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brett
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there's an awesome picture of his book full of stickies
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prashantdesale
| 1,173,320,935 |
Well, It is true that Funding will most likely follow towards companies those have 2 or more founders. But there are great success stories around single Founder. Look at Amazon, Del.icio.us, EBay. <p>I agree, having confounder helps a lot, but if one can't find it then that should not stop you from doing what you want to do.
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nickb
| 1,173,322,341 |
Don't forget, Myhrvold is the man who completely missed the Internet while he was the CTO at MS. Were it not for BillG, who realized what Internet represented, MS would have been toast.<p>No wonder he got kicked out of MS and no wonder that he spends his post-MS days playing a patent troll.
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r0b
| 1,173,324,783 |
yes, we should do an east coast meetup. Count me in. Say, next week some time?
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pg
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http://startupschool.org/index.html
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Startup School Responses Delayed for a Day
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Elfan
| 1,173,325,934 |
Announcement: Responses delayed for one day. We ended up getting a huge number of applications (1181 for 650 places), and it's taking us longer than we anticipated to read them all. So we're not going to be able to reply to everyone March 7, as we initially promised, but we will try to do it by the end of March 8.
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JMiao
| 1,173,326,256 |
Well, what I mean to say is that the number of meetups is simply dependent on those interested. YC News gatherings shouldn't ultimately be restricted to Startup School weekend.<p>I figured that it would be great if YC News goers in the Palo Alto area get together since we're probably sitting in the same neighborhood.<p>Ideally, it would be awesome if YC News communities got together with peers in their immediate locales. Know what I mean?
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r0b
| 1,173,326,077 |
I do the visual design, my partner does the technical design. We collaborate on the conceptual design. <p>I also do the marketing and sales.
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r0b
| 1,173,325,682 |
There are certainly a lot of ways to monetize MySpace beyond ad revenue, and using it as a music distribution channel is one of the easiest. (maybe News Corp. should buy Amie Street, and integrate it into myspace?)<p>But shouldn't they start by doing a better job capitalizing on the advertising potential? Theoretically, MySpace should know a massive amount of information about each user (everything they list on their profile page), including location, age, interests, media consumption patterns, etc. They could be selling very highly-targeted ads based on all of those parameters. Wouldn't it be more lucrative NOT to sell a graphical ad on the homepage at a daily rate of $250,000 (as the post reports), but instead to make the homepage ad dynamically tailored to each user?
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python_kiss
| 1,173,326,752 |
It has been delayed by one day: http://startupschool.org/index.html
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r0b
| 1,173,326,291 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/03/my_favorite_bus.html
| 4 |
the Freemium model (an oldie but goodie)
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r0b
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What do you think about looking for a co-founder on Craigslist?
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davidrodgers
| 1,173,331,756 |
I disagree. Fear is one of the two major forces at work in a startup (the other is faith).<p>There are legitimate fears--these are the risks. Fear that you'll run out of money. Fear that you've picked the wrong people to work with. Fear that you'll be beat to market. If you don't have some measure of fear, you're ignoring risks, which makes your failure that much more likely.
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ecuzzillo
| 1,173,330,959 |
Seems like a lot of the things he finds funny are because he's a suit, and has always been a suit. He always gets modded up by the former reddit/current YC news community, and I've never figured out why, since normally the same people seem to be anti-suit.
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socmoth
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http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?entryID=608
| 4 |
Web apps with S3 + Rails. Now your apps have 2x as many buzz words.
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danielha
| 1,173,327,400 |
I can't say it's one of the best places. But hey -- people have found some odder things on Craigslist.
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countavdhesh
| 1,173,332,411 |
India is new upcomming market for web technology...
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r0b
| 1,173,328,125 |
Someone should make an S3 interface that does automatic file versioning. Basically a CVS for non-coders. It seems like that would be an intuitive feature for any online storage product.<p>Do any of the current online storage products do this already? I know some of the new ones use S3 (elephant drive and jungle disk, to name two), but I don't think either of them have a versioning feature built-in. It shouldn't be too hard to create...
