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It might become more viral if you allow people to write the memory immediately then have them create an account afterwards?

The color scheme is really good, and design layout is very fluid and clean. Simple to use and simple to understand.

I would suggest allowing people to send invites through Facebook or twitter so friends and followers can review work as well.

Good job though!

We use it all the time during our closed alpha. Provides a quick and simple way to have users ask questions, provide new ideas, and offer feedback. Allows admins to comment back and answer any questions so its pretty engaging.

http://getsatisfaction.com is a great way to get feedback from users on your startup. Easy to manage and free for the feedback widget. I have not tried to pay for features yet.

See a financial advisor and figure out what plan is right for you. Not only is this question open ended, but answers are and should be tailored to the individuals needs, plans, and long-term goals.

To "hack" investing, just focus on figuring out what type of long-term goals you have. 5, 10, 15 years, and retirement, what do you want to have achieved or saved by then. When do you want to retire?

Are you wanting to manage your money, or pay fees to have experts do it for you?

Do you have a family? Who do you support financially. All these factor in what type of personal investing you should do.

Once you have figure out all these, the main goal in investing is diversity of your portfolio. Diversity in the risk versus payoff, but also in type of investment, region, and industry.

I really like the color scheme and the layout of the site. I suggest separating the features section from the sneak peak section a bit more. They seem to run together and my eyes get distracted when I am trying to read them and it gets a little confusing.

Also the call to action (Signing up) seems to fade in the background. Make it stick it so people know exactly what you want them to do!

Keep up the good work!

Would you also suggest already writing out a press release ready to do? Thus making it even easier to get that story through. Also, when is the best time to start having the press cover your startup? I have not read much on that.

Well I guess when you have a track record like Facebook, you think people will just believe that your product will work and rock...

I understand that it is a demand side problem, but the majority of people going into the corporate world are missing some key skills and abilities that go beyond team building. Self motivation, and the ability to see long-term visions is critical to become not only a successful entrepreneur but a successful employee as well.

Also, being a hardcore entrepreneur does not mean you completely reject authority and advice. It all depends on the structure of the course. You could implement self determined courses using professors in the position as board advisors and run semester long projects.

This would compliment the natural character of the entrepreneur.

Great points!

Most educational institutions prepare students for the average life style.

However, to go beyond just comp sci curriculum most businesses classes don't focus on the true skills that matter in running and starting a business. They, just like in computer science, focus on what the majority of the population will probably be doing after graduation.

When I decided that I wanted to do a startup and not join the masses in the corporate life, I did not have much experience or course material to leverage.

These institutions should try and find a balance between offering courses for both types of peoples. Even those going into the corporate world could learn and use a bunch of the skills entrepreneurs use everyday. Most executive leaders of these big companies have the same qualities as entrepreneurs.

Fun little tool. Have you thought about letting users select a location on a map and then generating a code to send out? Could be used to make interesting Geo-games amongst friends or have a code that reveals a location of a secret party!

This could be used for businesses to embed in their site, and when they send out advertisements with a code, users would have to log on to their site and get the secret location.

Money flows like wine in the valley.

It's a case by case basis. Those who want to lead do a startup, those who want to follow and live the easy life go get an MBA, CPA, Masters.

I like the idea of not just hiding information for certain people, but the clean slate idea. Once the sharing ends, the information and content is swiped clean preventing others from leveraging that after the fact. Time sensitive groups are relevant to how we interact in our actual social circles today.

FB groups do not capture this reality, the groups that are created stay and information shared is always available even after an event, or group moves on.

I believe fridge is on to a more accurate social graph. Add business and commerce solutions and you got your self a relevant business model.

Businesses don't care about who you where 2 years ago, they care about who you are now! (Time Sensitive)

Keep up the good work!

Wait, so at the end of that article it basically said that 200 cubic centimeters of helium ice could be used as an explosive? Dry ice bomb for adults?

"Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might be, no man can guess but experimenter Keesom may yet find out."

Could always do it the academic way.... C, then C++, then Java, back to C++, back to Java. Once you graduated you will have learned no language mastery, just how to to think like a programmer... If that is what you want

You present minimalism as being a fad that can come and go " Minimalism was cool for awhile." It is not a life style choice, it is a process in which to achieve some desired outcome.

Minimalism is a process based on economic efficiency, the science of maximization. Can I achieve the same desired outcome (or better) with the least about of effort or resources?

Minimalism can not end, and won't end. The companies and individuals that practice this process/science are the ones that get ahead.

Minimalism is not the beginning of the journey, it is the end. You have to journey through everything else to finally get to minimalism.

I now have zero faith in our financial sector. How can you justify making investment decisions based on the "mood" of the market which is discovered by data mining Twitter? The "mood" of the market only shows you where the market has been, not where the market is going. Any previous information showing that the Twitter mood reflects the market, is causation without correlation.

The post asks the question "could ‘Facebook Deals’ be the app that kills Groupon?" I believe they are both going after separate things. Facebook wants users to check-in and explore their world through the Facebook portal and by doing this you get rewarded with little perks (deals). However, Groupon wants users to explore their world cheaper. They offer deals to services and products not known about before.

Groupon = Explore A new World.

Facebook = Take advantage of a world already explored.

As long as the focus stays true to "actual" startups I am excited for this! :)

When you say you will focus on startups will this be on the emphasis of startup launches? Or will you report on already launched startups?

Facebook once again trying to be the foundation on which all communication and exchange is based on.

Good point, I will do some further investigation :) I am trying to create a more exclusive groups product, but I want to keep information sharing to quick bite sized chunks. I guess that might not be a solution though.

I am trying to influence intimate sharing behavior between exclusive groups, but I want them to be bite sized to be digest simply, promoting usage.

On mobile you are refereeing to text messages, correct?

Our phones would become our keys and passwords, and I am assuming they would be the devices that read our biometric ID and then allow access to other devices and services.

Only problem, and one preventing this becoming a real solution is the fact that people lose and forget their phones. If I can't have access to my daily services and devices without my phone then I am stuck in a worse position than I was before passwords.

The solution to access and protection shouldn't come from a change in the key, but a change in the lock.

Like a Groupon Daily deal, but for websites? All eyes on one site, hosting one particular content. I can see how that could catch one. It would depend on the traction initially. Meaning you would need very unique and viral content to get the first viewers there. After you have a viewer base then it can become quite beneficial as a daily advertising platform.

How is this any different than hosting content on a corresponding provider. Videos on Youtube and Vimeo,resume on LinkedIn, Portfolio on any blogging platform,or just simply using Facebook Pages?

I can understand that people have the freedom of putting anything on your site (to a point), but it still requires work to create a new site and having a knowledge of html and css at the minimum.

The cost is cheap $10 a day, but it is still more than the free providers on those mentioned.

Apply this to actual products and services...Game over man, game over.

Businesses will soon be paying for their own negative feedback... uhm fail?