Hey guys I'm busy flipping my convertible note into what I'm calling a "second seed" round from a bunch of big name Angels for my social-mobile startup and I was talking to an advisor (totally gonna be on the board when we get our Series A) about how its time to add a technical co-founder who can really take the lead on all the implementation stuff we've got in mind and I was wondering if anyone knew the best places to find technical co-founders who are interesting in joining a startup (no salary, 5%)?
Also if you have ideas for the product we should start with, we haven't decided yet, we just really wanna own the social mobile space.
edit: also, can anyone recommended the best bars and restaurants in nyc to network with other social mobile startups?
I'm still a bit hazy on how to define 'social mobile', can you explain just a tad more?
Also, so you have ideas, but no concrete product yet, what is the technical co-f going to be working on?
Funny, because I just shot a fellow HN'er an email commenting on his hyperlocal concept and it turned into a hyperlocal, 'social mobile' concept, if it does fit your definition of it.
I'm really disappointed by the state of Quora in the last week. There has been a flood of useless answers into once-useful questions and terrible questions into once-excellent topics. The state of the "Entrepreneurship" and "Startups" topics must be abysmal right now.
Quora could remedy this by identifying redundant questions for new posters. Let's say someone asks where to find the best technical founders in City A. Instead of accepting that question, Quora should suggest that they look at topics on "how to find technical founders" and "how to develop enough technical skills to produce a MVP." Many message boards use this right now.
I've only posted one (unique) question, so maybe Quora filters posts in this manner and I haven't come across it. Regardless, I'm amazed at how a crowd-sourced site can lose quality as it gains traction.
From what I understand, /b/ have been trolling Quora recently and quite enjoyed themselves doing so. Don't know how widespread it is.
I think Quora is okay - I don't recall all the answers being great ever - but people need to learn to understand to use the difference between a question comment and an answer soon.
Quora is definitely going to lose a lot of what makes it great if the developers don't come up with some filters.
That's the problem when a very niche and exclusive product gets mass adoption. Quality goes way down. That's how I felt about Yahoo answers. Their challenge is going to be how to drown/filter out the crap and keep it interesting or engaging.
There's a reason exclusivity works. That's one of the reasons I like Dribbble as a designer so much. The quality of the work is so high.
Maybe if Quora only let you invite people when enough people like your questions/answers that might work. I don't know how they could go back to that once they've opened the flood gates.
I find it painfully hard to post a question there, it's always pointing to some kind of error, but we get no feedback from the site to what is wrong...
Nice Idea but I think It will take some time to evolve into a nice business, it's like twitter, the business model there will be very confusing.
Romans used to use the ammonia in urine to clean sweat and salt off of clothes, and then a second round of sulphur would whiten the urine color off of the clothes. You'd have to have your clothes airing out for a year to get the stench out.
This guy should simply stop using Quora if he is pissed off by endless stream of discussions. Why go great lengths to mock it? I don't see any point in this effort.
It looks like they had fun making it. I plan to do a version for HN one day but generated using a Markov Model, with karma as the hidden variable. Just one of the many items on The List :)
[+] [-] cagenut|15 years ago|reply
Also if you have ideas for the product we should start with, we haven't decided yet, we just really wanna own the social mobile space.
edit: also, can anyone recommended the best bars and restaurants in nyc to network with other social mobile startups?
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[+] [-] phreanix|15 years ago|reply
Also, so you have ideas, but no concrete product yet, what is the technical co-f going to be working on?
Funny, because I just shot a fellow HN'er an email commenting on his hyperlocal concept and it turned into a hyperlocal, 'social mobile' concept, if it does fit your definition of it.
[+] [-] achompas|15 years ago|reply
Quora could remedy this by identifying redundant questions for new posters. Let's say someone asks where to find the best technical founders in City A. Instead of accepting that question, Quora should suggest that they look at topics on "how to find technical founders" and "how to develop enough technical skills to produce a MVP." Many message boards use this right now.
I've only posted one (unique) question, so maybe Quora filters posts in this manner and I haven't come across it. Regardless, I'm amazed at how a crowd-sourced site can lose quality as it gains traction.
[+] [-] kmfrk|15 years ago|reply
I think Quora is okay - I don't recall all the answers being great ever - but people need to learn to understand to use the difference between a question comment and an answer soon.
Quora is definitely going to lose a lot of what makes it great if the developers don't come up with some filters.
[+] [-] wushupork|15 years ago|reply
There's a reason exclusivity works. That's one of the reasons I like Dribbble as a designer so much. The quality of the work is so high.
Maybe if Quora only let you invite people when enough people like your questions/answers that might work. I don't know how they could go back to that once they've opened the flood gates.
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Nice Idea but I think It will take some time to evolve into a nice business, it's like twitter, the business model there will be very confusing.
Cheers from Brazil !
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and click "Email Settings" -> "User-related" and then uncheck "Someone starts following me"
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And once you take the piss out, they are less full of themselves...
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It might not be a particularly deep critique but it doesn't have to be.
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God what a nit-picking, humourless bunch we have here today!
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