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We are actively seeking additional investors to help us open our first location. We have commitments from local investors that have us 25% towards our fundraising goal. I have yet to seriously pitch any investors outside the mid-south, which is one of my reasons for posting here on HN. I would dearly love to give my brief investor pitch to anyone seriously interested in the concept.

The consumer value proposition is covered in the video linked above. The business value prop boils down to this: double-digit net margins. Seriously.

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Why should I trust his website with my API keys? This is not addressed.
What field is it in? For ours (http://feefighters.com), which is b2b app, we have a 6 pronged attack which works pretty well:

1) SEO - people find us when they search for credit card processing and lots of long tail keywords. This is a long term thing but completely worth it. Make sure all of your pages are optimized for SEO.

2) SEM - we were buying keywords on google/bing/yahoo. Facebook has been less effective for us since we're b2b (but we tried it).

3) We get media coverage. We hustle and email and tweet a lot of reporters, etc, try to get interviews. Try to help them out all the time, refer friends businesses, etc. It works (http://feefighters.com/press - page not quite up to date). We paid a PR firm $5,000 a month. It didn't work.

4) We try to write interesting content on our blog/twitter (http://feefighters.com/blog). People link to it and we have a lot of subscribers who have nothing to do with our main business, but they tell their friends. We also do infographics. I personally think they are sort of played out (it was cool when you saw a link to one every few days but now they are everywhere), but they can still work WHEN THEY ARE GOOD and actually explain something well. We have some good ones and some that we aren't proud of: http://feefighters.com/blog/infographics/ - good: tech bubble... bad: restaurant one

5) Business Development - make deals with people in a similar space to sell your app

6) We let anyone refer their friends to FeeFighters and get paid $25 for it: https://feefighters.com/signup-or-login-to-refer-your-friend... It works... people want to refer us anyway, but this gives them an added incentive that makes sense to us financially. We use Amazon.com giftcards because they are the closest thing to cash we can think of that allows us to purchase it on our credit card and send via email to anyone - PayPal is annoying.

These things obviously work better for a particular type of app (one that is the sole focus of your time and makes you money), but some of these things are pretty universal.
Different, yes, but I guess we have different definitions of "hugely different". I thought your question was, "Would incorporation in Malta preclude an acquisition later?" And I can't see, if it is EU, how it would preclude one.

OpenStarts is many things. It's a Crunchbase listing of startups worldwide, but also a listing of ideas, a place where co-founders can meet and more. We'll play down the investment connection to whatever level is necessary, upon launch.

It seems to me that if I incorporated in the same way and got listed in Crunchbase, then I don't see how that could be construed as promotion of a subscription.

These are great questions and I'm still investigating the answers. For example, can we show the public information of the trades of these public companies? It seems like that would be a no-brainer, but it's not.

Would you be willing to be an advisor for occasional questions? Your background is a great match.
Hm, right. It’s probably best to say that Google’s tablet OS is not open source. It might be open source again when Google unifies its phone and tablet OS.
Compare this to PPC campaigns and you might be surprised at how low the user acquisition cost actually is.
"IP was supposed to aid creative expression, not stifle it!" IP is supposed to benefit creators not plagiarists. Copying someone elses' work is not creative expression.
Yes. See my earlier post; spiking up BTC prices is even more profitable if you can actually do it for free.
There is another in closed beta; I can't remember the name because I keep missing their enrollment windows. But when I get to my email account I can post it here.
Courts typically take a very dim view of parties that refuse to partake in mitigation or attempt to settle: they rightly view it as wasting the court's time, especially if the proposed settlement was near or exceeded what was eventually decided. This is usually true regardless of the relative merits of the case.
It has also been regularly extended every time Mickey Mouse was about to enter public domain, the realistic expectation is that copyright in the USA will never expire.
On Linux, there's typically both an open(3) and an open(2). The former is implemented by glibc and calls the latter which is implemented by the kernel.

So an app calls the open() function. This results in an unresolved symbol which the run-time linker matches up with the open() exported by glibc. glibc then does the open() syscall.
Delete your session cookie. Or he could add a logout button.
If you can find news and other interesting items related to the web app, set up a Twitter, Facebook group, blog, Tumblr, etc. and shovel a couple pieces of content on there a day. Search Twitter and follow everyone talking about that niche, retweet their stuff, do the follow Friday posts, etc. (Take a look at http://challenge.co for more ideas on testing the market first, which you can then use to promote your app.)
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open(2) is the wrapper within the libc.
There is no open(3) on Linux.
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Mathematical Dome constructed at Burning Man
I actually googled for "Mickey Mouse protection act" to find the name of the legislation.

