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7,002 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,108,872 | the logo says it all | null | 6,954 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,003 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,175,108,890 | Not everything, though, is as blissful as it sounds. There are times when I wish I had taken the beating and went along with the standard template. I haven't told my parents that I have left university to pursue the startup dream...it wouldn't be wise to tell them unless <i>they</i> felt the opportunity cost of pursuin... | null | 6,978 | null | [
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7,001 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,108,507 | I noticed that too after I submitted. But when you click on their link it doesn't go to the techcrunch article. | null | 6,996 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,004 | null | comment | Goladus | 1,175,109,097 | Yes that is the interesting question, but how do you answer it?<p>By enumerating what you want and comparing that with the support and restriction a steady job offers.<p> | null | 6,945 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,005 | null | comment | dougo | 1,175,109,670 | It's true that you don't have to prove yourself after the first semester of grad school, but there are many "release"-like hoops you have to jump through in those 5+ years. The main one is your thesis proposal. I also had to do a plan of study a couple years before that; nowadays, my school (Northeastern) instead mak... | null | 6,997 | null | [
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7,006 | null | story | danw | 1,175,110,292 | null | null | null | null | null | http://smartdreaming.blogspot.com/2007/03/contextuality-on-mobile-devices.html | 1 | Contextuality on mobile devices | null | 0 |
7,008 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,110,636 | This past "startup" weekend, we got a chance to bounce our idea off a bunch of different people. I got some really good feedback and wrote down every suggestion I received as soon as I could.<p>Let people know what you're doing so you know if you're doing something worthwhile. Remember: if they don't get what you're do... | null | 6,990 | null | [
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7,007 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,110,381 | That's a great post. We all know that some places are overloaded, but it's nice to have a concise list like that.<p>Quality and differentiation usually win out though. Hopefully somebody here is working in one of these areas and we can see it. I guess heySan! and Zenter come to mind, now that I think of it.<p> | null | 6,924 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,009 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,110,793 | His name is Victory Darwin. Holy crap. | null | 6,954 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,010 | null | comment | brlewis | 1,175,110,950 | Tell me specifically what kind of connections, expert advice and guidance google wants, and I can tell you whether I'd be a viable second choice or not. :-) | null | 6,947 | null | [
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7,012 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,111,174 | Right on, man. Have fun. | null | 6,874 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,011 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,111,095 | Look at them so easily and distinctly categorize all the different spaces of the web. <p>I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty of successful startups that significantly overlap several of these categories. Don't look to strictly find a set that your company falls into; just solve a problem no one has adequately solved before... | null | 6,924 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,013 | null | comment | fireandfury | 1,175,111,435 | Yeah Woz and Jobs were a great combo. It amazes me how well they matched.<p>It seems harder to identify a good "Jobs" type person. Good presentation skills... Couldn't you just get a smooth talking MBA type? An MBA that is good with technology? A smooth talking engineer with an MBA? | null | 6,828 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,017 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,112,243 | You ask about founding a startup, joining one, and whether YC cares if you have some startups under your belt.<p>You have already created a few businesses yourself, at least two of which are active and very likely more profitable right now than most YC companies are at this point. It's very likely that very few founde... | null | 6,958 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,018 | null | story | domp | 1,175,112,448 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/offline_webapps_online_desktop_counterpoint.php | 2 | Offline Web App vs. Online Desktop App | null | 2 |
7,014 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,111,920 | I am Aur Saraf.<p>YC can be scaled to any size very simply.<p>So simply, in fact, that had I met the criteria, I'd ask Paul to sponsor me in setting up YC Israel.<p>
YC can be scaled by both growing and duplication (creating copies that operate in different locations):<p>What do you need to run a YC "chapter"? Some of ... | null | 6,716 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,016 | null | story | danw | 1,175,112,084 | null | null | null | null | null | http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2007/03/seven-companies-that-arent-rumored-to.html | 1 | Seven Companies That Aren't Rumored to be Buying Palm, But Really Should Be | null | 0 |
7,019 | null | comment | fireandfury | 1,175,112,746 | I'm reminded of the quote that goes something like "don't let your schooling get in the way of your education."<p>The reason I think this applies is because engineering isn't really like what is taught in schools. It's probably the best you can do with 1 professor for 200 students.<p>But to answer the question, I would... | null | 6,926 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,015 | null | comment | ClintonKarr | 1,175,112,072 | I can't say that I've quit my job, but Paul Graham does make some interesting points.<p>The question that is stuck in my head is "what should I do if I have an idea for a Web service, but have no technical 'know-how?'" Is it worth approaching YCombinator? | null | 6,918 | null | [
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7,022 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,113,251 | dude wtf? who writes web apps that don't work w/ firefox anymore? it's not like I'm running lynx.
