our designs.
Re:Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @07:37AM (#5066523)
The projects limit are the total you can have under your plan, your allowance isn't incremented monthly. So in your example if you require a third project you would have to either upgrade or delete a project.
Re:Some companies are best off without VC on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @08:38AM (#3504636)
what is your lifestyle business?

Get paid to launch a startup without giving away equity.

Posted by simonpreed on Monday June 27, 2011 @09:46AM
from the mintdigital.com dept.

http://mintdigital.com/blog/dont-be-a-banker

Mint is awarding a scholarship of £4000 ($6000) to help a university leaver or recent graduate launch a business. We are looking for someone with a promising idea and the personal characteristics to turn it into a success.If you win the scholarship, you will have 2 months to develop your idea, working in the entrepreneurial environment of Mint Digital.

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Re:Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:25PM (#2685075)
haha brilliant, what Yahoo needs is to buy more services that aren't even approaching break even. As brilliant as these companies might be at product as a public company Yahoo needs to make profit not promises ;-)
Re:The 4-Hour Dentist on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:54PM (#2171815)
No I found it very useful, i've lost a significant amount of weight and feel a lot better.

I do wonder why HN readers seem to dislike Tim's books so much.

Re:New "How Airbnb Works" video (shot at 13 locations around world) on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:44PM (#2077076)
Adam Lisagor (@lonelysandwich) - http://twitter.com/#!/lonelysandwich/status/2305705896208384...
Re:1.0 Is The Loneliest Number on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @03:07PM (#1887725)
We're about to ship our site and this couldn't have come at a better time, very poignant post.

There's still a part of me that wants to wait for feature X before going live but I've started to realise this is just fear. Fear that it won't get the response we'd like but that's all it is, fear.

We're going to ship the product we've got and if it doesn't take then we'll keep doing what we love and iterating.

Re:Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications? on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:58AM (#1868210)
Use what makes you happy, building a startup will be have many more pressing questions than the choice of language. Trying to make sure you use a 'cool' technology is probably not going to worth the time.

Good luck.