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damonpace

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About damonpace

Internet Adventurer.

Recent public activity

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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 …