Steamboat Willy was released in 1928, so expect the next extension in around ten years time.

There have only been 3 Mickey Mouse cartoons in the last 56 years and the cynic in me suspects that they are only being made to boost their moral justification for continually extending the copyright on the character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mickey_Mouse_cartoons
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I wouldn't underestimate facebook for b2b. The users that see the ads still work at businesses. I have had very good success using these for my b2b application.
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If a comment is net negative, it is shown in a hard to read color, the more harder to read the more negative it is. I don't know how many different levels there are, but here are the colors I've seen:

#e6e6e6
#9c9c9c
#737373
#bebebe
#aeaeae
#888888
#cecece
#dddddd
#5a5a5a

At the time I asked why he was getting down voted, it was at least a net of two down votes, because I up voted and that did not restore the comment to the normal color.
Once adioso covers more airlines it will be useful.
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Do you live in the desert?
>you can check what the software does, and change it if you don't like it

Except with Android I can't submit those patches back to the main project, so I have to maintain a separate fork myself, for eternity (similarly for any changes made by other non-Google developers that I might want to use). This isn't sustainable for more than a few patches. An Android fork that is developed in the open and accepts community patches would qualify for the benefits of Open Source, Android from Google? Not so much.

Some previous Android releases have been open source software but the Android project is not an open source project.
I too like the large size and it gave me a positive initial reaction. However, I don't think a slight reduction in size would be detrimental.
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Use Google applications via SMS text message.
and Send SMS via Gtalk..

http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/
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"adventure games stopped being commercially viable" for some is not exactly a secondary detail
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A patent to snowman was filed by Angela Holiday in 2006. Number 7,963,500. Apparently granted in June 2011.
"is distributed version control so much better than centralized version control that we will all eventually be using a DVCS?"

I can't predict the future, but I do think DVCS is fundamentally superior. Joel Spolsky called it "possibly the biggest advance in software development technology in the ten years I’ve been writing articles here." (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html)

Let me describe a key weakness of centralized version control and how decentralizing fixes it.

Say you're working on a project with others. All of you commit to the repo, and you use it to deploy to production.

When you're coding experimentally, you have to make a choice: do I commit often, possibly giving half-baked code to my peers? Or do I commit only when I'm totally done, with long periods between commits, during which I can't roll back changes?

DVCS eliminates this painful choice. Commit as often as you like on your local repo. When your code is ready, push up to the shared repo. If you like, you can even do better: push up to a shared development branch for review and merging into the deployable branch. And better than that: if it took you 20 false steps to get to the end result, doing stuff, undoing it, redoing it differently, etc, you can clean up that commit history to a single, logical, readable commit for your teammates to read.

That is fundamentally better for teammwork. Add all the stuff about offline access, etc, and it's just clearly better.
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I'm pretty addicted to git's lightweight branching now. Mercurial looks appealing in some ways but, from what I understand, it doesn't support anything similar, at least not in the core.
I don't quite buy your argument. Sure, nobody is forced to use Android, in the same way PC manufacturers aren't forced to ship PCs with Windows installed.

You're making it sound like there are compelling alternatives to Android for a handset maker, but really there's not.
There are creative interpretations of existing works (or parodies) or simply sampling for electronic music. Creation involves some degree of imitation.
What would happen to music that is currently say 60 years old? That would have been copyright-free for 10 years and all of a sudden it is under copyright again?
The title is very misleading and should be changed. It sounds like Google is telling the developers of apps that they can't use open source licenses, when it's actually google as a company develops the Android OS in private, then releases the source to the public after it is developed.
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"3) We get media coverage. We hustle and email and tweet a lot of reporters, etc, try to get interviews. Try to help them out all the time, refer friends businesses, etc. It works (http://feefighters.com/press - page not quite up to date). We paid a PR firm $5,000 a month. It didn't work."

In my day job, we had a similar lack of success with a $5k PR firm. Lots of money, some press releases and really little to no press coverage and absolutely zero new business.

