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3,800 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,741,367 | I'm not just saying this because Jason is a good buddy of mine, but this is an excellent walk-through of Django. If you're building a web app and had a nagging curiosity in Django, this one will get you going. | null | 3,795 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,802 | null | comment | danw | 1,173,741,564 | I would like a plastic rocket and a pony.. | null | 3,193 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,803 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,741,596 | Sure they do. One or all three of them will just buy a startup and rebrand its product.
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3,804 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,742,288 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,805 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,742,650 | I think most people who invest in startups do it in the hope of actually making money. And while the average return may be negative, the best investors make a lot. You just have to be honest with yourself about whether you're a good investor.<p>At YC what drives us to make money is not wanting to be bad at what we do... | null | 3,786 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,806 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,742,805 | Believe it or not, some may. Several top-tier VCs have told me (truthfully or not) that some lower-grade VCs know their funds are never likely to make money, and they're just doing it for the fat management fees. | null | 3,784 | null | [
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3,807 | null | comment | juwo | 1,173,742,921 | You have to start somewhere! | null | 3,524 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,808 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,744,299 | Worth the read. Don't confuse 'simplicity' with lack of features. Read Simplicity[0] by Joel for an explanation why.<p>[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html | null | 574 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,810 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,746,069 | "Because of this, the computer programming industry within the United States is an industry with a shrinking number of jobs"<p>Is this backed up with any numbers? People have been predicting the demise of programming jobs in the US for years, yet it never seems to happen. I suspect because the claim is based on the fal... | null | 3,727 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,811 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,746,209 | "I think that, if you can't get into a Top 14 law school or a top graduate business schol, then public accounting probably provides a better career path than computer programming."<p>If you have a desire to make things being an accountant will hardly compare with being a programmer. | null | 3,727 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,809 | null | story | danw | 1,173,745,905 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,814 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,749,510 | It's cool how even though there is a lot of noise surrounding advice about startups a bunch of precepts have an air of unanimity. "Release early and iterate" would be one of those. | null | 3,813 | null | [
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3,812 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,173,746,413 | "No one cares if you know how to program in COBOL for example. It's completely useless knowledge."<p>Well Monster lists 1055 Cobol jobs: http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=cobol&fn=&lid=&re=130&cy=us&JSNONREG=1 | null | 3,727 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,813 | null | story | brett | 1,173,749,188 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,815 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,749,604 | This is precisely the kind of data I always am hoping to hear about but almost never do. | null | 3,809 | null | [
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3,819 | null | story | mikesabat | 1,173,754,253 | null | null | null | null | null | http://mikesabat.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/great-new-products-are-harder-to-sell/ | 2 | Great New Products are Harder to Sell -- Life and Life Only | null | 0 |
3,818 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,753,710 | dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1015 | null | 3,817 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,817 | null | story | AlfredNgeno | 1,173,753,292 | null | true | null | null | [
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] | http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp | 1 | Inside Myspace.com | null | 0 |
3,816 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,750,451 | If that's true then question then is how bad off are you if you take money from such a lower-grade fund. In the long run is it not even worth it to take their money? | null | 3,806 | null | [
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3,822 | null | comment | pixcavator | 1,173,755,924 | Makes sense to me. But my guess is that time would be an issue. | null | 3,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,820 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,754,626 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,821 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,754,774 | Since advice and connections are the major benefits of Y Combinator, why not take on many more startups without funding most of them at all? <p>I suspect that many people would be happy with such an arrangement and Y Combinator may end up making quite a lot more money as well.
