ghobbins

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by ghobbins 11y ago
Maybe it's not "such a big deal" but press is good. It's sending people to the corporate site and generating leads. Nothing wrong with that.
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by ghobbins 12y ago
Sure, shoot me an email. Check my profile for the address.
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by ghobbins 12y ago
I think you make a good point. We need to make sure the whole company is on board. PG's comment on using consulting to find the product you want to build long term feels applicable here. Of course, the slippery slope remains. But if we
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by ghobbins 12y ago
We are also competing with extra-ingrained incumbents like Blackboard (publicly traded) that own the sales channels despite being bloated, hard to use software. The higher ed market values reputation and a laundry list of features that prom
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by ghobbins 12y ago
We're based in Atlanta. Not sure there's anything of the sort in the states but good thought.
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by ghobbins 12y ago
First time founder. My company is in a "fatal pinch." Similar to a previous comment by @LukeFitzpatrick, we built something for our alma mater that we thought we could sell to colleges for 50k/year. We got investment, we buil
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by ghobbins 12y ago
Really neat idea and well designed. Excited for the upcoming project. Where can we sign up for updates?
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by ghobbins 13y ago
Unfortunately from our view, it changes the vision a lot. Our networks are built for universities and a big way we differentiate from other solutions (in which only chartered organizations can make a group) is we allow informal groups (stud
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Ask HN: Being stubborn with investors
8 points by ghobbins 13y ago|13 comments