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I agree with you on the down payment but from a slightly different POV. There are cases where even saving up to 20% to avoid PMI doesn't also help - particularly states like NJ whe…

The address is a "lockbox" location for JP Morgan Chase. Essentially, a warehouse where a bunch of temp workers open/sort/enter quarterly business tax remittances for the state of …

Despite ebay's initial "Svpply is not going away" claim, this took about a year longer than I expected. Fancy.com is my alternative of choice.

Great tool! I'm coming at things from a non-coder perspective and found it easy to use, and easy to export the data I collected into a usable format. For my own enjoyment, I like t…

If your product is for kids, you may decide there's no point in trying to get "tech press" coverage anyway. If you want users, go after mom bloggers. They are the ones that will bu…

You may be surprised about how many people are involved in art/paintings, at last in the "contemporary art" era. Damien Hurst and others collaborate with (or employ) teams of artis…

Without actually caring, I do agree. The choice to go into greater detail regarding appearances, as opposed to making some sort of sweeping statement about "hipsters" or "Brooklyn-…

The author's underlying point, that crowdfunding is not the godsend that many think it to be, was lost in a poorly chosen post title and a poorly formulated rant. Simply put - inve…

Thank you for summarizing what I was really trying to say here, chaz. Even half of YC's consumer focused tech companies should be so lucky. The team, the direction they took the pr…

Seriously? 30 million users at FormSpring's peak seems to be executed relatively well. It was no Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, but 30 million users is a damn good failure as far as…

I'll be curious to see how the Medium/Svbtle model works the advertising/paid model introduced on the front end, rather than building critical mass around great content producers a…

Regarding the P.S. - is this why there is now Chec and Ribbon.co (a d/b/a for Kout Inc.) doing similar things?

Kickstarter or self-hosted crowdfunding site, getting the attention of people is going to be the difference. With Kickstarter there is at least some sort of community and set of di…

Dynamic volume/quantity pricing would be cool. Tees are light enough that whether I order 1 or 3 any increase in weight (and thus shipping costs) will be nominal.

"Start doing the math and it gets scary: Apple would have massive margin, and vendors who didn't accept iPhone payments would be at a massive disadvantage..." That's if we do Jason…

Of course. That's kind of what HN is, right? Same with Techmeme and their associated properties. I am a huge fan of niche focused aggregators. Reddit is cool, but there are so many…

Agreed. I appreciated G+ because it was different, not made for brands, and purposely excluded brands. Whatever they have to do to push new streams of ad rev though...

I think samrat is looking to put ads in his app rather than advertise the app, so there is no cost - although influads are definitely not "cheap" for advertisers... In any case, I …

It's interesting, but perhaps counter-intuitive (at least for me). Based on what I have seen from your "users" (or army of employees) people are requesting deals from businesses th…

The boom bust Kozmo.com, with a mission of 1 hours free delivery of convenience items in major cities, was funded to the tune of about $360 million before they bit it hard when the…

I'm not sure that a "Facebook Killer" will emerge in the near future. Remember that Facebook has somewhere around 600 million members. While they may not kill Facebook or even amas…