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3,823 | null | comment | danw | 1,173,757,578 | Sound good in principle but there are a lot of people who want advice. You need to find a way to prioritise who would benefit most from your advice and connections. What better way to decide than to ask yourself "Who would I invest in?". Then you're back at the YCombinator model.<p>If someone can figure out how to make... | null | 3,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,828 | null | comment | acgourley | 1,173,758,538 | Thats pretty amazing actually. It sounds like these lower-grade VC's could only be so cynical due to past experience, but if that is the case, who is putting them at the helm of large funds again and again? | null | 3,806 | null | [
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3,824 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,757,687 | While it sure is generous and I'm sure the founders appreciate it, a couple of months worth of rent and ramen noodle money isn't really funding a company. What you describe is already what YC is- it's just making sure that you are available full-time to really do something about the advice and contacts. :) | null | 3,820 | null | [
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3,827 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,758,450 | You want a great example of this, look to the man who more or less invented the principle- as I've used news.YC over the past couple of weeks it seems every few days, as simple as the site is, very nice features keep popping up. Nothing disruptive, nothing gaudy, just smooth and steady increase in value. In fact, if ... | null | 3,813 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,826 | null | comment | volida | 1,173,757,902 | I don't think the money is the issue here, which results to many companies being funded because of the relatively low cost for them to bring up to life startups, comparing to VCs. <p>So, they invest enough money to get u going. Their actual contribution is their network and their guidance, which isw hat consumes their... | null | 3,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,825 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,757,864 | Yeah, given the amount YC gives it's as if they just want to make sure poorer founders won't have to get day jobs in the time they've alloted to impart advice. | null | 3,824 | null | [
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3,829 | null | comment | naish | 1,173,758,582 | Very cool; however, for those unaware, it may appear more impressive than it is...<p>From what I can see, it is essentially a teleoperated hand/arm mounted on a (tethered, top AND bottom!) Segway-like base. The latter is a well-publicized Trevor Blackwell hack from several years ago. Watch for Trevor from about the 2... | null | 3,774 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,840 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,767,568 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/events.jsp | 2 | Michael Arrington/Timothy Bray debate on Web 2.0 -- 3/19, Sun in Menlo Park (free admission) | null | 0 |
3,833 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,762,585 | That's exactly how we look at it: the most important thing we offer is advice and connections, and the money is just to pay your living expenses so that you can focus entirely on the startup for long enough to get it properly launched.<p>It always annoys us when people say YC is a ripoff because we want an avg of 6% of... | null | 3,825 | null | [
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3,835 | null | comment | RyanGWU82 | 1,173,762,873 | Two hypotheses:<p>1.) Y Combinator's advice and connections are a limited resource. There are only so many phone calls their partners can make in a day. Y Combinator's business is not scalable unless they generate more y combinators.<p>2.) Y Combinator's application process allows them to invest in startups that are mo... | null | 3,821 | null | [
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3,832 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,761,972 | I would have appreciated if the article covered few common pitfalls and how NetFlix wrestles them when using the fast iteration cycle. | null | 3,813 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,837 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,763,657 | The way VCs raise their funds and get paid seems horribly broken. I think most of them hover between borderline fraud and out-right fraud.<p>YC should kill all the sub-par VCs by scaling up massively and taking their billions in funding away. | null | 3,806 | null | [
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3,842 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,767,901 | I would not run unnecessary risks just to avoid being "average". Would you? <p>Sometimes being a rebel-without-a-cause isn't the best approach. | null | 3,664 | null | [
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3,838 | null | comment | jamongkad | 1,173,764,090 | I myself rank advice and connections a little more important than the money itself. That's what really pulled me here to Y Combinator in the first place. | null | 3,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,845 | null | comment | jamongkad | 1,173,769,053 | And what would that be? | null | 3,736 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,834 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,762,709 | Because (a) putting our own money in is a test of our commitment and forces us to pay attention, and (b) a lot of the founders would be distracted by money issues and wouldn't be able to focus on their startups. | null | 3,821 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,831 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,761,849 | MySpace.com...because it "works."<p>/goes back to throwing up.
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3,844 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,768,391 | The earlier you set up your own servers and take care of them the better you'll be at it. If your seriously strapped for time maybe you can put it off, but it's a skill you want to have. | null | 3,790 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,839 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,766,875 | YC-organized Startup School supplies advice to a larger audience, along with a chance for connections. I'd also contend that news.yc is another such tool offered by YC.<p>The summer/winter batches are a chance for picked companies to receive specialized attention. YC can't do that for everybody. | null | 3,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,849 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,770,772 | You can't talk about VCs generally because there's such a difference between the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones serve their investors pretty well.<p>We'd never compete with VCs, incidentally. It's a completely different world from ours. They invest on behalf of other people (or more often, institutions). ... | null | 3,837 | null | [
