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I came here to say the same thing...Is this a social network for business reviews? Because that's all I'm getting from this title and that doesn't sound very enticing to me.

Tearing the healthcare system down to it's nuts and bolts would costs a lot more than to continue reforming. I spent some time consulting hospitals an implementing electronic medical record systems for hospitals. It costs a hospital millions of dollars and thousands of hours to install and train people for these systems. Too many hospitals are too deep in these EMR systems to start from scratch again. Their margins are only around 1-2 percent as it is.

I agree, the healthcare system is a complete mess, but think of it like re-writing software. Sometimes continuously refactoring code is a much wiser decision than completely re-writing the code

I'm in now way trying to bash on 99 designs, I'm just giving an honest account of my experience with them.

I put up a contest on 99 designs for their lowest package, the $295 one (I've heard that you get what you pay for, so if you're looking for more than ~15-20 designs for your contest, you should buy the more expensive packages). I also bought an admin template from themeforest for $20 that I needed the logo to match.

I'm not sure if I didn't communicate my idea clearly enough in the contest or even if I just didn't know what kind of logo I was looking for, but none of the logo's stood out to me when my contest was over. I ended up finding a unique font on some font site and it ended up fitting perfectly with what I had in mind so I created the logo myself.

I requested I get my money back guarantee from 99 designs, but never heard from them. I left them multiple messages and called their office multiple times during their business hours but they never answered or responded (You'd think that if a website is offering a money back guarantee and if they put their phone number up on their site that you would at least be able to get a hold of someone but I never heard from them at all).

Eventually I ended up getting my money back but I had to file a dispute with Paypal to get it.

EDIT: To answer your question, I created my logo myself.

I was looking for one too...couldn't find one.

I see their HTML5 investment as a hedge against the Flash Backlash they've seen recently

I built disrupt.fm so that people can help promote their favorite bands by downloading their music: http://www.disrupt.fm

Ended up learning a whole lot in the process too.

Is there a way to sort results by date? All submissions for Sunnyvale, CA are >1000 days old

This exactly. I've found that I read less comments and skim over them because it's hard to differentiate the good view points from the rest. I know the most voted comments should float to the top but not having points just makes the discussions less interesting to me.

This is the approach I took with Disrupt.fm

I almost convinced myself to spend around $7-800 on a design from 99designs before I found an awesome admin theme on themeforest for $20

Just because you purchase a theme from themeforest does not mean that your site will look like 500 other sites that have the same theme. I bought an admin template so that I could use the styles....not the structure and layout.You should purchase a theme knowing that it's going to be customized to fit your needs, not to just drop it in and be done...plus, chances are most of the admin templates are used on the backend for a bunch of websites that the public won't see.

I'm the exact same way. I'm not sure why but I have a few topics at a time that I am interested in and want to learn more about. Sometimes learning a new angle or way of thinking about topics in real life are more fascinating than fiction books are.

Maybe it's just that I like to learn, I'm not real sure.

It really does do a great job of explaining all the events leading up to the financial crisis. It really made me wonder how some people (both wall street and main street) could make such stupid decisions.

Completely agree here. We'll have a much better picture of where the startup industry stands once we find out the real market value of all these companies set to go public.

Your LLC may give you a net worth over $1MM, but that does not mean you have liquid assets (cash) to invest in a company.

How would you invest in a startup using your LLC? You can't. You need cash to invest in a startup.

I'm not sure as to how much of your net worth of at least $1MM needs to be cash and how much can be other assets though.

I'm familiar with web scraping...hasn't it always been looked down upon though? It just seems like it's got a negative connotation or something.

Please read the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I agree with "Founders At Work"

It really gives you an insight into the ups and downs and events that lead to the beginning of some well known companies.

I had an idea of something exactly like this a few years ago.

I wonder if it just calculates calories or if it can calculate carbs too? My brother is diabetic and I can see this being extremely helpful for anyone needing to calculate their insulin.

probably not the answer you're looking for but I've been very happy since moving to MediaTemple

24 hour support and they've been able to help me every single time I've called them.

Their GridService scales with traffic bursts so you don't have to worry about a whole lot. My site was featured on Mashable and brought in about 12K hits in a few hours and it handled it just fine.

Have you considered adding a down vote button like Reddit has? I know you can flag comments above a certain karma level but I think that either giving everyone the option to down vote or having a lower karma threshold to down vote would allow the community to regulate itself.

Just a thought, but it seems to have worked for Reddit. This puts a lot of responsibility on the community to keep the quality of the discussions up, but I think enough people on here care about the quality of the community to help out.

I would say no. For a while now Apple/Twitter/Facebook have dominated TC. TechCrunch has shifted from startup/funding focused stories to more mainstream tech news.

HN will always have an awesome community that TechCrunch never had. HN is a place to exchange ideas and read about what's going on in the startup industry.

I sure hope this place doesn't become the new TechCrunch...

I'm not sure it's such a good idea to be associating your site to Digg. People's views on Digg have declined lately.

I agree with benofsky too, the site just feels like a link farm.

I see what you mean about how it makes it more interesting. It's good that you put some thought into it though...my first impression was that you just went with it just cuz

"The goal is not to promote hatred, but rather to help people identity their weaknesses so that they can work on them and hopefully become a better a person."

If the goal is not to promote hatred then why did you call it WhatYouHateAbout.Me?

Hate has such a negative connotation to it. If your goal is to identify people's weaknesses than you should think of a name/domain with a lighter connotation using the word weakness rather than hate

50% no questions.

You need him or else you do not have a product. No product means no company.

No reasonable developer would take anything less than this...If they're going to be putting their energy into developing your product for the next 1-3 years (minimum) then you need to split the equity with them equally.

ya, it applies to a team of founders living off their savings who need to push their product out and get quick feedback from initial users to set their product/service in the right direction.

A team of 20+ people with $41 million in the bank has the luxury of not having to worry about missing a rent check and they have the resources to do thorough QA testing and run a beta program to get initial feedback (maybe color ran a beta program I'm not sure).

Color definitely has the resources to run a 6 month beta program to get feedback and test their app....a founding team of two living off their savings may not have the time or money to do this.

The value of a stock is whatever people are willing to pay for it

Just curious...are investors allowed to sit in on all of the sessions or are there different investors for each session?

I really want to know why they didn't launch at SXSW....it would have been the perfect place to launch this

You'll like Startup Junkies

http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies

It only went one season but you get to watch the day-in-day-out activities of a startup for 8 full episodes.

It's kind of a hybrid startup in that they operate online but their service revolves around the postal system. It gives you a good idea of the ups and downs a startup goes through during it's lifetime.

I spent a while trying to figure out why the PHP getFile method wouldn't work with files that had spaces in them. I finally figured out that the filename has to be rawurlencoded which the API wasn't doing.