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Definitely, I think it's the main thing I heard from speaking with investors; you have to be really authentic and the problem you're solving has to be personal. It was what really …

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We just finished the incubator program with i/o ventures ( http://ventures.io ) I think it's certainly a different experience that you would get from YC. The biggest reason why I w…

I am still waiting for the day someone takes down opentable. I'm at an incubator right now, and one of the partners had suggested we compete with them head-on because they operate …

Nice to see, clearly I didn't read that when I applied =)

I like the comparison of the arts industry to the technology industry. The same can be said for finance and consulting industries. I feel there has been a complete loss of the appr…

Craigslist allows posting through it's api for housing things, guessing that's how airbnb does it. If you've ever used thumbtack, a marketplace for services, they have an auto post…

I would actually be interested in not how did you get your first customer, but how did you get the ones after that. We launched just like the usual via TechCrunch and Wired, so we …

I can just imagine that reporters are just going to be flying in and out now so they can get some create articles and stories from all of this

I am, but that's because our costs are incredibly low. I have a team of 3 with a monthly burn total of $1,000. We have our seed funding from i/o ventures. Company is called Skyara …

Very vague on what your service is. If it's possible, I would actually just let them use it for free and use it as a case study to reach out to other larger potential partners. If …