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About damonpace
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Super Glue as Self Defense
SUPER GLUE WILL FUCK YOU UP...but it won't kill you. Let me explain. As a previous resident of San Francisco, I'm sickened by the recent attacks. I left in part because I didn't fe…
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Comment #24801467
Wouldn't it be awesome if your website visitors could record their screen and send you a video message instantly? Showing you exactly what they're seeing for support or just sendin…
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Comment #23294543
I built something like this that was $mcdonalds and worked as a variable that would remember your instructions for your McDonalds order. You could schedule them on repeat or text y…
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Comment #23294515
Sending a link to a slide deck or PDF doesn't allow you to communicate your message very well. So, I recently added the ability to embed a Google Slide Show into a video message in…
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Thefacebook.com Rule – Single Fault Domains
A fair amount of startups lately have been branding their companies using multiple fault domains. I wanted to share a simple rule I use to help everyone brand their startup better.…
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Show HN: DropRound.com – Friends and Family Capital
https://dropround.com Like many startup founders, I've struggled to raise capital from investors. So I built Drop Round to help us raise small amounts of capital on a monthly basis…
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What's the scariest part of starting a company?
+1's for describing how to overcome those fears.
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Comment #12762782
Great company & example...however not SV & founded July 2011.
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Comment #12760807
Word of Caution: The Dot-Com & Real Estate bubbles happened slowly and then all at once. When a bubble slows down, everyone says we're just going through a correction. The possibil…
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Comment #12277677
That's exactly where I stopped reading.
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Comment #11491608
Every lawyer in Silicon Valley knows the biggest threat to your startup is your co-founder. Not VC's. Not competitors. Not Copy Cats. Not Google or FB. It's your co-founder! If you…
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Comment #11279532
The person verified with me via their facebook account.
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Comment #11275549
I have confirmed this is NOT his account.
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Get/Join/App vs. .CO domains
PG's post this week had me thinking about domains & company names. Let's say you want to start a company called "Unicorn". Obviously, you would love to own "Unicorn.com", however, …
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Comment #9952079
When I moved to Palo Alto in 2011, I had this weird sense that their was a hidden secret behind every term used. I've learned since that it's just a BS game built by lawyers & VC's…
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Comment #9937524
If I remember correctly, Airbnb struggled to raise after YC as well. Sequoia came in and gave them $600k quietly after Greg McAdoo synthesized and reframed the Airbnb vision (See N…
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Comment #9329459
This is actually a great assessment of many industries. I watched this exact thing happen in the lead generation business from 2000 and continue to today. It's grown impossible to …