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6,201 | null | comment | planhq | 1,174,863,804 | Hi Nick,<p>Understand your concerns about privacy and security, and not everyone will feel comfortable immediately, but we'll keep proving ourselves as independent application providers who really just want to make a really cost effective and smart way to maintain an up to date business plan that you can achieve.<p>I'm... | null | 6,085 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,202 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,174,863,914 | I am a sophomore at the moment.<p>Over the course of my freshman year I launched three sites that tanked - along with my GPA. <p>But I guess I was lucky that high GPA and good job was never really an option for me so I kept trying new stuff hoping something would get enough traction to sideline college totally. With th... | null | 6,199 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,203 | null | comment | vlad | 1,174,865,189 | This is one question only you can answer. In my opinion, if you have to ask, then you should stay in school for the time being.<p>In "A Student's Guide to Startups," Paul Graham writes:<p>"...Our official policy now is only to fund undergrads we can't talk out of [leaving college]. And frankly, if you're not certain, ... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,204 | null | comment | chasing | 1,174,866,382 | While it's interesting to think about what would be ideal in the abstract, I think any company that puts hiring someone who fits a demographic (ie, "young") over hiring the right person for the job is doing themselves a disservice. We all know woefully boring 25-year-olds and exciting, bleeding-edge 50-somethings, I'm ... | null | 6,148 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,206 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,867,409 | Jeez, Fred, don't <i>tell</i> everyone. | null | 6,205 | null | [
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6,207 | null | comment | patryn20 | 1,174,867,776 | It depends on your mindset. I had fully intended to complete my undergrad while working part-time and then create a startup or pursue a masters. <p>Instead, my health forced me to drop one of my activities, and it ended up being my schooling. It was stressful, but at this point I am glad I chose to drop my college cour... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,205 | null | story | far33d | 1,174,866,451 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,208 | null | comment | Todd | 1,174,868,140 | The short answer: no. <p>It becomes diminishingly difficult to go back to school as you get older. The same applies for doing a startup, unfortunately. The difference is that you can generate income while building a startup. It's more difficult to get investors to pay you to go to college. Thus, finish.<p>To make your ... | null | 6,198 | null | [
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6,209 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,868,198 | Probably the finger-wag:<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/socialmoth/405509951">http://www.flickr.com/photos/socialmoth/405509951</a><p>(Rtm started it.) | null | 6,037 | null | [
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6,211 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,174,868,592 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=15478316 | 1 | A Place For Buyers And Sellers To Meet And Make Business | null | 0 |
6,212 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,868,640 | "If you do have to leave grad school, in the worst case it won't be for too long. If a startup fails, it will probably fail quickly enough that you can return to academic life. And if it succeeds, you may find you no longer have such a burning desire to be an assistant professor." - How to Start a Startup<p>That articl... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,210 | null | comment | Todd | 1,174,868,211 | true | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
6,213 | null | comment | wish | 1,174,869,007 | its just ur life journey ! its up to you if to take a bus or a train! <p>Good idea or not is depended on who u ask! Important is what wd u like to do now!
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6,214 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,869,578 | A much more noble attitude than plugging your ears and humming -- which is how many people seem to react to this harsh reality.<p>The fact is that Kapor himself was very young when he made his mark. There are far more similarities between him and Zuckerberg than differences, regardless of their <i>opinions</i>.
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6,215 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,174,869,779 | I was <i>just</i> about to post that... | null | 6,169 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,217 | null | comment | joshwa | 1,174,870,113 | an even better set of notes is here:<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/18290/Y-Combinator-Startup-School-2007-Notes">http://www.scribd.com/doc/18290/Y-Combinator-Startup-School-2007-Notes</a> | null | 6,087 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,219 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,870,377 | <i>"... in early 20s coming up with next set of Lotus features."</i><p>Why not? The only reason I can image is because they wouldn't likely be <i>allowed</i> to try. Instead they have to create something entirely new and better that makes it obsolete.
