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Or can every startup fake their way to traction _nowadays_?

Thanks for the great info.

prserve.com just quoted me sub-$1K for one story on a major tech media news site, pay only after the story goes live.

What I read from here so far makes the prserve deal a pretty good one, isn't it?

Thanks for the tip. So what should the budget be for something worthy?

Makes Groupon look good.

For a non-game app, how hard it is to use cross-platform tools such as Sencha/PhoneGap to develop for both Android and iPhone (and maybe even for tablet) at the same time?

At the moment we have 5 small Linode VPSes (1.5/1/1/768/768) for app/db/solr/redis/async-jobs and paying around $200/month.

I've been looking for alternatives, preferably hybrid dedicated/cloud with good RAM/IO for app/cache/db and cloud based storage. Rackspace seems to offer something like this, but at a higher price. Any other suggestions?

What is amazing is how much of those timeless insights is still relevant 6 years from its writing, or even 6 years from now into the future.

What is more amazing is even someone who possesses so much insights, has sufficient financial ammunition and more than enough connection and reputation couldn't make alltop.com a big success.

Looks good. To see what (Christmas) gifts people actually bought, you can checkout http://bizspeaking.com/christmas

Great suggestion.

There is actually a list of filter keyword links right above the products. Those are the sample keywords that I want to prime my users, actually with "laptop" as the last keyword. Though I do know it's not obvious enough to most visitors.

The dilemma is if I start to promote things that _you_ care about, my existing users will feel that I'm turning my back on them and quickly drop off.

Geez, I wish I were Pinterest that only needs to serve 50-70 year old females forever :-P

How about comparing the number of real-life web applications (i.e., not counting final year projects) in each framework, or the number of users each of them serves?

BTW, I've been a long time Pyramid user (since the Pylons days) and can't be happier with my choice.

Bizspeaking.com is the platform designed to enable everybody share and promote great products, you can think of it as the Reddit for products.

We are still pretty new but are rising fast. Please drop by and email your suggestions to info[at]bizspeaking.com

Thank you for speaking my mind, sir.

A 5 for the article, and a 7 for the comments.

BTW, I myself is a Foundation user, mainly because of its better responsive design.

It all sounds good on paper, the only problem is: Can you name one very successful startup that initially focused on developing country and later took over the world? Why?

Hypothetical question: What if instead of being brewed in Harvard, Facebook started from a Latin America university? Will people flock to join this network when it expands out of its university? Will you?

Get more billion-dollar companies to use PostgreSQL. How? Use PostgreSQL in our own startup, and build it into another billion-dollar company.

Thank you very much for your advice. The analog on marriage is precisely how I feel co-founder relationship should be.

Zurb Foundation is a very nice responsive framework. I'm both happy to see it here on HN and sorry to find that the post has done a terrible job at capturing readers' attention during the first 5 seconds.

works for me

Dell's latest XPS 14z (14") and 15z (15.6") are designed after MBP. You can easily get an i7/8G RAM/1080FHD screen/750G 7200RPM HDD XPS below $1000 ( http://bizspeaking.com/?q=dell+xps+15z ) compared to Apple's $2199 i7/4G RAM/1440x900 screen/750G 5400RPM MBP. How about the OS? Give all the RAM to the MacOS VM. And if you sneer at VM, with the $1000+ saved, upgrade to 16G RAM / 512G SSD and still have some change left for beer.

Hi Dalton, why do you think picplz's user acquisition rate falls behind Instagram's one-platform by a few factor? If travel back in time, what would you do differently to win?

Anyone managed to get pass Fancy's signup? At 18M funding, why nothing happens when I press the signup button?

Thank you for your valuable feedback, the search is actually at the top right corner, which I thought is the web convention, but will make it more prominent now. And you are right that the full-text search requires more tweaking.

I think I understand what pricenomics does, which you can find similar information (actually more transparent and detailed) on Bizspeaking -- http://bizspeaking.com/item/c2145006f10a4b06ba71856e49e06e02 , then on top of that, Bizspeaking does a whole lot more. (The site is a bit slow now, there seems to be some Redis issue that I'm trying to resolve).

What: Built a social network for shoppers; Who: A solo founder outside US; Rant: I think I've done a job at least on par with another YC11 company http://jerryji.posterous.com/on-yc-demo-day-40956

But for single founders (like me) who don't have such a friend, what do you do? Even if you go around looking for one now, by definition your relationship won't be considered good enough until at least a few years later.

Excuse my ignorance: By skimming through the program rules, I got the feeling that you can only expense up to $40K over the 6-month stay in Chile, but not save some to take away with you when the batch finishes, am I not right?

Think about asking the same question from a different perspective: What service would you _as a business owner_ pay me 10$ a month for _to help your business_?

Dear lord, I'd love to know who this funder is.

Why did so many people submit literally at the last minute? Did you choose to do so or was forced?

My take on the similar subject: http://bizspeaking.com/