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by rksprst 5y ago
I don't think your example works - when a valuable item is broken beyond repair that is a fact (based on known physics / science). If I snap a ruler into two pieces I know there is no way to bring it back to the state it was origi
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by rksprst 13y ago
Why is FB login required? I was going to purchase, but don't want to link my FB profile.
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by rksprst 14y ago
You're right physicians as a rule generally dislike software like that (partly because of their egos and distrust of software and partly because of job security). There are so many edge cases and so many examples physicians could give you o
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by rksprst 14y ago
Something similar does already exists, telemedicine. A lot of hospitals are starting to experiment with consulting via telemedicine (with robots for instance for video communication and bedside visits) for interesting/hard cases. It's not t
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by rksprst 14y ago
In the tweet display guidelines: "No other social or 3rd party actions may be attached to a Tweet." https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-guidelines Wonder if that means 3rd party apps can't add actions to tweets like "assign to a user",
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by rksprst 15y ago
Companies have gotten acquired for very low or no revenue. In that case, you'd make nothing off the sale. If you'll be a co-founder, ask for equity (50%). Or if he's looking at you as an employee, ask for a market-rate salary and the profit
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by rksprst 15y ago
Great idea - nice when you've just launched. FYI, GetClicky does this as well as part of their Spy section.
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by rksprst 15y ago
It is common for a business to rely on it's own plans. It is uncommon (or at the very least a bad business decision) for a business to reply on the plans of another business.
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by rksprst 15y ago
"If everything goes as planned" is not something any business can rely on.
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by rksprst 15y ago
Yep, founders+investors win. Customers lose. I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.
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by rksprst 15y ago
Great to see a fellow startup get acquired. But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then
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LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank(techcrunch.com)
77 points by rksprst 15y ago|45 comments
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by rksprst 15y ago
Somewhat similar functionality to http://www.stiqr.com/ Although for stiqr would work even if you don't know HTML/CSS. Wish the stiqr guys had a bit more exposure. Awesome product.
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by rksprst 15y ago
Microsoft has key-value database on Azure as Azure Tables. They also have Azure SQL which is different than just SQL Server (though very similar).
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by rksprst 15y ago
No, you can actually run Ruby on Rails, and other languages on Azure. That's a goal for them, actually. It's not only access to the storage API.
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by rksprst 15y ago
Hulu plus works on the iPad.
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by rksprst 15y ago
A "no" to what question? A detailed blog post will be coming soon with why we're selling, what we did, etc.., if that's what you're looking for. Some of this info is in comments or on the listing.
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by rksprst 15y ago
What I posted on the Flippa site: To make showing the stats easiest, I'll focus on the past 90 days: From Jan 25 to Aprl 24, we've had 1916 unique visits. The average time per visit is 4 mins. From those visits; we've had 319 signups to ou
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by rksprst 15y ago
It's not an auction on Flippa. It's a private sale; meaning people make offers and we accept the one we like. We did this because we want to make sure the product goes to someone who will do something with it. We don't want to wait the 3 mo
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by rksprst 15y ago
I just left a comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486586 In terms of the price; the $20,000 is just the minimum offer. It will take at least $500,000 in development effort to re-create the software we've built; so there's a
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by rksprst 15y ago
We've been working on Socialblaze for over a year. We strongly believe in the product and have users who would attest to how critical/useful it has been for them. We have a very strong roadmap that clearly differentiates us and solves probl
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Tell HN: I put my startup up for sale. Enterprise-grade social media management(flippa.com)
9 points by rksprst 15y ago|13 comments
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by rksprst 15y ago
Be clear on what you want. If you want funding, specifically ask for it.
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by rksprst 15y ago
Android Marketplace and Amazon's App Store.
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by rksprst 15y ago
If a developer could increase the reach of his apps (and thus make more money), you don't think he/she will take an extra 30 mins and submit to Blackberry App World?
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by rksprst 16y ago
That's sorta what Slingshot Labs was with News Corp. They were a separate company but were funded by News Corp with the goal of innovating and generating new "startups". Employee's had equity in the company.
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by rksprst 16y ago
If you really want, there are fingerprinting techniques to uniquely identify a user without using any cookies. (e.g. combination of user agent, installed fonts, screen resolution, screen depth, city, country, ip, etc...) So they could do it
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Report Shows Radiation Levels On TSA Scanners 10 Times Higher Than Promised(techdirt.com)
2 points by rksprst 16y ago|0 comments
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by rksprst 16y ago
There's a lot of competition in this space from some pretty big, well established players. I'm wondering what you're bringing that isn't available yet? What's your differentiation? The issue you're going to face (because you're a small team
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by rksprst 16y ago
Why not focus on something more productive then Karma points? Your startup, job, school, hobby, significant other? I can guarantee you that none of the successful people on here care about Karma points. (Unless, of course, your definition o

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