October 2013
Blog entries
- 1st: How can I print out USA postage stamps online using a credit card with a non-US address?
- 2nd: Is Quora an effective tool for participating in realtime conversations at SXSW?
- 2nd: Why are so many YCombinator startups focussed solving logistics, marketplaces or business problems rather than true hardcore engineering problems?
- 2nd: What are some creative ways to pitch a new initiative to my team without slides?
- 3rd: What are the best ways to get traffic to my SAAS project management app?
- 4th: What information do you feel is most valuable when integrating a Web API (REST or SOAP)?
- 6th: What are some good examples of tweets used to attract visitors to a new website?
- 6th: Does Twitter still care about Tweetdeck?
- 6th: Where can I sell the tickets of a conference I won't be attending?
- 7th: How can I get access to the PHP script of websites like Dropbox?
- 10th: What is the most succinct definition of a JavaScript callback, being more elaborative than simply "A function that calls another function."?
- 10th: If one were to bring the concept of Twitter to a VC today, would it be invested in, or turned away?
- 11th: How can Google's Zopfli compression algorithm be implemented in Django's cache system?
- 12th: Will there still be opportunities for web agencies in North America in 10 years?
- 13th: I have an offer from an angel, but just landed a 5 minute meeting with a big time VC. Do I try use the offer from the angel to my advantage, if so, how?
- 13th: How can I produce an animated prototype out of designs for an iOS app?
- 13th: Is it worth it for an aspiring web developer in NYC to attend the San Francisco Startup Jobs Fair in November? What I mean is what are my chances that a company would be interested in me, allowing that my code skills are up to snuff, if I don't live ...
- 15th: What are some creative way-finding methods for events? Besides the usual signs.
- 17th: What is the best framework to use, Yii or Ruby on Rails?
- 18th: What are some strategies for scaling sites & infrastructure so global response times are relatively close to US response times?
- 18th: Is it normal for conferences to charge a registration fee from selected authors?
- 18th: What are the best ways to find online serious partners ready to outsource mobile app development company?
- 19th: Why do programmers tend to fall in love with non-mainstream languages?
- 19th: Using userstream to listen to events for each user doesn't seem practicable for an application with thousands of users.
- 19th: Which free encyclopedias offer free APIs?
- 19th: How did the big players on the web promote themselves in the early days?
- 19th: What should be my minimum requirements for a cutting edge SaaS business product?
- 19th: What prevents founders from taking blown up salaries?
- 19th: Is it possible to build an application that can consolidate tweets from multiple Twitter accounts into a single stream?
- 19th: Which is the most complete and up to date API for restaurants/nightlife?
- 20th: Outside of hotels, what are some good SF venues to host small conferences?
- 20th: Why was the popular Silicon Valley incubator named Y Combinator?
- 20th: Is it realistically possible to work for a startup like Medium with little to no coding and programming knowledge?
- 20th: Is it possible for anybody to be expert in all areas of software development, that includes database, backend, web frontend, mobile apps, and graphic design?
- 20th: Did you submit a proposal for a conference before you actually learned/understood the topic you've proposed to talk about?
- 20th: How could we using couchbase with binary document as value?
- 20th: How many cups of coffee can a venture capitalist drink in one work day?
- 21st: What are prominent examples for remote work besides 37Signals, Github and Automattic?
- 21st: Is GitHub a reliable tool if I want to upload all the non-proprietary scientific computing code I have from my hard drive?
- 21st: Does GitHub hire developer advocates? If so, how do you go about applying to be one?
- 21st: For a Django application, deployed on Heroku, what are my options for storing user-uploaded media files?
- 21st: What are the differences between "forking," "cloning," and downloading the project as a zip file on GitHub?
- 22nd: How can one become a masterful Rails developer (and still have a life)?
- 22nd: What should the CEO's salary be in a startup seeking seed capital? Is there an average number?
- 23rd: What email marketing tool does Goop, InsideHook and other popular newsletters use?
- 23rd: Why can't Twitter Web Intent pages be loaded into an iframe?
- 23rd: Who would like to help set up a Wordpress site that is event focused?
- 23rd: What do you do when you passionately believe in what you're doing and have been seeing strong customer validation, but people around you constantly diss it? How do you persevere without a support system?
- 23rd: It is posible to send an RSS feed to Twitter geolocalized?
- 24th: What is way that android connect to Oracle database?
- 24th: If you're starting a website as a product, what are the important things to consider for the domain and how important are they? Ex: effect of being .com, .net or .io etc., and is it okay to have a hyphen in the name?
- 24th: Why did Facebook remove their hamburger navigation and go back to docked tabs in their mobile app?
- 24th: Why is it important to expand/upgrade my professional network?
- 25th: Y Combinator: I want to apply to YC and I have 5 people on my team. we have two founders one technical and one designer but on our application I want to only include our three programmers one being a founder. Is this frowned upon at YC and does it hu...
- 25th: What is the role of angel investors? Do they help people who find themselves in financial difficulty relating to a business failure?
- 25th: How do I explain my patchy job history to a VC when pitching investment?
- 25th: What company or service sends the most beautifuly designed emails?
- 26th: Does y combinator review applications in the order they were received? If you apply just right before the deadline should you not expect your app to be reviewed before next week?
- 26th: Would you test your web app against simulated infrastructure failure?
- 27th: What kind of website can be run on AWS for 10, 100, 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, 1 million dollars per month?
- 27th: What are the most "New Yorkers" experiences you can do in London?
- 27th: What exactly the error meaning client closed prematurely connection while sending to client from upstream in nginx?
- 27th: Why didn't Apple release a gold (champagne) iPad?
- 27th: What are movie scenes where the hero hurtles from high-up to Earth and nearly dies, but is saved somehow?
- 28th: Which event gave you a real happiness?
- 28th: What are some of the best offbeat attractions in London?
- 29th: Why doesn't Yelp require a login? Is there evidence that suggests that acquiring users at the engagement stage versus initial landing is effective in specific markets?
- 29th: Do you need the feature in Dropbox mobile app that allows using the chosen files in offline mode? Why?
- 29th: Are there more annual TED and TED-related conferences than there are days in the year?
- 29th: What design techniques does Apple use in the introduction page of iPad Air?
- 29th: What are good topics for panel discussions?
- 29th: Will it ever be possible to know all the variables involving a specific chaotic event, like the lottery numbers?
- 29th: Http://www.theacademyofbusinessstrategy.com? I've been contacted by this ABS to pursue some kind of degree leading to lots of money. It definitely looks like a scam, but is it? Has anyone actually done business with them? Are they legit?
- 30th: What are most important websites, online sources of knowledge and news for startups?
- 30th: Is it possible to run a successful company without being unethical or operating on the fringes of the law?
- 30th: What is the Hacker News technology stack?
- 30th: For a 2-day developer conference in SF, which two days of the week are best?
- 30th: How was FriendFeed's schema less db faster than pure MySQL?
- 30th: Should I ever use GIF image format for non animated elements?
- 30th: Can I promote an online/virtual/ webinar event through Meetup?
- 31st: Is it common a Silicon Valley startup give employee free shares, or just option to purchase shares?
- 31st: My contract with web developer says a) she will create a unique description for each page, AND b) that she is not responsible for writing or inputting any content. Now she wants me to compose the page descriptions, citing (b). What do you think? Edit...
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