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hackernews | 2,007 | photo.net was 1999, flickr 2004, zooomr 2006...my point is that the pie is so big the many folks can have their piece, because nobody can have it all.
about the car industry comment...most of the folks that made a so called "me-too" car company, was in the beggining of that industry, that is 80-100 years ago. Y... | 161 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Art of pitching | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to Start a Business without Money | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What's up with all the empty comments? Bug? | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Research on secrets of greatness: Practice | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to name your company | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 9 must reads before launch. (another oldie) | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Classic texts in computer science | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to be creative | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A bit about Marketing | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Digg Has Unbanned The Bloggers! | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Python Web Framework Discussion (with the project leaders) | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | No web.py but otherwise a pretty good list. | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I support this suggestion. I have a bunch of problems I'd like people to solve that might potentially make a great startup for someone. | 27 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Great panel. Django is absolutely wonderful. With some more documentation, a surge in widespread use is imminent. | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like a way to differentiate the startup tips from other discussion topics. I am really interesting in participating in the community, but I don't want to have to wade through stuff I've already read in my RSS reader. Already the front page is filled with mostly stuff I've already read, which is drowning out potenti... | 68 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This article seems way more indepth than it really should be.It takes naming a company and dissects it into an exact science. A simplistic approach is quite often the best one.Just pick a name that resonates and is representative of what you offer. Once you analyze all the different aspects of a name, its personality o... | 85 |
hackernews | 2,007 | still true today, the invite | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How does this differ from a Twiddler? http://www.handykey.com/The ubicomp guys at GT have been using the Twiddler for a few years. | 36 |
hackernews | 2,007 | YouTube: From concept to Hypergrowth | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | still true today, is identity the final frontier? | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | still true today, sadly | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think a community feature is valuable to many sites if it isn't a tacked-on afterthought that eventually becomes a burden for the users.Whatever the site may offer, it's *usually* a plus for a user to be able to interact with other users. It becomes a burden when it's centered around a social community that no one se... | 89 |
hackernews | 2,007 | If you make it, they will come....so don't live in fear, embrace the possibility of ummm.. whats the word i'm looking for here | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Harder to say about the upper bound. The factors you mention may play a role, especially kids. I also think need for money is a factor. Most people who could make money have by 40, and once you have enough, you're less willing to endure the pain of starting a startup.The average age of YC founders is about 25. | 72 |
hackernews | 2,007 | OpenCoffee Club - regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors and other entrepreneurs in an informal setting | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I thought you might have written the server, since their isn't too much fat in the HTTP headers :) You should add a Server header for bragging rights though.Congrats to you and your team on launching the first Arc app regardless of how much of the stack is written in Arc. | 58 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is a really cool idea...too bad it's over across the pond. There any gatherings like this in, say, the Boston area? | 30 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Well you could always just start your own! The idea is you can set up an open coffee anywhere and just tell everyone in your local community.If you want one in Boston just pick a place/time and tell people. Apparently there might be a few YC companies in the Boston area you could invite.. | 60 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It sounds like a good idea. I'd love to be part of a OpenCoffee Club over here. I wonder if there will be any interest in starting one over here in Silicon Valley... :PHas anyone heard of or used Zoodango.com, founded by James Sun? This reminded of that in that Zoodango attempts to connect professionals through real me... | 80 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Oh, and I just wanted to add: This "article" is one of the best things I've read all day. It was so helpful that I made enough mental notes while reading that I had to transfer them to paper. | 50 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The main functionality I would want out of a submit bookmarklet is prepopulating the url field so I don't have to copy and paste it. Showing the submit page in context of the page I am on does not help as much. | 48 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself...well, if you don't believe in your product to put your own money or time into it, how can you expect someone else to invest in it themselves? | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The best ideas come from people who build applications out of passion or they saw a need. A lot of these sites did not begin with the intention of making money or with a business goal in mind. I think people who build with the intention of making money in mind - lose because it's no longer building out of passion whi... | 77 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Does Using MyBlogLog Can Banned You From Google Adsense???? | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | While I agree that VC funding is not necessarily required to spark a startup, I do however believe that it can serve wonders in terms of building connections and publicity. Prominent bloggers, such as Michael Arrington and Peter Cashmore, hunt for news relating to startup fundings. Moreover, a VC firm brings high level... | 117 |