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r0b
| 1,173,327,630 |
true. my parents met on craigslist.<p>(just kidding. i don't think that's possible.)
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python_kiss
| 1,173,332,467 |
I could tell from my coversation with him that he is genuinely a nice person. Guy hasn't always been a "suit" btw. He started out as an Apple evangelist, not a venture capitalist. He has an inspiring video that might change your view of him:<p>http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html<p>That said, his book "The Art of Start" did not live upto my expectations. I felt that it was too practical; consequently, leaving little room for creativity or sparking new ideas.
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danielha
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/
| 4 |
The New Wisdom of the Web
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ecuzzillo
| 1,173,332,790 |
I think he always has been a suit: http://guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml<p>He got his MBA, then got into evangelizing about Apple through a friend. I think I would count MBAs who evangelize about Apple as suits. <p>Edit: By the way, nothing about being a suit means you're not nice, of course. I would assume that most suits are probably nicer than most hackers, because it's the job of a suit to say nice things, while it's the job of a hacker to say true things.
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danielha
| 1,173,332,869 |
He hasn't always been a suit. But python_kiss is right, his advice is very practical. He does understand a lot about tech business, but then again he's no hacker himself.
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danielha
| 1,173,332,987 |
Also, I've just gotten through reading a couple choice interviews from Founders at Work. These stories are true treasures. Above being insightful and inspiring for entrepreneurs, it's damned entertaining for anyone.
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rms
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Can anyone recommend an affordable web/interface designer?
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RyanGWU82
| 1,173,334,613 |
Count me in, just make sure to announce the time and place here :)
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python_kiss
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http://shuzak.com/Personal/Article.php?Article-Title=Coincidences-that-made-Google-successful
| 4 |
Coincidences that made Google successful
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danielha
| 1,173,333,790 |
Well, I guess I meant it more in the sense that he's always been self-deprecating about being an MBA since he likes to promote the entrepreneur over the businessman. For a suit, he understands the culture pretty well.
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countavdhesh
| 1,173,333,642 |
i am not enterprenur..but i dream one day i will..i think an enterprenur is the person who is the sole of a startup company ...he is the person who is innovative.creative..visioniory..and lot of other qualities..Technical knowledge is just part of it..
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palish
| 1,173,335,790 |
It seems that the acceptance e-mails will go out all at once, after everyone has been accepted or rejected.
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python_kiss
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazons_series_fortunate_events.php
| 3 |
Amazon's Series of Fortunate Events
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countavdhesh
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/01/2145223&tid=117&tid=98&tid=4
| 2 |
Making money using open source
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bootload
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http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/practicing-programming
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Practicing Programming (Steve Yegge)
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pg
| 1,173,336,674 |
I thought most of them were funny too. Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect. <p>One thing I've learned from YC is that practically all startups are broken in some way, no matter what face they show to the world. And novel kinds of breakage are the basis of humor.
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JMiao
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http://games-darkstar.dev.java.net/
| 2 |
Sun's online game platform goes open source
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bitdiddle
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/06/eons-earns-22-million-in-funding
| 1 |
Why so much capital?
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techguy
| 1,173,337,998 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/buzz/don-tapscott-author-of-wikinomics-hosted-by-cambrian-house/
| 1 |
Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, hosted by Cambrian House
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RyanGWU82
| 1,173,346,106 |
Networking with the participants was the best part when I went to the event in Boston. I'm still good friends with a couple of the people I met there. In fact, many of us have now all moved to Silicon Valley for various reasons.
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paul
| 1,173,337,835 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/not-trapping-users-data-good/
| 3 |
Google: Not trapping users' data = GOOD
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prashantdesale
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Is having cofounder at early stage really that important?
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danielha
| 1,173,341,314 |
Well what's an early stage? A co-founder would need to be existent at the founding, right? Otherwise he wouldn't be a co-founder but rather an addition to your team. But it's altogether possible to develop ideas on your own before locating a partner. If you plan on having a co-founder, I say it's best to have him involved from the beginning.
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danielha
| 1,173,342,052 |
"Startups are basically comedies [...]"<p>I've been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture. Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network...
