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For the question:Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?I entered: Don't knowI can only see:DonI also tried Dont knowstill only see Don
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As answer for the question:If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take? I entered: 1 million all I can see is: 1
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Could we add a domain name that each post refers to. That way we could tell blog posts, from PG essays, from e-zine articles.
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You might also like http://mealticket.wordpress.com/, its the blog of kul's cofounder.
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Mealticket - Current YC company Boso blog about their experience
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I would quite like RSS feeds. Specifically I would like an RSS feed for individual users so that if I like all the links submited by a particular user I can follow them easily.
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If you don't already have a good co-founder, perhaps you are not yet ready to start a company. Try joining an existing startup instead. If it succeeds, that's great, but either way you've learned more about startups and hopefully met some people who would make good co-founders.
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Hmmm ... the author has nothing but praise for PG, but one of the main thrusts of his article was that college students should learn more Java and C#. Isn't that derided as blub programing languages around here?
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And support paragraphs! Most informative, insightful comments take more than a couple of sentences. Currently, that makes them unreadable.
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Google TechTalks - Municipal Wireless
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Avis 3G-to-802.11 bridge
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I read reddit almost exclusively through their RSS feed. Its a critical function for any site... what site owner wouldn't want to broadcast to an Opt-In audience of passionate users?
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I find the most valuable part of this article the link at the bottom pertaining to questions cofounders should mull over before entering the venture together (For ease: http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/99/Important-Questions-Startup-Co-Founders-Should-Ask-Each-Other.aspx). I have had a struggle finding cofoun...
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Interesting. Perhaps they should be performing traffic analysis to see who's busy, and who's not?I love to debate (reddit has saved my wife a regular earful), but I can't imagine surfing when I'm really "in the zone". I tend to do more directed documentation queries and explicitly avoid sites like reddit where ...
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I think the problem is that there are a lot of very smart people who are good at talking and generating ideas, but not so good at implementation.If they're not regularly "going dark", they may not have the focus to succeed at a startup.
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That was a bug, not a design choice; I just fixed it.
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Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code). Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?
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You make a good point, although it is my experience that MIT does not echo Paul's feelings with regards to programming languages. There is obviously the group of hackers at CSAIL (Sussman et al.) that swear by LISP and the functional paradigms in general, but almost every class that involves a large amount of programmi...
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Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code). Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?
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Adam's startup is making software that works closely with Outlook. In that sort of application it might make sense to use Java or C#.
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Dan thats probably jason fried of 37signals
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We never proposed there was no lower bound; the goal was more to discover where it was. And we now have, I think. Though in fact the main thing we discovered was how fuzzy it is. There really are people who can start a startup when they're 19. Sam Altman, the founder of Loopt, was 19. But for most people the lower ...
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This is weird. I believe you, but I can't reproduce it. Can you send me an email at pg@ycombinator.com?
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Getting Real: Free Book by 37signals
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I can't find the reference now, but I *think* I've just read something suggesting that the install process for an Apollo applet will involve an "install-this-application?" confirmation dialog followed by a download of 30 seconds or so. If so then Apollo's less promising than I hoped. That kind of install may be...
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Have you used it yourself? It looks like just another webbased OS.
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Modal Box: easy Javascript popups
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I don't know about the US, but in my country (The Netherlands) nobody has ever heard of Craigslist but a lot of people DO know eBay. I'm pretty sure this is in the same in many other countries and perhaps in the US too.Sure, Craigslist may earn more with their fees.. but eBay can (easily) change their system to reflect...
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A bit offtopic but, does stating your application is "Web 2.0-ready" really help? I'm tired of everyone calling their website web2.0-ready although most of the time it looks like they don't have a clue what they are talking about. It could be me though.
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With Craiglist (San Diego) I've managed to find two apartments, two jobs, and a plethora of unnecessary information that titillates my mind. All I got from eBay was a Lord of the Rings replica sword for my boyfriend, and I had to pay for it. Hands down, Craiglist rocks...although my girlfriend would agrue in favor of e...
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This is a great book. All of the advice in t is either excellent or at least thought-provoking. Highly recommended.Now, that being said, I did order a dead tree version through the Lulu.com store (very nice store, by the way) and while I love the construction and print quality of the book, the internal page layout and ...
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It wouldn't work to assemble teams of cofounders. A startup puts such strains on your friendship that you need it to be an established one.
