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Not your typical Silicon Valley startup...

Case study and explanation of why we launched, and then eventually decided to shut down the service even though we have 35,000+ users.

I've been using GetSatisfaction for years but it grew out of control. I'm looking forward to a simpler solution.

AUSTIN, TEXAS OtherInbox is kicking ass with more than a half million users and our first revenue coming in the door. We need a kick ass Ruby on Rails developer to join our awesome…

We're doing this at OtherInbox.com with our Organizer solution. I saw another company doing this in the TC50 demo pit last year but I can't remember the name. Most of our Organizer…

Most startups aren't an invention like electricity. Many new companies these days are pretty easy to re-create once you have a working model to look at - ie. a less competent progr…

It's a Google form that pipes into a spreadsheet. We can't really control the display of the * but its important that they are all marked as required so it won't let you submit the…

Our intentions are not financial (see the philosophy page). All of the mentors in Capital Factory are doing it because we love working with young entrepreneurs. We've all built and…

We're just doing 3 companies this year because it's the first year and we want to start simple and make sure each company gets lots of attention. We'd like to see it grow to 10 com…

Thanks for the feedback Owkaye - the current website is just a Typepad blog that we threw up for the launch, but we have a designer doing a custom template for us that should be up…