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danielha
| 1,173,341,508 |
Clicking 'About' already directs me to a full-page ad before I could even learn what the website was about.<p>If that's the kind of thing that's waiting for us in Web 3.0, I hope we stay in 2.0 as long as possible.
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danielha
| 1,173,341,723 |
John Battelle's book had some really good stories that have stuck with me. How does "The Google Story" compare?
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techguy
| 1,173,338,156 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/buzz/vikings-wouldn%e2%80%99t-have-worn-ridiculous-hats-if-humility-wasn%e2%80%99t-good-for-them/
| 2 |
Cambrian House 2.0 Rolled Out
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phil
| 1,173,350,567 | null | true | null | null | null |
http://localhost:3002/fun/bookmarklet
| 1 |
y combinator news bookmarklet
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JMiao
| 1,173,342,831 |
Prashant -- where are you located? I got the feeling from some of your postings that you might be around the Northern California region.
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danielha
| 1,173,344,678 |
How big was the increase in applicants from the previous year?
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bitdiddle
| 1,173,351,390 |
I happened to interview with this company, Eons, a year or so ago. At the time they were looking to do a RoR knockoff of their existing site. I'm not sure where they went with that.<p>I'm wondering about a few things. The founder I believe was involved with Monster, .ie. has a track record. How do
startups with this kind of capital succeed? The money itself is going to attract all sort of folks who won't necessarily add value. Does it come down to just leadership? <p> How this contrast with the approach of Y Combinator, where S,K, and I with a large dose of youthful energy provide a complete basis :)
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weaver4549
| 1,173,338,694 | null | null | null | null |
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http://www.OnlineMusicAwards.net
| 1 |
Web 3.0 is here! "Online Music Awards"
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python_kiss
| 1,173,337,366 |
I can relate to that. In January, without my knowledge, my newly minted startup hit Digg's frontpage. What followed was an entourage of hungry geeks that basically killed my shared hosting account. It took about 3 days for my site to recover with an upgraded VPS server. But every hour of those 3 days left me hysterical and I couldn't sleep at all :(<p>But it seems funny now that I look back. Whatever made me think a shared hosting account was the way to go? `:D
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phil
| 1,173,350,097 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/08/new-aol-email-beta-cannot-compete-with-google-yahoo/
| 2 |
New AOL Email Beta Cannot Compete With Google, Yahoo
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staunch
| 1,173,342,153 |
I think "suits" like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin are hackers-in-wolves clothing. That's why I find their opinions interesting.
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paul
| 1,173,347,084 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007916360222.gif
| 2 |
How news is made (a quick intro to PR)
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jwecker
| 1,173,358,428 |
You need someone to bounce ideas off of and help you refine your product well before the company is started. And then when it comes time to get into company mode, you definitely need someone to help bear the load and continue to develop the service and product. It usually ends up being that same person. No matter how brilliant you think your idea is, I guarantee that if you spend a few days hashing it out with someone you consider your peer, it will end up being 10 times the product. So here's my answer a slightly different question than the one posed- at no time does it make sense to be alone developing a business.
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philc
| 1,173,352,057 |
I'm afraid of sites like tech crunch destroying me. I had some trouble with a read-only site when it started getting hundreds of digg users a minute, and it was a simple application. God help you if you have a dynamic front page and a web app that does lots of reads and writes.<p>Scaling for mass media traffic seems like such a waste -- the big-news-site traffic comes right when you launch, and then that's just the time you want lots of capacity and don't have it yet. After the traffic leaves, you don't want it anymore.<p>Has anyone tried something like media temple for temporary scaling? I'd be tempted to throw a site on there to see if they can handle a tech crunching.
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jwecker
| 1,173,353,050 |
Well, he polled people who he knew understood VCs pretty well. I would trust a trusted network of people over a generic aggregation any day, and that's why this thought is insightful, while a US News list of the best VC firms probably would never make it to the front page of news.yc.
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bitdiddle
| 1,173,352,266 |
If Web2.0 is now in Newsweek, is that itself an indicator that the wave has passed?
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wensing
| 1,173,355,607 |
This seems like a good suggestion. If I get an invite to the Startup School, I'll be there.