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3,847 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,769,203 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,830 | null | story | AlfredNgeno | 1,173,759,226 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,836 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,763,187 | Actually the scalability of YC is a fascinating question. As hackers we're always thinking about that. And of course as hackers we have ideas about how to do it. We've been gradually growing the number of startups in each batch. But we often speculate about what we'd have to do to fund, say, 1000 startups per year.... | null | 3,835 | null | [
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3,841 | null | comment | imp | 1,173,767,577 | Microsoft expanded quite a few markets before it shrunk the encyclopedia market. | null | 3,782 | null | [
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3,848 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,769,255 | Some lead-in discussion in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3813 | null | 3,847 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,843 | null | story | danielha | 1,173,768,302 | null | null | null | null | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/ | 2 | TellMe Networks may fetch more than $800 million in acquisition by Microsoft | null | 0 |
3,846 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,769,173 | Here's a blog post by Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rlrr<p>In there, he proposes that "release early, release often" works in open source, but is less applicable to a wide public who are not expecting something unpolished and incomplete. When you only get one chance to make an impression, the unveiling mi... | null | 3,814 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,850 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,770,995 | Interesting question. It might actually be ok to take money from a firm like that, if you didn't have any better alternatives. You wouldn't have the brand or connections of a top VC, but you'd at least have the money, which is not nothing. | null | 3,816 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,851 | null | story | pashle | 1,173,772,768 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,854 | null | story | kul | 1,173,773,005 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/the_art_of_the_.html | 4 | Guy Kawasaki's The Art of Exec. Summaries/1 pagers | null | 1 |
3,855 | null | comment | kul | 1,173,773,060 | This advice is like gold dust. Has never let me down. | null | 3,854 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,858 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,774,722 | He seems pretty well respected due to his writings, but I don't have any sense of what people think of Garage. I recognize a few names: http://www.garage.com/portfolio/index.shtml, but they're not on the list that Paul compiled: http://ycombinator.com/topvcs.html<p>Does YC have a relationship with them? | null | 3,857 | null | [
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3,853 | null | story | jamiequint | 1,173,772,976 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.inc.com/magazine/20030101/25049.html | 5 | Secrets of a Master Networker - Keith Ferrazzi | null | 0 |
3,861 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,778,715 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sxsw_scaling_your_community.php | 4 | "How to scale your community" by Wordpress Founder | null | 0 |
3,856 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,773,460 | null | null | null | null | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/free-sms/ | 2 | 5 Ways to SMS for free on Web 2.0 | null | 0 |
3,857 | null | story | brett | 1,173,774,512 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,859 | null | comment | Harj | 1,173,776,322 | hoarding your equity like it's gold dust is a typical mistake of inexperienced founders. we did exactly the same and it got us nowhere. when we realised our equity was worthless unless it was held by the right people, with the right connections, things moved far more smoothly. | null | 3,833 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,862 | null | comment | jward | 1,173,779,247 | I don't know if the visa thing messes it up, but as a generic Canadian you can own American companies with no issues. I believe the issue is in you paying yourself a salary or the like from the corp. However you should be able to collect dividends just fine. It's been a while since I looked into it for myself, so do... | null | 3,649 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,869 | null | comment | danw | 1,173,790,019 | Thousands of little YC hatchlings would be incredible. I suppose YC news could be seen as one way of trying to scale the process of information sharing. It also covers advice in that you can pose a question to the community and get good answers usually. <p>Now how could the connection sharing be scaled? I wonder what w... | null | 3,836 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,860 | null | comment | ced | 1,173,778,651 | Adding features is one thing, changing the app metaphor is another. I'd say that the latter has to be right at launch.
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3,865 | null | story | clintonforbes | 1,173,780,264 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,863 | null | comment | davidw | 1,173,779,849 | "The problem is what happens when someone else comes along and offers all of your features for free?"<p>I created Stuff To Do (stufftodo.dedasys.com) as something we needed for work, but on my own time, so I decided to experiment with it a bit. I came up with what I thought was a pretty good separation of pay/free ver... | null | 3,766 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,866 | null | comment | vikram | 1,173,784,512 | It'll save you from reading the applications :-)) | null | 3,836 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,867 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,789,700 | The one VC firm I've ever actually worked with was all about "go big or stay home." However, they had the pre-launch checklist that included things like making sure the product was complete and a perfect fit for a specific vertical.<p>If you have an app that can exist in isolation and plenty of money, you can achieve ... | null | 3,847 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,852 | null | comment | pashle | 1,173,772,779 | This is for you, looking for your cofounder. It's a story about how the original two guys in a garage met each other. If you have a founder story, it's my hope that you also share it here, for all of us. From 'The HP Way', by David Packard:<p>"Largely because of (Fred) Terman's classes, the four of us - Hewlett, Porter... | null | 3,851 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,872 | null | story | agentbleu | 1,173,792,313 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,864 | null | comment | bigtoga | 1,173,780,172 | Why is this here though? This is more of a reddit article, isn't it? What does "How to build a simple blog application using Django" have to do with startups?
