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veritas
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http://intype.info/home/index.php<p>Check out intype too. Found it through Digg. Not as polished as E-Text Editor though.
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staunch
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Well, it's been a while and I still haven't had to confirm my password. I think this feature is working well.
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awt
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I met my current co-founder at the first startup school. We've been working together for over a year now. Our first (self-funded) startup hasn't really taken off, but we managed to meet an angel investor in in the SF Bay Area with similar ideas to our own and are now working on a new site - so don't give up hope on g...
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nostrademons
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More selective doesn't necessarily mean a higher success rate, if VCs can't pick the winners at a higher rate than their general frequency in the population. Wasn't there just an article on here about how VC-funded "A teams" do no better, and often worse, than VC-funded "B teams". And I thought your "Unified Theory o...
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jamongkad
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Hot piece of tech...would love to see this develop in the near future.
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aristus
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We're going out Friday morning, back on Sunday evening. Ping me, eh? There's a surprising amount of startup stuff happening in Miami. Carlos at Bueno period organization-tld
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extantproject
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I've had similar thoughts; a sort of business that is "open source" in the sense that the users determine what gets built and can look at (modify, even?) what's going on...<p>extantproject at gmail dot com
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staunch
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I love YC News, and definitely appreciate PG's minimalist tendencies (which made reddit so great). But there's something about this site that makes it hard for me to read. I've been browsing with "View-&gt;Page Style-&gt;No Style" which helps. <p>I'm thinking it's something trivial like the gray visited links and s...
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drop19
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Amichail, there is a site that was a proto-version of what you're describing called The Business Experiment. It seems to be down right now, but here's an article about it:<p>http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/the_business_ex.html<p>The original site is:<p>http://www.thebusinessexperim...
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jamongkad
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Ahh SOC what's a Java monkey to do?
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aglarond
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Considering that what the partners do is the most valuable aspect of YC, I don't see this scaling without adding more partners. This begs the question of what YC is: is it a company that forms more companies, or is it an angel-firm that creates more angel-firms?<p>The latter can work only by forming these new angel-fi...
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r7000
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The feature set you have put together might be very useful to some potential users who aren't bands. You might be in one of those "we built it thinking of market X but ended up filling a need for Y" sort of situations.
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veritas
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Its usually fine. The user pages are a bit cluttered with all the history of a certain user. And yep, small fonts and grayed out links that blend into the background are small gripes on my part as well.
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mattculbreth
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Just buy a Mac and use the real thing. :)
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PindaxDotCom
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Yeah I agree. I visit the site a few times a day. Its hard to read, and hard to tell if I missed a good post too! Perhaps organizing posts by date might help.
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danw
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I'm ok with it but I have to increase the text size to read it. This isn't exclusive to YC news, I have to increase font size on most webpages due to my poor sight and mac os' irritating support for external monitors.
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jmzachary
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I'm wondering if this reply is a joke because none of those areas are still in their infancy, especially parallel processing and speech processing. If you really meant to say that their potential hasn't been realized, then is it possible that expectation levels were too high to begin with? Same thing with higher level ...
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far33d
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jmiao - definitely and yes.
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sharpshoot
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I've got a mac :) just for all the tempered souls who are waiting for leopard to come out and have persuaded themselves not to switch... (like my cofounder..shh)
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naish
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EC2 is intriguing; however. it is only available to a limited number of beta testers. The waiting list appears to be lengthy... I'm not counting on gaining access any time soon.
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This is an interesting problem that I've wondered about myself. We all talk about Web 2.0 not being a bubble but maybe that's just because the 'average joe' doesn't know anything about what's going on. Other than a few stories about MySpace and YouTube most people never hear about any Internet startups. How do you cros...
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agentbleu
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This is an article some may find interesting about Charles Saatchi and his latest stunt
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semigeek
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I've been contemplating a mac laptop for a while - textmate was almost what put me over the edge on my decision. Guess I can stick to Windows for a bit longer now :)
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semigeek
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"But if you actually watch that ticker it's increasing so slowly that it probably isn't costing them any more money"<p> Multiply the increase by the amount of users that receive it and the number doesn't seem so small - and can never be considered 'no cost'. The trade off is that with the more mail they can index per ...
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danw
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Any one on YC use twitter? I'm twitter.com/pixelm on there
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drop19
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I love it, it reminds me of Guy Kawasaki's article about avoid stupid things that slow users down..<p>http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/the_top_ten_stu.html<p>very refreshing to not have to type extra crap in.
