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7,102 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,122,951 | The Jobs is the one filling out the application for the Woz. | null | 7,094 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,103 | null | comment | palish | 1,175,123,025 | Well, what I meant was that it's a dangerous frame of mind to look for innovation only by crossing existing things. Originality helps :) | null | 7,084 | null | [
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7,104 | null | comment | BrandonM | 1,175,123,099 | Ahh, then the irony is actually that I am the not-smart one :). Sorry, newcomer here. | null | 7,075 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,101 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,175,122,867 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=15712082 | 1 | The First Free Open Innovation Portal | null | 0 |
7,105 | null | comment | Mistone | 1,175,123,108 | no technical know how when building a web company is going to be a problem. <p>But I'm building a web startup, and I'm not an engineer/developer. I do know a lot about the web and product development so my eyes don't roll back when the conversation turns to apache logs, SSL stamps, and server side scripts. <p>I would... | null | 7,050 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,106 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,124,014 | Once in a while customers actually tell me that they've referred someone, so it must be happening. It's nice to have customers say they would tell their friends in a survey response, whether or not they actually do. :)<p>Also, the best part, by the way, is you can then contact those who said "needs improvement" and as... | null | 7,091 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,107 | null | comment | acgourley | 1,175,124,159 | Perhaps I'm wrong about this - but I don't think you could pick out a future entrepreneur from a group of children. It's not about how bright you are - although that helps. It's more about their work ethic, drive, what they want from life, etc. It certainly has nothing to do with testable skills such as mathematics, wr... | null | 7,054 | null | [
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7,109 | null | comment | davy | 1,175,124,488 | Actually, you are wrong. Why pay off debt that is only costing you 6-odd percent a year (or less if you managed to refinance a few years ago) when you could invest that money and average 8-10 percent a year (or better). If you have enough money to pay off your mortgage, shove it all into the stock market. You'll com... | null | 5,913 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,108 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,124,291 | Google? | null | 7,070 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,110 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,124,575 | That's funny. I work at a place that's supposedly full of hard technical (and creative) problems. But they're always someone else's problems. <p>And for every hard problem at a "real" job, there's 10 annoying ones. I bet the startup ratio is probably similar, but they're YOUR problems (hard and annoying), not someone e... | null | 6,928 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,112 | null | comment | abossy | 1,175,124,804 | I agree. <p>I remember reading a chapter of Hackers & Painters in which PG states that he was able to implement new features so quickly, that it seemed to his competitors as though he possessed some kind of secret weapon. Instead, he was simply using Lisp, a powerful and highly abstract language. <p>What he doesn't exp... | null | 7,050 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,111 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,124,780 | We encourage startups to explain themselves this way to investors and reporters, but not necessarily to think of the project in these terms themselves. Though the Zenters were pretty clever about their X of Y: they chose Gmail precisely because it was not merely web-based mail, but redefined what a mail program could ... | null | 7,069 | null | [
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7,113 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,125,329 | Originality is not, in itself, valuable in many markets. It's often a liability.<p>So maybe it's more true that originality hurts. That is, you don't want to be as original as possible, you want to be only as original as you can afford to be.<p>Joe Kraus's stellar lecture at Startup School last year explained this pr... | null | 7,103 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,114 | null | comment | omarish | 1,175,125,400 | Gmail did a pretty good job redoing a certain technology, web based email, in this case. Powerpoint is a technology that needs reworking. | null | 7,048 | null | [
