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I know there's a lot involved with changing but I recommend not necessarily a change of the brand DuckDuckGo but the domain name. It really ... seriously and I am not exaggerating, it's DuckDuckGo.com is unbearably uncomfortable to type. Now that you have funding, considering getting DDG.com or duckgg.com or something.. just not the full name.

FYI. Google.com is really easy to type.

Update: Thanks for pointing out ddg.gg

Or you have to just stay lean and execute well.

You are right about the math and I respect that you did that with delicious but not many entrepreneurs are like you.

No matter how it much it "make sense" to not raise more, most entrepreneurs will do the opposite and not take the risk of running out of cash before the exit. It's like the blue and red pill.

I'm not sure how you define startups but that's subjective and I think all new companies are startups. I would say most new companies have a clear revenue model in the beginning and it's all about making it happen or pivot till you got it right. There are some that don't have one at the early stage and it's also rare to see one that had gotten successful versus most that just got bought without even breaking even or mmde a single dime.

The only time it make senses to grab as much money as you can is when you're building to flip. I've always viewed raising as little as you can if you are serious about building a sustainable business.

Yea I would do that too.

@perokreco just like the stock market, the best time for entrance is when the market's at rock bottom.

Really? I've talk to several VCs that were very active previously and they all agreed that valuations are frothy and now is not the time to invest. Naturally valuations are going to be lower since that's what the buyer's perception of that market.

It's disturbing to read XXXXX "has been burning through its $1.1 million quickly" and all they could think of is raising more money. Why about revenue? Did the idea of making money just drop off the face of the Silicon Valley?

That's just to show that inexperience entrepreneurs like Jessica ( not saying she's not a smart person ) has hype caught up with reality. It's not surprising that these entrepreneurs will fight a long and tough battle ahead.

Are you guys even making any money?

I think I'm missing something from the presentation slides. Why would an API call result in 5 Millions writes? I think he is trying to give a scenario of an API call that creates a rich push for 5M devices. Even queuing the writes is not going to solve the problem.

Fundamentally, I wouldn't have designed the messaging model that would require a write for each client device for each message.

Fix your own site first if you are serious. It doesn't look that awesome btw.

Thanks for replying, good luck with your venture!

I was working on Storybook iOS framework project and the framework is completed but I did not had the time or capacity to produce any books. I'll be happy to explore anyway that I can license the framework or partnership with anyone who is interested in working on an Interactive Storybook publishing platform for Mobile Devices.

The framework uses a structured document and generates the pages, contents and animation and the structured document is designed such that a non-tech person can create/edit to customize each content on each page/etc.

Let me know if anyone is interested! Email is startupcto@hotmail.com

People are but not to mine :)

http://oceanhousemedia.com/products/

because i can?

Hey There! I was working on Storybook iOS framework project and the framework is completed but I did not had the time or capacity to produce any books.

I'll be happy to explore anyway that I can license the framework or partnership with you. The framework uses a structured document and generates the pages, contents and animation and the structured document is designed such that a non-tech person can create/edit to customize each content on each page/etc. Let me know if you are interested! Email is startupcto@hotmail.com

It just means that you have to be venture-backed. But overall, this is still really good for the economy in general to try to get more entrepreneurs to first leaping from their comfort zone ( full time job ).

No apologies needed :) . I was just trying to point out a disturbing trend.

Awesome'r!

To be honest, there is no proof that the developer made up false reviews. In fact, the description in the middle of the page states pretty clearly that this App provides perceived notion of security and it's just a decoy.

So what to take away from this? For one, 99% of AppStore users don't fucking read the description. In fact I would have bet that the only two things that made them bought the app what the icon and name.

First, if you can't afford an UX guy, even just paying him something fair, then why even hire one? Work with him as contractor first but for a fix rate rate. That way he doesn't have to leave his paying job and gets to work with the team. Nights or weekends whatever works for him.

Second, again you probably don't need an UX guy now. Dig into your heart, whats not working for Minutebox? User adoption or just the plain old people are just not finding it. If that's is the problem, then you won't turn it around by hiring a great UX guy. You only need the UX guy when you get tons of users and you need someone to make the experience of using minutebox better for them.

For one, patents are not only serving technology companies. Drug companies live ad die by their patents. A new drug cost that much to develop if without a patent protecting it, it would have not make any business sense to even develop new drugs.

Your 24 hrs fame on HN is probably adding zero value to your startup. I don't understand why ppl get so excited when they got techcrunched, nonetheless HNed. Anyway change your name, I thought that was obvious reading into the comments of that thread.

really.. why the downvote ? can't a man be blunt on HN anymore, i have to make sure i don't hurt anyone feelings isn't this a "dipshite company" in Mike Arrington's dictionary.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/15/venture-capital-super-angel...

Congrats on flipping your startup. It's pretty much what everyone is doing nowadays. Change the world... whatever.

So VCs are really in for the money but who are they to say the IP Protection is pointless and useless and retards innovation.

You're right and you belong to the group of devs that we absolutely wouldn't hire.

How big is the market size? Entrepreneurs need to evaluate this before jumping into the water.

It's just a button, is this really worth the hoopla? I find it funny how Twitter can make the deal out of the most ordinary thing, like Fail Whale and of course the "Follow Button".

Why are you even using MongoHQ and have to live with bearable latency? I mean if you don't even use AWS, why not just deploy your own db server?