blacktar

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On Location Based Services(medium.com)
2 points by blacktar 10y ago|0 comments
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by blacktar 11y ago
Assholery all around, IMO. Billy is an asshole for deceiving people and breaking the SW rules of no preworked ideas allowed. Bobby is an asshole for joining a SW with the wrong motivation and breaking the SW rule of no pre-formed teams (and
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by blacktar 12y ago
Great to see more startups coming out of my native Norway. Looks like a fun app. Looking forward to see where they are going with this one.
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by blacktar 12y ago
https://fedger.io/blog/#!/article/18345869981806 is still empty for me through USA proxy. Using DK proxy it's OK. CDN issues? Tried deleting the CDN completely? Update: seems to work now.
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by blacktar 13y ago
I'd also love to see a version curated for industry verticals. I think that would be an interesting proposition.
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Beard Force One(beardforceone.com)
10 points by blacktar 13y ago|0 comments
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What's next for the Cologne startup scene?(thepiratesinn.com)
3 points by blacktar 13y ago|0 comments
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by blacktar 13y ago
We'll see how it turns out. Bring popcorn.
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by blacktar 13y ago
TNW broke the story in English http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/07/paypal-accidentally...
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by blacktar 13y ago
(Mental note to self: Never ever use "clusterfuck" in title when posting to HN ever again. Karma mod trolls do not approve.)
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by blacktar 13y ago
Another German legal blogger chimes in on the gaffe: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
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by blacktar 13y ago
PayPal Germany confirms as mistake http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
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by blacktar 13y ago
TL;DR PayPal Germany seems to have sent mass-emails claiming German customers have won 500,- EUR when they have in fact not. Kaspersky Labs have verified emails as legit, coming from PayPal.
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by blacktar 13y ago
German law basically dictates that if you tell someone they won a prize, you have to give them that prize, no ifs or buts: § 661a Gewinnzusagen Ein Unternehmer, der Gewinnzusagen oder vergleichbare Mitteilungen an Verbraucher sendet und dur
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Clusterfuck for PayPal Germany in Progress?(stopmebeforeiblogagain.com)
2 points by blacktar 13y ago|9 comments
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by blacktar 13y ago
There were hype in spades leading up to the iPhone launch, though. And it is not like it was revolutionary in any other way than that it changed the business model of media and mobile phones previously in favor and control of the telcos to
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by blacktar 13y ago
Cool. Feel free to steal. :) I think of it as one more channel for feedback, as to not miss out on insights otherwise lost.
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by blacktar 13y ago
Interesting idea. I've experimented with putting non-functional buttons and widgets in the app and register how many tap on them versus how many who complain about it not working. I believe you also have to ask the data, not just the people
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by blacktar 13y ago
Great insights! I guess I'm no different in that I'm probably going to be pivoting after more real market exposure and feedback. I just want to go faster forwards and believe more radical transparency will help me with that.
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by blacktar 13y ago
Sure, if you're in the US. I'm in the EU trenches and I can tell you that there are a lot of parties like it's still 2005 over here. (edit: plural grammar error)
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by blacktar 13y ago
What do you mean? Could you elaborate how my startup is now in fact different than one hour ago before the post?
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by blacktar 13y ago
I see it this way: The higher frequency of exposure, the larger the sampling pool, the more noise AND the more opportunity to spot a recurring signal in that noise. If you keep your sampling pool low, how will you separate noise from signal
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by blacktar 13y ago
When you say"support clients", I assume people already paying for what your startup is offering? For clarity, I'm explicitly talking about sharing for pre-product-market fit, pre-validated business model startups. (edit: sloppy fingers)
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by blacktar 13y ago
Your investors believe in product-market fit and huge markets at that. Your patents alone are not going to solve that, though. (edit: grammar)
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by blacktar 13y ago
If you're doing software in Europe like me, patent protection is not available. And that's a good thing.
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by blacktar 13y ago
How do you know to objectively value feedback sources? Why and how does it depend?
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by blacktar 13y ago
How would you define unnecessary noise? Conversely, what do you see as the necessary noise channels? How would you define and know when it is appropriate to open and close? (edit: added last question)
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by blacktar 13y ago
Oh and tl;dr I've decided to put all my bootstrapped startup's prototyping out in the public, declaring death to the cult of stealth startups. Would you do the same? Are you doing it already? (edited typo)
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by blacktar 13y ago
Thanks. I guess I'll use my personal blog to share for now, keeping the startup's blog to share more about why we're doing what we're doing and topics around meeting new interesting people, shaping serendipity.
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Death to the Cult of Stealth Startups(stopmebeforeiblogagain.com)
28 points by blacktar 13y ago|38 comments

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