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Finding B2B Opinions and Earlyvangelists
Hi, I have a product vision and minimal prototype for a SAAS (or not) product to be used by software development teams. In most cases the economic buyer would be (in the case of a SMB company) a development manager (in a larger company) a director or higher. I know that I need to get my product in front of these people to verify if it is something they will part money with but I have no idea how to get in touch with them.
I have read lots of good books on product development, customer development and the like. But I think most authors assume that the boot-strapper has a rolodex filled with contacts in the position to purchase their product.
What are some actions that can be taken to locate and approach people in a B2B setting who will hopefully become earlyvangelists?
I'm really curious. Imagine you were at a party, and engrossed in a conversation about food. Honey comes up, so somebody asks a question about bee raising. Would you tell that person,

"You're either trolling this party, or (may I politely point out) you risk coming across as a troll in this party"?

Clearly I missed the part of the social contract which states, "Discussions may never, ever branch".
I personally have posted mathematically provable facts that happened to go against popular opinion be downvoted into negativity, so I wouldn't say it's that rare.

On the whole, the general behavior seems to trend towards upvoting interestingness, but it's by no means insanely uncommon at all, I think.
Thanks for the advice! We already have an open API, so that any developer can implement it, while we also plan to develop a desktop app ourselves.
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I wonder if this will cause average users to begin understanding and using the "tab complete" interaction. That could open up interesting uses in all kinds of apps.
I will send that to them, thanks.
It's a strange definition of "criminal" that ignores the law.
does the guy with zero day want to:

1. break into your machine?

2. break into some machine?

if (1) then i certainly agree that none of this really matters (i apologise if that wasn't clear from my previous comment).

on the other hand, if his objective is (2), and not everyone is using some of this obfuscation, then this separates you from the crowd for a little while (but my model is that as time goes on, you are inevitably exploited).

i realise after your company was exploited it might make you feel like (1) is always the case but for many (2) is the salient threat.
Perhaps. But with HN you cover the more blatant loopholes and counter-arguments quickly, and can then think around these arguments to discern truth.

Not every article deserves critical thought. HN enables you to filter out the ones that do.
If you would rather use ssh than OpenVPN but still want the convenience of "direct" connections to computers on the other side of the gateway host, and you want to avoid the tcp-over-tcp slowness problem, try my sshuttle project: http://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
This makes me wonder if Google makes the internet susceptible to losing rare data. It's possible that the only solution to your OpenSolaris error 16 existed in a web forum that existed until only recently. If Google didn't exist (and people couldn't find the answer), it's plausible that more questions/answers on this topic would have existed.

Then again, you could always create a new post on your problem in the hopes of attracting the attention of someone who solved your problem, but I still wonder if Google unintentionally promotes knowledge-scarcity.
I don't see how this is a problem. The todolist messages still point to a todolist instead of at a project. Can you elaborate?
Freelancers should grow some balls
Generally speaking, the people running around with OpenVPN and SSH zero day are looking to break into your machine. The people looking to break into any machine are either targeting Windows clientsides, or weeks-to-months-old web vulnerabilities.

People with SSH zero-day are not, by and large, looking to burn those vulnerabilities by spraying them into every busybody's honey pot logs.
Just a convenient turn of phrase, probably.

Assuming the universe is around 14 billion years old, a million years is like comparing a blink to about 70 minutes (average speed of a blink being somewhere between 300ms and 400ms).

Does a blink feel short in comparison to 70 minutes? That's a matter of perception, I guess...
If you'd only seen PHP a few times, applying for a job in it may not be the brightest idea. ( If you have enough experience you could probably do a reasonably good bluff and learn-as-you-go, but not recommended ).

I'd suggest something like rating your experience with various things, either by giving it a points/stars rating system, or by having categories such as "Proficient In:" and "Some Experience with:" and "Have also used:" , possibly with examples of where and how you used it.
Still, if OpenVPN drops packets lacking the HMAC packet authentication without processing them further, then either

1) the guy would also need the HMAC key, or
2) the zero-day is in the code that looks at the HMAC signature.

It's not that I only count on this for security, but it's a matter of reducing the attack surface. Likewise, I don't have passwordless guest accounts on all my servers, since that would make the attack surface even greater.
The universe is about 14 billion years old, so a million years is one fourteen-thousandth of the age of the universe.

