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I had a startup called lowpenny.com that was very similar to CarWoo (before CarWoo) except we charged the auto dealers to use our system instead of charging users which is what Car…

Ian, Braintree is inexpensive, I would recommend you bite the bullet and integrate with them from the start. If a customer is willing to invest their data with you or rely on your …

It would not surprise me if there was a correlation between the two. I was a professional recording musician (saxophone) before I was a professional programmer. Writing music can b…

I am really surprised the by the reception here on HackerNews. Tim has a few hacks for the human body and knows how to market it well. That is all.

I work from anywhere in the world and can move to most large cities and get a job! Life is pretty cushy and safe. Irony is I reject this security for starting companies and working…

The comments on the bottom of this article are worse than the pictures.

Depends on your product. A 37signals strategy would be to bootstrap it and charge for your product (works well with b2b). Or do what Facebook initially did which was start with no …

There was an interesting Ask HN poll and disucssion on this a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584863

Metaconginiton or as the author calls it, "thinking about thinking" sounds like intelligence to me. Self-control is mentally controlling yourself. It takes an active, thinking, con…

Mike Rowe spoke on this during his TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...