Mamady

Looks good but doesn't work for wikipedia.

Get it working there and you will have a lot more consumers.

Think of it like this - if you go to a site and you know they offer accounting software, that doesnt mean you KNOW their software. You dont know how good it is, or how bad.

If you want to keep it simple, at least inform your users with your video without hiding it - ala Dropbox.

I think you need to make a much bigger effort to win your customers - an empty frontpage with just a sign up/login form will lose you a lot of potential customers. Remember, you're not Facebook yet.

Which is exactly why taking short term unemployed developers is difficult to execute correctly. They will not be unemployed for long, which means that they get up and leave the project - taking with them domain knowledge. That knowledge is extremely expensive to pass on - it involves the startup having to "train" their next employee. Better to reduce churn and get permanent developers.

This model only works for simple greenfield projects; as soon as you get complexity, it introduces dependancy of domain knowledge, which doesnt work with short term employees.

Even in opensource projects, there are usually only a few core developers - i.e. the ones with domain knowledge. Everyone else submits small bug fixes/patches.

I dont agree with the fact that $900 chairs are magic, and $200 chairs are not. I have never bought a chair more than $200. I am using chairs that are many years old - and they havent fallen apart. I have used chairs that cost over $1000 at work. It didnt part the seas, it was just a chair - with more adjustments.

From my experience - $900 chairs will NOT: - cure your back problems - make you code better - make your startup successful

But they WILL: - make your office more luring for staff (which is very important!)

but since its a 'current event' - surely the SEO value is very time constrained?

Also, i didnt really mean writing about it, I actually meant DOING it. so in this example - is AOL being dirty by hijacking Facebook's email launch? Do they look bad by trying to launch a few hours before Facebook?

I would say start applying 2 to 3 weeks before you move to SF. Most companies want their employees to start immediately - but realise that most have a 2 to 4 week "notice period" for their previous employer.

Apply more than 4 weeks in advance will just be a waste of time, most companies wont wait that long (unless your REALLY something special).

Every project has overheads, and when you squeeze the budget very low, the overheads can outweigh the budget itself.

Websites require a lot of communication as overhead - and cheap labor will only get you so far.

Considering the ONLY value proposition you will be providing is 'price', its a difficult business model. Any business with extremely tight margins and price as their only competitive point is an uphill battle.

Keep in mind the service you will be providing will generally be poor - because your price is low, you need to keep customer service time to a minimum - leading to a poor service.

Its better to reject these clients, rather than try to adopt them.

svn up

simple.

priceless.

Depends on the contract you had with party - it all comes down to who owns the IP. If they own it, you cant sell it unless you have their permission.

Even if they own it, you can contact them and ask if they mind you selling a modified version of it.

I understand that git is the new hip version control, but if everyone uses it with a 'master' branch... why bother? Why not just use subversion? It defeats the whole purpose of using a distributed version control system.

Have a look at http://www.collective2.com

They have many trading systems, and have automated trading with various brokers. By looking at them, you can probably figure out which brokers have APIs for stocks, forex, options etc.

You may even be able to reverse engineer some of their trading algorithms ;)

Send him an email stating - "This is just a friendly reminder that the Invoice sent on XX is overdue."

This is direct, but not hostile. Works wonders.