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7,115 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,175,125,424 | Of course, my parents aren't paying. In fact, the only reason I wish to be <i>mildly</i> rich is so that I may buy my dad a long vacation away from his job. | null | 7,039 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,116 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,175,125,836 | lol, thanks zaid...I take it that wasn't a compliment? I learned quite a lot of lab work simply from building a solar car ( <a href="http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~hec/pictures.html">http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~hec/pictures.html</a> ) as a side project. So , in University, I was able to maintain an okayish GPA because I manag... | null | 7,059 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,117 | null | story | britman | 1,175,125,942 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,118 | null | comment | nateritter | 1,175,126,035 | I think this is a great essay, but it's missing one very important factor which keeps me from starting a startup (successfully so far) - networking. I don't know the right people, and knowing people is so much of the battle (as I've found recently).... I guess that's not much of a problem if you are Paul Graham, or kn... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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7,119 | null | comment | scrollinondubs | 1,175,126,063 | I just finished reading this essay and there were so many sentances that resonated for me that I may have to frame the whole friggin thing. We had originally applied a year ago for the Y Combinator summer program of 06. We didn't make it but we did the startup on our own instead and it continues to be the most rewardi... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,122 | null | story | farmer | 1,175,126,995 | null | null | null | null | null | http://codist.biit.com/fiche/thecodist/home | 2 | A startup story from 1984 | null | 0 |
7,121 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,175,126,897 | Better yet, let's start a poll polling people about how much they hate polls [pic] [video] [NSFW]. | null | 7,045 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,120 | null | comment | rsynnott | 1,175,126,809 | Hmm. I'm not at all sure that 'entrepreneurship' is a real word. | null | 6,563 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,123 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,175,127,139 | You're not picking out future entrepreneurs per se you're just getting the best kids. The odds are some of those kids are going to want to start their own company and when they do you are in a perfect position to help them and recoup some costs if it takes off. When you do find an entrepreneur it's just the prize in th... | null | 7,107 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,124 | null | story | amichail | 1,175,127,429 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/ | 1 | TIME Best Inventions 2006 | null | 0 |
7,125 | null | comment | rsynnott | 1,175,127,470 | Yes, I'd have more or less the same view; I don't know enough people, and I doubt I have the social skills to court VCs or similar. I've worked for a couple of startups/ex-startups, and in each case there was at least one person there from the beginning who was very good at things like that. | null | 7,118 | null | [
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7,126 | null | story | jamiequint | 1,175,127,905 | null | null | null | null | null | http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/03/mail.html | 7 | Just Announced - Yahoo Mail API | null | 0 |
7,127 | null | story | twostepsback | 1,175,128,619 | null | true | null | null | [
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] | http://www.ebusinessmba.com/articles/top-25-web2-websites.html | 3 | Traffic Data for Web 2.0's 25 Sexiest Sites | null | 0 |
7,128 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,128,650 | remember pb's (to distinguish him from pg) definition of a good product: the suffix "that actually works". | null | 7,114 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,129 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,128,653 | From <a href="http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html:">http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html:</a>
<i>"Some time ago I built a self-balancing two-wheeled scooter. Since then I realized that two wheels are redundant, and only a single wheel is needed to make a ridable vehicle."</i> | null | 7,079 | null | [
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7,131 | null | story | amichail | 1,175,129,165 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,130 | null | comment | timg | 1,175,129,086 | Simply put, no.<p>Unless he's rich and hard working. Then he is of some use. | null | 7,050 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,132 | null | comment | whacked_new | 1,175,129,686 | Gut feeling says it does have an impact. I recall reading that reddit takes into account how long a user has been registered.<p>The karma system is pretty interesting... there are definitely many variables to play with in calculating "karma," but the end goal should be largely the same -- measure a user's contribution ... | null | 7,080 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,133 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,129,703 | Stop it with the sockpuppet accounts or we'll ban the site. | null | 7,127 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,134 | null | comment | eli | 1,175,129,860 | maybe I'm getting old, but I'm totally done with fighting against manufacturers to get their products to do the sort of things they should've done out of the box. | null | 7,025 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,137 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,130,413 | This will never take off as an applet. Huge mistake. Hope no one here is creating applets.
