alphagenerator

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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I think I'd throw more money at those initiatives where they grow meat in labs. Factory farming is a horror, and cattle do tremendous amounts of damage to land all over the world. Veganism is part of a solution to end animal abuse, bu
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Thanks for the wisdom. I appreciate it.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
The e-mail thing is the killer. Can you make recommendations for how to network with investors when someone is coming from outside Silicon Valley? I too am in the finance space and my networks are concentrated in NY and Chicago. However,
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Bill, I enjoyed this article a great deal. Can you explain the basics behind your process for speaking to investors after demo day? Did you just compile a list of people to speak with, or was there networking involved at YC which led to th
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Just wanted to throw more weight behind this comment. This book is excellent and is super easy to follow. It's one of those rare technical books that actually does an amazing job explaining things.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
The code doesn't matter. You have to want the end product. The reasons for wanting it are personal, but you have to want it.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I think what you're doing is very important. Thank you for tackling this problem.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Your reply makes sense. I just wanted to add that I think I see what the OP meant by "soft launch." I think the OP asked a good question, because most startup business guides say launch something minimal and iterate. Whereas, ap
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
No, actually. I am learning the ropes like you are.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Curious: Where are you buying templates?
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
What sort of business do you operate? There are a lot of qualified developers in this town. The price is the sticking point.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I called Comcast trying to sign up for their top-tier service when I was working from home. The guy on the other side kept asking me what on earth I'd need the top tier service for and kept asking me questions. Then he scheduled the
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Well, I've been reading the competitor's press releases mainly and reviews of their product on the internet. Since I've never done this before, I just don't know how much of their frustrations I can count as a form of v
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
No resistance, just trying to get some input on how to do this stage of the process properly. In particular, I've been reading a lot of feedback on competitors' products. I talk to people, but I need to talk to more.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
What if a competitor has already validated the market for me? For example, they exist and have existed for a few years, but still don't service my need. Is it valid to assume I can attack their market share?
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
What if you had used a freemium model and delivered your product as a free app with IAP or ads and such? Or was the market too small in such a case?
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Serious question regarding #1: What if I am the market because I am addressing a need I have that others have not addressed? Is the question then whether others have the same general needs? Do I get to walk around thinking I have instant
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Some more information: When I put the system at 2x and played the game, I made it as far as level 8 without a glitch. Then, all of a sudden, it kept going into a mode where it kept asking me to resume again. I play the game on landscape m
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Nope. Fingers are always on the fingerprint icons. Just keeps flipping into the resume screen.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Well, I bought the game and I gave it a shot. I like indie-productions like this. The game is fun but I encountered a little snag where, somehow, it'd keep asking me if I wanted to resume the game constantly. I must be doing somethin
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Mind posting the URL to your iOS game? I would like to try it out.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I enjoyed tinkering with this and thought it was cool. I've never used a mind mapper before. What sort of customers pay for something like this? Just curious.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
There is no substitute for the real thing. Get an account, build the algo, do the best you can to minimize maximum damage, and run with it.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I think projecting overconfidence is a social/political survival strategy. The 50% accurate thing is just the hidden reality everyone acknowledges. It's sort of like how people are polite when confronted with ugly babies.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I've only recently started investigating Chicago as a place to startup anything, but I'm not looking in the sectors where you are looking. I don't have any frustrations to vent; I like the midwest. I like to believe the midw
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I think you can browse Craigslist and find at least one ad like this every week in every major American city. I chalk up developer pricing to inexperience and not malice, but sometimes I am not so sure.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Is your data available to the public? I'd settle for some basic summary statistics.
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
Yeah, but, the usefulness is a function of the expressiveness. The reason I picked C++ templates in particular was because they allow you to make very effective use of information at compile time. Other languages, at least in my experience
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
How are your funemployed friends financing their lifestyles? Are they single or married?
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by alphagenerator 12y ago
I actually think the strongest point of C++ is the nature of how template metaprogramming is done. Is there any other language that competes with C++ as effectively with templates? I feel like all these "C++ is bad" comments a

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