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Comment #5826446
San Diego, CA. Remote. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable sta…
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Comment #2539473
I went through about 80K in savings. There was some extra stress on the marriage (wife, 2 kids, mortgage payments.) But I was working from home mostly except when pitching VC's. My…
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Comment #2323057
I think there is a viral angle. There were a group of friends at college, all CS majors and we competed on our grades. We all wanted to one up each other. I can see the ability to …
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Comment #2323016
Its a huge plus. We are in the process right now of hiring and that is one of the first things we ask about. Do you have any open source code we can view? This tells us several thi…
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Comment #2277740
This is important exercise. I was involved with startup that was ad based for revenue. On paper, you can make the numbers add up and everything looks good. Knowing what numbers you…
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Comment #2276937
We are pretty flexible if the fit is good. I sent you an email to dig into it a little more.
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Comment #2276202
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks (www.klatunetworks.com): A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable …
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Comment #2276178
San Diego, CA. Remote ok. Klatu Networks: A wireless sensor networking startup that focuses in biotech monitoring. We are a small, bootstrapped, profitable start up. We are very se…
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Comment #2276118
www.klatunetworks.com is looking for paid intern in San Diego. local is best, but remote is also a possibility if the person is a good match. Looking for someone who can start soon…
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Comment #2208420
Not interested in raising any VC. I've been part of a startup dealing with VC's and had a second startup fail to get the required VC investment. In both experiences, it was not fun…
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Comment #2167856
You have to factor in other costs on top of the employee wage:Taxes, Insurance (liability/health,etc), Retirement/401k, Office Space (Rent & Utilities optional if running virtual) …
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Comment #2066064
What do you think the bulk of your customers will be, small or big companies? Small business tend to like static prices (plans) because it is easy to budget. It also makes it easy …
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Comment #2053038
unless the search capability is excellent, having 24/7 videos on the computer would not be useful. Without good search, you would have to know the time that you wanted to review. I…
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Comment #1954492
We are similar that 3 of us are in the same city, but not very close. The 4th is out of state, but travels at least once a month. The major difference is that we are all full time …
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Comment #1920410
It depends on the the service. I use freshbooks, and their plans are roughly based on number of customers you have. I don't mind paying more the more customers I have, because it m…
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Comment #1836862
I've looked at several competing services. I look for screen shots, videos, test accounts and finally a real account. Just keep in mind that you don't want to be too focused on wha…
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Comment #1699160
From what I can tell EC2 instances are pretty under powered for the price. There are a lot of good things about EC2, but the small instances are not that great. The good thing is y…
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Comment #1694382
It does take time. You say you have spent the last 5 months full time. How much of that has been in development vs marketing? How are you reaching out to restaurants to populate th…
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Comment #1693026
The fastest way would be contracting. Creating a webapp to earn that much a month could take a long time. I've had my webapp for a while and I'm not earning that much a month yet. …
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Comment #1693004
Paying customers is the best measure of success for me. Feedback is good, but I find that it's very hard to get feedback. I'm in a boring B2B market, so there is less people talkin…
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Comment #1674451
Agree, great name for the product. I'm starting to see traction around QR Codes. Your timing might be very good. The value proposition is not very clear. Why would I use your produ…
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Comment #1674435
Take the cash. I've been burned in the past holding onto options/stock that turned out to be worthless. Having options is only worth value if there is a successful exit which are r…
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Comment #1668023
The ideal time to launch was yesterday, but that's already over. So the next best option is today, followed by tomorrow. There are very few apps/products where launching early with…
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Comment #1667328
The layout could use a bit more work. There is a lot of wasted space on a wide browser and the main body hides if I shrink my browser window to much. I registered for an account, b…
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Comment #1666954
Its the classic catch 22, no work experience to put on the resume, hard to get a job to gain the experience. But I think it is a lot easier now then it was in the past. There are l…