JarekS

Try Bankless https://banklesshq.com/

Or to a website - scales much better!

For me, this was the best intro to BitCoin - http://gendal.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/how-i-explain-bitcoin... It doesn't focus on tech - it explains why BitCoin as a platform is so important and what are the killer apps that can be build with that platform.

We've created Discourse ( https://www.discoursehq.com ) to let big corpo have a direct link with their customers so they don't have to call them - instead they just send a message and nature of our channel is that customer can engage in a conversation, get more details etc. Would you, dear HNers, use it? We will launch first big brand customer in December.

Does anyone here have a link to recorded videos? I would love to see the actual presentations, not just a written summary.

So they are much like a "virtual VC"? But you do understand that VCs have value because they bring "unfair advantage" or "connections" or "good advice & experience"? FundersClub has to think of two sides of the problem - how to shield large number of inexperienced investors from the founders and how to provide network, unfair advantage and smart advice to the founders.

One of the biggest values of YC is the second part. Replicating this is going to be difficult.

You are right. But just answer honestly one question - is this data that sales people provide for their reports really 100% honest?? If you had CRM on top of the communication tool - or even better - CRM reports like pipeline would be in real-time generated based on real life customer interactions - that would be much more valuable right?

That is exactly what we do with Discourse ( https://discoursehq.com ) - there are couple of usecases where this makes a lot of sense:

- real-estate brokers can track pipeline based on real life customer interactions - car sales - financial services sales - telco services sales

We have integrated Discourse with Facebook fan pages so leads generated on fan pages can be immediately converted into prospects - right there on the spot.

We have a growing number of customers and we are looking for more :)

We have built Discourse ( https://discoursehq.com ) with exactly that vision - that CRM is not a sales tool and good communication platform for sales teams, customers and partners will be much better. Anyone interested to learn more can see also http://blog.smartupz.com EDIT: this comment may sound like a plug but I'm really excited to see CRM discussion on HN and had to jump in :)

For all registered students - take a look at the Forum there https://www.coursera.org/saas/forum/index - a lot of great stuff there.

As a founder of a B2B startup I think that your article is great! I think that this quote from Steve Jobs is a perfect fit here:

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

I wish I UNDERSTOOD (very different then "I wish I knew") that 2 years ago when I was starting my company. Focusing on the problem, discussing it with the people that actually have that problem and not jumping immediately to solutions but "peel the onion" is something very very very hard to do.

Hope that next episodes of your article will provide more info about HOW to peel that onion :)

Yes - on the bottom of the page you have a link to Lists - http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

We are developing external and internal communication tool that has all the features that you have described. It called Discourse - http://www.discoursehq.com We are releasing new version on 3rd of October that is more flexible and generic then current one - if anyone would like a beta invite please let me know!

Your site doesn't work on mobile safari Techcrunch has never heard of you Link to your blog doesn't work... I could go on like this forever...

We are targeting small and medium marketing agencies, design shops, webdev shops and other professional services companies that have many projects at the same time.

Hi!

If you've seen this - http://akshat.posterous.com/patio11-says-hello-ladies - you know what kind of inspiration I have in mind :) Please let me know what do you guys think of this?

regards, Jarek.

Press release in plain english:

Nokia will fire 4000 people and 3000 will be moved to Accenture so there will be 7000 badges less in Nokia very soon.

Nokia can not fire them US style (as in "don't come here tomorrow") so they will need to do this in phases throughout 2011.

I don't get it.

I've installed the app and still don't get it.

I have no idea what problem does it solve?

I've seen http://view.io during SXSW - didn't work that well (not many people were using it). Concept was very similar - pictures of interesting things near you taken by other people with some descriptions. Nobody was declaring this app the next google.

Social network for mobile phones that is the next big thing???? I'm sorry but I don't buy this. Facebook will clone this using their location service + photo sharing functionality and there you go. 41mlnUSD down the drain.

ad. 1 - we have a use case of group of companies (4 different companies 1500 people in total). That is why we will have this external user invitation feature. I think that this could be used for partners and customers in cases like customer knowledge base (support knowledge base).

ad. 2 - Chatter/yammer has problem with the activity stream (we've discovered this while working on Discourse and the next version will get rid of that problem). Activity stream just like in Facebook is ok when you read content you don't care about (like your network updates about what that had for breakfast etc.). If you have customer communication or any other important business communication there is no way that you'll not be frustrated with facebook-like interface after few days.

ad. 3 - Good point - we are thinking of the value prop for the HR dept. I think that karma could be a great tool for HR for people development rather then promotion decisions :)

I'm sorry - do you think that people on Wall Street were stupid when they were creating CDS and pumping huge speculation bubble around subprime mortgages? I think that we have enough evidence that smart people make mistakes - actually much bigger and more expensive mistakes then anyone could have expected.

There are major differences:

1. System will be open to external parties (customers and partners) - you can invite people per Topic (see my comment above)

2. Form factor - Facebook layout is not efficient - we are looking at something like much better looking HN

3. Karma and competence profile - we will by (just like HN) building your competence profile counting karma points and average karma per submission. We will also find out which topics you are best at.

This will be a system that is built to retain & share knowledge and experience. We are not building social collaboration (like Yammer).

Social collaboration (quote similar to Chatter but works better) is our other product - you can check http://www.discoursehq.com :)

Thanks for all the emails I'm getting right now! Please please please if each person could give me a short info about the company they are working for: - how many employees they have? - which industry?

It would help me a lot! Thanks in advance!

Awesome - email was sent!

Thanks! I'll take a look at this right now!

http://sygitowicz.posterous.com/social-link-file-and-qa-for-... - clickable link

Clickable link: http://www.discoursehq.com

Hi! I'm posting this link because I strongly believe that we have history repeating itself. We might have 1996/1997 right now so let's go back in time and learn something :) I mean - those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

This post is a great recap of what people during the bubble thought about software development.

Personally I don't want another bubble - the one in 1999 was enough for me ;)

Don't you guys think that it makes much more sense for Facebook to allow their users to hook up their email accounts (GMail, Hotmail etc.) via IMAP/POP and just be much better email interface with some extras?

Facebook could give priority sorting (based on your social graph), instant identification (kind of Rapportive features), and really easy to use and powerful address book (your social graph).

We do a real-time communication and relationship management (CRM) software and currently thinking of this RFS but would like to hear some feedback first.

First - our system lets businesses to invite their customers and prospects to the joint workspace (target customers are B2B companies. Facebook-like system - see screenshots here: http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/08/summary-of-key-elements-of-... ).

If the sales cycle is longer you have a lot of email chaos (both on sales team end and customer team end) and we help those teams to avoid that, build stronger relationship and maintain their own business social network. We also automatically track sales cycle progress based on the communication that is going on in the system.

And yes - we are using this right now and people prefer this to an email. It really works (because every action you make in the system sends an email notification it's not really such a huge workflow change).

Anyway - we see that Instant Personalization could improve shared customer workspace a lot: - customer could see "social proof" - who else in his social network did business with that company? And instantly ask for the reference. - auto avatar and contact info - Sales team could have instant info on what current customer likes (i.e. food, hobby etc.). This is a bit creepy but could speed up the sales cycle.

What do you think?

For some time I have a feeling that we have 1996/1997 again - this video is from 2007...

Good idea with the GitHub. But we could use someone that could help us prepare it GitHub ready. I though that during summer holidays there should be some people willing to be part of such interesting project :)