takrupp

We are three entrepreneurs running three small businesses from two apartments in a building very accessible to New York city. One of the rooms is opening up and we'd love to have a fellow entrepreneur join us. What we offer: - Free High Speed Internet - Free landlines - Wireless access everywhere in the apartments, with network printer and scanner. - Multiple, great workspaces with lots of light. - A room with in-suite loft (Can have a personal office as well as a bed in your private room) - Private roof deck access (also has internet) with Manhattan/Statue of Liberty views (Great for working in the summer) - Video Conferencing / Media watching in our projector equipped room. - Room is mostly appointed with bed and desk (can be removed if you have your own gear) - No need for credit check or proof of income (Rare in the NY area, but we will want some assurances you can pay the rent) - Very affordable - Only need to pay rent. - Easy access to NYC - 15min to WTC, or 20min to 33rd st / 6th Ave via Grove Street Path Train.

What we are looking for: - Strong preference for freelancers or business owners that are Raman (rent) profitable. - Strong preference for programmers - We like social people who enjoy networking events and coming up with new ideas as well as executers who have proven track records. - Cool with having the occasional border hang out for the weekend (we had a few people we met from SXSW work out of our space this year).

Why Jersey City: - Great for starting businesses: Better taxes than NY, cheap individual health care, easy to register businesses and all taxes are online. - Very close to NYC - Great community, with lots of local activities (Volleyball, Kickball), art shows, underground movies and parties.

Who are we: - We are three guys supporting each other through three different businesses including recruitment, online retail, and internet marketing. We can trade services, if applicable. - We are still startups, but have been profitable for over 2 years now. - We have a great network in the NY area. - We love executing on profitable ideas. - We are all in our late 20s.

Email me at takrupp@gmail.com if interested. We can be flexible on move in date from immediate to 2-3 months out.

We are looking for someone in SEO to work on our online retail site. We got semi-burned by the last group we worked with (they over promised), so I want to get HN's thoughts on doing SEO before selecting someone.

Would appreciate thoughts on who has worked for you, how to best pick an SEO contractor or any SEO people out there: We have money, a good little niche, if you would take on another client.

Thanks!

One of our businesses is a hookah shop, where we manufacture a portable style hookah (http://hobohookah.com). Our first one was silver, the second one black and now we want to add 1 or 2 new colors.

What are your favorite product colors? Couple of rules: 1) I need a Pantone Code, if at all possible. 2) Extra points if the color was implemented on anodized aluminum.

Our product uses the same aluminum anodizing process to add color as Apple does for its iPods. If anyone has the Pantone Codes for Apple's current product lines, those would be helpful!

Thanks!

We are a small, but successful e-commerce site and we have distributors now in 5 different regions. The regions are all country specific and it is very important for our relationships with our distributors that traffic in one country gets redirected to the right country website.

Basically, want we want is if a user is coming from Canada, they go to our .ca domain. If they are in the UK or Western Europe they go to a .co.uk domain, and all customers in Latin America go to .com.br domain. All other traffic needs to just go to the .com domain.

We are on a pretty locked down shopping cart system and we need to preserve our SEO standings for the .com domain.

What I'm looking for is perhaps a plugin or applet that when a user goes to the .com domain if they are in one of the other regions they are redirected or a pop appears that tells them which site to go to.

Anything boilerplate out there that will do this for us? Any other solutions? Also, if they search our brand name and are in Canada, will the .ca domain be automatically at the top? Or will the .com domain, which has tons of links and content on it, always supersede the weaker country specific domains?

We've been testing an app that determines news the second it appears online.

Since our new version is up, one major US news event has happened which is the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel.

We broke this story at 1:07PM EST on September 1st, 2010. We need to determine when other sources also published this event.

Any idea? How do I go about this?

Hey everyone,

We have a news related startup using a unique algorithm and right now we are trying to back test it against competing news organizations.

Yesterday, you all may have heard, there was a hostage situation at the Discovery Channel building. Our software picked up the story at 1:07pm EST. News reports say that the gunman entered the building at 1pm EST.

My question is: First, does anyone know if 1pm is accurate? I find it hard to believe he entered the building at exactly 1pm, but thats what all of the sources say.

Second: How can I find out when news organizations first reported the story after the fact? We are working on automating this using the NYT API, but thats not working now, and I'd like to find out how competitive our app is sooner rather than later.

It looks like we beat @BreakingNews though, this was their first tweet on the story: "Discovery Channel building near Washington evacuated after reports of gunfire, man with explosives"

Thanks!

I'm a techie and looking for a sweet place for a honeymoon. My girl and I are travelers, we've been to Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and throughout the US.

She is a a school teacher (has July off, the month we'll have off), so what do we do or where do we go? It has to be crazy for us travelers, and more importantly special. Who has a place or a special idea?

Like a lot of entrepreneurs who are revenue positive, we have excess cash on hand. Given the crazy markets, we don't really want to hold equities and probably not most debt either (treasuries or otherwise). Where is everyone putting their money? Anyone tried foreign currencies (like Canada's or Brazil's)? How about gold? And how do you even make such investments? I know there are a lot of scammy companies out there peddling gold and currencies and would like a recommendation on who's trustworthy.

We run a couple of businesses with one of them being pretty phone intensive. We have 5 employees now and are looking to upgrade our telephone system.

Current setup: - Panasonic 2-line cordless phone (3 handsets plus base station) - Comcast Digital Voice

Needs for new setup: - Must support 4-lines plus. - Should be easy to install, hopefully wireless (I dont want to run a bunch of RJ11 or even 45 anywhere in the space, less wires the better) - Standard PBX functions: Hold music, extensions, call forwarding, conference calling - Preferably something expandable - We need 4 lines now, but it would be great to be able to build the same system out to 6 or 8+ lines.

I've been considering setting up a Asterisk PBX on an old netbook and then buying a few CISCO IP phones, connect them to a wireless router and then have a couple of cordless IP phones for roaming around the site. I think to do this though Ill need to get a new VOIP provider (I dont think Comcast will let me do this). This solution also seems pretty overkill and technically challenging. An easier solution would be very welcomed.

Ideally we'd spend around $1000 on the hardware, and under $200 per month for 4 phone lines. Thanks!