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iamyoohoo

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About iamyoohoo

Entrepreneur.

iamyoohoo@yahoo.com

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: Executive summary for early stage startup - resources?

    Hi All, I need to write an executive summary for our startup but I don't really know where to start. The audience for this summary is going to potential advisors for now and invest…

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    Comment #1470862

    Thanks - we are considering SVB. Why do you think it's too early to work with them?

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    Startup friendly bank - your thoughts ?

    Hi all - I'm looking for some recommendations for a startup friendly bank. Ideally ones that: 1. deal with web startups regularly 2. have been involved with early stage external fi…

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    Comment #1222088

    Good point. Thanks.

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    Comment #1221886

    Thanks, very helpful. However, the challenge is we haven't started a full blown cycle yet. So we really have only 1 "client" so far. This is in a space where customers are not very…

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    Comment #1221876

    We have 1. But a base version wouldn't work for them.

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    Comment #1221704

    Yes, they definitely have. They are getting traction - and fast. I agree with they buy "solution" and even if better, they will stick with that old one for a while - which is why i…

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    Comment #1221702

    I think you are right. Seems like we have to do that. Thank you.

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    Comment #1221581

    The product is "much" better. However, once they get a few key customers - it's all about traction and they can sell others based on the first few. That's the worry here.

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    Comment #1221579

    I think you are right - and we're leaning towards that. Just get the conversation going so we can get some traction since the sales cycle will most likely be 3 months at least. Our…

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    Comment #1221574

    Because a) we're mid-way through all of the modules we're building. b) Those are the pieces that would differentiate our offering. If we didn't have those, it would be the same as …

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    Ask HN: We're still developing - A competitor has launched - what to do?

    We are still working on our product while a competitor product has launched and is getting traction from some top retailers already (we are in the retail ecommerce space). They do …

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    Ask YC: Adding Facebook chat to a website?

    Does anyone have any experience with doing this? Was not able to find any implementations other than Meebo on a website. The help is very sparse - anyone have any examples/code of …

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    Ask YC: To booth or not to booth ?

    Hi guys, We're working on the product for my new startup in the ecommerce space. No it's not another ecommerce site builder :) Our product should be ready in the next 5-6 weeks. Ou…

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    Ask YC: "Yodlee" type service for airline and hotel points?

    Hi All, does anyone know of a service or a set of API's to get a person's airline rewards/miles and hotel rewards points by entering their login/password? Sort of a "Yodlee" equiva…

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    Comment #705098

    I agree, that's something we have to do. But it is a difficult choice as you can imagine. Thanks.

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    Comment #704883

    Thanks, good feedback.

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    Ask YC: Team structure - when is the right time to start?

    Hi All, I need your help and thoughts. Here's a quick background. I started building some projects for fun and realized that it would be great if I can hire some help. Obviously, I…

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    Comment #396249

    Vertical response or streamsend are both good.

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    How many people have sound enabled on their computers?

    Can someone point me to a study or stat on how many people have sound enabled on their computers. We need to do some analysis for an app we're building which depends on sound being…

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    Ask YC: How to write a java app for the cell phone ?

    Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any clue of how to do this. We're trying to create a java (MIDP?) app to be able to show articles from a website on the cellphone. Any idea or…

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