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6,220 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,870,409 | In my hiring, there is one thing that is paramount over all- attitude. And generally the attitude that gets people filtered out is arrogance. Not confidence, but arrogance. <p>Discriminating on age is silly. As is technological proficiency for non-technical positions (to a point.) I'll take a killer sales guy who'... | null | 6,148 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,218 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,870,322 | <i>"I think building a diverse team (assuming everybody is highly capable of course) wins most of the time."</i><p>We know diversity over the long-term is safer. Perhaps in startups, where the timespan is short, specialization and myopic vision win out?<p>Where do you see examples of diverse startups being successful? ... | null | 6,149 | null | [
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6,221 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,870,481 | ^haha, who came up with that ingenious formula? I would put number of wives and children as an exponent, e^(w + c) :p | null | 6,208 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,222 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,870,713 | I spoke to numerous YC alumni about this and they all offered valuable feedback. My takeaway was the same conclusion I always had: it's worth it. I already know what I want to do, and I have no problem leaving school to work on this full-time. This is not right for everybody (or even most), but I can talk forever about... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,223 | null | story | BioGeek | 1,174,870,902 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/features/tufte.html | 8 | Edward Tufte: "Running my own enterprise allows me to work elegantly, intensely, gracefully and incredibly efficiently." | null | 0 |
6,224 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,871,313 | Maybe, but they didn't really want to do email either. Individual handsets can possibly be ruled out, but huge (huge-r?) moves in the mobile arena is a given. | null | 6,189 | null | [
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6,226 | null | comment | drop19 | 1,174,871,605 | Gang, I submitted a YC funding idea for a new app that would be highly interactive and ideal to put on the web. The closest thing I've seen to what I'm trying to do is DabbleDB; I won't be competing with it, but my idea is 'of a piece' with Dabble. It's implemented in Seaside, and the more I learn about Seaside and S... | null | 6,225 | null | [
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6,228 | null | story | BitGeek | 1,174,871,751 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,227 | null | comment | rwalker | 1,174,871,659 | If you want to see the slides, they're online at: <a href="http://www.zenter.com/ed/view.html?id=226">http://www.zenter.com/ed/view.html?id=226</a> (FireFox only at the moment) | null | 6,168 | null | [
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6,225 | null | story | drop19 | 1,174,871,392 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://dabbledb.com/ | 2 | Should I even attempt something of this complexity in Rails? | null | 5 |
6,216 | null | story | sf2007 | 1,174,869,811 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,229 | null | story | rms | 1,174,871,925 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,231 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,872,655 | Funny you think that statement means anything useful.<p>Facebook certainly is <i>powered by</i> technology and its future certainly relies on innovating <i>using</i> technology. Why don't you clarify what you mean in more than a single sentence? | null | 6,216 | null | [
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6,232 | null | comment | rms | 1,174,873,114 | Doesn't load for me. | null | 6,227 | null | [
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6,230 | null | comment | rms | 1,174,872,009 | Um... yes?<p>Let me know if you've got any better ideas. | null | 6,228 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,233 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,873,207 | An attempt an analogy:<p>Some people would find it less stressful to pilot a small aircraft over open waters than be a passenger in a large jet flying over land.
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6,234 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,873,484 | How useful are type "a" people at all? Sounds like a kind definition of people lacking passion and the desire to grow. Isn't hiring them a recipe for mediocrity at any stage? | null | 6,158 | null | [
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6,235 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,873,540 | Any company that can deal with that kind of traffic has to be at least fairly good at technology.<p>But I think he meant more than that. He meant they approach problems (including nontechnical ones) the way technical people do. That's an interesting idea. And it seems to be working, too. | null | 6,216 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,236 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,174,873,714 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,243 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,875,441 | I wouldn't consider Ruby a risky choice for implementing something like DabbleDB -- I'd call it the safe choice. Choosing the technology is one of the greatest perks of doing your own thing.
