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byrneseyeview
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How to Massively Increase Your Productivity and Happiness in 2 Hours Per Day
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staunch
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Has anyone run a successful company on a polyphasic sleep schedule?
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Go to sleep 2 hours earlier than you normally do!It's easy to fall into the sleep deprivation trap and think you're getting more out of yourself, even when you're really not. I've always found the need to sleep at all very frustrating, so this lesson is hard-learned for me.I'm still in love with my 36 hour hackathons, but now most days I'm trying to get enough sleep to feel energetic all day without in assistance from drugs like caffeine and nicotine.
| 10 | 43 |
2007-08-06 15:46:39 UTC
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39,796 | 39,792 |
orph
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Online CSS Editor
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Keios
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Such a cute idea!
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CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser.
| 2 | 6 |
2007-08-06 16:32:46 UTC
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39,797 | 39,699 |
rokhayakebe
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How to Massively Increase Your Productivity and Happiness in 2 Hours Per Day
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staunch
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Force yourself to sleep and it is most likely not going to happen. What I found helpful is to ACCEPT that you cannot sleep, but you can RELAX. Get your MIND OFF RUBY and think about that HOT WAITRESS you have been dying to ask out on a date. Imagine being on a date with her and start SMILING, I promess you will go to sleep within 15-30 minutes.
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Go to sleep 2 hours earlier than you normally do!It's easy to fall into the sleep deprivation trap and think you're getting more out of yourself, even when you're really not. I've always found the need to sleep at all very frustrating, so this lesson is hard-learned for me.I'm still in love with my 36 hour hackathons, but now most days I'm trying to get enough sleep to feel energetic all day without in assistance from drugs like caffeine and nicotine.
| 11 | 43 |
2007-08-06 17:06:27 UTC
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39,799 | 39,611 |
chandrab
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Nah Seriously! Who designs the YC startups websites? Loving it.
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rokhayakebe
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Any recommendation on a design firm? How much should you expect to pay?
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Really guys, how do you come up with such designs?
| 5 | 26 |
2007-08-06 17:13:20 UTC
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39,804 | 39,792 |
lkozma
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Online CSS Editor
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Keios
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Doesn't pg have a patent on this? :)http://www.google.com/patents?id=MEx4AAAAEBAJ
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CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser.
| 0 | 6 |
2007-08-06 17:24:07 UTC
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39,807 | 39,792 |
Harj
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Online CSS Editor
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Keios
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does this give me anything more than that offered by firebug/firefox web developer plugin?
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CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser.
| 1 | 6 |
2007-08-06 17:30:48 UTC
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39,814 | 39,610 |
henning
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Paul Buchheit visits Y Combinator
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divia
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In the past, we said "omg paul graham what is this Lisp thing and isn't it so amazing?"Now we say "omg paul buccheit and isn't gmail neato?"Times have changed.
| null | 3 | 18 |
2007-08-06 18:05:16 UTC
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39,816 | 39,810 |
rms
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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If anyone believed that, wouldn't Yahoo have paid facebook the 12 billion they wanted?
| null | 4 | 4 |
2007-08-06 18:07:05 UTC
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39,820 | 39,699 |
sabat
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How to Massively Increase Your Productivity and Happiness in 2 Hours Per Day
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staunch
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We're so quick to deprive ourselves of sleep, but that is the one thing we need the most -- more than food, I think. Without sleep, you become depressed, your mind slows, your vocabulary shrinks. You lose IQ points.I'm the father of a toddler. Needless to say, the last couple of years, I haven't slept well. Finally I gave up and started going to bed a couple of hours early. Amazing, the difference.
