I applied a few weeks back for the Customer Champion position off the previous Who Is Hiring thread, and even sent a follow-up email, and no response either time.
75 karma · joined March 17, 2013
Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: To Bay Area preferably, but open
Technologies: Sales/Biz Dev, Product, Marketing, Customer Experience
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhargis
Email: timhargisaz [at] gmail [dot] com
Other: Started a few smaller successful companies that were acquired. I can bring alot of value in areas of sales/biz dev, marketing, customer experience. Proven track record. Ultimate team player, very personable, great at building relationships with a get-it-done-at-all-costs approach towards work and startups.
Highly recommend. Not an easy read but full of great insight by Thiel.
I'm a Non-Technical co-founder and it's a little annoying when technical founders think and act like people like myself can't bring alot to the table, when we've had previous successful companies before.
Outside of that, awesome job on the product. Looks great.
If your company grows the .com name only goes up in perceived selling value then...ala Facebook, Dropbox, etc.
A lot of people on HN are used to different extensions because that's the world we live in but the general public is used to .coms so I agree that it depends on your audience but if it's a consumer mass market product, I think .com is important. I've spent up to $5000 on different names and I've always been able to get them for about 30-40% of asking price.