Now, an actual eyeblink takes about 300 milliseconds, so a million years is to the age of the universe as the blink of an eye is to 70 minutes.

So the metaphor seems reasonable to me.
HP sells servers with up to 64 cores and 2 TB of memory. Considering the car that DHH just bought himself, they should be able to buy/lease several of them.
Once I found and enabled anti-procrastination I find myself arriving at the "sorry" page 4-5 times per day, getting back to work instantly instead of wandering off on a knowledge hunt.
Definitely one feature which makes HN the great site it is.
I love his reply when asked if Rails is still a ghetto, that most every development community is a social ponzi scheme.
An accountant could certainly help mitigate the taxes here, and it would be worth talking to a reasonably good one about this. There are a few strategies to explore, less since you've already been paid.

As a quick sidenote, if you file taxes on an accrual basis, and you have some sort of warranty period for the software, you can accrue out the revenue equally over the warranty period, so 12 month warranty on software would equal $5k / month in taxable income, much of which would be next year, that would be nice. These sorts of moves are exactly why you'd talk to an accountant in the first place.

The most tax efficient (well, the simplest tax efficient) way to do this in the future would be to sell stock in a corporation that owned the assets. If the company is over a year old, you can get long term capital gains tax rates (15% federal in the US) on sale of stock. That can add up to nice savings quickly.

I don't know if you could keep a few of the companies around and dormant then assign IP and sell stock quickly if you wanted to, but if so, and you're going to make a habit of doing this, that might be a worthwhile strategy. Or, it might be too much headache for a small savings, you'll have to sort it out for yourself with some good advice from a CPA.

Definitely lock some of it away to invest for the long term. Depending on where you are in your life, that could mean anything from buying a (really) cheap rental unit to dollar cost averaging into the NASDAQ to reading Graham and Dodd and working to become a value investor, to.. well you get the idea.

As a practical business matter, I would suggest you try and sell that company a $1-3k a month service contract, probably hour limited with say a 24 month period, autorenewing unless canceled four months in advance. That would offset their risk nicely and would give you some nice stability, offsetting your own.

Finally, I agree with the 'do something fun' advice; I always liked travel myself.

Congrats!
It's not loose tolerances in manufacturing--it's just shitty quality control.

Sorry to be so vulgar, but it's true. Tons of boutiques and higher-end clothing labels have almost ZERO variance in sizing. Some of them hand-make their clothing, sure, but most don't.

Regardless, though, you're right--there's too much variance in sizing for mainstream brands. This problem really hinders any type of "OpenID-for-clothing" startup.
Wow, I can't believe we both replied in exactly the same way, including the same damn approximations, simultaneously.
Fair point, but this type of hubris is far more common (and more forgivable) in youth. Is it ageist to recognize this fact?
I think you could say the same about any foreign operating system and any user, regardless of how technical. The more technical have better guesses at where to find things (e.g., Oh, it's not under 'System', maybe it's under 'Administration') based on familiarity with OS patterns, but if you sat me down in front of a Gentoo box running XFCE, I'd look just as much the fool as the next guy for the first 20 minutes or so (except I'd drop down to shell -- though the same applies for BSD even there.)

The best synopsis I heard (I can't remember who said it, nobody famous) was that "The hardest part about learning Linux is UNlearning whatever else you know first."

I think that correctly asserts that yeah, you won't find things in the "Control Panel", and you won't be able to "Win+R" for a run dialog, etc. Otherwise, I personally have had nothing but positive feedback from my less technical friends that I've turned on to Ubuntu, except for the usual complaints, or when they have to give up foo application because it doesn't exist (Photoshop, World of Warcraft, whatever.)
This is valuable information. Do you have any insight into the manufacturing process for garments? I don't yet know enough about the clothing industry and manufacturing so any data points are very welcome. I firmly believe that problems like these must be surmountable. We have the technology to build devices with tolerances measured in microns. Surely we can find a way to get clothes to fit.
Quick gut reaction to your comments - yes, £20 is way too low, you can go up at least an order of magnitude if not all the way to £500. If you are targeting companies that are already paying staffs of 30-100 in IT security, even £500 is a drop in their budget. Find out what the maximum spend is before someone higher up the management chain has to approve it (often £5k or £20k) and chop a bit off ;)
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Are you still generating keys by hand or have you found something that works a bit better?

