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We are brand new and bootstrapping the business at this point. Things are coming along nicely. We have never done a pitch deck before so that will be a brand new experience for us.
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Maybe you could find something else like listy.com or listbuddy.com. Something with a .com that you can build its brand on. It looks like .net and .org are just idling in someone's portfolio waiting for a buyer. I think a .com will add a lot of value to the company that a .me will not.
From just out of the starting blocks it looks good. I'm looking forward to seeing where you guys iterate to.
PG has worked very hard to build his brand with YCombinator. A lot of people benefit from it financially and otherwise. Naming your startup BCombinator, seems to me like naming a startup NewMicrosoft or 2Google.
If you guys have a good idea, come up with unique name for it, and work to build your own brand. Then if you hit it big, your own brand will not be diluted.
Texas seemed a lot more business friendly to us, the only downside we can see is the humid climate.
Look at them and notice how every drawing focuses heavily on the buttons on the shirts and coats. Plus the body sizes are very similar from drawing to drawing. This seems outside the level of probability for a sample of drawings this small. I highly suspect that all of the drawings were drawn by one adult trying to make it look like students drew them.
Here is a video (with a cute girl) of some typical YouTube music pirates:
Also if they pass it, make sure to use a Euro or Asian data center for your business. The first time they shut it off in the USA I could see a mass exodus from US based data centers. That is a lot of investment in infrastructure that could go idle very quickly.
It could involve something that is not coding, and that the forum members can judge (vote on). Like a best discussion topic / article submitted on Saturday the 26th between 9am and 2pm PST. All votes must be in by 7pm PST. Ten finalists could be selected, and the vote totals submitted to a separate random number generated for each one--highest 3 numbers win books. 1 entry per forum member who wants to participate.
Dell products have features and services that make them enterprise friendly, they are more than just hardware to the customer. So trying to compete with Dell head on might not be the company's best strategy at first. Perhaps following the strategy EMC used with CLARiiON to sell through DELL would be more of a money maker for the company.
I would be wary of doing what others do tax wise, or asking for online help, because everyone's situation is different. Be careful not to be Pennywise/Pound Foolish with this.
We are not an imitation of any other company out there, we are unique in many ways. We want to build the company up into a large solid company as quickly as possible. An employer people will want to work for, a place where people will be proud to work--and be paid well.
We are going to build the #1 company in the market, and maintain that position over time no matter what.
Plus to me, I hate to see a forum with freedom of speech tightened down for everyone by iron fisted inflexible code just because of one user, one time. I like this forum a lot no matter how many posts someone makes, but 18 quick posts does seem like a lot to me too. Must be a slow day for him.
Maybe we could send him this: ICMP message Type 4 - Source Quench - the source is sending data too fast for the receiver (Code 0), the buffer has filled up, slow down!