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6,238 | null | story | danw | 1,174,873,871 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,240 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,174,874,559 | Hah, multiple wives? You sure that's only quadratic? | null | 6,208 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,239 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,874,282 | I found Wozniak's interview, in Jessica's book, as one of the most entertaining [1]. Many of the lessons learned from his early days have a global appeal to other startups as well: starting out with a great team, being young, not having money, adaptability, etc.<p><i>"Entrepreneurs have to keep adjusting to... everythi... | null | 6,236 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,245 | null | comment | volida | 1,174,875,886 | You should realize a few things first and weight them:
1. your wants
2. if you are satisfied or not, if you feel not doing what you love or depressed or pressed
3. your determination, be ready to fail and few other questions PG pointed out in his speech.<p>Thus examine if pursuaing through a break a startup could fulf... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,244 | null | story | staunch | 1,174,875,879 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,249 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,876,948 | I thought #1 was great and the rest felt like watered down or badly written versions of standard advice.<p>The focus on "algorithms 101" is pretty thinly veiled snobbery IMHO. If he knew math itself really well he'd probably claim that was of <i>vital importance</i> to all programming at Google too. Instead he falls ba... | null | 6,196 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,247 | null | story | staunch | 1,174,876,035 | null | null | null | null | null | http://perlmonks.org/?node=Best+nodes | 2 | YCN Feature Request: Best of Day/Week/Month/Year | null | 0 |
6,251 | null | comment | dmnd | 1,174,877,761 | I made this decision about two weeks ago: in my final year of an engineering/computer science double degree, I've decided to take a leave of absence and pursue some of the web startup ideas I have.<p>The decision was made when I saw other people successfully implementing ideas that I was trying to get done in my spare ... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,250 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,174,877,169 | It's funny, when he describes how he wrote Apple BASIC, it's <i>exactly</i> how a textbook compiler implementation works. His incremental symbol table is just a handwritten DFA. Then his noun stacks and verb stacks are basically how you'd write a parser, though they're usually just generalized into a single stack for... | null | 6,236 | null | [
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6,248 | null | comment | phil | 1,174,876,227 | it's funny that the quote got reported as "we're not doing a mobile phone," when in his second sentence he pretty much says "because handsets suck right now and we'd rather replace them with something completely different." | null | 6,224 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,242 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,174,875,409 | When investing in early stage companies, you put in less money and the upside is much greater. If this were the full picture then obviously early stage ventures would be a better deal. Of course, many more early stage companies go under than late stage companies. This extra risk is supposed to balance out the greater r... | null | 6,205 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,241 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,874,654 | Alexa let their technology stagnate and now there are quite a few startups about to run past them. Unless they buy out the competition Alexa will be totally irrelevant very soon.<p>This kind of big company coldness is just accelerating their demise.<p> | null | 6,163 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,263 | null | comment | drupeek | 1,174,883,841 | I read some interesting comments by some of the contributors on this site, that made mention of how cool it would be if we could all meet up somewhere. I decided to see who felt like putting themselves on the map... literally.<p>I've driven 6 hours to meet a potential partner face to face. I've flown across the contine... | null | 6,259 | null | [
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6,253 | null | comment | chrisjohnston | 1,174,878,768 | Working for a company is bad for you. Some people need the safety and security of a job. They need someone to tell them when to be at work and what to do when they get there. They may be dedicated employees, they may even be great managers, but they have no desire to take the risk involved in starting something from sc... | null | 6,157 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,254 | null | story | eman2611 | 1,174,879,275 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.collegemedium.com/index.php?p=33 | 1 | atlanta based co-founder (preference for Ga-tech/Emory folks) | null | 0 |
6,252 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,878,002 | Get a blog man -- they're free :-)<p>Funding is great for providing food, housing, servers, bandwidth, etc. If you can arrange all the practical issues yourself and can work full-time on your startup it definitely doesn't seem wise to take investment.<p>Taking investment is a huge risk and it should only be done in a c... | null | 6,237 | null | [
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6,255 | null | comment | rms | 1,174,879,535 | Wall Street would hate them for it... but you know Google's fashion line would be just stylish enough to be a solid step up for your typical nerd. | null | 6,229 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,246 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,174,875,997 | This is a hard question. I considered dropping out multiple times in college, but ended up sticking it out and getting my degree. I'm still not sure if it was the right choice, but it seems to be working out so far. Anyways, I have no answers, but I have some observations.<p>One of my main fears in college was that ... | null | 6,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,260 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,882,877 | By that measure, neither is google. | null | 6,216 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,256 | null | comment | vo0do0 | 1,174,880,070 | I believe in small teams and people that has stock options...
I read something that could answer this on the hot or not blog founder few days ago.<p><a href="http://james.hotornot.com/2007/02/on-having-balls-part-ii-staying-hungry.html">http://james.hotornot.com/2007/02/on-having-balls-part-ii-staying-hungry.html</a>
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6,237 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,873,777 | I think YCombinator is attempting great things and has a great strategy. However, after StartupSchool I'm mulling over my intention to build my startup without getting any funding. Yet, what I saw yesterday was mostly based on the assumption that a startup has to go thru rounds of funding.<p>A bit of background: I'm... | null | 6,228 | null | [
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6,261 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,883,433 | ah duff's device.
