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The majority of projects created by people here on HN have been impacted in some way by the work of Steve Jobs. Give us all a few hours.

I agree that their search engine and ad platform could be classified as monopoly. However I disagree that their actions have been anti-competitive in any manner. They have a huge c…

> If your startup is involved with search aimed at the consumer market, watch out...Google is coming. Possibly... However sites like hipmunk will be used as a comparison in so many…

I'm not sure what you mean by a WIFI SIM card. A SIM card is designed to run on a GSM network. Outside of a wifi area you would need to use some sort of network to transmit your da…

Yup, flippa.com. It is more for sites than startups.

> first thing should definitely be hiring a lawyer, though I guess this depends on how much money you lost, if you are willing to throw good money after bad, if you had any sort of…

Not at all. The timing on this was perfect. Today is a holiday, so there is no trading... but it is a weekday so the press will have this thing over and done by the end of today. T…

Well.. you could but you would need the IP address also. You just need to check if the request is coming from a T-Mobile IP, or any other GSM carrier in the USA ( http://en.wikiped…

Nope, we have this too. I know Chase & BoA both do it online.

This could be fun. I'm in for Nov 28th. Could we arrange to start voting for the best apps on Dec 1st?

Re: "Not as Described" - You will still get those customers that have buyers remorse or just simply don't want to be charged for the item they received. You will find the customer …

I have dealt with fraud prevention for non-physical goods both with PayPal and a merchant account. It's a small start-up, annual web orders of $1m, average purchase price of $16.50…

The software wouldn't need to be touch, they could have a separate section for desktop apps. Can you imagine the revenue stream for Apple if you could get desktop apps on iTunes? I…

They state the complaint was from a contractor. This line would suggest that he may have been giving business to them, possibly unfairly.

Focus as much time as you can on the start up over the next two years and try to get it profitable but most importantly keep the job. If you hold on for two years, you will end up …

Yup, but it is still very much in its in infancy as far as features are concerned.

IANAL... You could get an E2 visa and be self employed. You need to have funds invested in the start-up usually more than $50,000. However, with Walsh and Pollard, (20 I. & N. Dec.…

Following on from that.. On the homepage: * I would limit your popular cities to the top 4 or 5 as some only have 1 or 2 items listed. * I'd limit the recent activities also, you h…

Freemium may work if the free package has your logo/name and and a link back to your site on the users FAQ page. If you get any reasonable volume on your free product, this could w…

It would be helpful if you could create a CSS file with only the used CSSed and allow the user to download and save it. Maybe even optimize the file by removing all spaces, tabs, l…

Well done Gabriel. I'd love to read an article on how you created this, the problems you faced and your thoughts on the future of search. I think it would be fascinating!