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"How to Win Friends & Influence People" still stands as one of the most prolific books on this topic for decades...

Also, my company has weekly Lunch-N-Learns, I give 1-2 a year on various topics related to writing, testing and deploying software just like I would at a meetup group.

Many of these opportunistic thieves think about what they can move quickly so if they are caught they no longer have the goods on them. That imac and walmart bike they could have moved the same day for probably $100 profit, where as the macbooks they may have had to shop them around for longer, long enough for theft services to lock them down and track them once they are turned on... Not good news for the crook. They are smarter than you probably think.

I posted this comment, it will never make it through moderation, but someone will have to read it.

This patent is absurd and has disastrous potential for our already broken patent system for all industries, not just instructional fitness. This just goes to show you how delicate your company is that you feel you need to patent the camera angle that you use when filming a live event. How about stop wasting money and time on frivolous patents and start working on making your product the best in the industry. You will make more money and ultimately have a happier customer base than going around bullying your competitors. GG.

I think everyone here should post a comment on their announcement telling them how absurd this is. What it means for our nation as a whole, not just yoga videos. Keep the comments clean though, no reason to go all road rage on them.

http://www.yogaglo.com/blog/2013/09/yogaglo-response-to-toda...

If this was a private organization, the system administrator would have been fired on the spot...

I took the initiative to forward this post to the author, Tim Ferriss. He provided me with the following quote:

"Hi Chris, thanks so much for the link. I won't jump into the fray here, but feel free to post this quote on the board. I'm a huge fan of Paul Graham and his blog is one of my top 10 when I speak to media. I also just attended the Y-Combinator demo day this week, where I met Paul. His philosophies and mine do not conflict, best I can tell. If anyone reads the book or even the latest Men's Journal profile, I always emphasize that inactivity ISN'T the goal. I work my ass off on things that are meaningful to me, but 1) they are not primarily financially-driven, and 2) I measure results vs. effort. I suspect Paul wouldn't have an issue with either of these. Keep up the good fight... -Tim"

I agree with the low information diet, I also agree that it is difficult as ever to stick to it.

I found his book to be inspiring and extremely useful from a startup stand point and a "muse" stand point. He was just cover story for Mens Journal:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/08/19/4hww-cover-s...

I agree. I also think that if you do not make yourself visible, you will not be found. Arrington and the rest of the crew at TC get requests all day long to be covered. You will be lucky if you can be noticed amidst the sea of requests. Your best bet is to just launch. Create a corporate blog, have a twitter account, post comments on other related blogs. Do the social thing and you will drive traffic and get noticed.

Ours is a different story, we launched privately with a beta key... we had to for what our product is. We have to test the code and grow gradually because our product is very involved. We do not want to be covered today in TC, maybe in 8-12 weeks (although we did apply for the TC50. :D).

Take it slow and grow.

Chris

I say learn to hack, find someone you can trust who can hack and give them 50% ownership in writing, or call it a learning experience.

Chris

blogger for personal and corporate

What you are saying is incredibly true. See and that is what we are trying to determine, what is our product worth. Hopefully our beta testers will help us determine that.

Chris

http://www.propertystampede.com

You could run for a bomb shelter and cower in the corner...

or...

Launch early... update often. IF you launch first you get credit for that. Also, learn what your competitors core values and visions are. Compare those to your own, and find a way to differentiate if yours are the same as theirs. Let your core values and shared vision drive you and you will most likely improve your chances for success.

But if you do choose the bomb shelter option, let us know how to contact you in case the competition goes defunct!

Good luck,

Christopher Mancini

http://www.propertystampede.com

I agree... plus if you dont tell us more than your target market isn't anywhere near you, we dont even know where you are??? How can we help you? TC may not even be able to help you if they do not reach your target market.

Get a group of friends together, a bottle of wine and a laptop to record the stupid things you guys come up with. The next morning go through the list and whoola... most likely you have a good name that has a domain available.

