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Musicians and film production companies need to start acting more like tech startups. Bootstrap, find an audience (traction), raise funding to pay for production costs (friends, fa…

Hey everyone: I'm writing to the group to see if anyone has any advice or can assist me with the following... I am an employee of a small technology business that develops mobile a…

Hello everyone. I'm a product manager who works for a small internet company that is developing an iPhone application for a social network. We monetize by offering limited and prem…

Here's a diagram of the fund structures: http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ikea-...

where is your contact information on your executive summary?

drew: i'm in boston. here's a project i'm working on: http://www.slideshare.net/rcmorin/say-hi-presentation let's connect. rcmorin (at) gmail.com

I'd ask myself a blunt question: why do I need this guy? Why am I so attracted to this compelling idea? If you're a smart engineer, you can be the idea generator and the coder. Tha…

Tom excellent point. There is a huge market for innovation in the enterprise space. At the financial services company I work for, the average employee uses about 25 applications an…

Of course they do. Sure, co-founders can fight over product design, what type of pizza to order for lunch, or which programming language to use, etc. But where I've seen most start…

I'd go further. Patents are nice to haves for VCs and investors and look pretty on glossy business plans (look at our shiny algorithms and wireframes!). Don't bet the success of yo…

There is never an "easy" way to do this. But in the early stages of your venture, there should be very few battle making decisions. Lead by persuasion and team-building. You're onl…

lucifer - I'd turn the tables on this deal. What is the value proposition of the non-technical co-founder? What is he bringing to the table? Money, ideas, customers, investors, par…

A single, non-technical founder comes up with a startup idea and recruits an offshore development team to build version 1. The product is popular and 10,000 users sign up and feedb…

Hi ivan. Drop me a note if you're interested in mobile startups. We use a hybrid of back-end "cloud" services for the back-end: GAE (Python), Amazon SQS for message routing, and an…

In Cambridge/Central Square. Perhaps we can coordinate something on meetup for Boston. rcmorin [at] gmail

I thought I'd start a thread for prospective YC winter '10 applicants to share their response to the question: What is your company going to make? Perhaps we could use this as an o…

Cambridge, MA mobile startup here. Our dev team is located abroad, graphic designer in Silicon Valley, and we could use the additional dev help (front-end/server-side) in Boston to…

Thanks, Joe. Again, the behavior of this age group is very concerning to me. I'm 26 and don't remember these problems with AIM when that was in its heyday. Or maybe I'm just cluele…

Thanks paul. I think the most immediate answer is: improve the product and keep pumping out features. In the short-term our costs are really under control. I apologize if my initia…

Of course, thanks jhancock. In the end, the total initial capital (pocket money, friends/family round, and credit) was comparable to the amount invested using the YC seed formula o…

Correct: we are a chat message application. You can find friends and exchange messages with online/offline users based on location-based proximity. Offline messaging is available i…

Thanks, tptacek. Actually from a founder's perspective, my BATNA is maintaining the day job and surviving on Ramen noodles. Which in the short-term is a distraction but can keep th…

Thanks Micah. The free version was dropped very quickly...although it was exciting to be in the top 25 free downloads for those few days. It was an experiment to get some sort of q…

Thanks for your well thought out comments, cmos. And I apologize for not including the link in the original posting! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...…

Thanks for your reply, Jacques. This was helpful. We released on GAE and we're also using Amazon SQS. At our peak load, we were getting over 1.5-2k users streaming in during the in…