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8,442 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,175,579,021 | Hey, Blake! My previous post was more in response to rms. When I said "There's GOT to be more to this!", what I was really meaning to say is that I'm sure you and Joe have a very good plan for carrying your mission out. Something the general public isn't quite privy to at the moment. :)<p>I would agree that the pro... | null | 8,424 | null | [
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8,439 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,578,679 | It will be interesting to see which of these two programs produces more successful startups in the long run. | null | 4,509 | null | [
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8,407 | null | story | domp | 1,175,570,335 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,447 | null | comment | amichail | 1,175,579,375 | This would not be a research lab. The goal is to create something that makes money not publications necessarily. You can try to do something really novel just as long as it ends up making money.
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8,445 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,175,579,245 | Not really considering they're finally giving users something that should have been established day 1. | null | 8,391 | null | [
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8,444 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,579,191 | So basically something like the classic Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc. environment? But you have to make money, not innovation? If that's what you mean, no thanks... | null | 8,404 | null | [
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8,446 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,579,336 | I imagine they'll get the message out in the traditional ways: advertising and PR. As far as distribution, I assume long term plans involve customized hardware that would provide for an optimal Parakey experience. | null | 8,442 | null | [
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8,448 | null | comment | Todd | 1,175,579,447 | If you're a Perl programmer, there is HTML::Mason. It's what Schachter used for del.icio.us, IFAIK. I've been using it for some time. It has it's pros and cons. It's a little off the beaten path (as is Perl these days). None of the cool kids are using it. It's not sexy. But, damn, you can just get so much done with Per... | null | 8,411 | null | [
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8,443 | null | comment | zach | 1,175,579,063 | Well obviously it happens, seeing how Infogami/Reddit deal occurred. They probably have a lot more than between the average set of startups, at any rate. | null | 8,435 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,455 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,582,225 | + Pluggable Framework: Catalyst <a href="http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/">http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/</a><p>+ Database ORM: DBIx::Class <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class/</a><p>+ HTML Templating: TT2 (Template Toolkit) <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/">htt... | null | 8,411 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,450 | null | comment | inklesspen | 1,175,579,518 | I would argue that instead of Django, you want to look at Pylons (<a href="http://pylonshq.com/).">http://pylonshq.com/).</a> If you use Django, chances are good that you'll find it does 75% of what you want, and makes the remaining 25% very difficult. | null | 8,413 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,456 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,175,582,347 | Advertising and PR will not be enough (and just saying these will solve your problem doesn't work either) -- Apple's "Switch" campaign is largely based around the fun, out-of-the-box experience and ease of use. All of that work and they still have a way to go in converting people (especially non-college aged folk).<p>... | null | 8,446 | null | [
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8,452 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,579,937 | Even if the initial market goes away once the older generations start disappearing, there is still an enormous market _today_. For their product to catch on, they'll have to design an all around better interface than the current desktop metaphor. For Parakey to succeed in the long run, they need to appeal to power/trad... | null | 8,414 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,451 | null | comment | inklesspen | 1,175,579,555 | If you like Mason, but you prefer Python to Perl, you might want to look at Myghty: <a href="http://www.myghty.org">http://www.myghty.org</a> | null | 8,448 | null | [
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8,453 | null | comment | aston | 1,175,580,318 | In some ways, it's a lot like the kid selling lemonade for a nickel across the walk from some Coke machines. For next to nothing, your expectations can be a ton lower and you'll still feel like you're getting some value. And if these free sites can actually beat out the established players in features and community, th... | null | 8,407 | null | [
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8,454 | null | comment | far33d | 1,175,581,530 | Clarifications: <p>Whatever package I choose should: <p>1) be cross-browser with minimal special code. <p>2) abstract out most database operations when possible. <p>3) involve writing very little html. <p>4) be well documented and have some history of real use by users other than the creators.<p>I'm not afraid to code ... | null | 8,411 | null | [
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8,457 | null | comment | akkartik | 1,175,583,485 | It was scary to me how quickly I've stopped going to reddit. So much for being addicted. | null | 8,314 | null | [
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8,458 | null | comment | starkfist | 1,175,583,716 | does a job at facebook pay $250,000 a year? cuz if not, what is the point? you can be a knuckle-dragging caveman at most startups and still get the job done...