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7,135 | null | comment | eli | 1,175,130,070 | look no further than gmail for domains. | null | 7,071 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,136 | null | story | pg | 1,175,130,118 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,138 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,130,435 | We do, in a sense: some people who apply we already know, because people we've funded recommended them. If you can impress the founders of a YC startup, that counts for a lot.<p>This site was designed partly as an additional filter. It works too. When I met danielha I knew his name because he was #1 on News.YC. | null | 7,076 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,139 | null | comment | jdamato | 1,175,130,769 | Is there a way to change my password? I don't see a form for it anywhere, but maybe I missed it. If it doesn't exist, this would be a great feature to add for sure. | null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,141 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,131,130 | I certainly view hacking as a lifelong profession. The reason I started a startup was not so I didn't have to work, but so I could work on what I wanted-- particularly unprofitable stuff like programming languages. | null | 6,927 | null | [
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7,142 | null | comment | vinit | 1,175,131,366 | But the existing RSS feed only gives the headlines ... | null | 6,939 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,140 | null | comment | jdb | 1,175,131,065 | Paul writes: "The big mystery to me is: why don't more people start startups? If nearly everyone who does it prefers it to a regular job, and a significant percentage get rich, why doesn't everyone want to do this?"<p>You have a logical disconnect here, involving the self-selecting nature of the group. One could just ... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,143 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,131,484 | That's looking at it from the business's point of view, not the users' point of view. Also, it still doesn't make much sense. | null | 7,114 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,146 | null | story | onebeerdave | 1,175,131,912 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,147 | null | story | onebeerdave | 1,175,132,094 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,151 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,132,681 | Ask the founders of auctomatic; they're currently doing it. | null | 7,117 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,148 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,132,155 | I really like this idea. I've had some girls that I'm friends with have some really bizarre experiences on dating sites. This one seems like a much safer route and doesn't require a long survey to match your compatibility. Seems fun also and not like the other sites where most people are looking for 'the one'. I wish t... | null | 7,136 | null | [
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7,145 | null | story | joshwa | 1,175,131,523 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/03/coder_to_cofounder.shtml | 7 | Coder to Co-Founder: Entrepreneuring for Geeks (Marc Hedlund talk @ ETech) | null | 0 |
7,144 | null | story | joshwa | 1,175,131,509 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/03/applied_web_heresies_etech_2007.shtml | 3 | There are a lot of "best practices" of Web development that were good decisions at the time but which are no longer needed. | null | 0 |
7,150 | null | story | Elfan | 1,175,132,371 | null | null | null | null | null | http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/03/creating_value.html | 1 | Creating Value | null | 0 |
7,149 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,132,186 | Hello. I am Aur Saraf.<p>
Social skills are learnable. Very learnable.<p>I believe that every geek should submit himself to a crash course in social skills (to a level where he can control a room in a party). It's really not that hard. The problem is that it's one of those problems where no one would admit it and there... | null | 7,125 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,156 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,133,792 | Hello. I am Aur Saraf.<p>And I don't like this.<p>Why?<p>Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary role here to a currency based trading system.<p>Is that a way to show value? "I answered more questions and logged in more, and I belie... | null | 7,136 | null | [
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7,154 | null | comment | ecuzzillo | 1,175,133,652 | Transcript? | null | 7,146 | null | [
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7,152 | null | comment | gommm | 1,175,133,058 | Now I'm really curious about this website.... any invites available anywhere? | null | 7,148 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,155 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,133,765 | I missed it when they went to start-up school. That would have been awesome! I am growing in my level of interest in justin.tv - mostly as a fascinating experiment. | null | 4,950 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,153 | null | story | jcwentz | 1,175,133,283 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,157 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,175,134,091 | Funnily going by these standards most big corporations today should have died a long time ago. <p>I think the key is to keep this list in the background - not go paranoid about getting every point on it right at once. | null | 7,153 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,162 | null | comment | jackpipe | 1,175,135,228 | Well, you state that 0% of your startups had a bad experience. But of course these were the ones that got funding - they are already winners, even if they later failed to make it big.
What about the 400-odd that didn't get funding? It takes much more than a couple of weekends in a cafe to put together a decent startu... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,159 | null | comment | nickb | 1,175,134,604 | It doesn't matter how well you bid since love and attraction cannot be bought. Woman will pick who she finds attractive, not someone who outbids the other guy.<p>PS: Feminists will be all over this one.. I can just see it: "you mean, you're bidding on women?!" | null | 7,136 | null | [
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7,160 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,134,677 | Did anyone find it bizarre that some of the responses given by founders are extremely long? | null | 7,146 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,161 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,134,980 | BTW, feel free to share your favorite bits of the book here:<p><a href="http://72.36.160.114">http://72.36.160.114</a>
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7,164 | null | story | rms | 1,175,135,638 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.esquire.com/ESQ0605BLIND_114 | 1 | Heart-rending story about how a blind entrepreneur's mind adjusts to suddently restored sight | null | 0 |
7,166 | null | comment | jackpipe | 1,175,136,260 | To the JumpBox guy.