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7,020 | null | comment | aquarin | 1,175,112,763 | Update: I haven't tried all those tips myself :).
I have asked relatives and friends only,
but writing in this blog my ideas become clear and it is inspirational for new ideas too. | null | 6,961 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,025 | null | story | far33d | 1,175,113,657 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.joostteam.com/2007/03/27/joost-successfully-run-on-apple-tv/ | 5 | joost on AppleTV | null | 1 |
7,021 | null | comment | jsjenkins168 | 1,175,113,135 | I really like the focus PG now has on funding groups with quality people, not just an impressive demo. I was very surprised when I heard him say they will accept applications with the idea "I have no idea". The realization that you can have an outstanding group of founders but not a complete product yet and still get a... | null | 6,990 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,024 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,113,518 | Hello. My name is Aur Saraf.<p>If you want to change the world, you have two ways to do it:<p>1) By force - in this case, don't do it. Waste of energy on anti-productivity.<p>2) By creating something people REALLY REALLY want (like your examples) - in that case, yes. Create a company. Find someone as enthusiastic as yo... | null | 6,872 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,023 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,113,430 | I should point out that it's $1 million in scholarships and not just a single scholarship. <p>"The 12-week online program costs $7,000 and has the potential for a value of over $50,000." I'd rather do my own online research, read recommended books, and meet with entrepreneurs than spend money on this. How do they price... | null | 6,954 | null | [
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7,026 | null | comment | lkozma | 1,175,113,670 | I meant you don't need to make something people genuinely want, as it would solve a problem they have. You have to prove to the committee that you put in a decent amount of effort, but that's about it. | null | 6,989 | null | [
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7,027 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,113,709 | Hello. My name is Aur Saraf.<p>
No, this won't happen. We're drifting AWAY form that, not TOWARD it, in the last 50 years.<p>
And yet, a revolution in education WILL come. Some day, someone WILL figure out that generic schools are stupid and will provide a better solution en masse, and creating a better solution is tri... | null | 6,929 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,031 | null | comment | epall | 1,175,114,096 | Wait, so where do I apply? | null | 6,929 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,029 | null | story | danielha | 1,175,114,031 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,028 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,113,737 | Great point. I told my parents when I was 21, "I could make more money working at McDonald's than what I'm doing right now. The point is, everybody who has a small business or sold a startup, no matter what age they are right now, they started their quest for independence when they were 18, or 25. And, the only way ... | null | 6,998 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,030 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,114,057 | Seems like a cool concept though. It could have some better widespread use when they make it 'myspace compatible'. | null | 6,972 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,032 | null | comment | bhb | 1,175,114,229 | I just wanted to follow up and let everyone know how we ended up answering this question. Hopefully this helps somebody out there.<p>The more we thought about it, the more we realized that we had no idea what the company would really be worth after three months. It was just too hard for us to figure out a number that w... | null | 5,701 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,033 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,114,282 | Personally, I love Yelp. I've discovered some great hole-in-the-wall places that make me feel like I'm in the know. Some critics can be exceptionally harsh, though, and it's interesting to witness the quick impacts they have on businesses. | null | 7,029 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,037 | null | story | vlad | 1,175,114,929 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,036 | null | comment | SwellJoe | 1,175,114,416 | Definitely not. I don't even have a four year degree, much less one from an Ivy League school, and my co-founder went to some school in Australia that I didn't even identify on the application, because I didn't know the name and had no time to check. (Our company was in WFP2007.)<p>But if I were offering advice from ... | null | 6,266 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,034 | null | story | danielha | 1,175,114,373 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,035 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,114,382 | Hello, I am Aur Saraf.<p>
Early French Gendarmes earned their bread capturing criminals and charging the populace for the service (as freelancer professionals, not employees of the government).<p>That model worked for them.<p>Could it work for Web2.0? Could an online "gendarme" find a way to police all social networks?... | null | 6,689 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,038 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,175,115,069 | Correction (as above): It's true that you don't have to make something people want at all in many fields (c.f. theoretical math), but many in engineering probably use it to make something people just don't want immediately enough for you to get funding and make a product before said funding runs out. | null | 7,026 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,041 | null | comment | davidw | 1,175,115,269 | Another approach is to let PG take care of it and get back to working on something that matters, whatever that may be;-) | null | 6,967 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,042 | null | comment | davidw | 1,175,115,434 | There are a lot of time trackers/project management/todo list things, too... I've been finding that out with my Stuff To Do application:-/ | null | 6,924 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,039 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,115,148 | No offense, but if your parents are paying a dime for your schooling, you should probably tell them you aren't going. | null | 7,003 | null | [