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8,449 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,579,463 | Here's the patent:<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ew52t">http://tinyurl.com/2ew52t</a><p>On a cursory reading, it looks like a joke. All it seems to say is that they compile other languages into Javascript. There's tons of prior art involving compiling one high level language into another.<p>IANL, but I think everyone... | null | 8,409 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,463 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,584,451 | I think it will only be interesting if Techstars produces more successful startups than Y Combinator. Techstars is a clear underdog. | null | 8,439 | null | [
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8,472 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,585,590 | I guess technically I dropped out as an undergrad. Although, I like to tell people I finished early. Good on you for pursuing your passion! | null | 227 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,471 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,585,523 | Sleep is a dumb waste of time. | null | 8,123 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,460 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,584,176 | Makes me think of the issues PG raised in "The Power of The Marginal". I think when you're an outsider it seems like those things are huge advantages, but when you have them they feel more like baggage.
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8,461 | null | story | kallena | 1,175,584,302 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,466 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,584,693 | This blog post by Tom Evslin provides a pretty sobering reality check for anyone involved in a web 2.0 startup. But its not all bad news! | null | 8,465 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,467 | null | comment | staunch | 1,175,584,715 | One huge difference with YC is the funding amount. YC essentially pays a low salary for a few months to build a prototype. That narrows the talent pool down to people with very minimal financial requirements (couldn't be more than ~5% of the total Great Hackers in the US).<p>Google could afford to take all the other ~9... | null | 8,434 | null | [
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8,459 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,583,995 | I'm not sure what Parakey's doing, but my idea is to use financial incentives to encourage viral distribution. Install Granmos for your parents, your grandparents, the local senior center, and nursing homes. Then, you get a percentage of advertising revenue from all the new users of Granmos that you're helping. | null | 8,456 | null | [
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8,470 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,175,585,144 | While the elderly would certainly love an easier computing experience, I think my questions above address the overall mainstream population that have a pretty narrow use case when it comes to internet browsing.<p>Your approach to viral distribution sounds very complicated. <p>How do you go about placing ads on somethi... | null | 8,459 | null | [
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8,469 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,584,901 | This is a great blog post, which discusses the evolution of web 2.0 and beyond. | null | 8,468 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,468 | null | story | kallena | 1,175,584,762 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,462 | null | comment | mauricecheeks | 1,175,584,302 | Very little in life is free. <p>Today's internet clearly proves that.<p>Very few websites cost money, and very few websites are free of ads. These ads are a charge to users in the form of annoyance, inconvenience and spam. They ruin a site's layout and distract from valuable content. <p>Worst of all these ads are EXTR... | null | 8,407 | null | [
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8,464 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,584,519 | It is important that a startup understands the technology they are working with. But, it is equally important that they understand the cultural context of that technology. This video does a good job at addressing the anthropologically side of web 2.0. | null | 8,461 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,465 | null | story | kallena | 1,175,584,606 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,475 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,586,229 | Ben is a 19-year old entrepreneur whose blog has been a huge inspiration to me in my startup efforts. | null | 8,474 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,473 | null | comment | kallena | 1,175,585,992 | Indeed that would be interesting. Regardless of their ultimate success, as the co-founder of a startup I have a soft spot for any underdog. | null | 8,463 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,474 | null | story | kallena | 1,175,586,133 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,476 | null | comment | erdos2 | 1,175,586,788 | It's about as exciting as an EDUCAUSE article. Intellectually thin. | null | 8,461 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,485 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,175,592,630 | I'm not looking for the perfect answer, just the answer to how you would get your first 10 (ten) users.<p>This would mean reviewing the actual use case and realizing that PR saying your software is easy to use isn't too compelling. Distributing CDs seems very 90s AOL, costs quite a bit of money, and doesn't have a gre... | null | 8,477 | null | [