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10 Ways to Make Money Online
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which ones are you thinking about?
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editor: vi, ide: repl
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If the startup fails then you'll have been working with other passionate people who are likely to be willing to give it another try. Perfect for cofounders.There are online cofounder finder services available such as http://www.buildv1.com/ but I have yet to hear of any succesful partnership coming out of them. Best to...
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Lightspeed Venture Grants
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Project Aardvark - Movie and blog series about a group of interns creating a new product for Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek
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It's good to see someone wondering about what to do to encourage younger founder in the more risk averse EU. Events like Barcamps and future of web apps are doing a great job of raising awareness and bringing the local startup communities together. One of the most interesting problems that Saul has raised is finding th...
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Aye, sounds like chapter five from Getting Real possibly, "Start with No":http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_Start_With_No.php
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Quick and dirty solution is to add a quick description to the end of the title
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Movers 2.0: Follow the Web 2.0 traffic trends
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Skills but need a cause? Neurotech of meaning
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Having been part of a few startups before, I it definately easier to do it with a partner(s). I'm currently doing my latest startup alone - but I dont' consider myself alone. I have two great programmers, even though they are working for me...I treat them like co-founders, we discuss everything not just technical is...
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eBay could change their fees to reflect Craigslist's? you mean eBay could make 90% of their site free to use?hmm i'm not sure how well that would go down with their shareholders!
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Sometimes it's not extremely expensive to get started, but it very time consuming. Does that mean you’re more/less committed than another entrepreneur who has spent a ton of money getting a company rolling? I think a person’s answer to these questions can tell what they value more. Additionally, I always have a hard...
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Wisdom Of Crowds: ABC7 Futures Market
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Tough AI problem -> game -> surfers will solve for free!
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Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other
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Great notes from a smart man. Del.icio.us has been one of my all time favorite sites because of its ease of use and simplicity.
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http://www.buildv1.com/ may be what your looking for.
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Stake Your Claim with Copyright
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I wouldn't underestimate the value of the gmail API and set of mailbox migration tools. That and a promise of three-nines uptime.I'm guessing they're going to make it easy to tie GMail into existing enterprise systems.All in all, I think it's a very compelling offering.
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#5 Source for cofounder - news.ycombinator.com :)
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The Long tail and Mobile Web 2.0 applications
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"It's a tool. The community can grow elsewhere." Agree or disagree? Is creating community a concern any web startup can afford to ignore?
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EDIT: I should have said this is a submit article bookmarklet. I'm working on trying a like/dislike.I've just made a realy quick and dirty bookmarklet. It's only tested in firefox 2 and it's not quite how I would like it to work but it's a start. I'll hopefully update it later to work better. Just add the following URL...
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Atom or RSS support.
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Facebook: Big, Sticky, & Growing
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This was in fact a bug. It's now fixed. Sorry about that.If anyone cares, it was because the http server is also written in Arc, on top of MzScheme, and we misread the MzScheme doc on make-limited-input-port to believe that limit-k referred to k of bytes. In fact it refers to bytes. So while we thought we were capp...
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ideas are just a multiplier of execution
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It depends a lot on the site. Theres far too many sites that just add community features when its not needed. My friends are on facebook and twitter, they dont need to be anywhere else. So judge it based on your app. Is the hassle of adding your friends to the site going to be far smaller than the benefit?
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ideas.yc.com. we've all got more ideas than time, and it's a shame to let them languish in our individual imaginations. so how about creating a public clearinghouse for ideas where they're a) subject to reddit-esque competition, and b) "open source" -- available for anyone to pursue.it'd be a meme pool.
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hey, look at that... line breaks! =)
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When they bought Odeo back from investors they admitted that they werent they're own users and that this had been a mistake. Selling on to someone passionate about podcasting makes a lot more sense. Personally I would love to see the performance and internationalisation of twitter being concentrated on more isntead.
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Gates vs. Jobs
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OnStartups is a great startup blog, expect a lot more of their articles to be posted here.
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Dang, after only three days we already have YouTube videos on the front page. (I voted it up though.)
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Heh, you beat me to that comment. Anybody want to post an xkcd comic? It's a realy good video but I decided to like it on reddit instead.It seems the conversations I had at barcamp London and with the digg guys at FOWA are right- the only way to keep a community good is to keep it small and niche.
