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6,702 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,175,032,131 |
That's not a reason, that's an assertion of your opinion. You're not alone in that opinion.<p>The real question is why? This has never been answered, other than "closeness to VCs".<p>There's no fundamental advantage to the Bay Area over, say Seattle, or other places that has been mentioned here.<p>All of the resourc... | null | 6,566 | null | [
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6,701 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,175,031,997 |
Right, all the areas where you previously had to build infrastructure are now free or you can rent them ... and they have become commidtized.<p>Thus a team of a few can focus just on adding value, making the bootstrapping runway dramatically shorter.<p>I'm not sure what the benefit of physical networking is (and thus ... | null | 6,534 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,703 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,032,613 | I have always wondered why it's necessary to <i>beat</i> Big Company X. I recall reading some writings by Eric Raymond when he remarked that competition is good for the consumer, and thus anyone who is trying to quell competition (Mic<i>cough</i>sof<i>cough</i>) is intrinsically hurting the general populace.<p>That sa... | null | 6,593 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,704 | null | comment | BitGeek | 1,175,032,663 | You're arguing that reducing your chances for success is the only way to succeed. You presume that if you aren't about to die, then you must be lazy. You presume that the only model is unprofitability until someone either buys you or you get shut down. <p>You presume that reducing the number of scenarios by which a... | null | 6,487 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,705 | null | story | far33d | 1,175,032,729 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked/ | 3 | John McCain learns a lesson. | null | 0 |
6,706 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,175,033,141 | One thing we can't tell since the original websites are down: Were these attacks made in the comments or were they first-class posts?<p>Bloggers aren't responsible for things said in their comments. | null | 6,697 | null | [
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6,707 | null | story | mountaineer | 1,175,033,349 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,709 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,033,572 | We often think about that. We could hire assistants, so we didn't have to do everything ourselves. Or we could make YC work more peer-to-peer. Or we could build a robot that would walk around telling everyone "don't make users register," "delete half the text on your frontpage," "face the audience when you're presen... | null | 6,687 | null | [
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6,710 | null | story | Pinny | 1,175,033,910 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.pinnycohen.com/2007/03/27/marketing-wisdom/case-study-why-compusa-is-losing-the-battle-for-computer-and-electronics-sales/ | 1 | Case Study: Why CompUSA Is Losing The Battle For Computer And Electronics Sales | null | 0 |
6,708 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,175,033,561 | Excellent. The essay and talk together produced several surprises. The essay cleared up things things that the video obscured (couldn't see the visuals), like the "not-so-smart" / "enterprise software" connection (I was thinking he just meant the competition was dumb so you'd have the one-eyed man / land of the blind... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,711 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,034,183 | At first I was thinking, <i>Wikipedia is great as is. Besides, why compete with a free product?</i> Once I actually visited the site and read the philosophy, however, I have to concede that it's at least worth a shot. This idea is clearly the result of someone saying, "What is wrong with Wikipedia, and how can we fi... | null | 6,681 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,712 | null | story | amichail | 1,175,034,373 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,714 | null | comment | sethjohn | 1,175,035,880 | I've often wondered whether you could make a lot of progress by bringing together hackers with, for example, doctors or lawyers. These are people who use computers every day but probably don't spend much time thinking about how to hack a solution to their computing problems. <p>As a scientist I've had a lot of success ... | null | 6,708 | null | [
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6,713 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,034,408 | If you are interested in trying it out, please send an email to amichail@gmail.com.<p>This is sort of like a closed beta but the prototype is pretty preliminary. Nonetheless, it is already quite functional. | null | 6,712 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,717 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,036,126 | Minor edits: under #4, the second paragraph, "Any in any case..." should be "And...". Also, I personally think that the previous sentence could use a little work, because "you probably are" could mean "you probably are not smart enough".<p>Feel free to delete this comment after changes are made. | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,715 | null | comment | mountaineer | 1,175,036,039 | Great essay, I sure wish my reason was because of #10 (wealthy) and not #9 (family to support), so true, so true.<p>An alternative to starting a consulting business is to build your stuff on the side. Possibly draining? Yes, but if you're determined, I believe this is better than getting distracted by a consulting bu... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,718 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,036,143 | Paul's recent mentions about scaling Y Combinator have prompted me to give some thought to the matter myself, but the first thing I realized is that I don't really know what's preventing it from scaling. What's the current limiting factor?<p>Amount of money available to invest?<p>How much attention you can pay to the ... | null | 6,716 | null | [
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6,719 | null | comment | fireandfury | 1,175,036,148 | Great interview. 10/10<p>I love how Woz described his relationship with Steve Jobs. What a great story of how Apple got started.