I've been looking around for an admin app as well. It would be even better if I could tie it into an intranet site as well.
Ironically, for me the problem is the opposite. I've worn the same size since college, and in the past few years noticed that I have a hard time keeping pants on.
I think saving time sales point is the biggest bullshit from G. Google should be more honest to there users. They should tell us that they need more page impressions+ads.
Re-thinking JDK 7
Should you implement something with an array or a linked list? That depends. Should it be fast to locate an element in the middle? Or should it be cheap to add another element regardless of the size? Ideally, both, but you weigh the pros and cons and choose one. And even if it is the right choice, you might still run into situations where the other choice would have been better and people will comment that your decision was stupid.
This graph sure could use a bunch more lines. Why are they hiding the top 20%, top 40%, top 60% etc lines in favour of having a big solid slab of grey?
Indeed. At least I feel better about my math now :)
Well written, although it reads more like an opinion piece than an objective report.

If Greece were a business, it would become bankrupt and be dissolved. I guess that realistically can't happen for an entire country - but they really need a solid reboot.
Working on a startup gave me extremes of happiness and stress.

Working at a 9-5 -- sorry, 8-8 -- is like Prozac. It dulls the extremes, and sometimes that can be a good thing.
I don't think you can necessarily verbally articulate some goals. Someone like Dave Letterman may have had a vision as he watched baseball on a black and white TV, and then Johnny Carson. But presumably it's taken him a lifetime to get close to what he had in mind.

You don't just take a kid and say "these are the heuristics you need. It's clear this is what you want to achieve, so these are the ingredients. Diverge from this at your own peril."

It might work if you want to recycle the existing societal structures and keep them in perpetuity as is. I suppose that's perfectly reasonable. You'll be excluding a hell of a lot of innovation though.
Depends on what the BS _is_ I suppose. For me, I'd categorize almost all of the time I spend on HN that I should otherwise be working as BS.
Sounds like Italy ^ 2.
Well, imagine a kid trying to search for sextant!
Because religion is a choice based on personal beliefs and/or reason (but usually the former). Race is a state of being. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at.
The real question for me is whether I'll ever see this behavior. Other than the occasional image search, I do basically all my searching via the Chrome tab-complete search functionality.

I'm sure I'm in the minority of Google users, and those of use exclusively using the Chrome/FF/Safari/IE (such as it is) address bar searches are not numerous enough to impact the success of this initiative, but still. I also wonder if it will be good enough to drive any of us away from from the address bar search functionality.
I tried it for sextuplets.
Here's the question that article didn't answer: If I'm currently bootstrapping a startup, with no current connections or previous successful exits, straight out of college without connections at a past employer, and I'm not in a program like YC...

How do I start raising this round? Where do I find these superangels? Cold call/email investors? Present at conferences?
If you build it, I'll use it.

One thing I found interesting in this vein was that there are only a handful of measurements that specify a pair of glasses (like pupil distance) and once you know yours, you can just buy glasses for $8, but very very few people know they can just ask for them so they buy $200 glasses from their optometrist.
One great engineers contributions last forever, assuming they become part of a product that is stable enough to be reverse engineered (so software and physical both count) and is proportionate to Contribution*product. One great teachers contribution rots due to reversion to the mean.

The average teacher almost certainly has a greater marginal effect than the engineer. The 90th percentile engineer kicks the teachers ass.
I think the whole thread is missing the an important aspect of the discussion: what Jamie wants is kids who are aware/concious of what they are eating, and hopefully, choose better.

See Jamie's speech on TED for more context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwrV5e6fMY
No one (including Craigslist) disputes that sex trafficking is a reprehensible practice that should be vigorously opposed.

Wait, what does "sex trafficking" mean in this context? Is it just "prostitution"? Because many people disagree with the banning of prostitution.
I know that 'me too' statements aren't generally accepted on HN, so I feel like I'm unnecessarily expounding on the notion, but that's basically what I had today, yesterday, the day before, etc.

While I'd love to kick the cigarette vice, I feel like it's my soul that has the coffee addiction. I could take or leave the caffeine even (maybe), but the taste of coffee is simply irreplaceable on all but the hottest of mornings.
I didn't get the impression he was trying to gross the children out to discourage them from eating McDonalds stuff; it seemed more like the kids were the spoiled ones squealing at the first sight of reality, imho. Incidentally, I found the video interesting since I had never put much thought on how chicken nuggets are made.