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Vote this up if you want the fonts bigger and visited links darker.
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This graph contains pretty dramatic news: the lowest quarter of VCs used to make small positive returns up till 1997, and since then they've consistently lost more and more money. It looks like a lot of dumb money arrived in 1997.
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If speech processing is not in it's infancy, why can't my laptop tell how I'm feeling by listening to my voice? I seriously doubt you think there's no way to accomplish that.<p>Perhaps we are not talking about the same thing? The tone of the article was that students were being turned away from CS as a major because ...
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staunch
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FYI: The win32 version of gvim is very good.
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Or if you prefer things the way they are, vote this up.
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bluishgreen
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I run emacs over cygwin. Seems the feature set is nothing new. Am I missing something ?
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amichail
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Why is textmate interesting? <p>I've been using Eclipse for java development and have been very happy with it.
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I think it's reasonable to design for the 53,651. What they use, others will later. The Apple II was designed for the 53,651.
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Zak
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Prediction: MySpace fails within two years - users move to something similar, but less restrictive. I'm not sure trying to create that something is a good bet for a startup though; there seems to be more random chance involved in determining the success of such a service than anything. That's not to say it's impossible...
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mynameishere
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Seems odd to witness a lot of business-type people arguing (or at least leaning) in favor of copyright infringement.<p>I mean, we could argue for a while about whether some kid should be allowed to download songs off of bittorrent. That's just some kid. But then, you have a huge corporation doing almost the same (okay,...
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danw
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Firstly, based on the design of the rest of myspace, do you think the users care what it looks like?<p>Second, Most myspace users havent heard of digg, reddit, etc. To them this is going to be a wonderful new thing.
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python_kiss
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All business start off as micro-niche. Friendster's demographic was considered a niche just four years ago. Now it is considered "mainstream". <p>The one thing startups do risk for aiming small is VC investment. Venture Capitalists are reluctant to write a 7 figure check to a startup aiming for the 53,651 audience.
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mattculbreth
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Honestly tough to answer this. It's one of those things where you just have to use it for a while to realize how supportive it is of programming. All of the bundles (mostly developed by third parties) certainly helps. You can basically automate/script the application any way you like. There are bundles for differen...
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danw
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I'm not sure I understand the motive behind the linkjacking. If ze is after a higher pagerank then ze should have noticed that YCnews uses rel=nofollow. If its karma then ze should have spotted that there is only karma gains when its a direct link. If its click throughs on the referal links then I'm pretty sure that th...
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veritas
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I know the article says to ignore the trends after 2003 (too soon to tell period), but the downard slope of both quartiles is still interesting and I wonder why it's there. Lot of web 2.0 investments tanking perhaps?
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python_kiss
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TechCrunch has 351k feed subscribers not 53,651. I remember when Mashable covered mainstream startups but, in face of competition, positioned itself towards a smaller niche (covering social networks). Today Mashable has close to 80k subscribers.<p>There is nothing wrong with aiming small.
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amichail
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But is it better than Eclipse in terms of sophisticated language support? For a dynamic language, maybe that's not so important. But for a verbose statically typed language such as Java, it's critical. <p>BTW, if you have not checked out Eclipse lately, see:<p>http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2...
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The downward slope is almost certainly due to the increase in money being put into VC funds. Without a corresponding increase in the number of promising startups, the returns have to fall.<p>The graph is a visual illustration of the standard VC complaint: too much money chasing too few deals.
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domp
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This looks like a pretty cool device. I'm not sold on that sort of popular recommendation service system like last.fm though. It tends to be great for casual music listeners but I always feel like it recommends me the obvious handful of bands that I already know about.
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danielha
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It's not a matter of aiming small or finding a safe niche. Build something good and don't be afraid to aim big with broad appeal -- as long as focus isn't scattered. The market for early adoption may start off small, but that's frequently the case. <p>Consider HD TVs and displays. Years back, it was the enthusiasts who...
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far33d
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I wonder if user numbers are quantized at the Early Adopter number, or if successful sites smoothly cross that threshold (like the paid user quantization). For instance, did myspace or youtube have a user population stall around the 50k mark before becoming more widely successful?
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Apparently VCs put $238 million into Tellme. That is a lot of funding.