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7,040 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,115,248 | And leave a comment here if you come to News.YC for news and not content-free polls! | null | 7,037 | null | [
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7,046 | null | comment | paulthomas | 1,175,115,838 | Enough already with Justin.TV. It is completely lame. | null | 6,925 | null | [
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7,054 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,175,116,796 | You could do the same kind of thing that yCombinator is doing now. Accept the best and the brightest, train them for a couple years. Let them develop products inside the school by providing them contacts, advice, etc. Then take a percentage of the companies that make it. The students get a great education with the chan... | null | 6,929 | null | [
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7,044 | null | story | e1ven | 1,175,115,700 | null | null | null | null | null | http://uiscape.com/2007/03/14/feeling-unhappy-try-ligatures/ | 1 | Ligatures and Kerning (The way text is displayed) can effect how people feel after using/reading a website. | null | 0 |
7,055 | null | story | Mistone | 1,175,116,797 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/MNG0JNMFQE1.DTL&hw=dot+com&sn=002&sc=781 | 4 | Dot Com on the Cheap - a slightly old article, but good stuff for entreps | null | 0 |
7,048 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,175,115,958 | "Gmail of Powerpoint"? Am I the only one who is struggling to make sense of what that means? | null | 7,034 | null | [
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7,043 | null | comment | run4yourlives | 1,175,115,636 | That's right out of a "disruptive innovation" paper I read recently. <p>Nice to know the company I'm in with regards to my reading material! | null | 6,938 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,060 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,117,493 | This is a simple request. How about making the Y in the upper left corner of the page be the shortcut icon? Nearly all of my bookmarked web pages have a representative icon, and it couldn't hurt anything, right?
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7,045 | null | comment | e1ven | 1,175,115,834 | On Reddit, I recall one day in which there were 4 polls on the front page, and two other posts complaining about the polls.<p>
For the most part, we all agree that polls don't belong as part of the comment system. PG has offered to write dedicated poll code. <p>
Let's try to band together to avoid filling up the storie... | null | 7,037 | null | [
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7,053 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,116,669 | the Y combinator is an answer to this exact question<p>Aur Saraf | null | 7,049 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,051 | null | comment | juwo | 1,175,116,217 | I feel uneasy about (what PG just said) "just release stuff they build, without worrying...".
Isnt it showing disrespect for the user? If I do my very best for you, it is saying that I respect you.
Oddly enough, it is in enterprise software that I find great care taken to see that a certain level of quality is reached.... | null | 6,987 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,047 | null | comment | volida | 1,175,115,951 | this must be the most pessimistic article I've ever read in my life by the most pessimistic writer out there!<p>If Paul Buchheit thought like this, we would never have GMail. | null | 6,924 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,050 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,116,136 | Hello. I am Aur Saraf.<p>Simply put, no.<p>Start ups are about work, not ideas. Ideas flow freely with some people (like me) that just have about one idea per day worth implementation.<p>The skill to bring a product to life is the critical part.<p>
Still, since you shouldn't drop the idea of starting a start up, you sh... | null | 7,015 | null | [
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7,049 | null | comment | sanderbilt | 1,175,116,027 | Here's my big question for Paul, and for everyone. How does one afford to start a startup? Does everyone do it by eating Ramen and maxing out their credit cards? Wouldn't you hear about more people who had their life left in ruins with $50k in debt when their website went under? I'm not talking about the cost of ru... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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7,052 | null | comment | juwo | 1,175,116,351 | :) <a href="http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?bdpg=1">http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?bdpg=1</a> | null | 7,010 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,057 | null | story | Mistone | 1,175,116,915 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,061 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,117,518 | I just pulled some statistics on Monday while I was in San Francisco to help me write a press release (for when I'm at the airport) to finally publicize my product. Anyway, here is what they are:<p>In an e-mail poll where 153 customers replied over a course of over a year:
More than 9 out of 10 customers said they "wo... | null | 7,057 | null | [
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7,058 | null | comment | rfrey | 1,175,116,930 | I was intrigued by the reference to the "good ol' days" when reviewers would let a restaurant have 30 days to work out the kinks.<p>I have a friend from Vietnam who started a restaurant in my hometown, which has a Vietnamese population of around 30-50,000. He told me, just before opening, that the first 3 days would m... | null | 7,029 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,059 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,175,117,199 | You are worse than I am:) <p>My parents pestered me every weekend about my GPA until past few months. Slowly they have come to terms with the idea that I don't care much about school - and that my GPA probably sucks. | null | 7,003 | null | [
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7,062 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,117,543 | Think of Outlook, Thunderbird, Pine, what have you. | null | 7,048 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,056 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,116,808 | See you at next year's startup school (hopefully)! | null | 7,037 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,070 | null | story | BioGeek | 1,175,119,552 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,065 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,175,118,371 | No! I'm reading news.yc/active these days, and adding comments to this thread makes it salient.<p>Please ignore such submissions entirely.