If he really wanted to traumatize the kids, yeah, show them a video from PETA and call it a day.
Shouldn't some of these charts show overall growth of the economy, too? One of the charts addresses this a little (14x growth vs. 4x growth). Shouldn't inflation be factored in, too? It seems like they are trying to make the divergence in incomes appear to be a win for the upper quintiles, at the expense of the lower, when in fact all quintiles have improved in real terms.
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I doubt I'm alone here, but when confronted with the "insert fucking theory" I promptly went through the list of what white people like, inserting "fucking" anywhere I could...

"Groundhog Fucking Day" kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.
Well, I guess that would explain the high quality of discussion on 4chan, then.
You could always pitch it to a wealthier crowd to limit the amount of customers...
I think it's more inconvenient truths like "Your startup is overwhelmingly likely to fail".
Those types of pragmatic posts/comments generally are hushed over in favor of the more exuberant ones.
Someone actually built a Bing-based instant search a while back: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/

It's not nearly as responsive, dunno to what extent that's imposed by MSFT's server infrastructure though.
Hardly trivial when waist circumference is a predictor of heart disease.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt...

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050414/waist-size-...
It was written by Michael Lewis, so I suspect the primary goal was for it to be an entertaining story. Which it was, I hope he's working on a book on the subject.
hey pixcavator!!i'am impressed with your cources.But what exactly is computer vision? i'am a newbie to this.i recently developed an interest in math
No, it means something more than just prostitution -- slavery and forced prostitution. Women, both from the US and forcibly smuggled from other countries, are forced to prostitute themselves while turning over their income under threat of violence or death.
Google tried this. It was called SearchWiki.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...
From parent article: "...Craigslist had agreed to start charging for the previously free escort services ads, which were later renamed "adult services." The company used the money to hire dozens of screeners to review ads and donated the remaining proceeds to charity."

Plus, craigslist doesn't and can't really scan most content on the site because of its massive size, so being able to add or remove topics is extremely loose control at best...
http://angel.co -- if you get through that filter, it's a (pretty good) proxy for your chances at currently raising a round. And if you don't get through that, you'll know there's more work to do before being able to raise a party round.
EDIT: they would have made the switch. Stupid iPhone.
Oh wow, that is annoying.

I do like the pop-out bars that the NYT has at the end of their articles, though. See, for example, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/business/economy/07jobs.ht...
Sure, but what would you suggest we call the guy who is in charge of a 30-person company, then?
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I run ThatHigh.com.

I chalked the shit out of the quad at my college. Then I visited another college and did the same thing.

Simultaneously, I put $5 into stumbleupon advertising. Because users liked our site, they voted up and it got a TON of traffic from SU.

Early on I also submitted the site to College Humor's "sitelinks" section, which is basically a big moderated bastardization of something like reddit. It got to the frontpage and despite being just a tiny link in the sidebar, gave us a huge influx of traffic very early on. It basically eliminated the need for me to seed the stories, users, and votes myself (by faking it). From then on, I never had to submit or fake any activity.

Getting involved with bloggers is helpful. There's so much to this, it's difficult to know where to begin. There's much in common with affiliate marketing and the "dark" and "spammy" corners of the internet. A lot of those methods work though, and early on, most people will do anything to get any traffic at all.

Remember: any attention is good attention. Just make sure you are committed, because when attacks come, sometimes they're brutal. Just keep on working and don't give up.
Working in a technical position at a startup has been the best experience for me. Although I haven't done much consulting, it is a definite improvement over working a 9 to 5 at a fortune 500 company. I feel like everything I do is worth my time, which is all I really need.
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True, there are obviously good and bad business people just like there are good and bad hackers.

I'm just against the blanket "we don't need business people for our startup we only need hackers actually building things" attitude that seems pretty common.
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There's been a few discussions on this in the past, but there hasn't been a good one lately, and thinks change.

What domain registrar do you use? In particular I care about price and good DNS, but obviously you should mention all the reasons you like your registrar.
I didn't know what "soul food" meant until I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Looking over the list[0], I see a number of things I greatly enjoy, but I'd normally just call it "food", or possibly "Southern food".

I'm from the lower part of California's central valley, which has a distinctly Southern influence due to the dustbowl migration. My town is roughly 40% Hispanic, 45% White, and 5% Pacific Islander, so if the term is only widely used among the black population, it's no wonder I've never heard it.

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