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Go to sleep 2 hours earlier than you normally do!It's easy to fall into the sleep deprivation trap and think you're getting more out of yourself, even when you're really not. I've always found the need to sleep at all very frustrating, so this lesson is hard-learned for me.I'm still in love with my 36 hour hackathons, but now most days I'm trying to get enough sleep to feel energetic all day without in assistance from drugs like caffeine and nicotine.
| 12 | 43 |
2007-08-06 18:09:31 UTC
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39,821 | 39,628 |
sabat
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A Mystery Solved: "Fake Steve" Blogger Comes Clean - New York Times
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joshwa
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Here's the crazy thing for me: I know Dan Lyons. Or, I knew him a few years ago. Here I am, a huge FSJ fan. I have the t-shirts. The RSS feed is on my google home. And not for a moment did I suspect it was Dan.
| null | 2 | 10 |
2007-08-06 18:10:56 UTC
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39,827 | 39,747 |
nanijoe
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Biggest "start-up" mistake
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drm237
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I have put emails out to 2 proven programmers (Marc Andreessen and Max Levchin) to show up in my NYC office next week to interview for positions as programmers in my startup. To get hired, they must promise to lay everything on the line so I can fulfill my dreams, this of course includes their respective ferarris as well as Marc's 'windfall' from the recent acquisition of Opsware.
John Chambers will leave Cisco to be my VP of sales even though we have neither revenue nor funding yet.
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My biggest startup mistake is one as well: I trusted unproven people (in a startup role). And they didn't prove.
| 0 | 4 |
2007-08-06 18:25:20 UTC
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39,832 | 39,810 |
bilbo0s
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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I believe that some of these 'analysts' are in need of help with a more full understanding of economics. Particularly the seemingly external factors that turn out to be fundamentals when thinking about economies. Energy inputs necessary to generate 'wealth' for example. What population would be necessary to support that level of economic activity. Keep in mind that the larger your population, the more of your fixed amount of energy resources you will need to do simple support of the population outside of other economic activities.I am somewhat uncertain as to whether this is a misprint, however, I felt compelled to point out that US$6 trillion is an enormous amount of economic activity. By way of comparison, WalMart's revenue is about US$350 billion. Global telecom market sits somewhere between US$1 trillion and US$3 trillion depending on how we count things. The energy inputs that go into supporting this economic activity are mind boggling. Keep in mind that these industries invest a great deal in keeping those energy inputs to a minimum, that is, they invest in 'efficiency'. Still the inputs are incredulous! I suspect energy efficiency is not a strength that Facebook is possessed of.I am fairly confident that this is the point that Warren Buffet would pose a question like will people need more Facebook than food? Maybe they will. I just ask that everyone try to keep in mind everything that needs to happen for Facebook to reach those numbers.Then again . . . Maybe he is factoring in the crash of the US Dollar . . .Never mind.
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-06 18:40:55 UTC
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hira_khan
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A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
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nickb
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I liked the argument and stance taken. This is precisely what GeniTeam is doing to faciliate startups. HR Managers and all luxuries are possible for big companies, but not for startups. GeniTeam started its services on similar concept. Feel free to comment on GeniTeam's business model ( www.geniteam.com )
| null | 3 | 11 |
2007-08-06 18:49:09 UTC
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epi0Bauqu
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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The article says 6 Billion not 6 Trillion.
| null | 5 | 4 |
2007-08-06 19:07:58 UTC
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39,840 | 39,825 |
ivankirigin
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Pre-alpha search engine - walk2web
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drm237
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Wow, I haven't seen a site that makes such annoying use of sound in some time.Unless I hear they've removed sound, I have no intention of trying it again.
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So, what is a pre-alpha alternative search engine? walk2web has developed a nifty web application that allows you to "walk" from one web site -via links - to another. They are working on a Search Engine version which will allow you to query a search term, something like Quintura or KartOO, but that's not done yet; so I'm calling it "pre-alpha." (or Stealth Mode)
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-06 19:08:07 UTC
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ivankirigin
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How easily do you fall for linkbait?
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henning
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Yah, I'm curious how people expect to improve their blog/business beyond the immediate rush.If it's just an ad house, the business of posting pictures of funny cats and top-N lists is pretty sustainable.But who would attrack users of a real system like that? In that sense, I see the space of sites that linkbait, as you put it, as orthogonal to real services and social content.
