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This question - for some reason, reminds me with the stimulus plan. [EDIT: I did not really know that this is about the stimulus plan!!]

Maybe a trillion dollars look like a 20 racks of servers - but cash instead? :)

Well, Firstly, I am sorry for my late response. Secondly, I hope you received the $50 Google Adwords link I sent you via email.

About #2: There is a fact here that you realize - I guess, that users will visit your website from Google paid adveritising. They chose your website - so you should not disappoint them. Also you should choose the keywords carefully, and make sure that who search for these keywords is searching for your website! You can make a benchmark for 2 campaigns, to see which keywords work better, if you are confused about the best keywords to use.

Also about optimizing the homepage... Users are more likely to have an idea about your website, even before they visit it - simply because they visited your website based on the keywords. Whatever, you should make the landing page ready to use for the users!

I hope I am not confusing you, so I will give you an example. If users are searching for a service like uploading and sharing photos, you should make the landing page with a demo video to show users why they should use your service, and upload box to use your photo uploading service. [this is an example] Also give them a clue why your service is better than other services, like: unlimited storage, easy sharing, and all the benifits.

Talking about benifits... you should not talk about the features of your website! You should mention the benifits.

Sorry for making it long, but I did not have time to make it shorter, Good luck for you.

To be committed, has a vision for the startup, the ability to move the startup to the next stage, and the ability to solve problems promptly and properly. And of course the ability to lead the team.

Passion for the startup, and ready to spend 18 hrs daily - if needed - just for the sake of making the startup in a leading position.

But the problem that you won't be sure if the applicant for the CEO job really has these abilities or not. You can know it, only if he/she has a history record!

But a question has to appear. How can a court decides if there was an intent for electronically signing the document, in case the signer denies his/her intention?

When it comes to intentions, it is NOT easy to prove it!

This is amazing... although it needs some additional work( no ideas in my head for now).

Did you use your own algorithm for it?

Oh, sorry for this mistake! The spam flow here made me paranoid. :)

EDIT: Consider deleting this entry! You can find the delete link under the entry's subject.

This looks like a real business... not just an app!

Please don't make duplicated topics.

Discuss it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510805

Although you are looking like a bot! Your account was created 7 minutes ago?

No, it does not!

But it was down today, at least for me.

Thank you so much for taking time to help me, I really appreciate it so much.

About the SEC, I saw that PayPal started something... they take the money you have in your paypal account, and use it for invesments, and it's NOT covered by SEC. I read that at PayPal.

What do you think?

EDIT: About lawyers, well... believe me, I have no money! I am not raising the money for the sake of raising money, because I think that raising funds is a "serious responsibility", but I am raising it because I am running out of money, and I am owed!

EDIT: [ I have serious doubts that this is a bot! At the time of writing this, the account of "jg2009" is created 44 minutes ago!

There is another entry about justin.tv's down - the duplicated one, and I also suspect that who wrote it is a bot too!

I am afraid of that HN would being face another type of spam attack... but I am not sure.

]

After hanging up my Internet explorer 7 browser for 2 minutes (and was about being crashed), it worked hardly fine... The icons of Flickr, TC, and webmynd history don't show up... it's down.

Thank you so much for providing me with the valued legal info. I am not interested in doing it illegally.

But on the other side, if the legal work papers for documenting the investment will cost a fortune and has many restrictions, and I won't even be able to do it because I am not in U.S....

Is it possible to treat the shares as virtual product? What about if I work around this and say... yeah these are shares but we will treat it as virtual product, just like the virtual gifts that people buy on facebook and hi5.

But you will take advantage of buying this virtual product/gift, that you will be able to resell it to me after a year with higher price, or you can keep it and get devidends...

And by buying the virtual product, you own percentage in the startup...

What do you think?

I have chosen 2 items. I use Windows mainly, but only because I have to. And I use windows but I inted to change.

I know that investors want to know everything about what they invest in...

I am just discussing the idea, I want to know if it's possible to do it or not. I am not here to sell the shares, I just want to know the opinion of the people... would they buy in it or not?

