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On the user pages it'd be useful to see their comments as well as their submitted articles...
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Yahoo has been dying ever since Google took off.
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As far as I can see, there are two tar pits that Digg and now Reddit are stuck in:1. Lack of focus and quality:In my experience, users frequent a site because it has quality content and they leave when the quality of the content declines. Digg and more recently Reddit, are experiencing a loss of focus and quality and ...
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As far as I can see, there are two tar pits that Digg and now Reddit are stuck in:1. A lack of focus and quality in the content. 2. No troll guards. 1. Lack of focus and quality In my experience, users frequent a site because it has quality content and they leave when the quality of the content declines. Digg and ...
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UK startup: free web site monitoring.
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Still, 5 million pounds? $10m for an idea?!?
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Search - and it needs to have the reddit feature where if you search for an URL, you get the submit page when nothing was found. That's how I submit all my links in reddit. This site doesn't have that, so I wonder if I'm wasting my time when thinking up or typing in a title for a submission - since it may already hav...
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Well, the idea is out in the open now so you can steal it and make them feel silly :) Actually it doesn't really say in the article what they've developed, if anything. Also, the VC firm could own 90% of the company now or something- it's not like they handed them a $10m check and said have fun.
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Startup: Firefox sidebar for chatting with fellow visitors to any website.
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Searching Their Souls On Camera (SF Museum)
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I would second this. In my mind, however, what would be more useful for us budding founders is a place where we can share our ideas and projects in their early embarrassing states. It would be nice the be able to get feedback right at the beginning when I have only the the vaguest idea, and then to be guided by feedbac...
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amichail: you need to submit this to programming.reddit.com .
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I couldn't agree with you more. It isn't until you really experience what it is like to work for someone else before you realize what it's like to work for someone else. After 2 years of corporate work, I'm ready to step out on my own as a result of frustration with what other people want me to do. Sometimes it takes...
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digg won't necessarily drive up your Google rankings but it can drive traffic to your site which, if you have something to offer, is a good thing, right?
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10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum
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2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates (cartoon)
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OpenID: What is it, and why everyone is talking about it
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Incubator Companies Raise $250M (Just in Israel!)
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This is funny. The guy has been offered access to a fund, which is $100m in total, not the full fund of $100m itself. I love how things get spun.I blogged about it here: http://www.kulveer.co.uk/2007/02/oxford-student-offered-access-to-100m.htmlLazy journalism, for real.
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VCs Back Location-based Services
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Marketing using Educational or Entertainment means
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Finding the next tech billionaires
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Turning Ideas Into Dollars
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From the article: "Most attempts at innovation fail to generate enough payback. Payback means one thing-cash". In an earlier post on news.ycomb I suggested that a business is not a business if it does not generate money. The authors of the book "PayBack" insist that any innovation is pointless unless it...
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Sports and In-Game Advertising
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Jubii To Launch 10GB Webmail and File Sharing
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In-game advertising is a severely underdeveloped business considering how long games have been around. Since this concept is new, branding within video games would work much better than it does on old-media (print/television). This has a huge potential especially in multiplayer games that require thoughtful analysis an...
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52 Ways to Reduce Stress
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Website Flippers make millions
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While selling out to a larger corporation is a great exit-strategy, I suggest that all startups formulate a plan to monetize their site. The fact is, for every startup bought by the big five's (Google, MS, Yahoo, AOL, eBay) there are at least another 100 that go down the drain.
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British Tech Visas Up 32%, Most to Indians
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Tech IPOs: They're back!
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How Important is the .com TLD?
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Wireless: India's Hot, China's Not
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The Battle for Mobile Search
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8.3% of what they did in 2005: wow.
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1. Have it so you can be automatically logged in. I have to manually log in every time I visit the site (using Safari here).2. Just like Reddit does, show the domain each link belongs to. Reddit has this in brackets after the headline, which works fine. Since I don't have much free time, there are some sites that have ...
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CRV Quickstart: $250,000 in seed stage financing. How does an 18 year old entrepreneur find references to list on the application?
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It's bad if you come out of the Techstars program without any funding and a non-sustainable company, but then you're probably screwed anyways. VCs are infamously inscrutable; we hear that they are always out to take advantage of naive or underfunded companies.If you're good enough to get further investment after Techst...
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What algorithm does news.YC use to filter spam?
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Great Way To Find New Job And Career
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Ebay bought its Chinese clone for hundreds of millions of dollars, which afterwards collapsed because after moving the servers outside China the service's data were going through word filtering (e.g. during login) and there were failures...
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Ebay bought its Chinese clone for hundreds of millions of dollars
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Probably they dislike the content and not the posting itself.
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You know your country doesn't have many role models when Alex Tew is considered the poster child for a successful Internet entrepreneur.
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Bug: I think there is a bug when you edit one of your comments. Instead updating seems there is a new entry?
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That is actually what a guy I know from Wilson Sonsini says: Sell the product, design the product, build the product.I think it is the best strategy provided that A) you are targeting businesses B) your software fills a need of a very specific niche.Regardless of whether you literally sell the product first though, I t...