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Am I the only one who sees right through all these "Top 5 funny/greatest/cool/whatever X" posts?It works (it gets links), but, I dunno, any book on search engine optimization lists linkbaiting of the kind that rules the Digg front page as the best way to attract people who use the Internet as a substitute for television.
| 0 | 2 |
2007-08-06 19:10:40 UTC
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39,847 | 39,802 |
brlewis
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Jakob Nielsen: Feature Richness and User Engagement
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brlewis
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Summary: Because of complexity cost, your default strategy should be to minimize features and emphasize simplicity. However, some situations increase the number of features an application can sustain. High user engagement is one such situation.
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-06 19:14:52 UTC
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drm237
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Kevin Mitnick's Business Card
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drm237
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Even if you think he gets more hype then he deserves, this is pretty cool. It always pays to have a lock-pick set with you at all times...
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This is pretty cool...
| 0 | 14 |
2007-08-06 19:25:29 UTC
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39,855 | 39,610 |
nickb
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Paul Buchheit visits Y Combinator
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divia
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Too bad the post is so short on details... it feels like reading a an intro without a main article :(
| null | 4 | 18 |
2007-08-06 19:41:58 UTC
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39,856 | 39,830 |
brlewis
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A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
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nickb
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"Finding good programmers is hard in any language." I'm not so sure. Job descriptions that include functional programming languages seem to attract high-quality candidates.
| null | 2 | 11 |
2007-08-06 19:47:20 UTC
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39,861 | 39,699 |
acgourley
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How to Massively Increase Your Productivity and Happiness in 2 Hours Per Day
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staunch
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Anyone else ever go to sleep while thinking about the problem you were hacking on, and end up having horrible dreams while you (ineptly) try to solve it in your sleep? I get really bad sleep that way and wake up stressed out.
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Go to sleep 2 hours earlier than you normally do!It's easy to fall into the sleep deprivation trap and think you're getting more out of yourself, even when you're really not. I've always found the need to sleep at all very frustrating, so this lesson is hard-learned for me.I'm still in love with my 36 hour hackathons, but now most days I'm trying to get enough sleep to feel energetic all day without in assistance from drugs like caffeine and nicotine.
| 9 | 43 |
2007-08-06 20:00:04 UTC
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39,863 | 39,810 |
Jd
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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Seems to be some confusion.Article gives Facebook a ~$6 billion valuation today.It then says that after we have evolved into transhumans Facebook will have 6,049,602,150 billion dollars worth of revenue. This is actually $6 quintillion, not $6 trillion.I'm assuming this is something of a joke, or a typo. Probably the former?
| null | 2 | 4 |
2007-08-06 20:04:35 UTC
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nickb
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Kevin Mitnick's Business Card
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drm237
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Here is the original: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/heavy-metal/lock-pick-business-ca...
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This is pretty cool...
| 1 | 14 |
2007-08-06 20:24:21 UTC
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39,871 | 39,830 |
stuki
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A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
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nickb
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that one of the keys to getting good software is to have it developed by a software company, not by the technical department of a non software company, or even by a multifaceted 'management consulting' company. Unless developing software is a company's sole concern, hierarchies, rituals and reward structures certain to drive away the best developers, almost inevitably take root.
| null | 0 | 11 |
2007-08-06 20:25:33 UTC
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39,876 | 39,674 |
zurla
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The Top 10 Reasons Startups Fail
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nreece
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or, #11 naming your startup squidoo
| null | 1 | 8 |
2007-08-06 20:34:32 UTC
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39,877 | 39,866 |
AF
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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How are people monetizing Facebook aps? Ads (if so, are they more or less effective than ads on traditional sites)?
