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It's invite only, so if you're a musician and want it, friend me on fb (http://www.facebook.com/ronhornbaker) and I'll hook you up. It's pretty sweet.

Googly Eyes(tm)

I use LDS often, but it'd be considerably more useful to me if you relaxed the requirements on the root search to allow fewer than 3 characters and allow numbers. Is there a technical reason why you don't allow short or number-containing searches?

Done.

Done and done, thanks!

Done.

Thanks, I made a note to that effect on the form. If anyone wants me to edit their url in the spreadsheet, please post the new linkedin url here.

Clickable link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779070

The spreadsheet isn't editable, only viewable. It takes input from the form, linked in the title of this post.

I corrected it for you

As a data point, I had 272 connections on LinkedIn before this started. I'm now up to 283, and will update after this is done.

I thought it'd be fun to see how many members we can mutally connect on LinkedIn, and help each other grow our professional networks.

I'm an EIR at Sequoia Capital, and will connect to everyone on the list. I'm open to chat or meet and answer any questions you may have about Sequoia or Silicon Valley VC in general.

The results will be displayed, but not editable, at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZ...

NOTE TO SPAMMERS: I'm seeding the list with a honeypot email, and anyone caught spamming the list will be publicly shamed.

OKAY, I've re-done the system with a secure form, and re-posted to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779070

The new form is at https://docs.google.com/a/foomojo.com/spreadsheet/viewform?f...

and the results will be non-editable at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZ...

I'm going to seed the list with a honeypot email and publicly shame anyone who spams the list. Unfortunately, you need the email to make the connection on LinkedIn.

REALLY? Someone deleted all the rows?? Guess I shouldn't be surprised. Hang on while I put together a more secure system.

As a data point, before this experiment I had 272 connections on LinkedIn. I'll update later with the "after" number.

Thought this would be a fun experiment, and help us all by growing our professional networks. I'm an EIR at Sequoia Capital, will connect to anyone on that list, and am happy to meet or chat on the phone with any questions you may have about Sequoia or the Silicon Valley VC world in general.

With google.com and many other big players having a TTL of 300s, that's not a long time.

This is one of the slickest apps I've seen lately. (No affiliation.)

The domain is registered to Star Simpson of MIT, formerly notorious for this story: http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html

Thanks, but he hasn't contacted me yet. Putting up a competitive site now. j/k :)

Brilliant. I absolutely love this, and will absolutely use Font Awesome in my next project.

While the name Font Awesome is catchy, it doesn't say much about the product, and won't carry seo juice or meaning for your main selling point: better icons. A name like "fonticons" (pronounced like "emoticons") might be stronger, and you could own that term which may go generic (like "kleenex") if the technique is widely adopted.

In fact, you could literally own it. After making sure a google search was relatively clean, and a USPTO.gov trademark search was clear, I just registered the domain fonticons.com, and would be happy to give it to you if you want it as a token of appreciation for your project.

Your current age.

And KissMetrics and their customers caught heat from it: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom...

If you like that, try http://morewords.com.

You can assume those went down in the range of $2-$4M pre-money for a priced round (a single seed investor will want between 20-40% of the company, depending on how strong the team/traction is). Many seed rounds are convertible notes, however, which are not priced, but rather pegged to a Series A with a cap and discount.

> I've had good success with Sleep Cycle, myself.

I'm really liking the Sleep Cycle app, too. Works great, simple, best 99 cents I've spent. Prior to it, I had the $69 WakeMate wristband, but never warmed up to it – it was uncomfortable, and a pain to set and keep charged.

You should. It's either the top right, or top second from right, as this picture shows: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/10/macboo...

Agreed. I'm a huge fan of his work, but every time I visit his site I cringe at that header. Maybe he has a wall-sized monitor and he doesn't notice the problem.

Anyone else surprised by how low the numbers are? Only 500 startups and 2,500 investors joined last year?

2011 was the breakout growth year for AngelList according to their Alexa graph[1]. And Angel.co has 740K pages indexed by Google, of which about 356K of which appear to be investor profiles, 159K appear to be company profiles, and the remaining 225K could be assumed to be entrepreneur profiles. Perhaps there's another large subset of indexed pages I'm missing?

I'd love to know the actual total counts of startups, angels, and entrepreneurs if anyone is privy.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/lsMCY.png