Interesting idea.
You need to come right out with what you're doing, on the home page, or in the first sentence of the 'about' page. I don't want to read a paragraph of crap about automobiles, before coming to what you're all about.
Also, I'm sure LAMP components (ie the various tiers of web server... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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7,165 | null | comment | Elfan | 1,175,135,743 | There doesn't appear to be one. There wern't any earth shattering revelations. It was a standard (although enjoyable) interview of a recent author. | null | 7,154 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,158 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,134,121 | Do you think this is any better? :)<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921</a> | null | 7,156 | null | [
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7,163 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,135,601 | I signed up and began playing with it a couple days ago. I love the look and character of the site. Everything about the presentation oozes charm. | null | 7,136 | null | [
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7,167 | null | comment | julie | 1,175,136,364 | Essay great, as usual from PGraham. Quibble is: should rightly be called "Not reasons not to start a startup".<p>Your friend,
Julie
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7,175 | null | comment | domp | 1,175,139,531 | That hotornot story is priceless. It was my favorite part of the Founders at Work. | null | 7,146 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,173 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,138,193 | Post some invite codes here for us, please. | null | 7,163 | null | [
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7,170 | null | story | dfranke | 1,175,137,336 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/bak2007mar15.htm | 5 | Patent applications will now receive even less scrutiny. | null | 0 |
7,177 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,175,140,031 | I just posted it on my site if you don't want to download it:
<a href="http://www.ijigg.com/songs/CGE40FAP0">http://www.ijigg.com/songs/CGE40FAP0</a><p>--Zaid
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7,179 | null | story | omarish | 1,175,140,649 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,172 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,137,958 | is this thing more weird than anything else? | null | 7,131 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,168 | null | comment | supahfly_remix | 1,175,136,523 | No doubt, hacking is a way of life.<p>What I wonder is if Bell Labs were still in its heyday, would you have been an entrepreneur? When AT&T was a monopoly, they provided exactly the kind of unprofitable environment that geeks love (and they had the spare cash for them to buy toys, too!). Think of the programming lan... | null | 7,141 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,174 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,138,467 | vlad- <p>in keeping with the theme:<p>A startup is like being a mosquito trying to fly a hanglider-boat while waking on your hands... simultaneously trying to negotiate the wind to keep you up in the air and convince your teachers to get in your boat rather than fail you.<p>;-) | null | 7,095 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,171 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,137,521 | IMHO - I don't think there is a very good way to "tell" someone you are a visionary. <p>Nor do I think there is any good way to know of yourself that you are a visionary to the tune of Steve Jobs. People say that the ideas that Jobs has that seem to "change the world" come to him as clear solutions to obvious problems.... | null | 7,094 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,178 | null | story | mattculbreth | 1,175,140,364 | null | null | null | null | null | http://home.inklingmarkets.com/market/show/4018 | 1 | Python 3000 or Perl 6 first--bet on Inkling (YC company) | null | 0 |
7,176 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,139,909 | We have had some late night white boarding sessions formulating both incredibly simplistic and overly complex algorithms. The middle of those two is the hard thing to get to. <p>The most recent white board session ended in me deciding I need to write a letter to my 9th grade math teacher. I think i gave her crap about... | null | 7,068 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,181 | null | story | brett | 1,175,141,095 | null | null | null | null | [
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7,169 | null | comment | danielha | 1,175,137,292 | Women can bid on men. Or women can bid on women. Or men can bid on men. | null | 7,159 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,180 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,141,052 | The worst thing to me about the rise of the NDA is the return of the colloquial phrase, "i could tell you... but i'd hafta kill you"<p>:-P | null | 638 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,183 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,141,877 | Yeah, but from the user's point of view, when I hear that I think I'm going to be zipping presentations to people instead of email, and looking at an inbox of presentations people have sent me. That can't be right, can it? | null | 7,111 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,182 | null | comment | omarish | 1,175,141,160 | Startups are all about dedication/motivation. Also about creating dedication and motivation where it is necessary, when we do not care for it anymore. That explains why even when we're sick of our startups, we keep pushing onwards.<p>Could this mean that founders who can create motivation can also create motivation to ... | null | 7,179 | null | [
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7,184 | null | comment | vlad | 1,175,141,896 | It will be interesting to see who uses the site! | null | 7,136 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,185 | null | comment | jaggederest | 1,175,142,448 | I have rather the opposite problem. I'm like a machine when I get a decent idea (wrt implementing it etc), but I can't seem to find one that makes other people care about it. | null | 7,015 | null | [
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7,188 | null | comment | run4yourlives | 1,175,143,371 | It does? Seems to work just fine... everyone uses it, unless they use macs. | null | 7,114 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,186 | null | comment | kobs | 1,175,142,538 | kenny sanders. i'm just a frosh studying compsci | null | 6,838 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,187 | null | comment | Constantine | 1,175,143,208 | For some reason I just cant agree with you.