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 3 | 8 |
2007-08-06 20:35:50 UTC
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geebee
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A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
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nickb
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Overall, I agree. Nut I disagree with the second half of the statement: "You don't need to hire an expert in language X, you can and should look for expert programmers that are willing to learn language X. An expert can easily cross over from being a novice in any language in a matter of a few weeks."The first half of the sentence is right on, but I'm not sure about the second half. Based on personal experience, it takes me a while to use a new programming language well. Of course, I wouldn't really call myself an expert programmer just yet. This is partly because I majored in Math and didn't get quite as much exposure to different programming languages as I should have (I just did all my homework in C++). But it's also partly because I actually bought the line about how a good programmer can move from one language to another easily, and figured I'd be able to pick up new languages quickly. An excellent C++, Scheme, Perl, and Javascript hacker will learn Ruby as quickly as it takes to memorize the syntax. A genuinely smart Java hacker (who is learning there's more to this whole language thing than he first realized) will learn how to write while loops in Ruby very quickly, but it'll take a while before he/she instantly realizes when to use blocks and yield.
| null | 1 | 11 |
2007-08-06 20:39:13 UTC
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39,888 | 39,866 |
rbitar
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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which app?
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 9 | 8 |
2007-08-06 20:49:27 UTC
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39,895 | 39,810 |
mynameishere
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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The six trillian revenue is possible if we have the Weimer-like inflation some are predicting. "So, what's it really worth?" is a question best answered with another question, "...before or after the next flash in the pan replaces it?"
| null | 3 | 4 |
2007-08-06 21:22:23 UTC
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39,896 | 39,841 |
aaroneous
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LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin
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mqt
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Brad has created so many incredible projects (MogileFS, Memcached, Perlbal, LiveJournal, OpenID) with many of them being OSS. He's a really bright guy with a good head on his shoulders. Whatever company he goes to will be a lucky one.
| null | 0 | 15 |
2007-08-06 21:22:39 UTC
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daniel-cussen
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How do you get through boring projects?
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sherman
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You just...do them. You acknowledge you have no choice and just do the boring parts.
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At work, how does everyone normally get through boring projects or boring parts of projects?I normally try to find at least something that's interesting about it. For example: recognizing consumer facing aspects and technically challenging
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-06 21:27:35 UTC
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39,906 | 39,866 |
anxman
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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What the heck is a resmue
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 2 | 8 |
2007-08-06 22:00:17 UTC
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39,910 | 39,866 |
crxnamja
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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resumes are stupid. sorry for writing that earlier. they are some of the fastest growing apps on facebook. i have a decent background on this stuff. really need some people. monetization is easy. i have already been offered 6 figures cash but want to grow more. likely will be funded...
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 4 | 8 |
2007-08-06 22:06:21 UTC
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39,915 | 39,897 |
ordersup
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How do you get through boring projects?
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sherman
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take every project as a learning experience. if you have the ability to select what projects you accept, only take the ones who have an "emotional" connection to you and/or your business... aka, the ones that don't cause you to groan and hate your line of work. :)
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At work, how does everyone normally get through boring projects or boring parts of projects?I normally try to find at least something that's interesting about it. For example: recognizing consumer facing aspects and technically challenging
| 1 | 1 |
2007-08-06 22:19:41 UTC
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ordersup
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Got a Weekend? Start a Business
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drm237
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i wouldn't say it's impossible... but if you have too many "leaders" and not enough "doers" then ideas and expectations start to bottleneck. ideally, my preferred team would consist of 2 leaders (one w/ more experience in marketing/biz and one w/ more experience in the flow of programming and visual design layout), a hardcore programmer and a UI designer.
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Trying to a start a Web-based business in two days, knowing when to turn an idea over to a pro, incorporating online tools into a business
| 0 | 4 |
2007-08-06 22:24:18 UTC
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39,918 | 39,866 |
crxnamja
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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I know a few are making at least $1,500 a day on ads....
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 7 | 8 |
2007-08-06 22:26:50 UTC
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39,924 | 39,817 |
jraines
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How easily do you fall for linkbait?
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henning
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That's interesting. Can you provide a link to more info on that theory? Because I recently switched off my cable tv in hopes of being more productive, but my answer to your question would be "pretty easily". Actually, now that I think about, the time when I was most susceptible was when I spent a lot of time surfing productivity blogs; those are rife with those kind of posts.
