rcacique

8 karma · joined February 21, 2012

rcacique··on Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

I personally prefer http://yask.it 1 to 10 ratings make people think too much, with yaskit is a 5 questions survey, 5 star rating and 1 open question, simple.

rcacique··on Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Chooses 33 Companies; Bets Big On International

Great to see one of the few Silicon Valley investors who invest outside the Valley. There is a huge potential and talent outside the US.

rcacique··on Profig (YC S12) Launches An Affordable, Feature-Rich Instant Phone System

Are you focusing on the US only?? or are you planning to expand outside?

rcacique··on Profig (YC S12) Launches An Affordable, Feature-Rich Instant Phone System

Fontacto is a 500Startups company doing the Virtual Phone System thing (The Google Voice for businesses) outside the US, which is a heavily overlooked market.

rcacique··on Show HN: TwitMusic

It lets musicians effectively share & promote their music on Twitter. 4,200+ musicians have registered & reach 23,000,000+ Twitter followers. Artists include: Jason Mraz, Bow Wow, Mike Posner, MC Hammer, Bryan Adams, Jon Secada,, Goo Goo Dolls.

rcacique··on Show HN:Our StartupWeekend hack,music fingerprinting,on the desktop,all the time

Sounds nice!, When I'm listening to online radio, I tend to forget the name of a song I liked (so I can download it later). If this does it automatically, it'll solve a huge pain for me.

rcacique··on Moms We’d Like To Fund

Live stream available here: http://www.livestream.com/500startups

rcacique··on We've been asking them to learn to code. They've been listening.

Interesting. As a Mexican entrepreneur now I see a proper growing ecosystem. Efforts like these will produce results for the years -and entrepreneurs- to come. The start-up scene is organizing better, but we have to keep the push and support.