Ditto on having no idea that it was a blog or what the 'point was'
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if the company standard is business casual - wear a suit if everyone is in shorts / tshirts - wear slacks and a shirt with a collar
We entered the powersports vertical because we saw that the best of breed ecommerce sites really were not cutting it. We planned to differentiate ourselves on technology, infrastructure (due to our technology) and user experience. We are about a year in and are exceeding. We came in with really no experience in this market or industry. See my past comments to see what startup I am referring to.
We did however, spend a lot of time researching our market as we went a long, so their certainly has been a learning curve. However it was not the most difficult obstacle we have faced.
Quick iterations on our product / agileness in our software and listening to customer feedback has been key.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have any specific questions.
Also - I would have expected clicking on either picture would count as a 'vote', rather then having to hit the vote button.
Design is nice and clean
You would gain a wealth of experience in every aspect of business / being a startup... at this point everyone wears a bit of every hat (which is fun!)
Homepage is good, I think it is fulfilling a painpoint that myself and others have. I'm not creating an account just to try it out.
Solution: Provide the option of allowing me to create an account AFTER I have entered my components and it has solved my problem. Similar to an "anonymous checkout" on an ecommerce site.
Too much noise to read TC directly. I prefer to see the noteworthy posts show up here.
in addition we use monit and then finally we use wormly as a catchall
Congrats
Since I operate an ecommerce statup in a niche market (motorcycle gear - revzilla.com) , his answer to that is very interesting to me.
Our last quote for a business card run was $1100. Far cry from '$50 and a google search'.
Peoples responses here about who to with (and who NOT to go with) have been very helpful.
I had two courses of introduction which were pre-reqs to take that my senior year. These courses were in BASIC. While not the best, they got the job done.
In actuality, my enjoyment of that class solidified my decision at the time to major in CS when I went to college.
Sad to see it go, I think it is a big mistake to cut it.
Think about it, 3 (4?) founders, YC investment (assuming 7%) plus additional investment (10-25%) - 30-40% to the government does not leave as much as you might hope.
While what we are doing probably is not incredibly interesting to the new.yc demographic (selling motorcycle gear online), the technology behind it (rails + pgsql) and our end goal (becoming the #1 supplier online for the powersports industry (big market)) should be.
Our startup launched about 7 months ago and is starting to turn the corner into profitability. Trying to get traffic up anyway we can so a link would be much appreciated!
Everquest set MMO's back 10 years in my opinion. :(
Honestly, this post itself is a red flag to me. Please take this post for what its worth (I may very well be wrong), but IMHO if you do not already have the resources necessary to get your startup to market already I think you might be in trouble. Adding people onto a project at the end to get it done, usually ends up in failure. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Plus, your going to have to be wayyy more descriptive in order to get an accurate guage of interest. Why not talk freely about what/where your service is here? Doing that alone should get you some good feedback
In my personal experience (working as a mover for four years during college) the drivers made a good yearly take. It really depended on the driver but there were some making 200-300k in a good year