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Thanks for your feedback. We've got a few thoughts on the color scheme too. Appreciate you taking the time!

Thanks for checking it out. Good catch on case-sensitive cities.

Results will update based on friend check-ins. Can take a minute or two to load. You can also add your Foursquare profile if you have one to help influence results.

Noted. Thanks!

Did you login to Facebook before adding the second location? We can't personalize data for your results unless you connect into Facebook. Our goal is to encourage people to connect to get richer results.

We use campfire to do 90% of our conversation even with our team all in house. It helps kick off conversations, save them for later and keep everyone in the team on the same page. I think before you start hiring remote talent you need to build in that communication strategy to your core team.

Very much agree that in-person bonding, whether working side by side or having a beer, are important. If you do have a remote team- try to build in time for the whole team to be in a single office every other month at least.

Why hasn't anyone made a LaunchRock.com landing page for collecting bids on parked domains. I have my fair share of names- a lot just bought on a whim - that I'd happily offload- just waiting for some to expire. Am I missing something out there that exists to do this?

Maybe HR departments should become 'teach to code' classrooms. The head-hunter fee would be a comparable sum for an 8 week class.

Great tool! Great for daily practice while learning Rails on another tutorial.

Computer programming should be offered as an AP similar to how AP Statistics is in high school. I ran out of math to take in High School - the logic of calc-based psychics and advanced calculus trend well with object-oriented programming.

I think the check in started as a way to communicate 'This is what I'm doing right now' tied to a location. I've found more value in the 'this is what I did in the past'. So the utility of the check in isn't instant, it's faith that one day it will be useful.

Great point- life hacking is much easier when you have the data to look at.

Yes - it looks like it was a double loop of 60sec.

I quit my full-time corporate job to create a start-up exactly a year ago. Worked without a salary for 9 months but had a vision. Product tested, launched and closed a Series A round of funding.

The goal now is to continue to work towards the best idea. The original idea got us here, now we need to keep growing it and pursing it - not get comfortable where we are. It's important to put goals to see where we'll be a year from now to take the company from here to great.

Does adding your phone into a live social group of people make you less social?

Loved that! It's great to see that even great big things start small.

“We left everything behind to do startups, because that is what we wanted to do more than anything. It doesn’t feel like we are making a sacrifice.” - amen!

The Startupbus participants get a free ride to SXSW but they have to plan their own ride home. Who will be the first team to solve that problem?

I love the design - did you do it in-house?

Awesome! AdZerk looks like a great product - great presentation at the Internet Summit Demo btw.

I'm http://www.brittanymlaughlin.com - I collect information on entrepreneurship, tech, travel and events in NYC.

I've been looking to work out of BA for the month of February - coming down from NYC to BA. Any advice on subletting a short term space or getting connected with other internet entrepreneurs down there? Contact: brittany at gtrot dot com or @blocks8