hackernews | 2,007 | > Getting Real is staying small and being agile.I couldn't agree with this more. Businesses that give up control, gain in mobility what they lose in command. And mobility is the key to innovation in any startup. | 45 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 25 startups to watch | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | another one for rss here. I love this its just what I have been searching for. maybe the stories to open in another window also. | 28 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Out of curiosity are the passwords kept hashed? | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For the sake of completeness, what might be some of the situations where an NDA or secrecy of the idea is important?I'm guessing an example would be if you are entering negotiations to be bought out by a public company. | 46 |
hackernews | 2,007 | About an year ago, a company hired me to code a corporate instant messenger. There was no technologically innovative angle to it; yet, my employer insisted that I sign an NDA before the project be disclosed to me. The process took about three weeks and wasted time that could've been spent on actually coding it.In my op... | 97 |
hackernews | 2,007 | If news.ycombinator.com is running on php, then the following code can be used to convert into links:$Insert_Message = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.,~#?&//=]+)','<a href="\\1" target="_blank">\\1</a>', $Insert_Message);
$Insert_Message = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[... | 268 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007 | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Everything you need to know about Funding - Notes from FOWA talk by Ben Holmes of Index Ventures VC | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Startup Success 2006 [video] - Panel moderated by Guy Kawasaki featuring Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot), and others | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The market has a natural tendency to segement. This trend is driven by both, the consumers and the businesses. Considering that point in mind, I believe that the next big social network/startup will be much smaller than MySpace. We are in the era of super-niches; the market we appeal to will get smaller as the competit... | 156 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Anatomy of a Successful Social Network | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The number one thing that many startups fail at is defining a business model. While 2007 holds great promises for startup buyouts, that alone should not be a startup's business model. For every startup that gets bought by Google, there are a hundred others that don't. Simply put, a business is not a business if it does... | 78 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Doesn't the Social Web Realize that People Talk? | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Irish OpenCoffee Club - entrepreneur/startup meetups | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Coffeeclubs, Conferences, Coworking and Community | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The best things I've learned from previous startup attempts is how to tell good product ideas from bad ones, and the difference between a good product and a good company. The bad news is that now I've weeded out all my own ideas.I guess I won't be applying this summer. | 58 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I was just talking with somebody a couple weeks ago about something very similar to this. Maybe this could be mixed with an idea like coworking (http://coworking.pbwiki.com/) | 38 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I definitely notice #4 sometimes | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast series | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is a series of really good Podcasts about entrepreneurship given at Stanford Univsersity. Famous entrepreneurs, VCs and engineers share their thoughts about the world of technology. For those of us that are not lucky enough to attend those seminars at Standford :) | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | VC money can be a good thing if you know exactly what to do with it. Google used the funds to buy servers which they couldn't afford before, but in the end it turned out to be money well spent. But if you just raise the money to live up to the convention, then you should think again. The worst thing you could do is ... | 85 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What? I thinks the author goes a bit far with his idea that people need to talk. Does anybody remember how and why BBS' were so popular? It's because you had a voice, an anonymous voice, and you could share information without being judged. I don't know why the author thinks that people on sites don't communicate (mayb... | 98 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I see a castle!! haha (Check out 37:00-38:00) | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Turning Visitors into Users | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amazon's EC2 is a great resource; Here's one early article about it, but it has the potential to help *SOLVE* the scalability problems | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Founder Compensation Survey Results (Nov, 2006) | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to Network- For Introverts | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 10 Unconventional But Successful Business Ideas | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Top Ten Lessons I've Learned About Managing An Online Forum | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Go ahead and keep a secret when you really strategically need to keep a secret. Don't get emotionally attached to it being a secret though- because one day, probably soon, it'll get duplicated. And do you have a thoroughly thought out realistic business reason to keep it (temporarily) secret in the first place? Usua... | 73 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'll bet when Arc is really ready that whole thing will take about 4 characters, right