exline

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by exline 13y ago
San Diego, CA. Remote. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only
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by exline 15y ago
I went through about 80K in savings. There was some extra stress on the marriage (wife, 2 kids, mortgage payments.) But I was working from home mostly except when pitching VC's. My wife was very supportive. When the startup died, I moved
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by exline 16y ago
I think there is a viral angle. There were a group of friends at college, all CS majors and we competed on our grades. We all wanted to one up each other. I can see the ability to have a score board of some kind where you can share your gr
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by exline 16y ago
Its a huge plus. We are in the process right now of hiring and that is one of the first things we ask about. Do you have any open source code we can view? This tells us several things about the person 1) They are interested in coding.
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by exline 16y ago
This is important exercise. I was involved with startup that was ad based for revenue. On paper, you can make the numbers add up and everything looks good. Knowing what numbers you need to hit is important. The hard part is getting the
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by exline 16y ago
We are pretty flexible if the fit is good. I sent you an email to dig into it a little more.
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by exline 16y ago
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will on
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by exline 16y ago
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks: A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very selective on our hiring so you will only be working with o
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by exline 16y ago
www.klatunetworks.com is looking for paid intern in San Diego. local is best, but remote is also a possibility if the person is a good match. Looking for someone who can start soon, rather than waiting for the summer. Contact me directly
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by exline 16y ago
Not interested in raising any VC. I've been part of a startup dealing with VC's and had a second startup fail to get the required VC investment. In both experiences, it was not fun. Its far better create a product and grow the business.
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by exline 16y ago
You have to factor in other costs on top of the employee wage:Taxes, Insurance (liability/health,etc), Retirement/401k, Office Space (Rent & Utilities optional if running virtual) I'm sure there are other costs some optional, some not.
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by exline 16y ago
What do you think the bulk of your customers will be, small or big companies? Small business tend to like static prices (plans) because it is easy to budget. It also makes it easy to offer 3/6/12 month subscriptions which can help lock i
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by exline 16y ago
unless the search capability is excellent, having 24/7 videos on the computer would not be useful. Without good search, you would have to know the time that you wanted to review. If it was just video, then it would be like looking for a ne
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by exline 16y ago
We are similar that 3 of us are in the same city, but not very close. The 4th is out of state, but travels at least once a month. The major difference is that we are all full time on our startup. IM/Voip (Gtalk/Skype) for daily communicat
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by exline 16y ago
It depends on the the service. I use freshbooks, and their plans are roughly based on number of customers you have. I don't mind paying more the more customers I have, because it means I'm making more money. I don't mind spending money when
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by exline 16y ago
I've looked at several competing services. I look for screen shots, videos, test accounts and finally a real account. Just keep in mind that you don't want to be too focused on what your competition is doing. Its ok to check them out, but
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by exline 16y ago
From what I can tell EC2 instances are pretty under powered for the price. There are a lot of good things about EC2, but the small instances are not that great. The good thing is you can start small and quickly grow. You are right about ne
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by exline 16y ago
It does take time. You say you have spent the last 5 months full time. How much of that has been in development vs marketing? How are you reaching out to restaurants to populate the site? You have the chicken and egg problem, people don
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by exline 16y ago
The fastest way would be contracting. Creating a webapp to earn that much a month could take a long time. I've had my webapp for a while and I'm not earning that much a month yet. Building a webapp is the easy part, marketing and getting p
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by exline 16y ago
Paying customers is the best measure of success for me. Feedback is good, but I find that it's very hard to get feedback. I'm in a boring B2B market, so there is less people talking about it. Returning paying customers, that is the gold sta
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by exline 16y ago
Agree, great name for the product. I'm starting to see traction around QR Codes. Your timing might be very good. The value proposition is not very clear. Why would I use your product, what is the benefit of using it. It appears that y
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by exline 16y ago
Take the cash. I've been burned in the past holding onto options/stock that turned out to be worthless. Having options is only worth value if there is a successful exit which are rare. I was involved in an exit, that was pretty good for t
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by exline 16y ago
The ideal time to launch was yesterday, but that's already over. So the next best option is today, followed by tomorrow. There are very few apps/products where launching early with out a big marketing pitch will hurt. Judging by the fact
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by exline 16y ago
The layout could use a bit more work. There is a lot of wasted space on a wide browser and the main body hides if I shrink my browser window to much. I registered for an account, but it didn't not automatically log me in. Not a huge deal, b
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by exline 16y ago
Its the classic catch 22, no work experience to put on the resume, hard to get a job to gain the experience. But I think it is a lot easier now then it was in the past. There are lots of opportunities to work on open source projects. What
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by exline 16y ago
I have a project for a client that has a need for exactly this tool, but the pricing per month is a sticking issue. The problem is that the conversion to PDF is not tied to revenue for the project. And because it would be an unknown cost (
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by exline 16y ago
If you work for a typical company, health insurance isn't a huge deal, mostly because the company picks up most of the tab. Its part of the benefits package. You will still typically pay $100-400 a month out of pocket depending on if you h
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by exline 16y ago
I found some other singer founder friends online. We all had different startups and were not in competition with each other. This allowed us to share openly with each other and discuss ideas, issues, problems, etc. The group went slowly di
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by exline 16y ago
I've been using it for 2 days. I have it set up on 2 separate accounts. I'm still training it on what is a priority, but so far it seems to work well. It took a bit to get use to at first. But it is easy to switch between normal and prior
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by exline 16y ago
Unrelated to your question, but this is the second site I've seen recently here at HN where the images flip past to fast. Perhaps I'm getting to old, but when you have images and words describing the images, I need more time to read it. I k

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