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Re: That Time a Developer Stole My Idea and Made Millions

mikesabat — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:33:07 -0000

Believe it or not, I have been in a situation similar to story #1. To be clear, I definitely agree with the sentiment of the article nonetheless. The bigger lesson is that if you're moving quickly, smart, formidable and bringing value to the company - then stealing the idea shouldn't be possible or attractive.

The short version of the story is that someone that I met at a networking event built a scaled down version of my idea and it took off.

With my experience, I just couldn't get the idea off the ground. I stopped on the idea, it's not like the competition stopped me. The end result is that the product was developed and I became a user.

Re: Videos From The On-Demand Conference

mikesabat — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:57:32 -0000

Would love to get these as audio podcasts.

Re: Email Will Last Forever

mikesabat — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:17:06 -0000

Thanks for writing the article. I'm curious, why no mention of SMS? I'm not arguing that it could kill email, I'm wondering why it is disqualified out of the gate.

Re: Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

mikesabat — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:22:43 -0000

I think it's a play on Greed Is Good speech from Wall Street the movie.

Re: Integrating Stripe with Ruby on Rails Application

mikesabat — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:35:52 -0000

Should step 6 line 23 be handleStripeResponse: (status, response) ->

Adding the dash "-" I'm sure that is called something. I was getting an error and this seemed to fix it. Is it correct?

Re: One Month Rails

mikesabat — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:22:10 -0000

Really like the yelp idea. I'm in.

Re: One Month Rails | (30.) Pins Authorization Addendum

mikesabat — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:52:38 -0000

So I don't have much of a problem, just a note. When I am not logged in, I can edit and destroy the pins I created previously, without a user. I'm guessing this is because current_user == pin.user as they are both nil. Not a problem, because I assume will validate the presence of user_id soon enough on the Pin model. I just wanted to mention it.

If this is incorrect, please let me know.

Re: InstallRails

mikesabat — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:54:40 -0000

I actually figured it out on my own after a while longer. I got an error message about my YAML's. This helped with that. http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

Then I installed openssl, because that had been a problem before. https://coderwall.com/p/tptocq

Finally I installed rails with the directions on this page above.

Re: InstallRails

mikesabat — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:19:23 -0000

Thanks, Nick. I've got major problems, tried to reinstall brew and it's not working. I'm going to have some friends take a look.

Re: InstallRails

mikesabat — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:25:39 -0000

I got this error and went to the suggest Stack Overflow page.

When I run the command to update the certificates, I get this really long error - posted below. I got a new computer a week ago and have gotten this error trying to start the server on a different rails project. Really frustrating and I'm not sure what my first move is.

Error:

/Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- openssl (LoadError)

from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'

Updating certificates for /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem: Already are up to date.

/Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- openssl (LoadError)

from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'

Updating certificates for : Updating certificates in ''.
mkdir: : No such file or directory
mkdir: : No such file or directory
Can not create directory '' for certificates.
Failed.

--appreciate any help you can give

Re: Gyms

mikesabat — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:32:31 -0000

Wow, I just quit crunch. I was paying $100 per month, which was the going rate when I joined 18 months ago (now I feel suckered). Anyway, I went to the gym regularly and only quit because they canceled the boxing class I attended.

When I quit I told them flat out that I like the gym, but I didn't want to pay $100/month just to run on a treadmill. I figured they would at least try to reduce my rate to keep me. I can't believe the new signup rate is $70/month and they didn't even bring that up. Insane.

Re: La Cabrera

mikesabat — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:36:28 -0000

Hi-

thanks for all the info. I read AVC regularly and that's how I found your blog. My friends and I just arrived in BA this morning and this post helped us talk our friend out of La Cabrera. We are going to ballo del mattone instead.

We came from Uruguay and I read all ur BA posts on the boat over. It's amazing to see your post and then walk by the place a few hours later- it's like Deja vu. Just walked by Freddo.

Anything else in the city that we cannot miss?

Gracias,

mike

Re: Are you starting out in mobile? Here are some useful resources for you.

mikesabat — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:21:50 -0000

Hi Helen,

Here are a few more links.

Mobile Commons- mcommons.com - SMS messaging platform working mostly in the non-profit space. (disclaimer, I work here)

mobile2companies.com - wiki listing of many mobile 2.0 companies

textually.org

www.mobilewebanalytics.net/

Re: Interview In A Cab

mikesabat — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:46:26 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: The Hop-On $10 Anti-iPhone launches today

mikesabat — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:05:51 -0000

@ Simon
That was exactly my first thought. I know my number and I know my mom's cell phone number because she has had the same number for 12+ years. The concept for this product is good, but all I could do is order a pizza in 1998 - 216.524.4444

Re: One A Day

mikesabat — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:48:07 -0000

On the supply/retail side, woot is a great example of how 'One a Day' can be really effective.

I think it all boils down to creating scarcity for your product, like you said "you don't want to waste the opportunity". When there is a real limit, [certain time an item can be purchased, or a number of photos you can post today (or even in your entire lifetime)] it adds value.

Re: Taste Neighbors

mikesabat — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:59:23 -0000

Hey Fred,

At one of the meetups last month (think web2NY) I saw a company present their business for a site where users upload video reviews of products and places. At the time I thought it was OK, and while reading this post this company, again, popped in my head.

All the things you say in the post make sense, but I think we are hardwired to look/listen to someone for 3 seconds and we know if they are our taste neighbors.