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robertgaal
| 1,173,358,298 |
If you've got this feeling that says: "why do I need somebody else? I can build/do everything myself", then I know what you're talking about. But if you only look at the fact that there are only 24 hours in one day, and that everybody can make an honoust mistake easily spotted by another person, it's a neccasity :)
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jwecker
| 1,173,357,995 |
when you say "... money is going to attract all sort of folks..." are you talking about employees? end-users? useless affiliates? all of the above?
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bootload
| 1,173,354,374 |
'... been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture ...'<p>AGENT: "So tell me about the show, what's it about?"<p>NERD #1: "Well its 4 guys, sitting inside on computers typing, making jokes, writing code and eating pizza trying to reshape the social networks in cyberspace."<p>AGENT: "So do you go outside?"<p>GEEK #1: "No, we don't need to. I just look up 'alt.nerd.obsessive' and find the google location & look it up on google map."<p>AGENT: "Do you do normal things?". "You know Like go to cafe's and meet women?". "You know talk, drink coffee?"<p>GEEK #2: "I saw a girl this week. I've counted three this week... including the one at the 7-11". D"o you know what I'm working on? I'm optomising a ...." <p>NERD #2: "Don't listen to them. They're doing server side work. We are the front end guys. I own a mac. It's got an OS10-X Tiger OS with ..."<p>AGENT: zzz... zzz... zzz... <p>NERD #1: "Guys, guys your blowing it, jeez. Now look what your've done. You've put the agent to sleep. How we ever going to get on TV?"<p>Geek #2: "What about YouTube?"<p>
===========<p>Oh yeah it's really going to catch on :)<p>
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jwecker
| 1,173,358,585 |
spam
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ced
| 1,173,341,860 |
Was any promotion done for the event outside of word-of-mouth? That seems like a lot of would-be entrepreneurs in the area.<p>I wonder why so many people want to go. Most of the material is already on the web (+ the podcast), and one is unlikely to network significantly with a 50-1 participant-expert ratio.
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python_kiss
| 1,173,345,038 |
"Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network..."<p>heh, or you could always pitch to YCombinator :D
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jwecker
| 1,173,360,028 |
I enjoyed the article but I kept waiting for him to get to the part where you really practice. I was disappointed right at the beginning that he combined study and practice into one concept called practice and then pretty much all of his drills were about studying. The truth is I think most programmers, especially good ones, are self-made, which implies also that they most certainly know how to step outside of their comfort zone and study- sometimes compulsively.<p>On the other hand, you really don't see a lot of programmers who practice (the real definition, not Steve's)- and I was excited that he was going to write about something I've been thinking a lot about but he never did.<p>Here's a real example of programming practice- establish a baseline and then repeat the coding exercise from scratch until you feel like you could code it with your eyes closed. Like that FizzBuzz program from the post a few days back that a bunch of us spontaneously coded- erase what you did and code it again. Figure out how to write it in lisp, then erase your code, time yourself, code it again.<p>If it sounds silly, actually try it- you really do gain something. Time yourself going through the vim tutorial (if you're not already a master)- do every single example 2x- and try to beat your time later. That's real practice, rarely practiced.
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jwecker
| 1,173,360,631 |
Best ones you can get for the cost of pizza and coke if what you intend to implement is cool enough :)
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jwecker
| 1,173,360,750 |
or crested at least. probably. but that's ok since no one defined web 2.0 to begin with.
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jwecker
| 1,173,360,520 |
Alternate premise: businesses that survive and thrive are simply the ones that avoided really dumb mistakes. http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/ I loved this book.
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bootload
| 1,173,359,698 |
There's a good talk by doug kaye of itconversation with Jeff Bar on using (Amazon) S3 storage with Gigvox media. They have essentially outsourced their hardware & servers (distribution) instead concentrating their efforts on podcasts. ~ http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1728.html <p>worth the listen to see how one company has tackled the 'temporary' scaling problem.