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Am I the only one who sees right through all these "Top 5 funny/greatest/cool/whatever X" posts?It works (it gets links), but, I dunno, any book on search engine optimization lists linkbaiting of the kind that rules the Digg front page as the best way to attract people who use the Internet as a substitute for television.
| 1 | 2 |
2007-08-06 23:24:33 UTC
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knewjax
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Amie Street Closes Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com
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mqt
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Congratulations. Another missed opportunity for the major record labels. Glad they are trying to hang in there by partnering with companies that will only allow music downloads for Windows Media Player, and have a board full of suits. http://corp.spiralfrog.com/board.aspxnot that i have a problem with any of the fine gentleman or woman on the spiral frog executive team.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-06 23:27:00 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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It wouldn't hurt to explain which app it is, what you are doing, what kind of skills you are looking for, etc. If you have 1.5M users then you obviously aren't in stealth mode or anything.
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 0 | 8 |
2007-08-06 23:47:14 UTC
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nostrademons
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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A few that I know of:#1 took the IP of his failed startup to China and tried starting another business in exactly the same area, but with Chinese programmers instead of American. Last I heard it hadn't gone anywhere (for exactly the same reasons that the first failed), but money lasts 5 times as long in China.#2 - a cofounder in the same startup - went to China and opened a school, along with consulting for numerous businesses there. His new venture is doing great.(#1 and #2 are both independently wealthy from previous startups, however.)#3 ended up being hired by the business he tried to compete against.#4 did some consulting work and then took a visiting professorship at a university.#5 slunk back to the cube farm, then was laid off in the next recession and became a househusband.#6 slunk back to the cube farm.Something you should remember: many businesses (particularly ones that don't take outside funding) neither succeed nor fail, but limp along with enough revenues to pay a small staff but not enough to grow quickly. You should be prepared for this possibility and know whether you would want to abandon the startup and go back to the cube farm, or stick it out in hopes of one day making a breakthrough. For startups that are not in hot markets, you'll find that they're significantly more work than a regular job with not much more pay (though you do have more freedom). I know at least 2 other entrepreneurs in this category.As for the best way to manage the possibility of failure: keep your skills sharp, and make sure that you fail because of things you can't prevent rather than things you can. Most big companies will eagerly hire a top-notch hacker who failed because there was no market for what he was building. Not many will hire someone who had a top-notch market and yet sat on his ass all day instead of building something.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 0 | 10 |
2007-08-06 23:53:21 UTC
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crxnamja
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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I am in stealth mode in regards to which ones I own. You can see one of the latest ones we createdapps.facebook.com/tattooyouprefer php, need someone who cranks out code, i am doing big things. i think:P
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
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2007-08-06 23:53:29 UTC
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nickb
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LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin
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mqt
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Six Apart should have been what Facebook became. They screwed up. Good for Brad, though.. he'll have lots of fun at Google!
| null | 1 | 15 |
2007-08-07 00:12:39 UTC
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39,940 | 39,866 |
blader
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Facebook App w/ 1.5 million installs
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crxnamja
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Chris Smoak, is that you?
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I need a hacker. You want money and some equity? Leave a comment to your site/email/resmue/whateverYou start now. Please help me.
| 5 | 8 |
2007-08-07 00:20:43 UTC
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ivankirigin
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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Good question. I just posted something similar -- trying to avoid the worst case.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 5 | 10 |
2007-08-07 00:23:10 UTC
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Locke
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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Is your website about spreading libelous rumors about rich people / corporations? Are you putting up a webstore selling toys / food from China?Seriously, IANAL, but lots of (unincorporated) websites collect email addresses (right down to everyone's personal blogs). Lots of businesses operate as sole proprietorships without problems... I may be stupid, but I don't think limited liability protection for a startup is (usually) very important. At least not in the early days.
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 0 | 9 |
2007-08-07 00:27:00 UTC
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39,948 | 39,810 |
henning
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Wall Street analyst: in 2016, Facebook will have six trillion dollars in annual revenue
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byrneseyeview
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Disco Stu: "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue -- eyyyy!"
| null | 1 | 4 |
2007-08-07 00:39:02 UTC
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ivankirigin
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Upper Limit On # of news.YC posts? & Average Karma
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myoung8
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I thought about this too. One related point is active users. Some folks were active then left. Sam_Odio's most recent submission is 55 days old.I think karma/day, over the last N days, would be a fine measure.Also, I think comment-karma/day would be the best measure. It is easier to get points by reposting titles of other people's work as submissions than through thoughtful comments.