While motivating yourself to accomplish your goals is pretty much the entire purpose of life, what makes a degree automatically one of those goals?<p>If college is needed to accomplish your future then by all means run headlong into it, and make the decision to enjoy every m... | null | 7,182 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,189 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,143,440 | sometimes an analogy works just way too well. | null | 7,129 | null | [
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7,190 | null | comment | Constantine | 1,175,144,203 | Having a person coming out of Google would be great not only because you know they have some skills, but that they are completely committed and determined to get it done. What a great coworker they would be!.
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7,192 | null | comment | budu3 | 1,175,144,445 | It helps to get out of the closet to tell your family and friends. Their support helps a lot plus there's no turning back once you've tld those around you. If you don't tell anyone it's easy to go back to school or work when things get tough and no one will be none the wiser. | null | 7,003 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,191 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,144,425 | FYI: You can get a free dynamic dns hostname off <a href="http://yi.org">http://yi.org</a>
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7,194 | null | comment | h3h | 1,175,144,642 | Great read, but the biggest things that stop me from starting a startup aren't really on your list.<p>It's a combination of factors, including (1) need for savings and planning for the [non-startup-rich] future, (2) supporting a girlfriend who refuses to live a grad student lifestyle, (3) expensive cost of living in th... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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7,193 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,144,619 | The name is horribly long but so good I think it could really work. Hope they do well. | null | 7,136 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,195 | null | comment | aarjav | 1,175,144,790 | "[2] The best kind of organization for that might be an open source project, but those don't involve a lot of face to face meetings. Maybe it would be worth starting one that did"<p>Mitch Kapor's OSAF (profiled in the excellent book Dreaming in Code) is an example of the pitfalls of doing this. I'd say the primary pitf... | null | 6,668 | null | [
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7,197 | null | comment | achillesheel | 1,175,145,160 | 0% of the startup founders hate startups these people: Paul <i></i>selected out of a pool of people having advanced ahead enough to consider funding<i></i>. Sounds a lot like - making 100000$ per year is an easy problem - just go to Stanford Univ everyone who goes there makes 100,000$.<p>Drive is probably the hardest t... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,196 | null | comment | budu3 | 1,175,145,045 | Wow. Very innovative service. I don't have time for it though but then again that's what I said about facebook but I'm a facebook regular. | null | 7,136 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,198 | null | comment | budu3 | 1,175,146,620 | Yah, I think alpha geek crowd is getting diluted. It's beginning to reflect the tastes of the broader population. I think they need to work on their recomendaton engine to cater for individual preferences | null | 259 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,199 | null | comment | budu3 | 1,175,146,829 | Steve Yegge hinted about the next big language. I think he meant javascript. Arc has some serious competition. <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html</a> | null | 353 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
7,204 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,148,943 | Good day.<p>No. Do you?<p>I don't think that a club only made up of "hot people" is any less of a meat market, especially since females tend to pay very little attention to physical attractiveness compared to other qualities (men DO tend to judge a lot by physical attraction, sadly, though I'm an exception).<p>So what ... | null | 7,158 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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