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8,478 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,175,587,385 | I wouldn't be surprised if it did actually... | null | 8,458 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,483 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,591,023 | It would have been lame if they had just removed the DRM and upped the price - but the fact that they also <i>doubled</i> the audio quality is probably a good-will move to give the user additional value for the cost. The new audio files will be 256kbps instead of the current 128kbps - most folks are forgetting this in ... | null | 8,278 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,486 | null | comment | AurSaraf | 1,175,593,337 | Hello, I am Aur Saraf.<p>I was in a lecture about legal matters in starting up when I figured out that the easy and fool proof way to make money in this business is not creating a great product, but instead marketing yourself to VCs, getting some big money and spending it away pretending to do something.<p>Most of the ... | null | 8,282 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,481 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,590,236 | He seems to knock PodTech in the article - anyone know why?<p>"Any time one of the rest of us mentions an obvious, actual waste of money (PodTech anyone?), you treat it as proof that the whole industry is doomed for collapse." | null | 8,426 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,477 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,587,262 | It seems like you're looking for a perfect answer as to how Granmos or Parakey could become one of the top three operating systems. I don't have the exact solution, but I know there is an enormous market and I wouldn't need ten million users to have a company worth acquiring. If I knew how to market Granmos to the poin... | null | 8,470 | null | [
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8,484 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,592,341 | Jesus is more insignificant to the universe than you and me. | null | 8,210 | null | [
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8,480 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,588,267 | I like how he uses 'Web 2.0' without getting all frustrated about the term as many do. See: <a href="http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/01/whats-with-the-web-20-angst/">http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/01/whats-with-the-web-20-angst/</a><p>Also, very interesting discussion on the use of 'implicit' user data. Amazon... | null | 8,468 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,482 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,590,382 | I'm so glad these guys responded so calmly and intelligently - a nice contrast to DHH's embarrassing style. | null | 8,375 | null | [
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8,479 | null | comment | felipe | 1,175,587,985 | IMHO "100% freedom" is utopia. You don't have 100% freedom even on a start-up. In a corp like Google you have managers, and in a start-up you have customers...<p>Having said that, if you work for a big high-tech corp (like I did, although I never worked for Google per se), you will find that it is <i>hugely</i> difficu... | null | 8,403 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,488 | null | story | f1alan | 1,175,594,775 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.bittrees.com | 1 | BitTrees - Tree Based Social Network | null | 0 |
8,487 | null | comment | MEHOM | 1,175,594,121 | Making a point that one is thinking about what is their low offer means he/she is only for short term gains and realizes their idea is not worth that much. | null | 5,700 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,500 | null | story | mattjaynes | 1,175,600,847 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/07/examining-motivations-hollywood-and-startups/ | 1 | Examining Motivations: Hollywood and Startups | null | 0 |
8,489 | null | comment | Todd | 1,175,594,824 | I must say, this was a revelation. It looks like the author has begun a new streamlined version called Mako: <a href="http://www.makotemplates.org/">http://www.makotemplates.org/</a><p>The reason I tend to prefer this sort of thing to many of the other templating solutions is that it uses native code instead of custom ... | null | 8,451 | null | [
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8,503 | null | story | volida | 1,175,602,649 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,490 | null | comment | Mattster | 1,175,595,243 | Too many start-ups are doing trite and vacuous work. The world does not need another online calendar or customisable homepage or some clown wearing a webcam 24/7.<p>The comparitively small number of valuable start-ups are doing good work by tackling problems that are difficult, and/or have a strong potential to separat... | null | 6,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,505 | null | comment | whacked_new | 1,175,603,880 | Intriguing article. If VCs and angels start competing with each other, there must be a decent-sized market of startups with considerable potential. As if the funders are sellers and the founders are buyers. More power to the little guys with big aspirations! | null | 8,502 | null | [
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8,515 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,609,600 | His quote about what they're looking for first dealth with a strong team that could change plans as necessary, and then this, about going after larger markets:<p>"You also need a large market potential, so the area that you are going after has to be worth going after. There are a lot of businesses out there that are ni... | null | 8,507 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,491 | null | story | picciu | 1,175,595,277 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.garantat.net/wordpress/?p=164 | 1 | Last free WEB 2.0 tools for designers ! | null | 0 |
8,511 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,175,608,517 | Extremely ballsy. Refreshing to see someone willing to throw it all out and start over right when they've seemingly reached the top. | null | 8,407 | null | [
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8,501 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,601,049 | I'd take a look at:<p>TurboGears <a href="http://www.turbogears.org">http://www.turbogears.org</a>
SQLAlchemy <a href="http://www.sqlalchemy.org/">http://www.sqlalchemy.org/</a>
Elixir <a href="http://elixir.ematia.de/">http://elixir.ematia.de/</a>
Genshi <a href="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">http://genshi.edgewall.org... | null | 8,411 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,525 | null | story | mattculbreth | 1,175,612,005 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000492.html | 3 | The State of Technorati (still the most used blog search engine) | null | 6 |