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Inside Myspace.com - (great info on how they scaled)
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Any thoughts on collaborative invention (e.g., using human-based genetic algorithms)?
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Just to take one example, one might build a service where users invent board games. This could be done using human-based genetic algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_genetic_algorithm. Users of the service would be able to modify rules to try to make a game more fun. A fitness function would take into ...
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why is this here
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You should be able to vote down bad stories. I thought this wouldn't be needed but we're starting to get off-topic submissions, so we need to be able to bury them.
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This was a great read and the patterns of growth and strategies they used hold true even for much less extreme scaling.
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Y Combinator funded companies
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xobni.com, reddit.com, pollground.com, loopt.com, weebly.comwhich else?
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Use your customers as references. If you don't have customers, use the people who said they'd probably buy your product if it existed.Also, you aren't going to get 250k without at the very least a bunch of informal advisors, so list those people too.
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http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
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Trusted human editors.
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Just another reminder that acquisition cannot be your only exit strategy.
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Is it acceptable for software to lie (like in the ESP Game say)?
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One might imagine having a service lie to, for example, make it look more busy (so as to attract more users) and/or to detect cheating. Is this a reasonable thing to do? See for example how the ESP game lies: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ESP.pdf. In particular, take a look at the sections on Pre-Recorded Game Play and...
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If you think that it would be morally wrong to lie in this way, would it be better if the service told you that it may lie at times to enhance the user experience?
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Myspace preparing to block all widgets?
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"Remember Me" Feature Would Be Nice
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As another example, consider using human-based genetic algorithms to create daily news shows, perhaps in the style of this site (but using people rather than computers): http://www.newsatseven.com
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This seems like a great time-waster idea. It would probably be very addictive if it ever got critical mass. Naturally I think it will be impossible to monetize on its own, but it will be awesome when a profitable company buys them out.
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Yahoo! Announces Hosting of YUI libraries on their edge network
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50 percent of their traffic is for their mail service at this point, according to Alexa. If they ever get beaten on that, it'll be lights out for them.
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Am debugging it now.
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More that you can't count on any given acquirer.
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True, but does that imply that companies should be formed with the sole purpose/goal of getting acquired?
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"Attachment creates delusion."-- Buddhist saying
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Make Money From Making Comments!
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A quick place to list your startup and see others
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Freedom of choice, and how entrepreneurs relate to it
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Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them
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Tim Bray: "The buzz around OpenID is becoming impossible to ignore."
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Can you change the CSS so that the links that have already been visited turn a different color?
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a YC company
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option to open articles/comments in a new tab by default?bookmarklet set (I often use my "reddit this" bookmarklet to get back to the comments page for an article I've clicked)
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Since the NYT demands your info:THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what we might like.That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content of a global television station, just as the Web’s hypertext, once it ...
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I'm not much of an expert on this stuff... what do you all think about their chances?
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I've been trying out their beta for the last couple weeks, and while some may find it nice, it doesn't hook me at all.
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It shouldn't be a problem as long as they have a business model this time around. :)Good article, thanks.
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Couldn't they just put Adsense on the sidebar to monetise it?
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Of course it'd be ideal to create a company with a sustaining business model; there's no question about that. Is that the only time a company should be formed? That may be akin to only purchasing shares in long-term growth companies. Sometimes it's in your best interest to just ride the short-term explosion...
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I can see this resulting in mass abuse very soon.
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Humans have too much compassion. We need cold, hard algorithms! Indiscriminating, zero-tolerant machines! ;)
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A lot of you would-be entrepreneurs should give this a read. There are many things to consider in the crucial first steps.
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Thanks, I'll be watching this soon.
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Interesting that two of these companies had NO co-founder. Hmmm... There seems to be a lot of emphasis in the YC companies on finding a co-founder, a partner, etc.
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All I know is that it works. I tried out a few terms and got what I had in mind every time.They heavily emphasize speech recognition, I think. For what this is, it's very cool. The technology is there and the product works. I think this is going places.
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I did a search and didn't see this mentioned. In any case, a very useful feature would be a way to track your comments in the different submissions and the stories that you voted up.There are a lot of really great stories on here and sometimes I don't have the time to finish reading some. I'd like to be abl...
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I pointed out in an earlier article (http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=Anatomy-of-a-Successful-Social-Network) that MySpace owes much of its success to the countless choices it offers to its users. Over the past couple of months, however, MySpace has turned greedy. Rupert Murdoch feels that online widg...
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Silicon Valley has become Media Valley - someone should tell NYC
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myspace arn't given enough credit, supporting a site with that many users is no easy task.
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People trying to delete their posts. Erasing the text == deleting the post.
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Patience pays for VCs too. It was my understanding that many quick sell outs were a result of VC pressure. MySpace former ceo, for example, filed a lawsuit against its investors (VantagePoint) for pressuring them into sell out for a quick $580 million. VCs are much like shareholders in corporations; they often vote for...
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So i'm not the only young one pursuing a startup. Good to know.Good luck.
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It was bound to happen. All the known ones will probably have to pay some sort of a toll. I wonder if the community will care enough to fight back?
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