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I thought I was the only one thinking this! I only wear black tshirts at work so +1 for this!

I beat the game in the first try. Too easy.

A payment form that supports subscriptions and one time payments. It has options for taxes and it comes in English French and Spanish. Moonclerk but with taxes and languages. Chargify with a beautiful form and languages.

The secret to success and not bleed cash is business 101:

- Sales and Marketing all the way. Nothing else.

- Go to $10 from the beginning (you are starbucks of lemonade)

- Accept: free cash, PR, licenses, new locations

- Reject: Anything that gives away equity or royalties

260k in cash 15.9M valuation

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Pushed out for sure

Great post but it sounds a lot like trying to sell that peek service. Would've been great to see what actions were taken to improve the site rather than wait to the new design launch.

HN is the HN for Biotech and all tech and everything else. Nobody buys tailored newspapers.

It took me 5 attempts: http://d.pr/i/vxBd

The key is big numbers at the bottom

It is so addictive I just lost 20 minutes of my life for no reason.. and got only 4 birds in orbit!

Hey People Food, some feedback on your post:

- 300 heads? the word "people" is in your startup name and you just called people "heads". Not nice.

- "Catering" probably kills this for most readers. Catering is used with "events". I'm sure you would deliver as long as a company orders what 2 or more? 3 or more? Just phrase it like that so that anyone in a startup feels empowered to submit their company.

- Your ask is weak. I'd filter for the ideal customer of yours: startups with 5+ (whatever) people and also what the limit is - will you give meals for free to every single company that emails you? or just 5-7? and that's how many free lunches? and per company? I'd be specific. First come first serve? etc.

- Send you (the founder) an email at support @ ?? not personal

Please don't misunderstand me, this sounds awesome. It's just that how it's written right now it seems a bit rushed and prone for disappointed HN readers :)

"Seevibes provides a comprehensive analysis of the Facebook and Twitter audiences of a TV show and to demonstrate their affinity with a brand, thereby enabling the optimization of a media plan and promotional projects."

Sounds pretty cool but I wonder if Twitter / Facebook can easily enable this in their analytics? I guess they can also just buy SeeVibes.

On another note - I wonder if Nielsen uses social media to measure because if not, they're behind.

Although I love the idea of not jumping from music app to music app - it really is a buzzkill - I wonder if listn will be able to integrate everything that's out there. I personally love: thefuture.fm, songza, soundcloud and obviously youtube (where else can you get all the splendor of wrecking ball) but then that means listn is half way to my dream coming true. The partnership with RDIO, which I know is super popular, is definitely impressive.

I don't understand what "exclusive use" means - does that mean the NBA will not use anyone else?

How does it work? what's the URL of the second step?

I think we target the right demographics but definitely are experimenting with messaging. Will definitely come back with more data on messaging.

We have done this but CTR on FB is very low. We spent a long time improving it and then landing page interaction is poor. I find FB ads are great for continued exposure in FB, for example, towards an FB page. However, to an external site, it's very difficult unless your value proposition is crystal clear. Considering young parents are not thinking of college per se, makes it difficult to be crystal clear in 2 seconds.

Have you seen succesful campaigns with FB ads?

great feedback - do you think facilitating the fundraising with books would help? we think this may work but it deviates somewhat from what we want to do as it means we help people do fundraising as opposed to us doing it which is what we want. If we have to change to make it succeed that works.

Finding great stock photos is HARD and if there's a place that can show a few that are free and beautiful looking, that's value add. Have you seen google images? anything free out there with regards to images is totally useless minus 2.

I don't think apple will be upset in this case though...

Love the app!!

I love how things have changed so much but they remain exactly the same. We're still hooked - to our smartphones. We're still wondering what the experience will be in a few years. Just like he did. Awesome.

0.65s of pure robotics awesomness...

The only reason blackberry is cool among teenagers is the price point. An iPhone is just too expensive. That's also why they still very well in third world countries. The truth is that no teenager or even college student that has a blackberry wants to have one. They are forced on affordability.