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6,725 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,037,879 | I have to agree with the writer of this article, except I think it would be better to remove the "Viral" tag altogether. I think that marketing in general has gone too far. Certainly appealing to the generosity of people and then throwing it back in our faces is beginning to go too far, and I think the author of the ... | null | 6,658 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,720 | null | comment | hundreddollar | 1,175,036,556 | My favorite part is this: "To almost everyone except criminals, it seems an axiom that if you need money, you should get a job." As an entrepreneur, I'm happy to almost be in the same category as a criminal. ;) <p>I also love the 0% dissatisfaction idea, whether or not the result is a success. The experience of launchi... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,722 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,037,332 | See <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6716">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6716</a> | null | 6,709 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,721 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,175,036,711 | Agreed. And yet the founders need to have worked together already, at least a bit. The big problem is that non-programmers can't help out with the programming in the early stages of a startups when that's about all that's happening. | null | 6,714 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,723 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,037,614 | I don't think he's asking how long until people stop caring about viral marketing, but how long until people stop caring in general, i.e. about humanity. I think the problem lies not in viral marketing itself, but in Nissan's implementation of viral marketing. I think that the methods of these different types of vira... | null | 6,688 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,724 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,037,625 | Right now it's the number of good applications. That number appears to be increasing fairly rapidly, though. Then it will be our attention. | null | 6,718 | null | [
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6,727 | null | comment | motoko | 1,175,038,109 | yawn.
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6,728 | null | comment | immad | 1,175,038,252 | apologies, I tried looking but couldn't find anything in the newest and figured this story was new enough. Is there a better way of checking for duplicates where url is unlikely to hit? | null | 6,685 | null | [
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6,729 | null | comment | kingkongrevenge | 1,175,038,621 | I'm still doubtful about the "Revenue is not important" thing. Maybe right now you can get acquired with no revenues, but that probably won't last. People said revenue didn't matter during the Web 1.0 IPO bubble, and that turned out wrong. To be convinced otherwise I'd have to see the accounting for these web deals ... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,726 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,037,965 | Valid Identity:<p> <i>'... Were these attacks made in the comments or were they first-class posts? ...'</i><p>Good point. Would a solution be only having comments if you supply an openId? [0] The idea being you have to ID yourself to comment. Would validation of identity be one way to help solve this?<p> <i>'... Blogge... | null | 6,706 | null | [
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6,732 | null | comment | awt | 1,175,038,944 | Your best bet is to make something that is useful enough that you won't have to rely on tricks to get people to use it. | null | 6,658 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,731 | null | comment | immad | 1,175,038,802 | Sounds like what Yahoo and other portals tried to do and didn't really succeed. Facebook is like the same play coming from a different angle, except this time they own all your friends :-). | null | 6,680 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,730 | null | comment | sethjohn | 1,175,038,764 | With all the coverage of Justin.tv, it's surprising that this is the first time I've seen anyone raise the issue of Justin (et al)'s personality. Of course, valleywag (being valleywag) brought it up in a gossipy obnoxious way, but still, shouldn't that have been one of the first and most obvious questions to ask? | null | 6,671 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,733 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,039,192 | Just another live node on the network?<p>meaningful conversation in twitter is like explaining debugging code to <i>some </i> interested people, in a noisy pub. lots of talking going on, but not much listening. If you are capturing all this on a blog with the snippets or highlights pulled back via RSS, then maybe yes... | null | 6,707 | null | [
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6,734 | null | comment | whacked_new | 1,175,040,093 | To sound more positive, it shows that there is no age limit. Craig Newmark for inspiration! | null | 6,635 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,735 | null | comment | kingkongrevenge | 1,175,040,437 | "produce something specific for yourself."<p>This excludes any sort of capital good like an accounting package, or his own example of groupware. <p>You'd never get most of the good product ideas targeted at businesses without industry experience, which sort of contradicts his advice not to work before starting a com... | null | 6,693 | null | [
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6,736 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,040,560 | Out of curiosity, what do you think of the work done at the MIT Media Lab? Would you fund those sorts of things?<p><a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/research">http://www.media.mit.edu/research</a>