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6,258 | null | comment | drupeek | 1,174,881,606 | I submitted this manifesto by Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid.com) for one reason and one reason only... it's a brilliant caption of what to do when YCombinator gives your spot away or when your prototype doesn't hit the fan after 6 months. Seth Godin has preached the same concepts when referring to his Squidoo project.<p>I t... | null | 6,257 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,257 | null | story | drupeek | 1,174,881,150 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,259 | null | story | drupeek | 1,174,882,809 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,265 | null | comment | rajamohan | 1,174,884,751 | it is not only about the funding but also about the network. Todays world information is wealth and information can be collected by network. Hence for network building funding is necessary. | null | 6,228 | null | [
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6,264 | null | comment | rajamohan | 1,174,884,601 | provide him the ownership and when they feel they too are the owners contribution and dedication automatically flows and that is what bind them together with the company. | null | 6,157 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,266 | null | story | ginn | 1,174,885,223 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,267 | null | comment | ginn | 1,174,885,264 | I read an old RWW 2006 article that said if you're not from an ivy league school, than Y Combinator doesn't consider you. Anyone know if this is true?<p> | null | 6,266 | null | [
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6,268 | null | comment | abossy | 1,174,885,656 | This brings up a good point: choose your investors wisely. <p>While there are a plethora of non-technical investors that can potentially ruin your company, there's also technical investors who have been in the shoes of an early tech entrepreneur and have made it big. There's no guarantees of success, obviously, but it'... | null | 6,237 | null | [
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6,262 | null | comment | chasing | 1,174,883,447 | YouTube doesn't really "do" full-length videos (30 minutes+). At least, that's not what I use it for. It gives me my diet of 2-minute-max vids of clips off of the news, silly crap, and, well, mostly silly crap.<p>So I don't really see this as a YouTube competitor as much as an iTunes competitor. And I'm okay with that.... | null | 5,972 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,270 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,174,886,692 | My name is Brandon and I live in Tulsa OK. While it's not on the list of top startup cities there are quite a few great tech people here thanks to the University of Tulsa. ;) | null | 6,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,279 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,889,853 | Read/Write Web.<p>I think he's referring to their profile on you: <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paul_graham_profile.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paul_graham_profile.php</a> | null | 6,275 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,273 | null | story | reitzensteinm | 1,174,887,680 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,277 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,888,553 | As amusing as Philip's story is, screwups that spectacular are rare. | null | 6,268 | null | [
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6,280 | null | story | jamiequint | 1,174,889,992 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,276 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,174,888,411 | Just stop to think about how fast those photos load on Facebook, and you'll know they're a tech-driven company.
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6,275 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,888,319 | Sure, I know. It's false (of course). Sounds like something written by someone we turned down. What is RWW? | null | 6,267 | null | [
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6,272 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,174,887,439 | I live in Chapel Hill, NC and I am very sad - THE TAR HEELS LOST! | null | 6,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,269 | null | story | Readmore | 1,174,886,611 | null | null | null | null | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/panama/a-re+evaluation-of-yahoo-246779.php | 3 | Does Panama fix Yahoo? | null | 0 |
6,271 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,174,886,969 | I think Ruby would be a great way to attack something like that. That fact that you can sit at such a high level with Ruby allows you to build great things. Besides, Rails makes you so much more productive than anything else I've tried, if it won't work at least you know quickly because you'll be able to get something ... | null | 6,226 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,278 | null | comment | reitzensteinm | 1,174,888,802 | That these puzzles exist at all is the reason I don't use C for anything unless it's absolutely neccessary, like playing with CUDA, or highly desirable, like implementing a higher level language. <p>I mean don't get me wrong, I love the idea of such a thin layer ontop of assembler that with experience you can more or l... | null | 6,238 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,281 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,174,890,054 | "The Unlimited Data Plans and Features MAY NOT be used for any other purpose. Examples of prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i) continuous uploading, downloading or streaming of audio or video programming or games; (ii) server devices or host computer applications, including, but not limited t... | null | 6,280 | null | [
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6,274 | null | comment | reitzensteinm | 1,174,887,863 | I was just thinking about this this morning - GMail and Hotmail are fine and all, but I've migrated back to a desktop email app simply because web interfaces don't cut it for complex tasks. This is the best of both worlds - desktop app for home and web mail for on the go. | null | 6,273 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,283 | null | comment | whacked_new | 1,174,890,274 | Email verification? Email verification is no filter!
