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hackernews | 2,007 | Well done Jeff- hope to be able to emulate that. Pretty cool that he knows his Star Trek, too :) | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | YouTube set to filter content -- Will they lose popularity? | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | True. And to clarify my comment, it is also a _slow_ way of growing in many cases. I've just seen so many people willing to burn through other peoples' money without a thought that the idea often appeals to me.The real principle here is the golden rule of spending money- no matter what the source is: put yourself in ... | 121 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 11- stay on top of spam or die. And for heaven's sake don't sprinkle ads throughout. Better yet: 11- have a look at news.ycombinator :) | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | "I know everything there is to know about funding but it is too large to fit in this margin."
;) | 27 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google Tech Talks | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | RSS was actually the first feature i looked for - so very glad to see it working. I use netvibes to scan around 50 feeds every morning and afternoon, so the availability of the feed is critical if i am to monitor what's posted. Thanks! | 54 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Top Five Articles for Presenters | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like to see profiles display the owners' url/blog. It would give a great insight into the mind of the poster. | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Ebay itself acquired StubHub. So I guess there are some mitigating factors to networks effects. | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Tiki uses only 3 fingers instead of 5. | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Inkling Incorporated - Featured in the Business section of today's Chicago Tribune | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It would be more interesting if news.ycombinator.com also checked if a URL was directly linked from a previously submitted URL; the URL was from the same site as the previously submitted URL.Before you could commit a new submission news.ycombinator.com would present a list of matches (in descending order by date) so th... | 81 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think this advice is somewhat misguided. I'm currently on my seventh start up. I started two previously myself with my own money, but my current employer is VC and angel backed. (I am the chief scientist) Relying only on your own resources such as credit card debt or a second mortgage on your home can be a very ris... | 464 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Whoever made the thing is certainly not a born hacker. If you decide to change a vote and click on Back, it takes you right off the page, and if you click on forward again, it restarts. Why does the thing even have to be flash? It could just be an html form. | 63 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I thought 11 was "write up a quick top 10 list about your site and get it Dugg, driving up your Google ranking." :) | 35 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Fred Wilson: Patience pays for founders | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is utterly nonsense. I'm even a basecamp subscriber (used in small side projects). Many have requested GANTT charts be added to basecamp, but jason et al. don't use them in their pm process so they refuse to ever add them no matter how many people request them. I know several companies that have been unable to ... | 135 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Quantum computation demystified: Shor's algorithm explained in a way that many people can understand. | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Polynomial Hierarchy Collapses: Thousands Feared Tractable (pdf) | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think this advice is somewhat misguided. I'm currently on my seventh start up. I started two previously myself with my own money, but my current employer is VC and angel backed. (I am the chief scientist) Relying only on your own resources such as credit card debt or a second mortgage on your home can be a very ris... | 464 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Here's a community for matching angel investors with startup companies - lots of brick & mortar, but maybe useful? | 22 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Taking a sabbatical is of course a reasonable idea, but you will inevitably be tempted to fall back into the PhD program when things get tough at your startup. Every new founder can think of a lot of reasons why their company might not succeed; when you don't have the option of going back to school, you're less likely... | 81 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Writing and Maintaining Software are not Engineering Activities | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The slides from this talk are now up on slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/cape/index-fowa/ | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | TechStars 2007 - Funding program & seminars (similar to YC) in Boulder, CO | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This book and "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Baltasar Gracian (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/) are my two favorite books I've read repeatedly for over 20 years. It sounds very cheesy, but they are both like a road map for my life. Everyone knows about "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" but f... | 115 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I bet YCombinator must feel a bit strange having this as the highest voted story ;) | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Does The Affiliate Marketing Going To Change Forever? | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'm halfway through reading this book right now. Honestly it's not that good, I wouldn't recommend it. The video might be good though. | 30 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The video is good. But if you didn't want to be walked through the evidence, just picture the menu of a typical New York Cafe, pretty difficult to figure out what you want without the specials page. | 42 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hey, thanks for pointing that out. "The Search" does indeed provide provocative scenarios on this. I will quote directly from the book: "..Zeitgeist revealed to me that Google had more than its finger on the pulse of our culture, it was directly jacked into the culture's nervous system. This was my first gl... | 172 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I've listened to most of these a few months back and they're great. The tom Coates one contains brilliant advice for anyone creating a web app. His slides are available at http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/02/my_future_of_web_apps_slides/This page will be updated within the next few weeks with audio from the late... | 78 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Stanford Entrepreneurship