Good Luck, Chris

Launch and release updates often. Do some viral marketing and get in front of the face of the people you want to cover you. Don't go directly for TC, as you will spend too much time trying to get them to cover you, there are many other startup press out there will cover you with much less effort... some even let you submit your site to them :D

Chris

http://www.propertystampede.com

Why the downmode? Our product is indirectly creating an environment for property managers to list individual units, and because of the design of the system, you have to be using our property management software to list on our listing engine. Reducing possible fraud if not eliminating it all together.

Our listing engine will not provide the same listings you see in forrent.com, rent.com and apartments.com, which is primarily apartment complexes. Our goal is to provide a wide variety of rental listings more similar to craigslist. Listings that normally would not find themselves on the above mentioned sites due to the magnitude of cost that is required to list there.

For this I get downmoded :(

Sincerely, Christopher Mancini

I agree 100%. We recently validated that there is a need for our product and it is an amazing thing. So much so, that one of our best clients wants to start promoting us to collect a commision on every new signup once we launch.

Its amazing that if you put yourself in the right place, or talk to the right people about your valuable product, then its like the virus from "28 days later", it spreads quick.

Chris Co-Founder, Property Stampede LLC

Our goal for our startup http://www.propertystampede.com is to captures the dynamic listings that craigslist does for rental property, but in a fraud free environment.

Come check us out, and if you have rental property or are a property manager, please sign up for the beta.

Christopher Mancini Co-Founder, Property Stampede LLC

Well, you encounter problems on a daily basis. Next time you encounter something that was poorly organized, poorly created or just down right poor, then solve the problem that made it poor.

That is ultimately how I came to the vision of http://www.propertystampede.com . Ultimately I saw a problem of lacking innovation in the real estate rentals world. So I am solving it.

Chris

Congrats

I agree.

Ugh.. when I worked for a local hospital, the software they used from companies such as Siemens and Medhost was poor. Poor in that there were to many clicks to get to desired information, poor in that the interfaces were not designed with the user in mind, poor in that they required a difficult update and install process. One of them would only print properly if a specific version of Adobe Acrobat Reader was installed. The hospital spent hundreds of thousands...

Ultimately the break fix staff spent atleast a quarter of their time troubleshooting issues and patching workstations, not to mention server maintenance. It seriously was a joke and very dissapointing.

I think there is a huge market out there for intuitive web applications for large industries. I am game for any combination effort. In fact I already have rights to the reuse of a performance management application that I developed for a multibillion dollar corporation as a contractor. I would love to redevelop it and begin selling for a fraction of what peoplesoft charges :D

Chris

------------------------------ http://www.propertystampede.com http://www.stampedeblog.com http://blog.itrealm.net

My thoughts are this... You are in a low tech town, but you have a startup where you do not plan to get funding.

Well then your ultimate goal is to get exposure and users. How do you get exposure to the press in Silicon Valley if you are in Winnipeg (dont know that is where you are from but its a start)?

A blog, being part of the communities that they are apart of. Social networking sites, posting comments to articles on their blogs. ITs a lot of work, but you could honestly make it seem as if your startup is in silicon valley even though it is no where close. The key is what another user said...the world is FLAT! Take advantage of it.

Chris http://www.stampedeblog.com -- our startups blog http://www.propertystampede.com -- our startup

I am working on our property management application / rental property listing service startup, http://www.propertystampede.com.

I focus on capturing users and marketing, writing for the blog at http://www.stampedeblog.com.

Good question... I have nothing to contribute but look forward to reading the posts.

Married and the third child on the way!!!! They can be scary... yet so beautiful and amazing.

I have used 1and1.com and have been pleased. I also used GoDaddy and somehow have developed the ability to ignore their incessant advertisements.

Chris

For me its 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. Don't think I have much of 10 and occasional 8 and I like it sometimes when my wife has 7. :D

The catch 22 is that if everyone agreed and if everyone came here for one type of discussion, then it would not be diverse and interesting. If everyone here had shared the same points of view, things would get boring quick.

It is one of the first facts about teams... dynamic and diverse teams have a higher probability of success, I would think that could apply to a discussion based community.

Personally this makes more sense if the SEC gets these new powers... not the fed.