If you use an activation email, there really isn't a need for a captcha. Captchas are useful because users don't need to leave the current website, check their email, activate it, and come back -- they would have lost their thought inertia at that point, assuming the... | null | 6,244 | null | [
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6,282 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,890,234 | Are you sure about that? We're on a network, and I suspect most of us are building networking tools. Networking is a lot easier now. <p>Plus, I think networking is a skill, not a service. <p>And think about the cost- not just the equity, but the strings. It would be cheaper to pay a highly networked individual a fee ... | null | 6,265 | null | [
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6,284 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,890,956 |
I failed to make a distinction-- I am not opposed to funding, but think that VC funding is overrated. <p>If you are seeing your business as a 1-3 year affair- if you believe that in that time period you'll either crash or get bought or go big, and you don't have any resources... then taking VC funding to cover basi... | null | 6,252 | null | [
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6,285 | null | comment | teki321 | 1,174,891,225 | I'm from Melbourne, looking for something interesting. | null | 6,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,289 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,174,891,661 | Key from the article:<p>"In our next meeting, Tim Draper suggested that they should append an advertising message to every outbound email: "P.S. Get your free email at Hotmail. It was very contentious at the time. Would users balk at having this automatic addition to the content of their private messages?"<p>For someon... | null | 6,287 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,288 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,891,580 | Some positive things that come from VC funding are:<p>-- Greater awareness of your business.<p>-- Their investment may validate your business in the eyes of potential partners, customers, etc.<p>-- Due Dilligence is a process that is always good. (In the same way that dental work is always good.)
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6,290 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,891,976 | I'm in Seattle. Have a co-founder, not really looking for one. <p>Always willing to meet for coffee, though.<p>Am <i>not</i> moving to the Bay Area. <p>
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6,287 | null | story | zaidf | 1,174,891,501 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,286 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,174,891,469 | Portland, OR - Moving to the Bay Area ASAP though | null | 6,259 | null | [
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6,291 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,891,990 | Canadians take risks? Who knew!? (My personal porfolio, %90 of it is companies located in Vancouver and listed in TSX or TSX-V.) Canada is the premier public fundraising country in the world, I believe. (The US stifles innovation with onerous SEC regulation... so Canada, which has smaller population, is the place to ... | null | 6,263 | null | [
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6,292 | null | comment | dss | 1,174,892,120 | Portland, OR. Maybe moving to SanFran. | null | 6,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,293 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,892,580 | Google is probably the best example of making funding work for you. They took angel and VC and built a company to last.<p><i>"...so even a success results in nothing to the founders."</i><p>No intelligent investor would create a situation in which the founders had no incentive to succeed. They want founder's interests ... | null | 6,284 | null | [
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6,295 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,892,825 | Serving massive quantities of static images is probably the easiest challenge they've (<i>uhh</i>) faced -- it's just expensive.
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6,294 | null | comment | davidw | 1,174,892,822 | For the next few days, I live in Padova, Italy, but we're moving to Innsbruck, Austria where my wife found a good job doing research(*), and hopefully I will have some time to work on my own ideas.<p>Personally, I'm not convinced that the bay area is the be all and end all for startups. Maybe for classic style VC ... | null | 6,259 | null | [
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6,297 | null | comment | drupeek | 1,174,893,385 | I had intended to be fecicious but thank you for pointing out some oft-overlooked truths. | null | 6,291 | null | [
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6,296 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,893,102 | They're all going to have restrictions like this. They put these provisions in so that they can bust you if they want to, it doesn't mean they necessarily will. It's bad PR.<p>At worst the Justin.tv guys might have to get 10-20 EVDO cards under other peoples names and hop around to avoid trouble. Or better yet: make a ... | null | 6,281 | null | [
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6,299 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,893,482 | true | 6,266 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
6,301 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,174,893,726 | So, is the claimed "early 20s" requirement also false? <p>I know its a theme, but I didn't think it was a requirement. | null | 6,266 | null | [
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6,300 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,893,697 | How about people with no university education?
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