8,517 | null | comment | MMax | 1,175,610,645 | Will, you've just told me my thoughts :) I absolutelly agree with that. A family is a powerful incentive to becoming the best one. | null | 7,239 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,495 | null | comment | rsynnott | 1,175,600,236 | Well, in the abstract, it's quite a hard problem. If they asked him how to clean a particular variety of coffee maker, that would be easier. :) | null | 8,277 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,504 | null | comment | Goladus | 1,175,603,470 | I doubt there is any problem difficulty too hard for a startup. A lot of risks might have to be taken, though. | null | 7,532 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,514 | null | comment | jkush | 1,175,608,949 | I have to admit that this is one of my favorite subjects. I am by no means smarter than the average person out there but I've done fairly well without traditional schooling. It's been part luck and tenacity on my part. I make a decent salary and am confident that I will have my own company in the near future. I'm hopef... | null | 8,510 | null | [
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8,496 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,600,304 | Added because the tool companies [0] are now catching up. What does this mean to web2.0 companies? Well it means the playing field is being leveled [1] , the market is maturing and the toolset will allow even more competition.<p>Reference <p>[0] In this case Borland or Codegear. The spin-off name for the Borland tools ... | null | 8,494 | null | [
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8,497 | null | comment | rsynnott | 1,175,600,325 | I suspect Google's AdSense ads are a better model. I've actually seen _useful_ ones! | null | 8,462 | null | [
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8,510 | null | story | veritas | 1,175,608,189 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,506 | null | comment | bootload | 1,175,605,976 | <i>'... If VCs and angels start competing with each other, there must be a decent-sized market of startups with considerable potential ...'</i><p>My take is the market is re-adjusting. YC has now shown that the cost to get startups to market is low and therefore the average & not so average VC's who want to give more m... | null | 8,505 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,521 | null | comment | yaacovtp | 1,175,611,330 | Two years of Stanford business school - $150K + lost income (<a href="http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financialaid/budget.html).">http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financialaid/budget.html).</a><p>Filing fee to incorporate in Delaware - $89. | null | 8,510 | null | [
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8,499 | null | story | mattjaynes | 1,175,600,589 | null | null | null | null | null | http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/20/outside-money-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/ | 1 | Outside Money and Irritable Bowel Syndrome | null | 0 |
8,492 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,597,660 | AWS is truly amazing. <p>I'm currently developing an open-source framework that allows theoretically infinite scalability utilizing round-robin dns, S3, EC2, S3DFS (allows mounting an S3 bucket as a local file system on multiple EC2 instances), SQLite (serverless embeddable database where each db is just a flat file). ... | null | 7,935 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,507 | null | story | mattculbreth | 1,175,606,018 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,509 | null | comment | juwo | 1,175,608,003 | No, it is still not fixed.
Double quotes is fixed, not single quotes. | null | 2,609 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,493 | null | comment | jsjenkins168 | 1,175,599,647 | That is not an issued patent, but rather an editited application. There is a good discussion of this on /. The consensus is that this will almost certainly NOT get approved, and that GWT is prior art (used internally at Google since 2004).<p>Like PG says, it would never stand up in court, even if the USPTO actually app... | null | 8,409 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,520 | null | comment | rms | 1,175,611,067 | How about holding "free computer lessons" at a community center? The lessons are in using the product in question to easily perform useful tasks. | null | 8,485 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,508 | null | story | jcct11 | 1,175,606,648 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,512 | null | comment | johnm | 1,175,608,811 | I'm confused. That doesn't sound very "high-level". No offense but that sounds like the usual-level of frameworkism. I.e., by high-level it sounded like you're looking for something much more domain specific.<p>ObUseful: The separation between view, model, and controller is a driver of simplicity. Check out: <a href=... | null | 8,454 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,502 | null | story | bootload | 1,175,601,203 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,522 | null | story | jslogan | 1,175,611,374 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/46/78/ | 1 | An example of how shifting your prospect's buying criteria can boost your sales | null | 0 |
8,513 | null | comment | brlewis | 1,175,608,870 | I simply wrote, "I do not consider software patentable."<p><a href="http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html">http://www.philsalin.com/patents.html</a>
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8,543 | null | story | kevinxray | 1,175,615,080 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875185-1.html | 1 | The Biggest Reason Small Businesses Fail | null | 0 |
8,537 | null | story | kevinxray | 1,175,614,548 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/3875259-1.html | 1 | The worlds best system to get more referrals | null | 0 |
8,531 | null | story | sri | 1,175,613,963 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,530 | null | comment | mattculbreth | 1,175,613,948 | Yeah I agree. We all know it means "Worse than Failure". <a href="http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx">http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx</a> (cop out alert)
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8,532 | null | comment | sri | 1,175,613,970 | Startup Law
Generates Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.