Paul? ;) | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - full story of a 1720s startup | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Audio of talks by Cal Henderson, Josh Schachter and many others | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think these are notes from a conference talk he gave. There are lots of others so I posted the link, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=833 | 37 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What tail is wagging the "user happiness" dog? | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Difference between Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates? | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I posted this because I find it interesting that nearly all of these start-ups to watch have a business model based solely on advertising.I suppose the advertising space is so large that everyone can make money selling eyeballs, but I think I'd invest in the companies with an actual product.My money is on Fon. | 61 |
hackernews | 2,007 | worth a read, yes. but everything? hmmmm. | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is one of my favorite books. I've read it several times. | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | C'mon, what about this:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,68710-0.html | 25 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I really liked the comment on giving some service away before account creation. In my experience, one of the largest hurdles to user adoption is getting something useful from the site. If a user is able to see the value of the service *before* putting something into it, they are more likely to understand the offering... | 156 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Digg Upgrades Spam Armor, Unblocks Sites | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | They wouldn't even need this "feature" if they had a more sophisticated algorithm for ranking stories on the frontpage. The source of all their trouble is that a story that makes the frontpage becomes the *top* story on it, instead of working its way up like on reddit (and here). | 66 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Without a community you either have to create a sales force in-house or use outside "hired" labor/advertising. Essentially, without community, it will be up to you as a entrepreneur to evangelize your project. Community ensures viral growth through word-of-mouth advertising and it gives value to the network d... | 224 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Does anyone want to guess what industries IT spans for the consideration of the survey referenced? | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 11 Reasons Why OpenID Rocks/Sucks | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | While I don't use OpenID myself, there are a number of users on my social network asking for its integration. It seems that many users are now beginning to *expect* Web 2.0 startups to have support for it (just as they did for Firefox). Not surprisingly, we are hoping to port such a system on our site as well. What do ... | 87 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Recommendation Systems are Redefining the Web | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The acceleration of computation has transformed everything from social and economic relations to political institutions. A social network can harness the combined computation of the average Joe and create a rudimentary form of artificial intelligence. Amazon has already accomplished it. Today, we depend on Amazon bots ... | 132 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to fix Google | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | While the article uses Google as its subject, the idea can be extended to almost any company. Not since J.K. Rockefeller has any prominent person or company truly practiced the art of vertical integration. Microsoft, for instance, has been unsuccessfully playing catch up with Google. The whole "Windows Live Mail... | 163 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Are you sure nobody can have the whole pie? Some domains have significant network effects, which work to prevent competitors from developing a useful service. E.g. eBay. | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Project Gutenberg version with illustrations:http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Are you a born entrepreneur? Take the quiz | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Some products require scale or critical mass before they can be profitable. This is especially true for many website based on advertising models. Also ventures based around getting big partnerships (e.g. licensing deals) may require the prestige of VC backing before you can get through the door.Secondly you might have ... | 126 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Kul, you should mention for the non-YC'ers out there that you are in fact a European who made the move to Silicon Valley for your startup. | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Sorry, "Everything you need to know" was the name of the original talk. These notes don't cover everything but I hoped people would find some of this useful. Perhaps I should have waited till the audio & slides were posted. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I can't say I agree with you there. You might have missed the point a little bit.Even if you are 100% passionate in your product and believe in it every step of the way, it doesn't mean that you can just put up your house to pursue it.The fact that entrepreneurs seek backing is because it is exactly that -- more than j... | 144 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Advertiser heaven, absolutely.Has anyone here read John Battelle's "The Search?"He coins the term "Database of Intentions." He suggests some really provocative scenarios that is even more applicable now with recommendation engines. | 53 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think this article is mainly relevant to mobile web. If you've got myspace on your mobile phone why type in comments and messages when you can send a quick voice message instead? I know livejournal already offeres a similar feature with a voice posting phone number. Users can add a text transcript later when they're ... | 134 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amen.
There are many different kinds of free | 10 |
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