I accidentally tweeted it. I didn't notice that the tweet button was checked as I published it. No one follows that blog except for a few close friends.
We are in the 500 Startups Summer accelerator class and are looking for talented front-end developers or designers. This is a great opportunity to join a startup at the ground floor and learn how to start and scale a company. Not to mention, you will be able to network with the 500 Startups mentors.
We are looking to hire both interns and full-time positions.
Your monetization strategy should be... if you're calling at&t about a service issue, verizon could pay to be notified with the opportunity to respond to the call first and win your business.
I think the biggest difference is the funding environment. In a way, it's a networks effect problem.
There are consumer Internet companies that made it big in the valley, in the process, creating millionaires who "get" consumer Internet. They then go on to create or fund other consumer Internet companies.
Meanwhile, in Boston, there hasn't been a significant consumer Internet exit.. at all? (Wow, I can't think of one right now) So the promising consumer Internet businesses and talent in Boston, who can't find the seed funding or the mentorship, move out to the valley.
I personally don't understand Bryce's action. If he doesn't believe in social proof, he should just invest independent of who else is investing. It seems a bit drastic to leave the service.
Also, Angel List doesn't push any investment philosophy, it just gives investors access to deals. As an investor, I would think that access to deal and information flow would be valuable assets.
I would try reaching out to the founders of these companies. They will recognize your email right away as a customer development effort and will sympathize with your cause since they were in your shoes one before.
One thing I've done in the past is just show up. I've found that people are more defensive on the phone since the only time we get calls from people we don't know is sales calls. Show up, ask to speak to them for 2 minutes if they are free and set up a meeting at a future time. If they aren't free, leave a handwritten note.
So... they own the stories we create? I was going to say, this would be a great way to write open source text books but not if Neovella owns the content.
"2. Copyright. The content, organization, graphics, design, and other matters related to and created in Neovella are protected under applicable copyrights and other proprietary laws, including but not limited to intellectual property laws. The copying, reproduction, use, modification or publication by you of any such matters or any part of Neovella is strictly prohibited, without our express prior written permission."
Well we won't sue anyone, but the idea is that once the site becomes competitive, we can start pushing the top neovellas through Amazon Singles and then use the percent share calculation we have to distribute a share (more than our own) of royalties back to the authors in proportion to their contributions to the entire collection of short stories.
Yup. This prevents me from considering using the site.
Also, it's probably not enforceable. You can't sign away your rights. Anything you write is YOUR copyright, not some machine's. They can say that have unrevokable rights to publish and distribute, but they can't take your rights away.