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mattculbreth
| 1,173,360,667 | null | null | null | null |
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http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/03/introduction_to_funding_friend.html
| 5 |
Intro to funding: Friends and Family
| null | 4 |
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davidw
| 1,173,361,399 |
Yes, but you wouldn't start anything in the first place if you were *afraid* - you would get a nice steady job at a big stable company.
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boris
| 1,173,361,410 |
I think you should know by now not to listen to what others think and just go for it if you believe you can do it alone and have enough determination. Be prepared to be a developer, web designer, marketer, salesperson, etc., all at the same time. If nothing else you will at least have fun!
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jwecker
| 1,173,361,486 |
I know a man near San Diego who started a business and borrowed from friends and family. The business didn't take off like he wanted and he got very depressed- feeling like he had let down all of those friends and especially family. He took his life shortly afterwards which was obviously the last thing any of us would've ever wanted.<p>Make sure that those who invest understand what kind of a risk it is. If you ever catch yourself saying to someone close that you don't see how it could fail, or offering a huge rate of return and yet saying that it will almost definitely be successful- then you yourself do not understand the risk and probably should probably take a reality pill. Oh, also, if you ever find yourself accepting an investment from (usually a family member) someone who will absolutely need that money back in 6 months or else their standard of living will be adversely affected- you're doing something wrong- you are not managing risk as you should.
| null | 2,870 | null |
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mattculbreth
| 1,173,361,710 |
Good post. Yeah I wouldn't do this unless two things were both true: 1) The person could afford to do without the money for quite some time, 2) I was pretty sure it would succeed.<p>It's awfully hard to gauge #2 when it's your idea and you've got yourself emotionally wrapped up in it.<p>I'm beginning to think there's an entire class of startup funding that needs to be written about a bit more--spouse support. If you're married and your spouse can earn enough money to pay for the household for a discrete amount of time then that's perhaps the greatest bootstrapping source imaginable. Seems like a few of us here (from other posts I've seen) are considering this.<p>
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jwecker
| 1,173,362,063 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/10-stupid-mistakes-made-by-the-newly-self-employed/
| 3 |
For those just starting out (10 dumb mistakes)
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jwecker
| 1,173,362,228 | null | null | null | null |
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http://jon.zaadz.com/blog/2006/3/how_to_have_a_36_hour_day
| 8 |
How to have a 36 hour day
| null | 1 |
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veritas
| 1,173,363,991 |
Agreed. I've actually gone ahead and tried. Contacted a developer who had a "team" in India and wanted to start a project. Well... lets just say I lost touch with him when I asked his entire team to sign an NDA. If you're going to look on Craigslist, have an NDA ready.
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r0b
| 1,173,363,921 | null | null | null | null |
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http://bokardo.com/archives/the-shaker-design-philosophy/
| 5 |
Shaker Design Philosophy - Necessary, Useful, Beautiful
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jwecker
| 1,173,363,788 |
These ideas need some refinement, but:<p>If an article you submit reaches the end of the "new" page with no up votes it decreases your karma by a point. Yah, it would affect me too, but that's irrelevant.<p>Related, submitting a new article by someone with negative karma not allowed- or maybe the article is assigned that same negative karma that it must overcome...
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jwecker
| 1,173,363,469 |
I know some of you have put your blogs under your user profile, but in any case, who here has a blog? mind us having a look?
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r0b
| 1,173,364,458 |
For the serial entrepreneurs among us: it's important to keep in mind that you only get one shot with friends and family money. If you don't succeed, and decide to move on to another idea, your friends and family will be very reluctant to invest in yet another venture. This can be problematic if you're the sort of person who likes to jump from idea to idea.<p>I financed a company a few years ago with a small amount of money from family, and ultimately it didn't take off. I'm now very hesitant to approach them again. I wish I had been a little more cautious before deciding to take that route...
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r0b
| 1,173,364,590 |
The part about healthy eating is definitely true. I have a lot more energy, and need a lot less sleep, now that I'm strict with myself about my diet...
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Readmore
| 1,173,365,773 |
I'd like to get some feedback and opinions on my web app Klipboardz.com. I built it so that my friends and I could all share links together without the whole Internet reading what we had to say. I thought other people might want that too so I built a social news site based on small groups. However, it doesn't seem to really be catching on with anyone. I'd like to know if any of you see a reason for that, something I may be missing by being too close to the problem. Please let me know what you think in the comments.
