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by soneill 13y ago
Shoot me an email (check out my bio), I may have some front-end work.
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Ask HN: Visiting San Francisco in August
1 points by soneill 13y ago|0 comments
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by soneill 14y ago
Is it really that shocking though? RIM made its nest in the business community, not exactly a demographic you would anticipate would care a huge deal about apps. When the market shifted in the way it ultimately did, RIM proved unable to cop
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by soneill 14y ago
It's easy to say you're passionate about a product, but how are you expressing that? Do you know the ins and outs of their product? Their market? Have you researched their competitors? The point I'm trying to make is that passion is great,
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by soneill 14y ago
This is also the case with many professional fields. There are plenty of lawyers, accountants, marketers, etc. who start a small firm and then run it the rest of their life without expanding much, if at all. There's nothing wrong with a lif
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by soneill 14y ago
The expectation would be that our revenues will grow to the point that retaining talent won't be a problem. We only just started the market entry process at the start of the month, so it's too early to say, but if I'm losing talent in a cou
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by soneill 14y ago
Not yet, but that's probably because we just started our market entry process about two weeks ago. That said, our operating costs are tiny (all combined they're currently less than my rent) so we'll hopefully get to that level in the near f
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by soneill 14y ago
As a non-developer solo founder, this article resonates with me more to the point of "as a founder, you can't expect to devote all your energies to any one thing". My responsibilities with my startup have varied pretty much by month. First
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by soneill 14y ago
No, you don't. I can't code my ass from my elbow, but I know how the technology works, I know where to find the kind of technology I want in my product, and I can find the people who can put it together. I guess the distinction I'm trying t
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by soneill 14y ago
No, you put in the time to find a good programmer who will work for a reasonable price. Typically that means finding someone who graduated fairly recently and is looking for additional work, or someone that doesn't have a lengthy track reco
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Review my startup(couchster.com)
2 points by soneill 14y ago|1 comments
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by soneill 14y ago
Feel free to shoot me an email (address in my profile); depending upon the languages you know, I may have some work for you.
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by soneill 14y ago
I posted this above, but to reiterate: Be very careful about hiring interns. You cannot just hire someone to be free labor. According to Federal regulations, you must receive "no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on
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by soneill 14y ago
Be careful of this route. Make sure any internship you offer fits into the legal guidelines of the US Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm#.UL1vs4Yt...
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by soneill 14y ago
This is basically the path I've followed (I guess I'm at your stage 2?), and I can't recommend it enough. I've worked with 3 developers now, and talked to God knows how many more, and while I think my current developer may end up being a fi
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by soneill 14y ago
This is really not impressive if you know the POS sphere. Starbucks' POS is a Micros-based system. Micros is the only major POS provider that is currently working with 3rd party vendors (such as Square) to allow direct integration between t
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by soneill 14y ago
Email sent!
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by soneill 14y ago
This is not legal advice. Go here: http://www.probono.net/ Find your state and see if you can find a pro bono attorney or two. Give them a call. See if one can refer you to someone who does pro bono patent work. Gather whatever materials
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by soneill 14y ago
Email sent!
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by soneill 14y ago
Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? As a non-technical business founder myself, I just can't understand what that guy possibly would have been thinking. I'd never give up that much of my company unless the other party was coming on bo
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by soneill 14y ago
Yeah, New Orleans is our test market. Plan is to show proof of concept with some traction there, then get some funding to expand regionally.
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by soneill 14y ago
I'm working on http://www.couchster.com Currently working on resolving some CSS issues and a few other code problems.
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by soneill 14y ago
I would think that the moment you're offered 40% of a company, your first thought would be "this guy clearly doesn't believe in this company himself, or else he'd never offer me that much of his company". There are so many options available
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by soneill 14y ago
It'd help to have a little more info on what stage you were at with your company. Do you have a defined business model? Have you developed a MVP yet? Whether to fold or push the stakes higher really depends on exactly where you stand with y
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by soneill 14y ago
Overall the site looks good (I've bookmarked it for possible personal use). That said, your use of the word "term" when actually planning a meeting (i.e. "choose possible terms for meeting") threw me a bit. You may be better served just swi
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by soneill 14y ago
Error: Problem has occured and has been reported! We'll fix it soon! Minor nitpick of your error page: occurred, not occured.
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Ask HN: How risky is outsourcing design work overseas?
5 points by soneill 14y ago|5 comments
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by soneill 14y ago
I've encountered a couple VCs that are forbidden to invest in any S-corp, regardless of how attractive an investment candidate they may be.
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by soneill 14y ago
Shoot me an email, my contact info is in my profile. I'm in the market for a freelancer, and I'm always happy to talk to someone from HN. As a more general response to the question, I find that freelance developers I've worked with who don'
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by soneill 14y ago
Anonymity and impunity are the bane of empathy. This is not a new thought (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges ), but in an electronic world where we cannot even see the damage our words may wreak, the restraints are loosened

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