podcasts - Audio of talks with Evan Williams, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Hawkins and others | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think the concept makes a great deal of sense. Just that dragging it out into a book is perhaps a bit much. | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Then I would suggest that a new feature be the ability to pass url parameters to the submit form that prepopulate the url and/or title fields.As it stands, there's no real way to do it in a bookmarklet. Firefox's XSS security policies won't allow it. | 55 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Which brings up another feature request: tweak the CSS so that really long text in a comment (without any spaces) doesn't cause the whole page to expand beyond 1024 pixels. | 37 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Have you seen slashdot lately? They've got some sort of freeform tagging feature and it ain't working so hot. | 25 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Similar to the point of plagiarism in some respects (there are only three questions on their application form not copied from ours). But there are some differences:1. They have an official connection to VCs. No one in seed funding can afford to do this, because it means you hose 90% of the companies you fund. If you ... | 197 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Quiz: What Type Of Entrepreneur Are You? | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I modded this up because I enjoyed this explanation, but second thought, I would like to revoke my +1. This isn't topical to start-ups. Is this a feature that could be added in the future? | 44 |
hackernews | 2,007 | On the other hand, sometimes your major sustainable competitive advantage is your IP. My current employer has developed an algorithm that pretty much blows anybody else out of the water for what we're doing and they most definitely don't want anybody else learning about it. Granted, their strategy is simply don't tell ... | 142 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like to see an option to view all articles I've upmodded, downmodded, or commented on. It makes a great place to go back to if I want to find something I said or read a while back and can't quite put my finger on it. | 57 |
hackernews | 2,007 | >> Many developers view software development (
) as a science or engineering activity(
) Writing software is neither: I view it as a craft or art, similar to the work required of teachers and writers. (
) So its not clear why we call software development software engineering. (
)The real issue is that some fee... | 125 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Definitely true. I think it's a combination of your friends losing respect for you for "dropping out," combined with the feeling of smugness that comes from the same. | 42 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Whenever there's a blog post about Y Combinator's summer funding, I always see TechStars and Lightspeed brought up or mentioned in the comments.Comparisons will be made, naturally. There is a lot of discussion regarding the funding vs. share percentage ratio, some lamenting that there is such a high percentage being ta... | 185 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Exactly. Some of the scientific studies are interesting, but it's not anything that you wouldn't know already after reading Emotional Intelligence and other similar books. Yes, choosing from twenty different types of toothpaste may be a pain, but that's hardly a good reason to adopt a religion to artificially limit you... | 62 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Old, but good. | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Don't do an identity startup. Even if you know the solution to the problem. In fact, especially if you know the solution to the problem.The fact is, 99% of Internet users don't know they have an identity problem. And no matter how much they do, nothing you can do will convince them of this. Better to wait another five ... | 91 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Just wanted to comment that Kulveer's blog and Harjeet's blog, Mealticket, are some of my favorites. For me, the most useful advices and resources are often anecdotal. | 42 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Douglas Crockford: "The JavaScript Programming Language" video | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | yui-ext JavaScript library with excellent layouts, tree view, and other widgets | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | completely off topic, but here are Fred Wilson's top CD picks for 2006:http://www.squidoo.com/fredsmusic/(If you read his blog, you know that it's half music and half venture capital stuff) | 50 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Happy Entrepreneurship Week! (Feb 24 - March 3) | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google Apps a Productivity Killer? (from a Microsoft guy :) ) | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I like this guy's blog and he's usually got some good stuff, but this one smells a bit funny. I've actually found since I got my Mac that you really don't need the Microsoft software as much s you'd think. I love Office 2007, but honestly at this point I greatly prefer web mail, and the online and open office suites ... | 79 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The patent system is completely insane. At this point in history, does it accomplish anything? | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Not at all; we're not VCs. We just do seed funding. That is a very different world. | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | With the identical application, it doesn't hurt to hedge your bets and apply to them as well as Y Combinator. They've got nothing over YC but it's certainly a viable alternative.Can you clarify the line about inside info and how the Tech Stars program could be bad for a company's future VC funding? | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | >marking a comment up or down should use ajaxWithout ajax I'm sometimes discouraged from voting at all, because it's difficult to find my location after a refresh, especially on long pages. | 41 |
hackernews | 2,007 | If a seed firm has an official relationship with a VC, that VC will know which of their startups are best. They can't invest in all of them, since the number of startups is so much larger at the seed phase. Any they don't invest in, other VCs will know are rejects. And this is the kiss of death, because the most impo... | 121 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Everything you need to know about Venture Capital, presentation by Danny Rimer (Index Ventures) from Future of web apps | 23 |
hackernews | 2,007 | With their hard ties to VCs, if TechStars do not continue with you in their next round, you are auto-stigmatized. TechStars has then effectively marked you as undesirable in a sense and others might not give you a fair look. | 50 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'm having issues with cookies, I have to keep logging everytime I visit, this does not happen on reddit, anyone have an idea or experience similar behaviour? | 32 |
