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terpuaon Minimum Viable Product Detailed Case Study

This is a great find. Thanks for posting.

terpuaon Yahoo Chief: ‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’

Hallelujah! Thank you.

terpuaon Ask HN: What are you using for scaling, monitoring and analytics?

Auto scaling. The ability to bring up/down instances based on load and other metrics. Made an edit for clarification. Thanks.

terpuaon Ask HN: What should we do?

What are you trying to build and who is your target customer? It looks like an online db but why a calendar?

Read everything on http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com

That will help you flush the product more clearly.

terpuaon No Need to Change It

I refuse to re-code my python program in objective-c. Thank you pyobjc...I didn't need to change it.

terpuaon I Quit The iPhone

This Google Voice fiasco by Apple and/or AT&T is slowly mushrooming into a nuclear cloud. I wonder when CNN, BBC et al will start picking it up...

When this hits mainstream, who knows what kind of public backlash will ensue.

terpuaon Shock threat to shut Skype

Maybe the Skype founders just asked (or demanded). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725848

Or eBay did a IBM/MS/DOS redux.

terpuaon When to Stop Reading a Book

I stopped on page 1.

terpuaon Facebook: Share Photos and Videos Anywhere You Have Email

Weird that they would block non-US access to their blog.

terpuaon Facebook: Share Photos and Videos Anywhere You Have Email

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terpuaon Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million

Assuming VCs received the $6.5M before proceeds and let's say the VCs owned 50% and each of the 2 founders 10%, that comes out to $1.35M per founder. Not bad for 2 years work (plus learning, reputation, etc.).

terpuaon Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million

I'm happy for the founders (not sure about the VCs...couldn't have made much if $6.5M raised) but for the life of me don't understand why it's worth $20M. I was an early user of Xoopit (for Gmail) and uninstalled it after a week. Using search was faster and easier.

Edit: at least for Gmail, Labs can easily add Xoopit's functionality.

terpuaon Guy Kawasaki: A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs

At least this one is getting discussion vs. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682892

Goes to show that adding "Guy Kawasaki" to the title makes a difference.

terpuaon How to Apply to Y Combinator

Would you consider a competitor to an already YC-backed startup?

terpuaon Review my startup: vistrac.com

Congrats on your persistence. I like the homepage - clean. I also like the freemium model packages. I have never seen the form metrics before and looks quite useful.

Was that a feature based on feedback?

terpuaon Ask HN: Should I get U.S. citizenship?

With issues of this magnitude, talk to an immigration lawyer.

terpuaon Ask HN: I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656237

The article and discussions are helpful.

terpuaon AWS Start-Up Challenge

If you are selling something in another country, I would understand your point but this is a startup challenge. The onus is on the participants to see if their country will allow them legally. I would say that this would apply to over 90% of the civilized world.

terpuaon AWS Start-Up Challenge

You have to be from the US, UK, Germany or Israel to qualify. That sucks. You'd think that Amazon would at least cover the countries they are selling in.

terpuaon Entrepreneurs are not unusually risk tolerant; rather, they are overconfident.

Sounds like Atlas Shrugged 2.0 and a much shorter quote from John Galt.

terpuaon Ask HN: Review my product - Server Density

http://www.serverdensity.com

terpuaon Rajeev Motwani, a Professor Behind Google, Dies at 47 - Obituary

Possible cause of death is drowning.

terpuaon Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration

Congrats Daniel. It's like Basecamp for architects. Re: your TC comment - is that 3000 users or customers?

terpuaon The Leap Of Faith

Further evidence that Fred Wilson is an entrepreneur's VC.

terpuaon Weebly Launches Free WYSIWYG Virtual Storefronts

A WYSIWYG for restaurants is also a nice target (built in menus, pricing, etc.). Perhaps with a built-in reservation system.

terpuaon How to Acquire a Company for Free

I would go so far to say that the HN community/startups are already "acquiring companies for free" all the time - open source software.

It's a ready-to-go free asset without which I wouldn't be able to bootstrap my startup.

Of course, we don't own the "asset" and as such, the distinction.

terpuaon The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

You'll now have to change your HN profile from the "built digg for $10/hour" to "$20/hour + equity" :)

terpuaon Finding Great Domain Names with Mechanical Turk

Matt, your site is crawling :( Perhaps you're getting to many HITs :)

terpuaon Why Sync Is So Difficult

We are working on a syncing product for companies and everything he wrote is spot on.

I would add that file locking issues is also a huge problem even when it comes to a simple conflict resolution.

Throw in case sensitivity issues, among others and yeah, sync is difficult.

terpuaon Chasing the Money: Stop Trying to Raise. Start Trying to Sell

A great read indeed. I recommend Steve Blank's book for further reading on getting and developing customers: The Four Steps to the Epiphany - http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175