scottkrager

Sigh....I get these all the time, and delete right away.

This is all about you, your company, why you're so great.

What about me? I'm a blogger. Bloggers have egos. Play to my ego, at least try to give me the sense that you spent at least 5 minutes getting to know something about me.

Who are the publishers using the system? Why not list them.

Stop talking about yourself, talk about me, write a blog post and link to me, then maybe you'll have a shot.

Bloggers you don't have any previous relationship with are tough nuts to crack.

Good luck.

How do you expense website acquisitions? Five-figure range...my current accountant is doing them as goodwill over 30 years. Seems nutty to me! I'd love to expense them as quickly as possible, but only within the law.

"5. You don't have to take notes"

I agree with that one, I love taking notes at events and conferences. After a one-day conference I'll end up with a few pages of notes, and when I get home I type those into a few actionable items, bam!

You haven't mentioned any of the crowd-sourced design sites:

http://99designs.com http://crowdspring.com

Yes, even though I've failed to catch on each time I've tried, I keep picking up more and more of the concepts/lingo.

I do all the mockups and am orchestrating the product development, but the more I learn about programming the more I learn that a single extra box on my "mockup" can mean hours and hours on the backend.

It's so easy to do a mockup and say, "this is how it will work"...turning that into an actual application is where the magic is.

I agree. For the last year I've been beating myself up because I can't code, and have tried teaching myself for years...something just doesn't click for me.

But, I have HUGE respect for devs. I honestly am amazed at the stuff my staff developer can do. At a certain point I just had to give and say, "Well, I just need to make sure I can attract good developers and treat them like the wizards that they are".

As a "non-technical" person myself, I hate when some frat-boy has a pizza/movie delivery service "idea" and is just looking for someone to build the website. Ughh. I never want to be that business guy.

I think that's why I love Hacker News. It gives me an insight into a world I really respect, and I want to understand as much as I can....without actually hacking.

A few domain ideas, depending on the direction you want to go:

friendprint.com (available $7) socialprinter.com ($1,695)

You definitely need to get away from your current domain, that's just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Domain search tool I like: http://instantdomainsearch.com/

Good luck!

Lending Club? (I've invested in both Prosper and Lending Club)

Why not look at creating your own job?

You sound talented, and with that much job experience you should have some savings.

Neat service. Something I would use. Has some similarities to http://truecar.com

I'd like to see the specific options package listed (checkbox form maybe?) vs. having to write the features I'd like. That way there is really no negotiation that could go on.

Made? What happened to it?

Having read a few of the books discussed in the article, the author makes a point of showing how actually a small % of millionaires came into their wealth from an inheritance. He states that 80% are first-generation affluant.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.htm...

They seem the most likely....who else might be in the mix? A large progressive bank?

My father worked at Intel pre-Pentium days, and so I grew up around random wafer boards and chips he would bring home to show my brothers and I.

I spent a week when I was in Jr. High figuring out how to network two computers together so I could play Warcraft 2 vs my little brother. It's so darn easy now, it's almost not fair.

I blame Warcraft 2, CompUSA, and AOL for my current tech addiction.

I just hope that capital gains taxes stay reasonable. I think they provide a large incentive for small companies to grow and NOT just be lifestyle businesses.

Some coworking spaces even have private offices. Wait, what's the point of a private office at a coworking space? Well, I love it...you can be social when you want (leave your door open, or hang out in the common areas), and take important calls when you need too. Best of Both worlds. I'm in Portland, OR at NedSpace

You are awesome....where's my $10?

That's a good point. Grasping how SEO works isn't all that complicated.

Being able to actually bring in traffic from organic search in competitive niches is the real kicker.

Did you program this yourself Ray? If you're an SEO who can program as well, call me super jealous!