hackernews | 2,007 | That was a brilliant presentation, the slides alone don't do it justice. Luckily the audio will be posted soon on futureofwebapps.com.Theres some videos of FOWA presentations available on Ian Forresters Blip.tv page but unfortunatly this talk isnt one of them. Check them out at http://blip.tv/?sort=date;date=;topic_nam... | 91 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I loved the video. But I'm about to post a PDF that's much deeper that is mentioned in the presentation, and that pretty much blew my mind when I realized the implications (that you can mathematically show exactly how the decisions are made).http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/ely.dahan/content/greedoid.pdf | 72 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Mathematics of Choice (goody heavy read) | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Skip the abstract- it's too obtuse- the paper itself is pretty readable. Non-compensatory: when a customer is making a decision, and no combination of additional features make up for a lack of the feature they really want (e.g. it doesn't matter how cool the phone is if I can't play mp3s). Versus compensatory (e.g., ... | 149 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This might be a pain, but could you make this topic sticky for a while? | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Bug or undeveloped feature? Go to edit a comment- above the text box there is a "comment" and "edit" link. The edit one just refreshes the page. The comment link, though, shows... ??? It looks like I can comment on my comment- had a nice "nil" sitting there. I didn't have any replies to th... | 107 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Feed Stats - What Matters | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs Mull Build or Sell | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Working in France, in the Style of Silicon Valley | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | dupe | 2 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Your Comments are Mostly a Waste of Time :) | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Good post, glad to see this. I do sometimes tire of seeing nothing but "do this to sell your company in two years for $2 million." Honestly I think that there's a lot to be said for making a great product, executing, making more great products, and growing the company to a much larger size. (Nothing at all w... | 105 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I can't get the grammar in the title (or the original) to parse correctly in my head. | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Heh- Looks like he had to just take it himself. If you want something done... | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hypothetical situation but what would happen if a startup participated in TechStars or another program and then afterwards applied to YC? Would previous experience increase chances of application success or would they be passed over because it would seem they've already been given a chance? | 53 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Also, here's the presentation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1932851428624192110 | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Thanks, I hadn't seen those slides, and they're very good. | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Another important thing to realise venture capital is only appropriate at a certain lifestage of a company where the founders are keen to grow at extrodinary rates in a short time. Not having expectations of growing a startup to Facebook, Google or Bebo size you are going to be wasting a VC's time. This is no mean feat... | 375 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Bootstrapping Your Company - A practical guide by Greg Gianforte, founder of RightNow Technologies [MP3] | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | in the future, submitters please post mp3 warning... though a domain indicator would have worked in this case. pg? | 25 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Sorry, I decided not to tag it [MP3] since it linked to the site not the file directly, forgetting about the lack of a domain indicator. Harb suggested it under the feature requests but it didn't really get any attention - I think an upvote is in order.http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363[edit: handily, though, ... | 89 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think this was mentioned by pg earlier (I'm putting it here so it doesn't get forgotten), but auto generating a link when an URL is posted would be very handy. | 36 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yahoo only did 3 acquisitions in 2006, for $42m | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | >[edit: handily, though, there is an option to edit the title of a submission]well, there's one improvement over reddit... | 32 |
hackernews | 2,007 | don't know if this particular speech applies so much to consumer-facing internet companies-- his first mantra is "sales comes first", and he tells the story of how he sold a bunch of software before the product even existed.Some of the other principles, though, such as not spending more than comes in, first thi... | 90 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Tags.It's one of the features of Slashdot that I like. The flip side of tags is that they make search a lot easier to implement. | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Under 30, online and world-beating | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 50 million pounds? That has to be a typo. | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Thanks, I had never read this or known of its existence but I thoroughly enjoyed it.It's fascinating to read about pre-corporate capitalism. | 29 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Conglomerates Seek Small Business Acquisitions | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | uh, yah. It's a fun idea, but 5m seems more appropriate. | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I find myself marking up comments of the same 2 or 3 users more often than others. They don't have ultra-high karma or anything- they just are interested in the same articles and discussions I am. It would be nice to learn more about them. | 55 |
hackernews | 2,007 | See also The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin. Seth has a much better explanation of the benefits of bootstrapping than anything else I've seen. The eBook version is only three bucks on Amazon too. | 44 |
hackernews | 2,007 | We'd consider them. We have sometimes accepted companies that have already had a little funding. We prefer companies that aren't incorporated yet, though, because the paperwork is so much simpler. | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yeah, it's probably not so applicable to consumer facing internet companies since the approach really needs a business to buy into the idea (much more willing to preorder, a single sale could fund the entire development). Although maybe that depends on what you are creating. I could see something like Hotmail or Skype ... | 305 |
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