Jsarokin

If you do it better then yeah. There's always room for improvement.

For the copycat thing... Think groupon and living social; both have funding.

I think there was a message when you clicked through saying that it would be considered late. At least that's what I saw.

I agree. They could be making $100 million in revenue a month but if it costs them $95 million to make that then a $21 billion valuation seems crazy on a company that profits $5 million a month.

Complete vanity.

This kid is my hero...

Yeah they do. Its mentioned in the FAQ I believe.

Not sure about the cold calling, but you may want to do some SEO on some keywords you think the web dev firms would look up regularly.

That way the clients find your business on their own instead of you "forcing" it to them.

I think just because it is an "extremely tough thing to do" doesn't mean that people shouldn't do it. Sure, people who aren't capable of coming up with a brilliant idea shouldn't do it, but those that are exceptional are better off thinking about the next big idea than a small one.

I think its more of a blanket statement to save those who aren't "exceptional" but are just good-very good. If you're good-very good, then yeah stick to the smaller ideas instead of daydreaming about creating the next Microsoft, Apple, Google. Its tough to say, but some people are just better than others. Some people are great. The few that are "great", for the most part, are the ones who will create the next huge thing.

Party of Logic & Reason.

That's what I saw when people ask me what political party I'm for.

It doesn't exist as far as I know.

I think it would take years and years and years to get a political party to assemble unless it was hyper accelerated by the internet in some way.

Hire an outsourced coding team to make the product. Now, its going to be really crappy , but then you will have the prototype built and can hire on a co-founder or take it in a different direction.

If you think the idea is really that great, don't throw it away, find a way to make it work :)

Just my 2cents.

Maybe saying passed the building stage was the wrong use of words.

What I meant to ask was at a certain point in a single founder startup would it be more beneficial to start hiring people rather than looking for a co-founder?

Or should a co-founder be brought on no matter where the company is at, but at a lower equity stake then if they were there from the beginning?

Seems like its like angellist.

Is there something that's different about yours?

Round two closed on the 7th, they would have emailed you if you made it to round 2.

Paul Bragiel's twitter:

"we just have sooo many applications to go through. hang tight!" - Yesterday

Hope that helps :)

Go for it.

I like this quote a lot and think its very true.

"Game recognize game"

If you're truly good, they will recognize your potential.

Love the design.

I'd say 1 change would be to make the page end a little after the social site badges.

Another single founder question.

What if the startup (single founder) is already passed the building stage and is now looking to scale.

Would it make more sense to start hiring a team instead of finding a co-founder?

In this specific scenario (obviously an exception), would the single founder issue still be that much of a problem, or is it diluted down now that they company is established somewhat.

The slide show is on like speed racer mode.

Even though I can stop it, I think it would be better if it was naturally a tad slower.

I like the idea a lot though :)

Wish I was there. You should do some sort of online thing too ;)

Santa Monica can be really expensive. I'd say your better off in West LA and then driving 15 mins to SM.

May want to try out Craigslist for this also :).

Good Luck and Congrats on the job.

It could be the placement or it could be the ad type.

If you're looking for a more user friendly type ad, shoot me a message, I have something you would be interested in.

Edit: Nevermind.

Get tons of spam backlinks.

There are services called xrumer blasts. Some say it works to help SEO, I personally think it will nock the site down (Thousands of spammy blog links. Google is getting smarter).

There needs to be some sort of incentive for them to come back. Something about your site needs to keep them hooked.

Its really different for every case, but take fb for example. You want to see what your friends are posting. You need new information that they wont see unless they go back to your site.

Very interesting.

What if, for the sake of argument, I wanted to sell my song for .01. Is that allowed or is there a minimum price to sell?

Ah its following me!

That's one of the more creative things ive ever seen on a "team" page.

Just got another 203 emails... This really sucks.

Aw wtf man?!?

I just got spammed with like 300 emails from your site.

Is that what its suppose to do?

One of the startups I'm working on is in this B2B niche.

The most effective way I've found is to find some keywords that these businesses are searching, then start an aggressive SEO campaign on them.

Also, contacting them (By phone not email) works well too.

I'd say get a merchant account so you can take direct payments from CC's.

So its like a media buy "auction" for small sites?

Partner up with someone like me :)

At any given time I have between 3-4 ideas that are ready for some type of development, and probably another 2-3 that need some refining before they would be worth considering for development.

If you want something to work on (of course if it interests you), shoot me a message and we can work something out.