Calling from the registered phone number and verifying address is all you need to get OnStar to unlock your car (I am not sure if its still the case now, but it was the case two years ago).
Same thing for username and password. That's all you need to log into their app. Not sure about failed attempts, but there are no other authentication methods.
OnStar by GM has many of these features (app, location, unlock, customer service representative can unlock etc.). I don't think there is a recorded hijack/hack there too.
I will add to that - use FB ads just for retargeting, because it is relatively cheaper, and you know these are interested users.
There is a cool YC startup https://www.perfectaudience.com/ that does just that.
You cannot afford to worry about patents now. Just avoid them altogether.
Also, just don't look anything up, or send emails to your co-founder / or anyone else specifying any patents. Because if you will get sued, you will have to disclose those emails in discovery. And violating a patent knowingly is a whole different story than violating it unknowingly.
By default, these messages will not go to their inbox. It will go to the "other" box (aka spam :) so unless the user will go in and check it manually they will never see it (no notifications etc.)
Awesome!! Feature suggestion: keyword search on top of it. e.g. I can search "call" to get all the domains that has "call" in them in order of pronounceability.
Thats Detroit proper (do not move to downtown Detroit or Flint :) but the cities around Detroit are good, and I don't know much about the schools there but it's worth looking into.
Oakland County has some of the richest cities in the US (a lot of old money) so you can easily find a nice city around Detroit that will be cheap and still very protected.
Probably Detroit or its peripheral cities (there are some nice ones, Birmingham, Royal Oak and more). Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) is trying to revive downtown and investing in new startups.
Also it's only 45min away from Ann Arbor which is an awesome city.
You can rent an apartment for the cost of monthly parking in SF :)
"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." - Lao-Tzu
Do not look up patents as a strategy. Its a whole different lawsuit if you infringed intentionally (and you don't want to get there). If it ever gets to that, they can force you to disclose in discovery.
Just ignore patents. Patents are only good as their enforcer and if you did not know, it's much easier to work things out (give or take :)..
Once you grow, register your own stuff (you will have, trust me), every idea can have a lot variations of claims that were not claimed before. Get a good patent attorney and you'll be fine.
Agreed, and since the other comments are also right about the value of a degree. Tell them that if you won't get the salary you want you will go back to school. Its a win win for you (and you should follow through)..