Also be sure to find out who will actually own your project once it's done! It'd be a shame to build something you'd like to continue working on after graduation only to have it be owned by your school instead of you.
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- public speaking because we had to do a presentation just about every other week
- how business people with little or no technology experience think and their perceptions about technology
- how to talk to the people in the above bullet about technology
- firing people because one of my groups had a member that was not pulling her own weight, and we were told to fire her from the group
I also agree that the branding aspect is also (somehow) helpful. I recently moved from Florida to SF and when I was looking for jobs you wouldn't believe how many people were really excited/impressed/whatever that I had an MBA in addition to being able to answer the tough software questions.
If I had a choice to go back and either spend $50k on an MBA or spend it traveling the world, I would definitely choose the latter, though.
[1] http://www.toycollector.com/hwdphotos/uploads/1653/1691/Micr...
I can't believe that there is so little going on here considering all of the nearby schools (FIT, BCC, Kaiser, UCF Cocoa Beach Campus, etc.) and all of the industry (Harris, Northrop, Lockheed, GE, NASA, etc.).
I guess these two factors don't necessarily contribute to the startup pool, but it DOES mean there are a lot of technically minded people around. Thanks for taking the initiative and starting this. If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know!
[0] - http://www.highcharts.com
Here's my $0.02:
- Typo in the about page : "As weel..."
- I'd change the 1st 2 paragraphs in the about section to "Jobs Tractor looks for people trying to hire developers on Twitter, but filters out tweets that are from recruitment agencies or jobs boards."
- Love the map view
- Does the search field allow you to filter by location, keyword, or both?
- Group by location maybe?
- I'd take the word "jobs" out of the logo - to me it looks cluttered
- Do you save the posts or is it just what the Twitter search API pulls up? Jobs might not get tweeted about more than once, so a posting could still be legitimate after a week or so
http://web.archive.org/web/19970214020411/http://www.mcc.com...
I used to get a TON of spam on my website(s) until I threw in a hidden text field. When the form is submitted I assume the submission is spam if the hidden text field's value isn't blank. I don't get spam anymore and people don't have to mess around with a captcha (plus nobody's complained).
...although I'm sure it's only a matter of time until the spammers figure this technique out.
I temporarily switched to Almond Milk because it doesn't have lactose (which doesn't promote estrogen production), has the same amount of protein, more vitamins, and at the time it was way cheaper than organic whole cow's milk. The biggest drawback was that it tasted kinda gross, which I remedied with a bit of cinnamon, but now that it's fairly expensive I switched back to cow milk.
1. What was the startup?
2. Can you link us to the review?
3. What problems did you have that caused you to fail?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097735 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704
Unfortunately I don't know anything about their conversion rates, but it looks like they've got pretty good numbers on compete.com (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/coolmaterial.com/). Maybe someone on here knows?
Whenever we had to write new code, we had to propose to our peers what we intended on doing and how we intended on doing it. Keeping senior members of the team in the loop kept the younger guys (like myself) in check when it came to implementations and design pattern usage.
On top of that, a handful of the people on my team were RELIGIOUS about writing comments first and then coding to the comments. All in all, it was a great experience for me having been fresh out of undergrad.
...but I might be wrong :)
If you want to take a full screenshot hit COMMAND+SHIFT+3 or if you want to crop where the screenshot will be taken hit COMMAND+SHIFT+4 then you can click and drag a square around the area you want.
I recently asked a question about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000924
HN gave me a lot of great insight to Flippa
I'll have to check out his book to see what else he says about it. Thanks!
When you sold your websites was it fairly straightforward with how you had to transfer all of the materials over to the buyer, or is that something you just arrange behind the scenes with the buyer?
Also, I'm curious as to how you transferred the commission junction site - did you make it in such a way that the buyer could just substitute their affiliate id in for the deals?
Make sure you get some cash - everyone has a million dollar idea