Comments and Moderation are a major pain point for people running community sites. In order to manage trolls (and spam bots), you had registrations on, and that really cut down on both the good and the bad ones participating. Still not nearly an effective solution.
I think this is a side effect of Facebook comments. I have noticed that whenever there is a "validated" commenting system, where the user cant just create a fake id and rant away, but is connected to his/her social profile somehow, the trolling rate drops significantly. And on the positive side, because there is a linkback to your entire social community about your viewpoint, it also extends the reach of your content among active users. Its a win-win from the content creators point of view.
It's not about carpooling, it's about communication. It's main intention is Corporate Pooling. It's about relating to people from different corporations.
The Model is slightly different. The process is split into two parts - the Resident where the focus is on customer validating your product, and the Accelerator Phase where teams are funded with $20,000 to a max of $50,000. The key metric against the Accelerator is also to enable the teams to get their first few anchor customers, so that they can get their "model" in place.
This is the pre-cursor to the programme. 8 months into the programme (since resident programme candidates will be first preference for the accelerator programme) the teams will be eligible for the investment.
It doesnt include accomodation. But we can probably help. The resident programme runs for about 6 months. The accelerator programme starts in November.
Well, thats the honest and straightforward way of calculating, but from a competitor standpoint, you wouldn't want to match feature to feature and then try to compete. You'd attack by taking over the disgruntled users first, and Google has done that well with Circles, and Privacy. Google has its own issues with acting like a drunken sailer kicking off people at whim. But I doubt it'd take 2 years - if G+ managers to build engagement and retention, they are good to go - but honestly, thats a battle for Google.
Absolutely. There is a lot of glamour with first mover advantage, but in today's world where iteration is what differentiates the survivor, the first mover has a hefty price to pay. That's another thought.
Indian Entrepreneur claims NY is better. New Yorkers are moving to the Valley cause things are better. Signs of an entrepreneur who cant spot an opportunity around and execute.
Zoho sits out of a city in India named Chennai (Not bangalore) and takes on Google. They make it happen as well. Some folks will always crib, even if life was handed to them on a platter.
We are taking the words of someone who can't even spell check, seriously?