As entrepreneurs at what point do you decide that Amazon is "too big" and do you decide to stick with smaller service providers? Is your use of Amazon strictly a commodity provider?
As an entrepreneur do you also use other entrepreneur's/start-up's services or just rely on the big (market share) players in the market? A startup is hard so do you go out of your way to help support other smaller service providers?
If you have an opportunity to support competition in the marketplace by not flocking to the lowest price(Walmart) but paying a bit more for a smaller service, do you make that sacrifice?
Knowing that NearlyFreeSpeech.Net appears to offer similar functionality, why choose a larger provider like Amazon if you have the mindset of a founder?
Nah, the only reason to go with a startup is if it's better than the big guys, or you need personalized service, or you think they'll move much faster than the big guys, and it would block you otherwise.
If they're not much, much better than the incumbents they're competing with, they're going to go out of business, leaving you with a broken dependency.
Better customer service. Small companies usually make it possible to get to speak to a real (and knowledgeable) person quickly in case of a problem. They really value their customers because they have a problem when they leave.
Try doing that with juggernauts such as Google or Amazon.
This is the product from someone with a doctorate in neuroscience? So much for moving the human collective forward. Now I don't feel so bad about the kids coming out with undergraduate CS degrees feeling like they don't know how to program.
I don't use Facebook but I do use Twitter. I do love games. What is it in regards to social networks, games and the idea of positive reinforcement am I missing with this project?
Well, it is cloying and silly. But it has something many, many games do not: actual feedback. So many have none at all, or unrelated to real positive values.
I wonder if it will be 'gameable' - elementary school kids giving one another stars to pump their stats.
I don't see the big deal; it's cosmetic. The logo's easy to remove. I can't imagine significant damages. Legal issues are only a problem when the content is infringing, such as video uploads.
Hi. We're Chris (@chrisbaglieri), John (@codingjester), Josiah (@bluepojo), and Aaron (@aaronfeng). This company was born over the course of 54 hours at Philadelphia Startup Weekend.
The emails will be used once and only once, to announce when we're open to the public.
Interesting blog post about the use of an "opinionated" Perl web framework versus the long existing mantra of TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It).
Irrelevant to most, but the tangled mess of network cables behind the "Woz" in the interview really ticks me off. I'd love to have a word with the network folks there.
It was filmed at the Computer History Museum, so it's like that on purpose. Though, it doesn't look like this is the one, I know that they have one of Google's original racks which looks about as messy. (as seen here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/building-a-computer...)