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7,071 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,119,682 | I must comment that the conclusion they arrive at is very interesting: that web-based apps work better for individuals (and also, I presume, small groups), while desktop apps work better for businesses, because a big part of people's justification for web applications is large-scale collaboration.<p>In the article, how... | null | 7,018 | null | [
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7,068 | null | story | domp | 1,175,119,311 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,069 | null | comment | aristus | 1,175,119,424 | This is a really cool idea, but I wonder about the danger of falling into the "X of Y" or "A meets B" style of describing software. <p>"X of Y" is how Hollywood describes new scripts. The danger is that this is also how Hollywood <i>comes up with</i> new scripts. Have we gone whole hog and transformed into a fashion in... | null | 7,034 | null | [
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7,066 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,118,584 | I guess Microsoft does, since the URL is msresearch.us. Am I the only one that finds it strange that Microsoft still thinks they can succeed by trying to lock out the competition through tricks like this? The idea of a computer on every desk running Microsoft software is a perfectly fine goal, but that doesn't mean t... | null | 7,022 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,064 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,118,218 | The funny thing is how ironic the title is, in that the author seems to be making the claim that he is not smart. | null | 7,037 | null | [
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7,072 | null | comment | dougo | 1,175,119,741 | RSS is nice, but spammy. There should be a way to subscribe to an "N-point feed" that only includes stories above a certain threshold. | null | 363 | null | [
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7,067 | null | comment | dougo | 1,175,119,303 | I want a way to change my password. Or is there one and I'm just blind? | null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,074 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,120,047 | I would also include the number of replies, although I must admit that I've never implemented such a system myself. Typically, the best articles have the most replies, and quite often, the most interesting content is the replies themselves. | null | 7,068 | null | [
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7,076 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,120,588 | is there any way you could filter applications before reading them? | null | 6,984 | null | [
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7,078 | null | comment | philc | 1,175,120,672 | Not necessarily, but building a web app turns out to be a good way to build a product. He wrote about some advantages of doing so here-
<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html</a> | null | 6,899 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,073 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,175,119,879 | Well, except for "in need of a programmer", "intricate", "without revealing too much information", "in the process of", and "extremely successful". Did I miss any? | null | 6,542 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,079 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,120,709 | The first think I thought when I saw this quote was that there's a wall full of unicycles at the YCombinator/AnyBots office, and lots of people that ride them effectively.
