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JacobH··on Ask HN: How do you choose, among many ideas, one to start off?
Best way to not waste time is by working on something that you especially have a problem with, and do research to see if other people have the same problem.
JacobH··on Ask HN: Our Startup is at a Crossroads. What Would HN Do?
You could link the businesses somehow if it isn't too costly to maintain.
JacobH··on “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Use a Framework” They All Say
But then again, a big application has to start off as a small application. Once you get to the large state, you are simply just swapping out bad components for good.
JacobH··on Ask HN: Who is Co-Founding? (February 2014)
I've considered it. There are two types of people you can really pick from. Product contributors, or networking people if you are seeking resources that are hard to come by.
JacobH··on Tell HN: You want to disrupt an industry? The cell phone purchasing experience
yup
JacobH··on Ask HN: Goodbye my.yahoo after 15 years – what should I use?
gmail aol hotmail/live

A few alternatives i've used, Gmail being my favorite although they mess around with the UX from time to time.

JacobH··on Ask HN: Does startups hire above 35 years old employees?
Does a(ny) startup hire employees above 35 years old?

A little shuffling around but..

JacobH··on Ask HN: What's the best "Contact Us" email address for a startup?
support - if you are helping customers

team - if you want to get to know the team or make a general inquiry

contact - feels kind of too formal

Just my take on it.

JacobH··on Venture Capital is mostly nonsense.
That sentence is to get the entrepreneur thinking about a company they don't much like, but the company is successful at getting funding. Every entrepreneur should have their own company to fill that blank.

At the end I tell the reader about Snapchat being my disliked company. And although it's based on no real computer science, investors are funding Snapchat because they are competition to where they want to be.

Now lets take a step back. If a company is in a market of it's own, the value of the market is the value of the only company in it. 100% of $0 profited is a $0 valuation. But lets make facebook our competition. 100mil SC users versus ~1 billion facebook users is ~10%. Now take 10% of facebook's value. That's the only way to give value to a 3 year old company that doesn't make money.

JacobH··on Venture Capital is mostly nonsense.
I originally had a landing up on nyckl.com. I took it down because I wanted to give the application people needed more the better name for branding reasons.The application is a spin on time-management to answer your first question.
JacobH··on Ask HN: Startup Idea
I like how it says top ten stories. It's a cool concept of sharing a win. More importantly you'd need to find out how the top ten is decided though, because ironically the best way to find out what people believe in is where they choose to put their money. A ranking system aside from letting them directly fund doesn't let them decide that.
JacobH··on Ask HN: When teaching myself, how can I learn to engineer instead of just code?
To put it short, understand the limitations of what you're trying to achieve, and find out what you can afford to add and what you can skimp on a little without notice or, to add performance elsewhere.

Without limitations you're just coding, fiddling, dreaming..

JacobH··on My laptop was stolen, I have an IP, now what?
There are many stories of this. The more you know the easier it would be. The IP should be enough to locate where the person uses the pc. But check how often the same IP is used for a pattern. You also don't want to send the police, and the person is stealing wifi from a neighbor.
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