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6,737 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,175,040,936 | Seattle, at the UW. I already have a great cofounder, but I'd like to meet up for coffee. | null | 6,259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,738 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,175,040,992 | "Always willing to meet for coffee, though." <p>Me too. What are you doing after work today? I'm on the Ave right now. See my profile for contact info. | null | 6,290 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,740 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,041,275 | Part of the reason the number of applications isn't that much higher than it was the first time is that we've changed our approach to founders. Initially we pitched YC as a substitute for a summer job for students. Then we realized that we wanted people more committed than that-- that it was actually bad to fund peopl... | null | 6,708 | null | [
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6,739 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,041,095 | That sounds like it puts you in approximately the same boat as traditional VCs. | null | 6,724 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,743 | null | comment | mountaineer | 1,175,041,490 | true | 6,707 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
6,744 | null | comment | mountaineer | 1,175,041,520 | Great point.. since I'm just getting started with it, I'll see how it goes this week then look at pulling it back to the blog. It'll be a fun experiment anyway. | null | 6,733 | null | [
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6,742 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,041,353 | Paul, I really liked your point about the change in the business world. I also feel that the current model is shifting into a more favorable situation for individuals.<p>I think it might be the change in perception. My parents, and people around their age, seem to have a different perspective on what a job means. They ... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,754 | null | story | staunch | 1,175,043,557 | null | null | null | null | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362816/index.htm | 2 | Joe Kraus Interview Nov 2005 -- "I love the relationships that you build with people when you're in the trenches trying to make something from nothing." | null | 0 |
6,747 | null | story | staunch | 1,175,042,001 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,758 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,044,635 | I don't get it. | null | 6,660 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,745 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,041,895 | I guess. Not something I relish being on the far side of 30, but freedom of association being what it is, it seems so. | null | 6,526 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,749 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,042,281 | No biggie. I've done it too. Someone created a search tool for the YComb news. Check it out.<p><a href="http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/">http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/</a> | null | 6,728 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,760 | null | comment | Sam_Odio | 1,175,045,184 | Saw them @ startup school as well, and I could see it being useful. I'm not sure what the business model is, I wouldn't have called it "stupid"<p>I imagine they put the IP warning up in response to the techcrunch press. The real solution would be a message when someone picks up telling them to "Press 1 to stop this se... | null | 6,640 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,748 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,042,076 | I hope I'm a target for kidnapping and billion-dollar lawsuits someday.
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6,753 | null | comment | danw | 1,175,043,367 | This is the paper where the "43% of facebook messages are spam" claim originates, something which I am inclined to dispute. Other than that its a great look at user habits. The graphs speak for themselves. | null | 6,692 | null | [
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6,741 | null | comment | abossy | 1,175,041,327 | I don't understand -- how are accounting packages or groupware examples of goods that don't solve a problem for oneself? <p>If I need to manage my money and taxes, I can build software for that. <p>If I need to develop some kind of collaboration tool to help me work better with teams at school, or on an open-source pro... | null | 6,735 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,757 | null | comment | STOpandthink | 1,175,044,600 | There will be more startups over time, but eventually this growth will hit a limit. There are only so many people who can participate in a startup. Eventually the startups grow and merge with big companies and that's where <i>most</i> of the people will spend their life working. Startup will always remain an adventure ... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,751 | null | comment | jonmc12 | 1,175,042,834 | I'm from Austin as well. Plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of engineers, and enough funding sources. All the pieces are there - I think what we're missing is a real tech startup community. | null | 6,358 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,761 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,045,309 | Tricks like Nissan's are better-described as just "left-field", not "viral". I don't see how leaving phony keyrings lying around encourages people to pass on a message. | null | 6,658 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,752 | null | comment | brezina | 1,175,043,113 | In my mind there is no question that the limiting factor is Paul's time. The amount of time Paul spends with his portfolio of companies is the integral of the number of companies he funds with 50% decay to account for companies that quit. There is obviously a physical limit at 24 hrs/day. | null | 6,718 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,755 | null | comment | dougw | 1,175,043,888 | Paul, there is nothing to the amount of attention given to applicants after acceptance? | null | 6,724 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,759 | null | story | rms | 1,175,045,048 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,746 | null | story | jl | 1,175,041,939 | null | null | null | null | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6495929.stm | 8 | From Oxford to Silicon Valley, part two | null | 0 |