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For reasons unknown, I wanted to figure out what the karma leaders average karma/post was (i.e. who is submitting the highest quality posts?)It appears that news.YC only lists up to 180 submissions, rendering my little experiment useless. However, I was able to determine that:staunch's karma/post is 7.66
paul's is 19.41 (celebrity effect?)
brett's is 6.58
mine (who gives?) is 7.38
Sam_Odio's is less than 6.63 (assuming 180+ posts)
danw's is less than 6.51 ("-----")news.YC should have another leader board for quality in addition to just absolute karma.
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2007-08-07 00:39:03 UTC
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portLAN
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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There is no such thing as failure, only results. Just watch out for the ice weasels.We're living in a narrow window between the end of the old paradigm (in which individuals had very little power) and the future one (in which you can do anything you want, in a simulated universe). We'll probably get there in another 20-30 years, and everyone will "win" at once.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 4 | 10 |
2007-08-07 00:39:08 UTC
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39,954 | 39,927 |
iamyoohoo
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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I know of a group that spent 2 years on a startup, moved into their parents home, still kept going - and finally after 2 years gave up. They now work at Yahoo. :-)
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 6 | 10 |
2007-08-07 00:56:51 UTC
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39,967 | 39,947 |
jcwentz
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Upper Limit On # of news.YC posts? & Average Karma
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myoung8
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PB's karma per post is high because he often submits his own stuff, which readers like.
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For reasons unknown, I wanted to figure out what the karma leaders average karma/post was (i.e. who is submitting the highest quality posts?)It appears that news.YC only lists up to 180 submissions, rendering my little experiment useless. However, I was able to determine that:staunch's karma/post is 7.66
paul's is 19.41 (celebrity effect?)
brett's is 6.58
mine (who gives?) is 7.38
Sam_Odio's is less than 6.63 (assuming 180+ posts)
danw's is less than 6.51 ("-----")news.YC should have another leader board for quality in addition to just absolute karma.
| 2 | 1 |
2007-08-07 01:43:39 UTC
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39,970 | 39,939 |
mikesabat
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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I wouldn't sweat the liability oo much either, but why not just incorporate. In most states it costs $150.
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 6 | 9 |
2007-08-07 01:45:38 UTC
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39,971 | 39,817 |
euccastro
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How easily do you fall for linkbait?
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henning
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I click some of these "Top X whatever" because I know in the worst case I won't have to read the actual article; only skim the titles in bold. Most articles are not worth even that, but the few exceptions pay off the little time I waste in the lame ones.
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Am I the only one who sees right through all these "Top 5 funny/greatest/cool/whatever X" posts?It works (it gets links), but, I dunno, any book on search engine optimization lists linkbaiting of the kind that rules the Digg front page as the best way to attract people who use the Internet as a substitute for television.
| 2 | 2 |
2007-08-07 02:15:26 UTC
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39,975 | 39,927 |
rrival
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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It's cliche, it's from a blockbuster movie, but it's sort of apropos. "Why do we fall down? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." (Batman Begins) My first company flopped (R.I.P. 2002). My second soared but didn't diversify and crashed. That was a hard, hard crash to handle personally, financially. My third is growing slowly, steadily and may have long term value as its industry matures. My fourth is on its way to success. I'm focusing on what it is that matters to me, not looking at what everyone else is doing (or more importantly how well others are doing) and staying true to myself, my talents and areas where projects I'm working on are opportunities, not just ideas. The distinction is crucial. The worst that could happen? Sitting on a great idea without taking action for too long and regretting it later. The worst thing would be never to try, especially with the costs to entry where they are now.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 1 | 10 |
2007-08-07 02:30:45 UTC
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39,978 | 39,947 |
pg
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Upper Limit On # of news.YC posts? & Average Karma
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myoung8
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I was curious, so I figured it out:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977
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For reasons unknown, I wanted to figure out what the karma leaders average karma/post was (i.e. who is submitting the highest quality posts?)It appears that news.YC only lists up to 180 submissions, rendering my little experiment useless. However, I was able to determine that:staunch's karma/post is 7.66
paul's is 19.41 (celebrity effect?)
brett's is 6.58
mine (who gives?) is 7.38
Sam_Odio's is less than 6.63 (assuming 180+ posts)
danw's is less than 6.51 ("-----")news.YC should have another leader board for quality in addition to just absolute karma.
