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Tell HN: Founder Notes is publishing

I’ve long been interested in learning about early-stage technology companies: what they produce, where their ideas come from, how they grow, and what they’ve learned along the way. But most tech news sites don’t dig very deep, generally giving these companies a few paragraphs and perhaps a couple of screen shots. So I’ve started doing it myself and I’ll be publishing new articles five days per...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:56AM (#1570744)
A simple version 1 comes out Sunday. I'll post it to HN then. The focus is on companies no older than two years, and generally on those with consumer-oriented products. But beyond that, they could be funded or bootstrapped, located in Silicon Valley or Pittsburgh or anywhere else, and led by startup veterans or total newcomers. Amazing stuff is happening everywhere; you just need to look for it.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:38AM (#1570722)
Journalism, with a focus on early-stage technology companies. Entrepreneurs are doing amazing things with small teams and relatively little capital, but the stories and lessons seem mostly lost in the stream of tech news about iPhones, the oldest Twitter user, or Facebook's privacy policies. I think there's a small but significant market for passionate, well-researched, educational content like this. I'll find out soon enough.

Ask HN: How would you improve TechCrunch?

Or ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, etc.?I'd like to see more about new and early-stage startups and less about every real or imagined bit of news relating to Facebook, Google or Apple. Insight about how Startup X solved some important problem with a team of four holds a lot more interest for me than the latest Twitter rumor.I don't ever expect to see this out of the established news...

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I've spent a non-trivial amount of effort trying to figure out how to do number two at scale, with a high level of accuracy, in a manner that could eventually be profitable. So far I'm not close.
Re:Weekly free delivery service from Amazon.com: AmazonTote on Thursday July 01, 2010 @04:23AM (#1477462)
Urbanfetch, I believe.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk? on Sunday June 20, 2010 @10:50PM (#1447758)
Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ben_dunlap_talks_about_a_...

"This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem."

Thanks. I'm curious why this info isn't in an obvious place. Do you convert better without it?
(Disclaimer: I'm a potential customer) You don't tell me how much it'll cost once the free trial is over, which makes my company extremely unlikely to try it out.

Ask HN: Good feature, minimal product. Go forward or move on to something else?

I'm interested in local search, specifically in terms of time. Yelp and Citysearch are great at telling you about businesses you've never tried, but if you want to find out when a given business is open it's pretty hit or miss. Those sites usually list business hours for the trendy restaurant across town, but when it comes to the small market down the corner you're on your own. If you're like...

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