Potshot? And why companies really go public and raise funds? Don't they do it for "potshot"? As I know, that any company goes public and have stocks, they do it to get cash money quickly to invest in their infrastrucutre or implement new plans, just instead of applying for loans from bank. Am I right or wrong?

hmmm I think it's all about the start. If you make the first step in implementing whatever you want, then it will be easier to continue.

I don't really need it! I just found that this option is not available although it's realistic.

It's a good idea but it's not practical. It won't make a proper measure.

Sometimes I make 3 or 4 comments on a submission that I wish I could down-vote it.

Oh really? I am sorry because I did not know it before. Thanks for informing me, I really appreciate it. I am so glad that I am learning something new here everyday.

Thank you so much for your explanation, I really appreciate it.

Well, it depends on! I have already done such a thing before for my startup, and here is what I did: 1- I created adwords campaign with $105 (I paid $10 only, and I had $100 adwords coupon), and I made the landing page is my startup's homepage.

2- I optimized the homepage to make it ready to use for the users without having to signup. So when the users visited the homepage, they knew what they should do - it was clear to them.

3- I added Google adwords' code for conversion on another page to measure if the users will reach to the point I want them to. Google Adwords will provide you with a code that you put on the target page that you want users to reach to, and if they do, then it means for you that they acheived your target. For example, if you ask users at the home page to signup, then you add that code at the other page that will be for completed signup.

4- I found more than 90% of the people reached that target page, and I was so glad that I made something people want and would use.

It was a service that I provided online. I did not make signup because I just wanted to know if users would even be interested in using this service or not, and for how long.

I was so glad with the results.

If you want free $50 Google Adwords coupon code, I don't mind sharing it with you.

But google.com is the same as www.google.com? and ycombinator.com is the same as www.ycombinator.com? Got what I mean!

I am talking about the "www" which is the acronym of "world wide web", and it's automatically assigned to any domain name, so usually domain.com and www.domain.com points to the same host, unles if the sysadmin changes it which rarely happens.

I am talking about the "www." and NOT any other subdomain that the sysadmin/webmaster can add/change or remove.

I am sorry if you misunderstand what I am talking about.

When I visited the website's homepage, I had to click on the flash to activate it. Anyway I will report it.

EDIT: I am using Internet explorer 7, on windows XP.

EDIT: [It works fine in Google Chrome, whatever... maybe the problem happens because you move the user to https link? I am not sure, but could this be a reason?]

Congratulations, and good luck. It looks very interesting.

You are using flash. Can you please use SwfObject, so users with high security in their browsers, don't have to click on the flash to activate it? I hope you understand what I mean.

SwfObject project is here: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Thanks in advance.

Sorry because I misunderstood your question; Please forgive me, I am not a native english speaker!

Whatever, what is the point of your question? If you want such domain names, it's possible to buy it through Godaddy international domain names.

I have doubts that the name of this domain is written in "Arabic letters" but I am not sure but it looks chinese too. Anyway, it's possible to buy domain names with such letters, and if you want me to write any arabic word for you that would appear in such shapes - like the arrow, I can try doing it for you. I am native Arabian, from Cairo, Egypt.

Here is the startup: http://tinyarro.ws/ And here is the guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thorax

I hope this is the proper answer!

I flag this because the website has a sex content!

I reported this problem to pg, and I hope he will take an action!

The problem is that the submission script does not consider that www.domain.com/some-article/ is the same as domain.com/some-article/, and looks at them as 2 different links... so it does not consider them duplicated, while it is!

I read your blog. Maybe you should take a look at: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

Also consider taking a look at: http://www.startuply.com/ which contains jobs at startups, and some of it at the bay area. Startuply is a YCombinator's startup. :)

Good luck for you.

Thank you so much, and I urge you to continue posting such papers. It's the best source to learn from.

Thanks for the explanation. I really appreciate it.

I did not really mean the house, I meant the office. Sorry for making you confused.

Why do you assume that I can visit TechCrunch? I see no reason for your assumption?

And I can't, simply because I can't go to America.