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3,870 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,791,890 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/13/wikiseek-launches-community-edited-search-engine/ | 2 | WikiSeek Launches Community Edited Search Engine | null | 0 |
3,868 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,173,789,856 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/13/free-a-tactic-not-a-business-model/ | 9 | Free: a Tactic, not a Business Model | null | 1 |
3,874 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,794,047 | It seems the lawyers take away more money than the development process! eek | null | 3,815 | null | [
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3,875 | null | comment | jamongkad | 1,173,794,466 | Not with all but yeah they do take away a sizeable chunk of the budget. What I want to know is who funded these businesses... | null | 3,874 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,871 | null | comment | eliasbaixas | 1,173,792,074 | I met my cofounder at 7 in the morning while having a beer walking down "Las Ramblas", in Barcelona. He came to my friend asking for a cigarrette, we started talking, and we inmediately realised we shared the passion about technologies, web 2.0, social networking and Open Source, so in 15 days we had our vision of what... | null | 3,851 | null | [
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3,873 | null | story | jwecker | 1,173,792,536 | null | null | null | null | null | http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html#clClose | 7 | Javascript Closures | null | 0 |
3,878 | null | story | wbornor | 1,173,795,731 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,876 | null | comment | jamongkad | 1,173,794,817 | I hope to ride on this soon as I'm still looking for a cofounder :( | null | 3,851 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,877 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,795,539 | Fun exercise- think of a large company- one whose products you know. What new product / package would terrify them? Not just show up as a competitor, but really make them sit down and say "well, we're going to have to reinvent ourselves, because this [whatever] makes our product completely obsolete." For software co... | null | 3,782 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,879 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,795,754 | same with "registering" in the first place, even if it is free. Just knowing that you have to make a decision whether or not you can use your real email address, the nagging question of what they're doing with the information, etc... | null | 3,770 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,882 | null | story | sszhou | 1,173,798,733 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,880 | null | story | mattculbreth | 1,173,795,835 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,881 | null | comment | e1ven | 1,173,798,589 | Seth Godin suggests (paraphrased) - Look at an industry as it exists currently.. Think of the Sacred Cows- "This industry ALWAYS....", and then question what would happen if they weren't there. <p>What would happen if "Enc. Britannica didn't need door to door salesmen to deliver a product"?
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3,885 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,799,014 | Last question from YC's FAQ:<p>Q. Are you looking for investors?
A. Not at the moment.<p>I always wondered why YC was reluctant to take outside investment. Now we know why :) | null | 3,849 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,884 | null | story | sszhou | 1,173,798,857 | null | null | null | null | null | http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall/archives/006713.html | 1 | The Entrepreneurial Mind: Instilling the Entrepreneurial Spirit | null | 0 |
3,883 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,798,745 | The issue with scalability is the same problem many corporations faced 50 years ago. This was before Ray Kroc turned McDonalds into a "turn-key" operation. This model provides the franchisee licensed trademark along with tried and proven methods of doing that particular business; which, in our case, involves establishi... | null | 3,836 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,886 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,173,799,431 | How about hooking up previously-successful YC entrepeneurs with new applicants? At this point, I'd value the Reddit guys as much as mentors as you or RTM (no offense).<p>YC would then grow like a B-tree. In the beginning, all founders are on the same "page". As the page grows beyond its size limits, the page is spli... | null | 3,836 | null | [
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3,887 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,799,740 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=14670396 | 1 | Social Network For High School Sports | null | 0 |
3,888 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,799,770 | In addition to venture capital, co-founder searching, and ROI numbers, there's another aspect of startups that we really should not forget.<p>Building the product. | null | 3,864 | null | [
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3,889 | null | comment | danielha | 1,173,799,878 | Looks like partnership negotiations completely fell through. | null | 3,878 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,891 | null | story | sharpshoot | 1,173,800,146 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,890 | null | story | Readmore | 1,173,800,061 | null | null | null | null | [
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3,892 | null | comment | sharpshoot | 1,173,800,202 | I know pollground decided to go back to school after getting y combinator funding | null | 3,891 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,899 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,802,634 | We already do this. We actively introduce new founders to "alumni" that can help them. There are now a lot of them. At the first dinner, instead of having an outside expert speak, we invite all the alumni. This time there were more speakers than audience at that dinner. <p>The peer-to-peer aspect of YC already scal... | null | 3,886 | null | [
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3,897 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,802,403 | Begun the copyright war has... Yoda | null | 3,878 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,896 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,802,252 | That's not my list; that's just the list of names I got from asking people I know. There are a few firms on it that I haven't met partners from personally, and quite a lot of partners I know who didn't make the list. We don't have an official relationship with any VC firm, but we did invite GK to Demo Day. | null | 3,858 | null | [
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3,901 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,803,146 | Going back to school is not identical with giving up. Some founders go back to school and keep working on the startup while there. However, those do so much worse than the people who work on the startup full-time that going back to school seems, in practice, not too far removed from a death sentence for a startup.<p>O... | null | 3,891 | null | [
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3,900 | null | comment | pixcavator | 1,173,802,827 | What I meant is that you should base your decisions on your own situation, not statistics. You are likely to end up average anyway - that's the nature of statistics. If you don't, that shouldn't bother you.. | null | 3,842 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,894 | null | comment | sszhou | 1,173,801,056 | flickr and netvibes... clean and simple makes it fun | null | 3,830 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,898 | null | comment | immad | 1,173,802,444 | hmm, but the Big Four are like advertiser aggregators (probably a real term for that, reselllers?) since they resell the advertising. So this doesn't seem that surprising to me, the people it affects are other people providing a similar service as a startup. Or am I missing the point? | null | 3,890 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
3,903 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,173,803,585 | To PG: Please, when visiting already-submitted-stories via the bookmarklet, DON'T consider that an upvote. I'm just using it to find the comment thread. | null | 2,929 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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