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ssazesh | 12 years ago | on: Watch a Startup Party in Slow Motion

This is awesome! How did you shoot this?

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: FreedomCP private beta: SaaS control panel for Python & PHP apps on Ubuntu

Looks awesome!

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: Ribbon Raises $1.6M, Launches New Way To Take Payments In The Facebook News Feed

This looks awesome!

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day

Great group of companies! Proud to be part of this class.

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: WordCount.is

Good stuff Joel! This is clean.

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you hire freelance designers?

My experience with quality designers on dribbble is that they don't take on very small jobs. They get hit up a lot so you have to appear worthwhile ($$$). Here is the email I used to reach out and got 8 responses contacting 12 designers:

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Hi [name],

I'm the co-founder of [startup]. I saw your work on Dribbble - impressive! We are looking to do a design overhaul and I wanted to chat to see if this is something you would be interested in.

Would you have some time this week to jump on a skype call?

Thanks

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Your project could be too small for them to respond. Have you considered 99designs or using Elance, Odesk, etc?

ssazesh | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you reach out to customers without being spammy

I would look for vendors who supply equipment/materials for micro-brewers, and tell them what you're trying to do. It's in their interest to help their customers get funded so they can become better customers. You could give them something to hand out, ask them to make a referral, etc. If you found an online vendor, you might be able to negotiate a banner on their site.