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7,075 | null | comment | Sam_Odio | 1,175,120,218 | I think that's the point. Maybe you just have to know Vlad to get his humor... | null | 7,064 | null | [
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7,077 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,175,120,604 | I don't personally have a problem with using that manner of description when it can describe the GENERAL idea of your business in few words. ie. Google in its starting days could say "Kinda like Yahoo Search" or iPod could say "Better than your walkman"<p>Problem here is the X of Y description doesn't make obvious sen... | null | 7,069 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,063 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,117,612 | Good points. I had some of them in the back of my mind, but I think that I was subconsciously trying to forget about all that :). | null | 7,005 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,080 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,120,838 | True. I never knew the way these news sites actually worked. There was this post on reddit that made me search out this article. He was an upset new user who kept submitting stories and they immediately were knocked down. <p><a href="http://reddit.com/info/1dk74/comments">http://reddit.com/info/1dk74/comments</a><p>My ... | null | 7,074 | null | [
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7,081 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,121,015 | No, me too. Sounds pretty vapid, to be blunt. | null | 7,048 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,083 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,121,098 | These days they call it a mashup, which sounds cooler. | null | 7,069 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,082 | null | comment | palish | 1,175,121,046 | There's a large difference between the entertainment industry and the web application industry. Since the beginning of inventions, people have been crossing seemingly unrelated things to discover beautiful new insights. Because we create value, if "The Facebook of Wikipedia" is valuable, then it's safe to describe it... | null | 7,069 | null | [
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7,084 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,121,222 | And yet YouTube is the Flickr of Flash videos, right?<p>And Google was the better-AltaVista of AltaVista. I'm just saying, those are pretty big waves. | null | 7,082 | null | [
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7,085 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,121,306 | See, it's like "pre-zenter." Took me a while to get that. | null | 7,034 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,086 | null | comment | philc | 1,175,121,357 | I remember meeting someone during the WFP interviews that was still employed. What constraints do you have on people still working at tech firms like Google or MS?<p>Have you ever had any issues with IP? | null | 6,740 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,087 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,121,423 | "A startup is like a bicycle." I think only a business person would come up with such an analogy. Remember, it implies there is somebody else sitting in the seat.<p>And the VC is riding you? Certainly not your customers, in the early stage, since you may not have any. And each of the founders we know is already a b... | null | 7,070 | null | [
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7,090 | null | comment | ntoshev | 1,175,121,665 | They seem to release things internally first. This makes a lot of sense, but yes, doesn't help much with things targeting non-hackers. | null | 6,987 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,089 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,121,635 | And needless to say, let's NOT impeach anybody! :)
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7,088 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,121,488 | Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:<p>"Marketing and innovation are the two chief functions of business. You get paid for creating a customer, which is marketing. And you get paid for creating a new dimension of performance, which is innovation. Everything else is a cost center." - Peter Drucker | null | 7,070 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,095 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,122,235 | I found some by Paul Graham, of all people, when I typed in "a startup is like" into Google:<p>"A startup is like walking on your hands. A startup is like a pass/fail course. A startup is like a small boat in the open sea. A startup is like a mosquito. A startup is like a hang-glider launch.<p>No.<p>A startup is like b... | null | 7,087 | null | [
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7,096 | null | comment | ericwan | 1,175,122,256 | i.e. how does YC judge non-technical people on the app? | null | 7,094 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,091 | null | comment | Mistone | 1,175,121,798 | hello vlad, <p>do you know how many many of your users found out about the service via a recommendation/referral? <p> | null | 7,061 | null | [
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7,093 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,121,935 | They price it by making it up.
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7,092 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,175,121,917 | From what I understand, Jobs could hack, too. It's only standing next to <i>Steve Wozniak</i> that makes him seem unhackerly. | null | 6,861 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,094 | null | story | ericwan | 1,175,122,193 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,098 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,122,744 | I learned a couple things from a few similar projects, and realized there was a gap in the market for a particular product. The firm I was with (and some others who approach it in a similar fashion) all did custom development for this particular business problem.<p>Nothing in the world wrong with consulting, that's fo... | null | 6,999 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,097 | null | comment | Mistone | 1,175,122,386 | comments on relevant sites is a good way to validate a persons ideas, domain knowledge, and thoughtfulness, but my main contribution's have been to TC, AVC, Flickr, and others, so I get no benefit from that here. Maybe a hot idea for a simple web 2.0 startup would be an aggregation tool of all comments by a user acros... | null | 189 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,099 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,175,122,832 | Its income period. If you are reasonably frugal any sort of "real" programming job is enough to handle the loan payments.<p>But no matter how frugal you are a $40000 debt is unlikely to be paid off on $10000 in funding. You would be making a big bet not only on a success but a timely one. So yes I think student debt... | null | 6,946 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,100 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,122,864 | I think the main part of the "Jobs-Wozniak" relationship that people forget to mention is that Jobs approached Wozniak and thought that's what they should market.<p>In other words, you're not a Wozniak just because you're heavily into technology. Wozniak created a bunch of stuff because he wanted something very useful... | null | 7,094 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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