At my small startup, I hustle and write tons of emails to every site I can think of that's mildly relevant and we've gotten a level of coverage we're happy with even if its just me firing off form emails in my spare few hours a week. (We've even managed to get a little radio coverage).
That's correct. The tablet version is not open-source (they probably embedded some proprietary code in it in order to make the deadline). The 4.0 series is expected to unify the tablet and the phone OSs and be open-source.
Mozilla Openness facts
hah. I like the name. It sounds sort of neo-industrial (is that a thing now? it should be.)

Anyhow, the problem I spot is that without logging in (and let's be honest, you need to convince me it's worth my time before I bother) I see no way to limit my results to people close to me. Heck, even just letting that be an order by column would be enough.

But yeah, sounds like a cool idea. good luck.
An illustration of why some of the software industry wants to be more like the music industry and why the music industry doesn't want to be like the software industry.

Imagine if you were still making money off a program you wrote in 1960. Almost inconceivable in any mass market.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I would personally be extremely hesitant about taking a job anywhere that doesn't use a DVCS (and, realistically, for 'DVCS' read: Git or Hg). The technology an organisation uses says a lot about its culture. Anyone who hasn't switched to, or isn't in the process of switching to a DVCS is at a huge disadvantage.
I agree. Actually, I was at the $99 Washington, DC conference and remember the food, wifi and coffee being fine.
If you won't change your filters, you will continue to get your usual stuff and hope against hope that you get someone who will be "loyal." Ain't gonna happen and you need to maintain a team of "HR loyalty maintainers" who fill your inboxes with peppy mails about morale ...

I just told you about what works for some of us. Sure it might cost us a couple of good people who don't have a side project, but all of the people we end up getting are the problem solving type.
No, the EU just recognised that intellectual property should be respected.

Alas, unlike the USA, there is no offical reason why it should be protected.
yup short and simple
I will add one more Log out button.

The existing one is under the drop down menu of "Account". You should be able to find it. (It works exactly like Twitter.)
No problem. Everyone makes mistakes. Just learn from your experience and move on. We try to keep a high level of conversation here. Please try to keep things civil, and make comments that actually add to the conversation. Thanks :)
could you elaborate on this? what is successful and what have you learned about ad content?
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The real power behind BizBrag is the BragForce. BragForce is the small business owners social network on BizBrag. BragForce Members will likely be similar or collaborative businesses. For example, when Mike's Bike Shop sends a Braggit to Jim's Biking Adventures, Jim's Biking Adventures will then send Mike's Braggit to all of his social media accounts.

BizBrag also provides analytics about Braggit views and profile views making BizBrag an essential tool for the small business owner.
The problem with LETS is that they are generally seen by the government as tax evasion schemes. If I was to participate in one, I'd be extra careful to calculate the dollar value of my LETS credits and pay taxes on it.

I mean if you are doing it outside of a business context and semi-anonymously, or if you are otherwise planning on not reporting your transactions, that's different; but if you are using your real name and paying your taxes? generally speaking, using the coin in which you pay your taxes to settle your transactions makes tax day much less complex.
I recall some discussion of this in the copyright class I took in law school, and it was pretty interesting--hopefully I'll not misremember too much in what follows.

It had something to do with the differences between the philosophies of Locke and Hegel, and how the former had more influence over American political philosophy, and the later had more influence over European political philosophy.

Anyway, the net result is that in the US, the philosophical view of IP is tied to the idea that you should own the fruits of your labor, including mental labor. In Europe, the philosophical view is that the works of an author are an extension of the author's personality, and so you should have rights over them for the same reason you have rights over your mind.

This is why European copyright law has much stronger recognition for so called "moral" rights than does the US, such as rights of attribution, rights of artists to prevent defacements of their works, and so on.
Ask HN: I have a 40% click-through. Should I start building?
A few weeks, I released a marketing page ( http://78a31277.dotcloud.com ) for a web app idea that I had. So far there is around 40% click-through to the "plans and pricing" page which kinda imply that there is demand right? So should I start building?
Thanks for that! Really.

I will consider this and focus on my algorithm design further.

I don't mind if you leave the discussion here. Hiding a problem is never the solution. :-)
Let alone that most people that made popular music 50 years ago are dead nowadays.
It's not the original artist who gets the money but some persons that didn't even work for it!!
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HN is a good place to start lol, maybe if it's intriguing enough techcrunch or mashable will pick it up
I hope you manage to run with this. I'm sick of wasting so much time in the grocery store and I've been willing to pay to avoid it for a while now. Of course, there are some requirements:

Excellent interface. I have to be able to browse your selection as easily as I can browse in a store. This means I can find things I didn't intend to find. (That's good for you and me, both.)