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Sam Altman finally gets decent pic in publication
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Has anyone considered applying to YC 07 with the idea of creating another Y Combinator? Passing a Y Combinator to itself..
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It seems a reasonable model to say that outcome = idea x execution, but there's no reason to put the dollar sign on the execution. Rather thanoutcome = idea x $executionThe more honest model would be outcome = $(idea x execution)
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Startup Claims 100-Gbit/s TOE
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Google News Search: 'startup'
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Microsoft v. Google - The Value of Acquired IP
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I tried it again and it seems to work fine. Thanks for looking at it.
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That explains it. Thanks.
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The most insightful statement IMO: "If you're going into business with somebody that you've never actually worked on a project with, I'd recommend starting on something a little easier and smaller before creating the next Google."I've often wondered what the difference is between working on an open source proje...
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If it is an excellent tool by itself, then it has a much better chance of acceptance. That is, if you yourself can't stop using it regardless of who else is using it, it is a stronger product. del.icio.us is like that- I started using it because it was a nice central place to store bookmarks regardless of who else wa...
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buildv1 is quite rigid - and it doesn't have the activity of this site. I think the principle of buildv1 is great and essential - i'm not sure if the execution is quite correct.
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NDA = Not doing anything
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How Not to Talk to Your Kids - The Inverse Power of Praise
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I really enjoyed this book too, you can feel the passion they have coming through in the writing and its contagious.
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Maybe we don't need a famous guy...Let's say that all interested European hacker teams on this site agree to move to the same city, for next summer. Then, we organize weekly get-together ourselves, and we get potential investors to attend those. Just like YC.
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Has anyone else experienced this feeling when pursuing entrepreneurship?"None of your friends are doing anything remotely like what you are doing," he said. "You lose all common ground."I know I feel like that sometimes...or like Hugh MacLeod Said (http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003642...
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There are positions opening up for physics Ph.Ds in electronics (especially now that the size of the technology is becoming smaller and more apparently susceptible to the laws of quantum physics) There may not be a ton of opportunities now, but once nanotech starts moving out of the labs and into more applications I'd ...
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Random thoughts on being an entrepreneur
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if you guys are interested I could host this (the site and SVN) and maybe hack away at it a little bit (If you're doing it in Rails) I totally feel you on this one, its shouldn't be as hard as it is to find passionate people who are technical AND entrepreneurial.
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forgot the email.... its jamiequint **AT** gmail
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is this stolen out of the Getting Real book or did they steal it off of this guy's website??
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Paul Graham also stated that Silicon Valley is impossible to be cloned in Europe. That doesn't mean successful start-ups can't pop-out in Europe. And they have, Skype, AllPeers, Six Apart, NetVibes, Fon etc... Successful single founders is necessary to encompass a lot more characteristics. It's difficult enough to find...
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Paul Graham also stated that Silicon Valley is impossible to be cloned in Europe. That doesn't mean successful start-ups can pop-out in Europe. And they have, Skype, AllPeers, Six Apart, NetVibes, Fon etc... Successful single founders is necessary to encompass a lot more characteristics. It's difficult enough to find 2...
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I think that's the point Allen is trying to make - if you're trying to build a sustainable company in its own right i.e. not looking to have Google acquire it, then it takes time. For example take Facebook - they have possibly the most viral product ever seen on the web and after two years they still don't know what t...
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I cannot explain in words how true that is for me. It's the very reason I moved halfway across the world to Silicon Valley from London.
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I agree with the post. When an idea is new there is a tendency to feel like it needs protecting. If you're serious about it, though, and get your hands dirty with the details of implementing whatever it is, NDA's seem more and more silly. By the time you get a real good idea working you won't care if the whole world...
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I love the idea of a founder/soon-to-be-founder based community, awesome!
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Motivation for Smart People (minus chest-pounding)
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There's minimalistic and then there's insufficient. I'm all for keeping it simple and functional, but a little aesthetic snazz can contribute to the end goal.I couldn't find the 'Reply' link for a moment -- and I'm not even THAT blind. ;) Looking forward to that update!
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It'd also be a plus to have the page jump to your newly submitted comment after the fact instead of ending up at the top of the page.
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yeah agree. Another cool metric is "if your idea can be given away by telling someone" then it doesn't have enough depth" Most simple things are way more complicated when u do them - and thats in the thought of the implementation. Just look at eBay - a platform for auctioning goods. The depth comes in gener...
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