I know nothing about this area,
so this might be a really dumb idea.<p>If that doesn't work, at least a O'Reilly
book that talks about these issues...<p>What do you guys think?
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8,529 | null | comment | jkush | 1,175,613,744 | I think the Where's The Fire is very poorly named. Whenever I see the WTF acronym I get so confused. | null | 8,525 | null | [
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8,538 | null | story | mstefff | 1,175,614,595 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.tweako.com/blog/tweako_announces_revenue_sharing_and_more | 1 | Tweako Announces Revenue Sharing, Submission Buttons, and More | null | 0 |
8,523 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,175,611,432 | This seems dangerous. If the entrepreneur takes VC money before having a working product and user base, then they have no leverage to negotiate a good terms sheet. Better I think to take a seed round and angel round first even if one can go straight to VC. The 15-20% equity you give up in the first two rounds will at l... | null | 8,502 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,547 | null | comment | imp | 1,175,615,273 | I made my first AJAX app with PHP/Javascript and a little help from Prototype/Scriptaculous for effects. Didn't have any major problems putting it together. I'm learning Rails now, and it seems incredible. It really does take most of the tedious work out of programming. I haven't had any experience with other frame... | null | 8,413 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,535 | null | story | BillHill | 1,175,614,340 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.collaborati.org/kevins/weblog/11.html | 1 | What a slogan should be | null | 0 |
8,519 | null | comment | jsjenkins168 | 1,175,610,947 | This is huge publicity. I am shocked so much has happened so fast for Justin.tv.<p>Does anyone know much about the hardware they are using? I know Justin carries a backpack everywhere, which I assume contains a laptop with a wireless broadband card. Does anyone know what type of wireless network they use? They stream a... | null | 8,396 | null | [
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8,533 | null | story | mattjaynes | 1,175,614,208 | null | null | null | null | [
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8,541 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,614,865 | Halfway through this I noticed the phrase "new economy" and thought <i>what?</i> Then I checked the top and noticed it was written 7 years ago. | null | 8,510 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,516 | null | comment | yaacovtp | 1,175,610,478 | If you're an average American watching 4 hours of TV a day just swap that time for your startup and you'll be halfway there. After a month of part time work you'll be able to tell if you should go full time or not.<p>I'd rather be fully immersed in whatever I'm working and make great rice and beans. | null | 1,758 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,539 | null | comment | acgourley | 1,175,614,739 | Do these kinds of articles irk anyone else? <p>"So how are you going to run www.bullshitr.com?"<p>"I dunno, but I was thinking of making a template Web 2.0 Company."<p>"Really? I heard about those in Bussiness Week!"<p>"Yeah, I think I'll start by following these over generalized and weakly supported tips I read on a b... | null | 8,508 | null | [
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8,527 | null | comment | sri | 1,175,613,551 | I saw it on NBC. The attitude of the anchor was "Oh, you are on camera 24/7 -- that's crazy -- and people are actually watching it -- you go to the bathroom, shower on camera -- that's crazy."<p>And the always cheap "You're probably getting more dates now..." and at the end, "Keep your shirt on, buddy" (in a mocking wa... | null | 8,396 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,542 | null | comment | pg | 1,175,614,995 | The article's a list of (mostly) necessary rather than sufficient conditions. But even that is rare enough. | null | 8,539 | null | [
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8,540 | null | comment | johnm | 1,175,614,774 | Here's a fun one for a personal trainer: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaline/332138063/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaline/332138063/</a> | null | 7,618 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,518 | null | comment | yaacovtp | 1,175,610,861 | Can anyone make me a list of 6 microsoft powered sites and one ruby on rails site? This is too silly to have so many points. | null | 1,274 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
8,536 | null | comment | mattjaynes | 1,175,614,481 | This podcast contains all the published podcasts from the last 3 years of Startup School. Talks from 2005 and 2006 are linked to the official recordings and those from 2007 are linked to my lower quality recordings until the official ones are released.<p>If you were not there this year and are short on time - I'd recom... | null | 8,533 | null | [
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8,545 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,175,615,155 | "but I did get one particularly desperate/angry note from a validation-seeking student last week."<p>Don't you wish you could pay ten bucks a month to have read only access to Seth's inbox? That would be so much more fun than Reddit / Digg. Plus it could actually be feasible if you limited it to only messages coming fr... | null | 8,510 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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