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drop19
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fonts are fine (that's an easy change for browser users to make because we have shortcuts), but visited links should be darker (more of a pain to change for just one site)
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Charming splash page they set up: http://www.tellme.com/
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mattculbreth
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I don't see it as a tool which can be compared easily. Eclipse (in my view) is more of a complete IDE. Same with Visual Studio (also superb).<p>Textmate is a seemingly minimalist programmer's editor. When you get into it and start hacking you start to see how much is really there. Definitely not an IDE though.
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I think greyed out links on the gray backround makes it harder. Why not use some of the orange for unread links?
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Sounds like a good idea.
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domp
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I totally agree. It makes them sound like they don't know what they're talking about. I also thought it was funny that now they're describing these amazing 'niches' that are being worked on when it's been happening for a real long time.
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Compared to eclipse: Bloat.
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veritas
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Indeed. Is it just me or are those two ugly buttons at the bottom completely superfluous? Couldn't they have just made the logos into links. It would've been so much nicer.
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or if titles should be bigger w/less contrast. I like .title 11pt or 12pt and a:link less than black, maybe #222222 or so.
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danielha
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The marriage metaphor, as JMiao put it, works well. When you're setting off to start a family with someone, you don't want any adverse surprises. The same goes with starting a company. And similarly, making foundation changes will be expensive as hell, in time and money.
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amichail
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Why does it matter if eclipse is huge? Your productivity is what's important. And for Java, eclipse results in a dramatic improvement in productivity.
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dawie
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http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/320-preview-7-highrise-plays-well-with-email
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A cool way to generate hipe about your product
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e1ven
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They had 53K at the time of writing ;) That article is from nearly a year ago..<p>I think that that is part of the key to understanding why the 53K are targetted- Because anything they're talking about now has a good chance of making it big later on.<p>It's a risk, and it doesn't always (seldom?) pays out, but if I wer...
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run4yourlives
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This is pretty interesting. Of course, the big risk here is that "flipping" anything is entirely dependent on a hot market - like we have right now with web apps. <p>Should that market turn, you won't be able to flip as successfully as you could right now. Sounds like a great idea to raise funding, finance a large purc...
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keizo
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Leveraging Emerging Technology, how one company found it's niche using .NET :\
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startup07
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Open Semantic Database
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dawie
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/13/inspire-yourself-58-creative-logos/
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Inspire Yourself: 58 Creative Logos
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python_kiss
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lol@"20 ways to make your cellphone look like Steve Jobs".<p> Digg users are indeed obsessed with lists. I once posted an article to Digg titled "9 Inventions Edison Did Not Make" along with "Anatomy of a successful social network". Both reached the frontpage; but the former received 500 more Diggs than the latter, eve...
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ericwan
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I'd say there're two kinds of startups which are unknown to mainstream America. One is the kinds the general public have actually used, but just may not realize that is a service provided by a startup company. This includes the likes of Slide or Meebo, which many more people have put their widgets on their blogs/Myspac...
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jimream
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The web is evolving very fast these days. It seems to me that because of our connections and web browsing habits, people reading this are often disconnected from how "normal" people view the web. Let me assure you, this web 2.0 craze we are seeing is no bubble. What will happen? well, in a sense, web 2.0 is really i...
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python_kiss
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Here is a list of almost 1000 Web 2.0 logos: http://web2logo.com<p>Good post though :)
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nostrademons
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BarCampBoston2: An open unConference for technology & startups
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ericwan
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A lot of VCs say they invest in the team. Then why do they often insert outsiders after they fund a startup?
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staunch
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LinkedIn's CEO Reid Hoffman Replaced By a VC Crony (02/4/07)
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staunch
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My guess is most of the time the VCs are nervous about the business or don't get along with the people they're replacing. They want to install blindly loyal and controllable "yes men" to feel secure.<p>Bringing in suits is still considered standard operating procedure. It's a shame how many mini-John Scully incidents ...
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python_kiss
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It all boils down to this: when a VC invests money in a startup, they are putting their reputation on the line. So imposing some control over the startup just seems natural. Imagine if you had to trust $11 million on a group of strangers; installing one of their own on the startup's board gives them a birds eye view of...
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goodgoblin
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interesting idea - I hope they add the ability to search by state and take out that puke green. Perhaps if we could get it in cornflower blue...
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staunch
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nPost.com Interview with Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn
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Does reading this raise your chances of success?
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mynameishere
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And vote THIS up if you want there to be user-configurable values via SQL injection exploits:<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid="begin;update Skins set Font='Comic Sans' where userName='mynameishere';commit;"
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