6,750 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,042,662 | I think PG's essays and YCN can be a huge boost to scaling YC itself. He wrote of attempting of Huffman coding in the "hardest lessons" essay, perhaps he could also reference comment IDs as well. Maybe something more forum-like is necessary though, where topics can be marked "sticky" forever.<p>If each group of founder... | null | 6,716 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,764 | null | story | danielha | 1,175,045,997 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,762 | null | comment | mallipeddi | 1,175,045,799 | Question to Paul: First of all I've to tell you I'm a big fan of all your essays. But a lot of things which you say in your essays seem to work really well only if you're developing Web 2.0 sites. Version 1 of any Web 2.0 app can be built with 3 people in 3 months with very less capital needs (especially if the founder... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,763 | null | story | Sam_Odio | 1,175,045,855 | null | null | null | null | null | http://paulgraham.com/mit.html | 2 | A student's guide to startups | null | 0 |
6,756 | null | comment | notabel | 1,175,044,011 | I don't find it entirely impossible. After Startup School I talked to Adam D'Angelo about spam on facebook (largely because I'd never seen any); he said that there is a lot of spam activity, but that internal safeguards prevent most of it from ever being visible. If the researchers were using internal, pre-filter data... | null | 6,753 | null | [
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6,769 | null | comment | eli | 1,175,047,581 | Adobe just announced the new version of Flash Lite which includes support for streaming video -- no coincidence | null | 6,663 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,773 | null | comment | jsjenkins168 | 1,175,048,340 | I was particularly interested in the reversal Paul made with his opinion on working for a company right after school (before founding a startup).<p>This was something I've always debated myself. I can see how the companies he's funded have shown that working first is probably not necessary. I also understand his argume... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,768 | null | comment | chandrab | 1,175,046,985 | The problem scaling YC is definately time, it sometime sucks that we only have 24hrs/day!...I had a few friends that were VCs and they worked like dogs. A few VCs shuffle you off to a Jr. Associate, which has some negatives, the biggest being that if you had any experience at all, you knew more about running a busines... | null | 6,716 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,774 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,048,412 | How can they detect abuse without violating your privacy? | null | 6,764 | null | [
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6,777 | null | story | amichail | 1,175,049,416 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,767 | null | comment | danw | 1,175,046,355 | Good point. I was concerned that the researches might be counting messages to groups as spam. | null | 6,756 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,771 | null | comment | hwork | 1,175,048,220 | Is this really 'leapfrogging' reliable services that offer 2+gigs for space? I don't know about other people's email usages, but gmail has a ceiling I will not be sneaking up on anytime soon. I guess it is nice to know that you do have unlimited space, but I don't think this announcement is nearly as cool as gmail's ... | null | 6,764 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,766 | null | story | Sam_Odio | 1,175,046,196 | null | null | null | null | null | http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html | 4 | Need a startup idea? | null | 0 |
6,772 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,048,284 | It's not like anyone upvotes her now. | null | 6,747 | null | [
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6,775 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,048,459 | Just looks like a lame self-promoter, not a spammer per se. I echo pg's comment but if something comes along that's actually worth reading, I don't think anything sinister will happen if you upmod it. | null | 6,747 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,765 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,175,046,151 | I'm only partly covered by this list. It's true that I don't really have an immediately viable potential cofounder, but it's also true that if I had one, I still don't think I would start a startup in the near future. My main problem is that I'm most interested in machine learning and robotics, and neither of those see... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,770 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,175,048,152 | Google already has them beat:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strategicpause/434015378/in/set-72157600026714867/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/strategicpause/434015378/in/set-72157600026714867/</a> | null | 6,764 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,778 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,175,049,679 | Hey, I said something before PG did! Compare footnote 2 with <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=635">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=635</a><p>I'm sure I wasn't first, but it's cool nonetheless.<p>Startup idea: supporting geographically collocated open source projects to help potential partners ge... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,780 | null | comment | ladyada | 1,175,050,297 | "Bloggers aren't responsible for things said in their comments."<p>Sure they are! It's their site, & they have moderation control. Bloggers always delete comments, either spam, off-topic or otherwise. | null | 6,706 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,779 | null | story | zaidf | 1,175,050,254 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,776 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,175,048,545 | There is a distinction between "revenue is not important" and "if lots of users love you, you can probably figure out how to make money out of it (if you arn't acquired first)". | null | 6,729 | null | [
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6,781 | null | story | juwo | 1,175,050,485 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,782 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,050,944 | It does generate <i>some</i> amount of ad revenue from the clicks. Just bothers me, perhaps it shouldn't. I don't mean to blow it out of proportion.
