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Good to see the fix! I've been using it for a few days.

Three ideas that haven't come up yet:

- Most realistic: Work with your Bay Area startup from your home country. I don't know specifics about Indian nationals, but many people work remotely with a team in the US, and then travel to the US on visa waiver (often up to 90 days) or tourist visa (up to 6 months) to sync with the team. You will likely be a foreign contractor, and the startup will pay salary to your Indian bank account. You will likely not owe income tax to the US because the service is technically performed overseas, but you'll have to pay tax to India.

- Invite your team to work overseas together: Stripe prototyped the service in Buenos Aires. Buffer traveled to Hong Kong and Israel. We spent our first months in Thailand. Going overseas for a limited period of time can be a great way to bootstrap at a lower cost. Especially if your startup is very early stage (we are too).

- Open a business entity in home country, and make it a liaison office or subsidiary (or whatever requires the least amount of logistics) of your Bay Area startup.

I'm not a lawyer. But I'm bootstrapping from Seoul for some time and have seen multiple teams that work across locations. Good luck!

Good point, looks like they tried to support multiple color formats http://rgb.to/about-help but that seems like sthg they should support too.

I don't know the L1 answer, but just wanted to say that it might help if you edit your post title and mention L1 visa, make your question more specific. Also, Quora may be a good place to ask this question.

My favorites are the bicycle that runs on the water, and DIY prosthetic arms.

Not something you can draw yourself, but there are high quality vector packages of human figures in various poses you can buy.

My favorite is this http://www.neubauladen.com/product/1231 and you can buy entire colleciton of humans and objects at less than $60 http://www.neubauladen.com/catalogue/NB-Digital/2/Neubau%20W...

(I have no affiliation to these guys :)

Congrats on making the prototype. Two quick comments:

1. The web 1.0 aesthetics of the site strongly reminds me of Craigslist, conveys that you are interested in becoming another Cragslist. It's a big setback to today's users who are used to richer/slicker/more friendly marketplaces and services like Cropup, AirBnB, or Sold. Instead of nimble/scrappy, it seems outdated or amateurish, not exactly the positioning you'd want.

2. Given that positioning: Like others said the site itself doesn't communicate how this is different from or better than Craigslist.

I didn't look or click further due to the impression of your landing page, I'd be a bounce. But once you reduce bounce you may get more useful feedback.

Not exactly a graphical iPhone game, but I am a designer and this is the first game I'm enjoying in a long time.

http://candies.aniwey.net

- Minimal visuals: Check

- Simple to learn: Check, more enjoyable with a mentor/more experienced person I can reach.

- Not sure how competitive it gets at the high end.

I'm surprised I am enjoying this, since I was never a RPG person. I am a casual-at-best gamer who finds Clash of the Clans boring after 5 mins and Letterpress gameplay too implicit(?).

I'd imagine #3 would be the root of all difficulties: Having enough money/resources to solve other legal, logistics, and credibility issues.

We're working in the finance/investing space and we hear "$1B in management" thrown out as an example entry threshold. I'm guessing getting a legal review of our idea alone could also cost a large amount of money -- not exactly a lean startup fit. I'd be interested in hearing how you overcome this issue.

Combination of summer internship as a web app designer in Austin, TX, and graphic design work for my college's alumni office and my professor in Pittsburgh, PA -- all in 2000.

In case anyone's interested, here are the responses I received on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Buying-Domain-Names/Is-Global-Name-Brok...

yikes, perhaps the besider folks should know about this.

Not associated with BootyLog or Bedsider.org, I've downloaded and tried the app.

It links to a landing page with a video that requires you press a play button. No automatic playback.

thanks! was just looking for this.

An anonymous microblogging app of sexual activities, developed by a non-profit advocating safe sex. Just downloaded and took a look, and it seems like a really interesting and progressive way to educate people about sex. Thoughts?

Got an email from the company (I am a designer, working on my own investing startup), checked out their site, and found this -- yep, twenty thousand dollars.

Certainly hope so! This issue needs to be rectified regardless who becomes the president: If either of the two liberal ones (Ahn or Moon) wins we have hope. But if the conservative party (Park) wins the election I wouldn't expect the change.

The unusual IE dependency is now hurting the Korean internet industry, as both the established brands and the startups in Korea develop for IE, their services end up failing to go beyond the Korean market. Hard to globalize your offering when you have to start satisfying a peculiar domestic market, and when you grew up using ActiveX and IE most of your life.

I'm interested in learning this too. I was just looking at Slideshare's case and learned the following:

In this talk the founders mention how they were "outsiders" located in the Valley without much connection, and that their initial angels and advisors were their attorneys or those who had tried their service and were impressed by its utilities. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/02/24/slideshare-founders-...

In the first ever Techcrunch article about them, Michael Arrington mentions Ross Mayfield (VP of Biz Dev at Slideshare) made the intro. http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/04/introducing-slideshare-powe... This was Oct 2006.

It took them some time to get connected to the advisors: started the company in 2006, got advisors in 2007 - 2008. See http://www.crunchbase.com/company/slideshare and http://www.amitranjan.com/2007/07/05/slideshare-news-welcomi...

Of course I'm only studying the surface, but in their case 1) useful product that the mentors would use (businesspeople use slides) 2) well-connected team member 3) time and persistence seemed to have helped.

At a startup, every contractor work counts.

Two cases where I'd accept reduced rate are:

1) You're into who we are and what we're doing, and potentially want to become a part of us. In this case we are testing each other out, and there is a mutual risk and cost as the startup will have to make extra effort figuring out how to work well with you.

2) We're mutually doing a favor, concurrently, or in the future. e.g., we're in the same field or town and we want the both of us to succeed to increase our pie; we're personal friends who've been helping each other.

Otherwise, I would not want anything other than your best work for my startup, and will pay the fair price for it.

1) can the environment help you become very good at what you do?

2) do you see the people you'll work with help with your future, and will you become a better person by spending time with them?

I was about to submit this too. Wonder how it went for those that tried this hack. Can someone share experience?