chandrab

Before spending a lot of time with this - have you thought out your customer acquisition strategy? At such low price points Adwords will be very expensive. How are the others in space doing promotions?

The one command I remember was the most powerful command of the Z80:

LDIR (LoaD Increment Repeat)...aka Block Move in 1 instruction.

The IX, IY registers with index registers were cool too.

I'm showing my age...I was 12 when I was hacking Z80 assembly on my TRS-80

BoxBe is a startup you should look at...they started with this idea, but according to a few friends of mine that use it no one has ever bothered to pay them for their attention. As a revenue generating business model, it seems thats spammers don't pay!

btw - Goodmail has signed up ISP customers to get mailers to pay a couple of cents per message to "guarantee" the delivery of the message. To me seems like a protection racket of corp. customers by the ISP and Goodmail.

Not all people are motivated by money...esp. if it's small chunks of money.

Better take care of this asap. I've got medial epicondylitis, better known as golfer's elbow from typing to much. I've tried everything to get rid of it including 4 months of PT, but it always comes back. It sucks. I'll try anything at this point.

Shoot...totally forgot about this. Anyone going to Web innovators this week?

I used to work for Leading Edge...they owned the Elephant Brand. It was my first job and I couldn't believe they actually paid me to work there!

TRS-80 Model III (1981).

I collect old computers and now own: Kim-1 ('75), Apple II ('77), Commoodore PET 8K ('77), TRS-80 Model I (78), Apple Lisa-1 (83), Osborne-1, Atari 400/800, Heathkit H89, Northstar Advantage, Next Computer Nextstation. I even own a reproduction Apple-1 and manuals to the Xerox Alto.

Webinnovators is pretty good, but it's every 2 months TechCocktail

Any recommendation on a design firm? How much should you expect to pay?

Are they doing the same thing or something similar? The possibility of confusion exists...if you have copyrights on your name and predate them you might have a case (if you decide to spend the money on lawyers). Cheapest way out of it is find a new name IMHO.

I'm not impressed. Is there an equivalent list of YC companies?

Where are you located? You can give my patent atty (and friend) a call, I've used him for 10+ years and done at least 10 applications with him. His name is David Powsner with Nutter, McCellan in Boston.(http://www.nutter.com/attorneys.php?AttorneyID=110). Great guy, friendly and very knowledgeable. If you do email him, tell him chandra referred you.

How does ebay fit into it? I see the CL part on OLX

I wouldn't give up until you've tried everything you possibly can to make it a success.

huh?

It was great..350+ people. Didn't see any YC folks though :-(

Anyone want to meetup at the next Tues May 22 WebInnovators conference at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge (6:30-9pm)? There are about 150+ people that attend, so I recommend we put a YC on the nametags to identify ourselves. The event is free, but you should RSVP at: http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/

Any plans for another one next month?

Very cool....I've got an Apple Lisa-1 sitting next to my..First TRS-80 Model III, Commodore PET 2001 (8K RAM), Atari 800, Apple II+, KIM-1...I keep one Lisa at work to show the newbie programmers at work what we have today existed back in 1982. The Lisa was away head of it's time (yet a huge financial failure for Apple) - 32 bit 68000 processor (5Mhz) - 1MB RAM (Very expensive for 1982) - Virtual Memory and Multitasking OS - Integrated Applications (btw it also has cut & paste) - Screen Saver (Dimmer really) - Intelligent Power-switch (Puts all your docs away before shutting itself off) - Twin read heads on the 5.25 Floppy for redundancy and speed (but non-standard) - Diagnostics in ROM - GUI Based Operating System (Mac's QuickDraw based on Lisa) - LisaNet networking built-in

Larry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!

Damn...It's my birthday and I won't be in town that day! Is there another potential meetup next month (June?)

not a good idea

But how do you build that initial Word-Of-Mouth Momentum? Can't be easy to do.

Boston is no where listed...which is funny since other surveys say it's second only to California

Find a new idea..and then build a bigger and better company! The journey is the reward.

I've done a lot of patent filings, A good provisional looks like a real patent and can be turned into a patent with little hassle and not much more expense. The downside is that there is a lot more work for the lawyer to create a good provisional. A $200 provisional is a joke (just look at the form) and not worth the paper is written on...you need to have a lawyer spend time writing it up properly (esp. the claims). I'm not $5000 is the right price either though. In comparison a full patent filing will cost $15K from a good firm.

I agree that this is being done for more good marketing than really building a "farm team" in which to invest in (like CRV is doing).

Thing is be aware of this Higland Capital prefers business and infrastructure internet plays, I dont think they ever invested in a consumer play ever. Take a look at their portfolio companies to get a sense of what they are investing in.

That being said, Highland is a tier-1 firm here in Boston and VC being followers, maybe Highland will start a trend?

I wanted to get some thoughts on what sort of hardware configuration I would need to get kicked off (1U colo). Do I need 1 web+1 db server day 1? firewall box?

I think you need to be passionate about your idea at the interview...if your not, who is going to be?

Nice Application...the question I have is on the marketing side- how are you going to attract users? and how are you going to differentiate yourself from the hordes of other online storage vendors, esp. to the newbie users who can't tell them apart easy? (so you have to have a simple, compelling story for them)