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rksprst

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About rksprst

Co-Founder at [Stealth] Travel Startup Co-Founder at SocialBlaze, Acquired in June 2011

http://twitter.com/alexkaminski http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkaminski http://www.alexkaminski.org

Contact: alex[dot]kaminski[::at::]gmail.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29259604

    I don't think your example works - when a valuable item is broken beyond repair that is a fact (based on known physics / science). If I snap a ruler into two pieces I know there is…

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    Comment #7342632

    Why is FB login required? I was going to purchase, but don't want to link my FB profile.

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    Comment #4460923

    You're right physicians as a rule generally dislike software like that (partly because of their egos and distrust of software and partly because of job security). There are so many…

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    Comment #4460839

    Something similar does already exists, telemedicine. A lot of hospitals are starting to experiment with consulting via telemedicine (with robots for instance for video communicatio…

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    Comment #4394326

    In the tweet display guidelines: "No other social or 3rd party actions may be attached to a Tweet." https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-guidelines Wonder if that means 3rd party …

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    Comment #3650482

    Companies have gotten acquired for very low or no revenue. In that case, you'd make nothing off the sale. If you'll be a co-founder, ask for equity (50%). Or if he's looking at you…

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    Comment #3519972

    Great idea - nice when you've just launched. FYI, GetClicky does this as well as part of their Spy section.

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    Comment #3103971

    It is common for a business to rely on it's own plans. It is uncommon (or at the very least a bad business decision) for a business to reply on the plans of another business.

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    Comment #3100878

    "If everything goes as planned" is not something any business can rely on.

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    Comment #3100440

    Yep, founders+investors win. Customers lose. I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.

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    Comment #3100421

    Great to see a fellow startup get acquired. But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will …

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    Comment #2787597

    Somewhat similar functionality to http://www.stiqr.com/ Although for stiqr would work even if you don't know HTML/CSS. Wish the stiqr guys had a bit more exposure. Awesome product.…

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    Comment #2685896

    Microsoft has key-value database on Azure as Azure Tables. They also have Azure SQL which is different than just SQL Server (though very similar).

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    Comment #2655457

    No, you can actually run Ruby on Rails, and other languages on Azure. That's a goal for them, actually. It's not only access to the storage API.

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    Comment #2576600

    Hulu plus works on the iPad.

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    Comment #2486757

    A "no" to what question? A detailed blog post will be coming soon with why we're selling, what we did, etc.., if that's what you're looking for. Some of this info is in comments or…

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    Comment #2486703

    What I posted on the Flippa site: To make showing the stats easiest, I'll focus on the past 90 days: From Jan 25 to Aprl 24, we've had 1916 unique visits. The average time per visi…

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    Comment #2486692

    It's not an auction on Flippa. It's a private sale; meaning people make offers and we accept the one we like. We did this because we want to make sure the product goes to someone w…

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    Comment #2486674

    I just left a comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486586 In terms of the price; the $20,000 is just the minimum offer. It will take at least $500,000 in development …

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    Comment #2486586

    We've been working on Socialblaze for over a year. We strongly believe in the product and have users who would attest to how critical/useful it has been for them. We have a very st…

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    Comment #2394103

    Be clear on what you want. If you want funding, specifically ask for it.

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    Comment #2366416

    Android Marketplace and Amazon's App Store.