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6,783 | null | story | amichail | 1,175,051,339 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.larta.org/lavox/articlelinks/2004/041122_bq.asp | 2 | Forget IQ and EQ, Best Entrepreneurs Have High BQ | null | 0 |
6,784 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,051,340 | End of April 2nd: <i></i><i>"... by midnight PST on Monday, April 2, 2007"</i><i></i> | null | 6,777 | null | [
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6,785 | null | comment | e1ven | 1,175,051,380 | I'll admit my mistake. <p>This isn't really a case of viral marketing as much as Compassion marketing, which is targeting a new market. <p>This would have been viral if instead of simply leaving keys on the ground, it encouraged you to "see if you can trick your friends" with the same set of keys, or a similar action e... | null | 6,658 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,786 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,051,634 | It's just an observation. Enter the entries into twitter, then use the RSS feed back into your blog as a list. <p>That way not only do you get your own content back to your site (remember it's your data) but readers get a good sense of what the chatter for today is related to the rest of your site.<p> | null | 6,744 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,790 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,052,371 | I think it's safe to assume that YC is not trying to trick applicants by playing with abbreviation semantics. <p>By midnight means before midnight on April 2nd. If this is really turning your world upside down, make your personal deadline April 1st. | null | 6,788 | null | [
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6,789 | null | comment | jmcantrell | 1,175,051,988 | Fantastic essay. Now I'm all pumped up. As soon as I find a colleague that I want to share an office with, I'll be submitting an application :)
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6,788 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,051,897 | It's ambiguous:<p><a href="http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm">http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm</a> | null | 6,784 | null | [
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6,791 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,175,052,441 | "It's exciting to think we may be on the cusp of another shift like the one from farming to manufacturing."<p>The biggest reason why startups are so much more feasible now than ever before is because of the plummeting costs of production. Whereas twenty years ago it would have taken millions of dollars to do a startup,... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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6,787 | null | comment | lupin_sansei | 1,175,051,839 | Another alternative is to work 4 days a week, and use the extra day for your startup. | null | 6,715 | null | [
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6,793 | null | comment | lkozma | 1,175,052,602 | It's exactly the "connections" part that doesn't scale. Paul can mention 4 startups on his page, and hint two other apps he uses, but if he would list 20, probably no-one would check them. | null | 6,700 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,795 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,052,737 | Check out who made #9.<p>Here's the full article: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070326_934874.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070326_934874.htm</a> | null | 6,794 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,792 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,175,052,531 | Do we <i>really</i> need to keep rubbing this in? | null | 6,759 | null | [
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6,794 | null | story | danielha | 1,175,052,656 | null | null | null | null | [
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6,796 | null | comment | lkozma | 1,175,052,905 | Grad school is more friendly only in the sense that you are not constrained to make things that people want. | null | 6,765 | null | [
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6,799 | null | story | danielha | 1,175,053,337 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/03/27/news-corp-myspace-generating-over-30-million-a-month-in-revs-pali-research-says/ | 1 | MySpace Generating Over $30 Million a Month | null | 0 |
6,797 | null | comment | whacked_new | 1,175,053,301 | From my severely uneducated impression of TV shows, I find it very interesting I haven't seen any popular reality TV show in Asia. In USA and every other channel seemed to be a reality TV show of some sort. Even if it's not 24/7 reality, it's always about being off the set and appearing unscripted. I wonder if audience... | null | 6,662 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,798 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,175,053,305 | So there are basically two factors then:<p>1) Smart people within YC<p>2) Smart people applying to YC<p>So basically you have to find the optimal ratio and then grow both in proportion. :-) | null | 6,724 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
6,800 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,175,053,404 | Or, perhaps more to the point, things that people don't <i>yet</i> want, because they're too new and too alpha. Or things that you don't know how long it will take to produce a product with, but which will definitely one day be useful and people will want them. Robots fall into most of these categories at the moment. I... | null | 6,796 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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