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Or can every startup fake their way to traction _nowadays_?

Thanks for the great info.

prserve.com just quoted me sub-$1K for one story on a major tech media news site, pay only after the story goes live.

What I read from here so far makes the prserve deal a pretty good one, isn't it?

Thanks for the tip. So what should the budget be for something worthy?

Makes Groupon look good.

For a non-game app, how hard it is to use cross-platform tools such as Sencha/PhoneGap to develop for both Android and iPhone (and maybe even for tablet) at the same time?

At the moment we have 5 small Linode VPSes (1.5/1/1/768/768) for app/db/solr/redis/async-jobs and paying around $200/month.

I've been looking for alternatives, preferably hybrid dedicated/cloud with good RAM/IO for app/cache/db and cloud based storage. Rackspace seems to offer something like this, but at a higher price. Any other suggestions?

What is amazing is how much of those timeless insights is still relevant 6 years from its writing, or even 6 years from now into the future.

What is more amazing is even someone who possesses so much insights, has sufficient financial ammunition and more than enough connection and reputation couldn't make alltop.com a big success.

Great suggestion.

There is actually a list of filter keyword links right above the products. Those are the sample keywords that I want to prime my users, actually with "laptop" as the last keyword. Though I do know it's not obvious enough to most visitors.

The dilemma is if I start to promote things that _you_ care about, my existing users will feel that I'm turning my back on them and quickly drop off.

Geez, I wish I were Pinterest that only needs to serve 50-70 year old females forever :-P

How about comparing the number of real-life web applications (i.e., not counting final year projects) in each framework, or the number of users each of them serves?

BTW, I've been a long time Pyramid user (since the Pylons days) and can't be happier with my choice.

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Thank you for speaking my mind, sir.

A 5 for the article, and a 7 for the comments.

BTW, I myself is a Foundation user, mainly because of its better responsive design.

It all sounds good on paper, the only problem is: Can you name one very successful startup that initially focused on developing country and later took over the world? Why?

Hypothetical question: What if instead of being brewed in Harvard, Facebook started from a Latin America university? Will people flock to join this network when it expands out of its university? Will you?