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How about emailing people at some of the popular ezines that are in your target demographic. They could post about it and you'd probably get a lot of traffic and artists interested in signing up.

I also agree that going to shows and introducing yourself to bands will help. Any personal interaction like that would get me to try out the service over a junk spam message on myspace.

Yeah definitely. I assumed since Techcrunch gave a lot of publicity to YComb that would help in a big way. I read somewhere that in 2005 the applicants were around 250 or so.

Good reflective piece on Y Comb. It seems like being around people that were also highly motivated entrepreneurs really pushed you guys to work harder to create a great product.

I also agree with the hiring issue. Reminds me of a popular book called "The Tipping Point". It's all about finding the certain characteristics others might have that'll get your concept to become an epidemic.

I've never got laughed at but I've had a lot of people tell me what I should do with my idea. I think the most frustrating part is when someone obviously doesn't understand what you're trying to do and proposes another route that is just bad. I think with any new concept people are very rarely capable of seeing another alternative outside of the way it's always been done. Any laughs I'd just shrug off as just them not understanding.

I have no idea if this has already been brought up (considering I just skimmed over the responses in this discussion) but I'd like to see another tab on top that maybe is for questions that people are curious about. I see that people are posting in the news areas not links but a single question that they're looking for people to respond to and create debate. They're not necessarily news worthy contributions but important none the less in fueling conversations.

Even after reading the FAQs I don't see how this is legal. I'm pretty sure you still need a blanket license to give access to major label music. Seems to me that you can download music off of other people like a p2p.without paying royalties.

I don't like this concept of patenting ideas. Coming up with a great idea is just a small factor of making it successful. It seems that this would result in a crazy amount of patents that would mostly never amount to anything but act as a safety to the idea man.

I have found that having a cofounder makes the process a little more easier. I tend to become more motivated when I feel that someone else is also dedicated to the cause. I think it is essential for killing bad ideas and thinking more creatively too. We come up with better ideas together than we do on our own. I know I have bad ideas sometimes but without that input from someone also involved in the company I find that the feedback I get isn't as beneficial.

It's also with apostrophes. It might be fixed by now though.

I'm 24 and not interested in being an assistant for my whole life. I spent time at some major labels which sounds cool but it really wasn't. It turned out to be a pretty frustrating and disheartening experience, but I learned a lot. After some time in NYC I just decided to come back to Massachusetts and really try and get my own ideas off the ground. My partner is 25 and rotting away at a repetitive flash development job. He's damn good at flash though haha