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Elfan
| 1,173,367,439 | null | null | null | null |
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http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2007/03/memo_to_startup.html
| 6 |
Memo to Startup World: No, MSFT Isn't Buying You
| null | 2 |
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bitdiddle
| 1,173,364,413 |
all of the above, in that a corporation is a collection of interests. Depending on the capital structure, different players have different interests. Managing all of those in a way that promotes collaboration towards a common goal is a fine art, as they certainly will not all be aligned. <p>This is what intrigues me about the Y combinator approach. Anyone with 50K can fund a couple of kids out of school and if the chemistry is right, the idea has some merit, and a dash of luck (hard work always brings some luck), it can fly.
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Readmore
| 1,173,365,655 | null | null | null | null |
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http://www.klipboardz.com/
| 4 |
Peer Review my web app! (See Comment for more info)
| null | 10 |
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r0b
| 1,173,364,019 |
Make sure to check out the link to the "5 principles to design by" --- another great post.
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jwecker
| 1,173,366,169 |
Is the only difference between this and, say, digg, the ability to block public access to a group posting area? It might just not be a compelling enough feature by itself.
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abstractbill
| 1,173,368,504 | null | null | null | null |
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2028336,00.html
| 7 |
This time the startup boom is no bubble
| null | 3 |
2,894 | null |
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JMiao
| 1,173,369,180 |
It seems that the crowd at OpenCoffee is mostly comprised of visiting international folk.<p>I'm going to stop by next week and check it out.<p>I'll let you guys know how things go.
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PindaxDotCom
| 1,173,370,022 |
This touches on an interesting problem. Those of us with limited social networks (aka not in grad school) who would like to collaborate with others simply don't have a way to meet other entrepreneurs. Err, sounds like a startup idea in the making ...
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Readmore
| 1,173,368,928 |
That and the Online TV section are the main features that make it different. I don't really like submitting to Digg, and now Reddit, because my posts rarely get anywhere. Also since the people I really want to talk to about it are my friends it does me no good because they can't easily find my posts. I built Klipboardz hoping that there were other people like me who read news sites but didn't contribute for fear of posting or because it seemed pointless. If they post on Klipboardz they know that their friends will see it and then if it makes it to the front page it's icing on the cake. But, as you said, it may be that there are't other people who feel that way, or that the feature isn't enough on it's own. The Online TV section is fairly new and I'm still fleshing it out. I have a PC connected to my TV in the living room and it's nice to just click on a movie or tv channel and start watching it without waiting for something to download. ;)
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mattculbreth
| 1,173,370,229 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/03/attacking_dominant_market_shar.html
| 5 |
Product Strategy: Attacking dominant market share
| null | 0 |
2,893 | null |
story
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Elfan
| 1,173,368,943 | null | null | null | null |
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http://www.college-startup.com/creativity/looking-for-a-summer-job-dont/
| 4 |
Looking for a summer job? Don't.
| null | 1 |
2,897 | null |
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chendy
| 1,173,370,493 |
How is this different from Blue Dot? http://bluedot.us/front
| null | 2,886 | null |
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PindaxDotCom
| 1,173,370,553 |
If you have a large skill set and can wear all the "hats" that need wearing then you can forgo a cofounder. If you can't wear all the hats then you want to partner with someone who can fill the hats you can't wear! (Did I take the hat analogy too far? ... lol)
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imp
| 1,173,367,686 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2000/wf000322.htm
| 2 |
Battling Isolation When Working at Home
| null | 0 |
2,901 | null |
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python_kiss
| 1,173,371,060 |
Good point! But I feel that most businesses attribute much of their fortune simply to coincidences. Randomness is a sign of complexity beyond human comprehension. We like to think we have control over our "destiny" but sometimes that just isn't the case.
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veritas
| 1,173,370,797 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.altassets.com/news/arc/2007/nz10415.php
| 3 |
VC investment in India up 90%
| null | 0 |
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