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gustafon Loopt offers its service to Sprint users

Yes, congrats - this is great news!

gustafon iPhoneDevCamp Wraps Up (Heysan stands out)

thanks! we're getting a lot of iphone users and want as much feedback as we can get. please forward your feedback to gustaf [at] heysan.com

gustafon iPhoneDevCamp Wraps Up (Heysan stands out)

pg meant "save" not "lure" ;)

gustafon Newsweek reviewer uses Heysan as IM workaround on iPhone

thanks a lot!

Iphone is an awesome device - for sure. a lot of our american users are already using it. but the iphone is released in a country where people have computer access almost everywhere. compare that to South Africa which has 5 times as many mobile internet users as computer internet users. the landscape is very different

Gustaf, heysan

gustafon What is Twitter's source of income??

http://evhead.com/2006/10/birth-of-obvious-corp_25.asp

Until today it's funded by Evan Williams who bought Twitter and Odeo from it's previous investor last year.

gustafon Blogs of startup founders

Two great blogs by a brilliant mobile entrepreneur:

Jason Devitt: www.brash.com/ His company: http://skydeck.com/blog/

gustafon How many YC companies have been working on mobile startups?

you mean mobile apps or mobile services?

we (heysan) are building a mobile messaging services, but the guys at iminlikewithyou have done a great mobile integration too.

gustafon What hosting provider are you using for your startup ?

Primarily Serverbeach. Have one server with Layered Tech and one with Linode for internal

gustafon Scaling Twitter & Scaling Ruby on Rails (by Blaine from Twitter)

i can ask

gustafon ConceptShare | Web-Based Idea and Design Sharing and Collaboration

I've used this a couple of times, its been very useful, would be great with a visio-like integration. collaborate and create simple flowcharts

gustafon Free: a Tactic, not a Business Model

Great Comment:

Anne,

Offering your content or service for free implies that you need to rely on an advertising based business model. If you aspire to build a big online media business (say $50m in revenues) you can do it in one of three ways:

1. If youre broad reach, you need to grow to be one of the top 10 websites in the US by traffic 2. If youre demographically targeted, you need to grow to be one of the top 25 websites in the US 3. If you have content that attracts endemic advertisers, you need to grow to be one of the top 150 websites in the US

Analysis and math that gets to these conclusions is at the Lightspeed Venture Partners blog (click on my name in this comment). jeremy liew on March 13th, 2007 at 12:27 PM

gustafon Y-Combinator-company heysan! looking for software developer. Meet us at startup school!

It's pretty awesome! :)

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heysan! is a Y-combinator (ycombinator.com) funded startup creating the next generation of mobile instant messaging services.

We're looking for a smart and talented software developer to join our team. You are like us if your laptop is your lifeline and your passion is well written software.

You know Linux, Java, PHP and MySQL really well and understand why standards and open source matter.

Our team of 4 founders has a strong background in mobile/wireless. We're looking for someone who can join us full time in San Francisco and both salary and equity is negotiable in this round.

We're going to be at startup school at Stanford on Saturday and at the startup school reception on Friday night, want to meet up? Send us an Email, IM or text at:

gustaf@gmail.com, 646 266 9612 or marie.brattberg@gmail.com, 347 323 8922

gustafon Paul Buchheit: Equity math for startups (sometimes 0.1% equals $138 million)

Great writing paul!

gustafon Ask News.YC: What titles are you using in your startup?

We usually just use Co-founder, sometimes but rarely "CEO" and "Tech lead".

What do you write on your business cards?

gustafon [dead]

yes, me to. twice today. --- remove bookmarklet

gustafon Applying to Y Combinator without a VISA?

I think that's a good suggestion. You can even apply for a longer tourist-visa if you give them a good reason. The main downside is that wont be able to earn money directly from your US corporation

gustafon Applying to Y Combinator without a VISA?

To get a H1B to do Y Combinator is probably not an option at all. H1B require certification of the employer etc, which you are unlikely to get for a brand new startup.

If you find a way to be in the country then you can probably worry about VISA when you know your startup is going to be a real company and you'll take investments etc.

gustafon Applying to Y Combinator without a VISA?

Interesting! But doesn't L1 require you to be employed by the same company outside of US minimum 1 year? Did you study in the US?

gustafon Applying to Y Combinator without a VISA?

Hey,

I posted my email in an old discussion about non-americans wanting to apply to Y Combinator. I got more than 10 emails so there seems to be a lot of people with questions about this.

There are a couple of groups in previous Y Combinator programs with one or more international founders, and I'm one of them.

Getting a real work-VISA to the US when you are 22 is virtually impossible, but should it stop you from applying? I don't think so.

Let's keep this thread open for VISA discussion. I'm happy to share my experience and knowledge

Gustaf

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

thanks for your feedback!

1. Valid critique. We're working on it but didn't imagine many user reading it at this point.

2. We'd love to try OpenID but it's complicated concept for many users. You can totally create a slideshow without giving us your email, today. If you give us your email we'll auto-post it to myspace so you don't have to

3. Look out for changes here

4. On the roadmap for the next couple of weeks

5. Yep

6. Agree, it's a question of how much time we had at that point.

thanks again!

/Gustaf

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

you mean without having a myspace account? you can always grab the embed code if you want

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

there are a couple of people who've tried this before. simplicity is key, and I'm not saying heysan is simple in every way, but we just try harder than some others

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

for us it was simpler then that, we just tried to answer the question, how do I easily add photos to my myspace-page from my mobile phone or other sources. stay tune for more exciting features though

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

thanks, we will add that to the release later this week. how do you think auto-post to myspace works?

gustafon New YC startup: Send photos from your phone to your blog, MySpace, etc.

Thanks Ethan! We're launching a new version of the slideshow today with support for desktop upload. Other sources will follow.

- Gustaf, heysan!

gustafon Who is your dream investor?

After hearing Fred Wilson talk I'd definitely say Union Square Ventures. At least your best east coast option, together with First Round.

gustafon Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding

it's kind of complicated, whatever process you choose. email me at gustaf@gmail.com if you want help. I'm from sweden and our company got funded by Y Combinator in November.

gustafon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I'm having issues with cookies, I have to keep logging everytime I visit, this does not happen on reddit, anyone have an idea or experience similar behaviour?

gustafon CNN: Next net 25 startups to watch

which ones are you thinking about?

gustafon Mozes SMS Service Raises $5m

first impression i got was that they spammed me like 6 months after I signed up. not god