Fast service at the curb. There's no point in saving the time inside the store if I just waste it sitting in the parking lot.

Reliable time estimates. (Actually, this dove-tails with the last one, doesn't it?)

Selection. I know you said you have selection, but I've yet to find 2 stores that had the same selection. I'm not terribly set on brands, but it does matter sometimes.

Stock. As in, things had better be in stock. Nothing makes me angrier than when the store is out of something I need. Yes, not even long lines.

Deli/Bakery/etc. When you've just dealt with a shopping trip, you don't feel like cooking that night. Bringing home something delicious and/or hot is a must.

And you should seriously consider delivery, and not just curb-side. I know it's a logistical nightmare, but it eliminates 2 of the things above quite neatly.

I also love the possibilities for the store itself. Because the customer never enters the store, all the standard storefront stuff is eliminated. You can use portable tablet registers to let the customer pay, and standard shopping carts are eliminated. You can use whatever is most efficient, or even invent something to make it better. And you can start off with people plucking things from shelves, but it may become economical to have robots doing that. (I believe Amazon does that, but they're pretty big and centralized.)

In short, do it right and you'll make me (and a lot of other people) really happy.
There are no technical reasons why this easy conversion can't be done, only legal/beurocratic ones. To do that you'd need to change some laws about money laundering. That's pretty damn hard, so it's highly unlikely to happen.
Section 2 of the unix manual is for syscalls. Section 3 is for C library functions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections

If libc implements it, then it is by definition in section 3.

EDIT: (signing out of this sub-thread)
Deleting a session cookie is not the same as a logout button, because the session needs to be terminated server-sided as well, otherwise it is still active and anyone with access to the session ID could restore the session (until the natural session timeout occurs - which entirely depends on the server's configuration).
Hi. When we first released http://limelightapp.com/ the only thing we did was post it on Hacker News. It made the first page for a few hours. In addition to generating really great feedback from the community, it also generated a decent amount of traffic (about 6000 unique visitors.) Later that day, our app got picked up on http://www.thenextweb.com/ and a few Chinese sites. The article on TNW generated about 200 tweets. Within about a week or two we had enough paid subscribers to cover all our recurring expenses. Everything since then has been profit.

Since then we've started a blog and we've got some of the other promotional ideas in the works as well. But at least initially I think we really benefited not just from the discussion on HN, but the traffic. There is a large overlap between the community here and our product's target audience.
Gates patent to move dating in cyberspace?
Warning, PDF link.
Ask HN: How do you promote your mobile apps?
And, related, how do people find your app? Top-10 lists on the app store? Ads in other apps? SEO? Well-placed banner or SEM ads?

Billboards?
Bitcoinica holds all the money and coins in traditional banks and other exchanges (currently only Mt. Gox).

Sounds like you've outsourced security to a website (Mt. Gox) that has a proven track record of being stupid with security. That does not reflect well on you.
Sampling is blatantly non-creative, "parody" is simply a weasely justification for riding on the coat tails of someone else's accomplishment, "creative interpretation" ditto.
This is one way. :) And I'm not being cynical. You should take these kinds of opportunities. Of course, you need to strike a balance, but I think pitdesi did that pretty well. You've got to hustle.

Taking my own advice... One of the things that brings people to http://hubski.com (a social aggregation site) is original content. I like to write, and I found that when I wrote on hubski, that content brought quite a bit of traffic. If you are creating in the social space, IMHO you need to think of your site as a restaurant. Above everything else, you need to have quality food. You can get tons of traffic, but if you don't have quality food, people won't come back. It's easier said than done, but I found that contributing my own original content seemed to provide a value that few other things did. I've come to the opinion that quality is everything. The little things count. Be tough with yourself, and listen to criticism.

Ask yourself: "Do I like my app? and What don't I like about my app?" everyday. If you love your app, it will be infinitely easier for you to promote. Make sure you love your app before you start putting serious resources into promoting it. If you love your app, traffic to your site will likely be more effective.

BTW, this post is at #3 samrat. This would be a very good time to tell us what your app is! :)

EDIT: Another thing to try: To get some objective feedback on first impressions, you might want to try stumbleupon. People can vote on your site when they stumble it, and you can look at the average score of your site. IMO I don't think that SU is an effective way to advertise, but that does provide a measure for first impressions. If your score is low, you know you need to work on your landing page.
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