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-07 02:38:19 UTC
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39,979 | 39,977 |
Jd
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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Congrats to Nostra
| null | 5 | 10 |
2007-08-07 03:00:05 UTC
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39,980 | 39,977 |
cperciva
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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Isn't "karma / #stories" a bogus measurement, considering that karma is obtained both from stories and from comments? I (as I write this) have 89 karma, but only 8 points of that is from submissions...How about computing [karma obtained from submissions] / [# of submissions] and [karma obtained from comments] / [# of comments] separately?
| null | 1 | 10 |
2007-08-07 03:02:08 UTC
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nickb
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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Waste of a lot of time. Time's the only thing you can't get back, unfortunately.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 3 | 10 |
2007-08-07 03:26:44 UTC
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39,986 | 39,977 |
nickb
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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How about highest karma per comment? Personally, I consider comments that people post here a lot more useful than original articles. I also tend to mod comments a lot more frequently than stories themselves.
| null | 0 | 10 |
2007-08-07 03:29:27 UTC
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39,988 | 39,982 |
amichail
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Anyone having problems accessing justin.tv?
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amichail
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I think they were upgrading the site.
| null | 0 | 2 |
2007-08-07 03:53:56 UTC
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39,994 | 39,977 |
jey
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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How about karma/comment? or even pageloads/time? :)
| null | 4 | 10 |
2007-08-07 04:24:39 UTC
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39,995 | 39,927 |
Mistone
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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most comments don't seem to bad, worse case get a job at a behemoth, make some steady money for a while and hopefully meet a few folks to take of with on your next startup. I'm still at the early stages, and hopefully will not have a great amount of war torn wisdom to share with folks about failing in a year or too, but the odds are stacked towards that outcome, as we all know.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 7 | 10 |
2007-08-07 04:34:19 UTC
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39,996 | 39,939 |
nickb
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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Not incorporating is just dumb. Just get at least a basic LLC.
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 4 | 9 |
2007-08-07 04:52:05 UTC
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39,997 | 39,927 |
iamelgringo
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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It depends on how much you personally invest. If you cash out your 401k and empty your savings, and the business fails, then, you're out your 401k and savings. If you go small, fast and cheap, you're alot more likely to fail sooner but fail cheaper as well.If you take money from others, there is a lot less financial risk for you, but less upside.If you can set up your financial life so you have less debt and expenses, then you have a lot less to lose.
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 2 | 10 |
2007-08-07 04:54:48 UTC
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40,000 | 39,977 |
henning
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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hm. i'd rather type something like:select username, karma, submissions from users where submissions > 10 order by karma descbut you don't see me running an uber-hip VC firm, do you?
| null | 3 | 10 |
2007-08-07 06:01:36 UTC
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40,002 | 39,982 |
run4yourlives
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Anyone having problems accessing justin.tv?
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amichail
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Anyone care?I kid, I kid :-)
| null | 1 | 2 |
2007-08-07 06:15:44 UTC
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40,003 | 39,983 |
jsjenkins168
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Marketing Your Startup. Any comments?
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pepeto
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The graphical depictions are actually very good at explaining this concept. Great article.
| null | 3 | 11 |
2007-08-07 06:21:58 UTC
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40,006 | 39,611 |
five
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Nah Seriously! Who designs the YC startups websites? Loving it.
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rokhayakebe
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check this site www.irintech.com/x1/
its a blog with simple 3-4 colors everything from the font to the design aspect.
its actually not the design but the layout and color combination that wins, and very few in the management understand. imagine a site with all sorts of animation it would look more like a site for a circus company
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Really guys, how do you come up with such designs?
| 4 | 26 |
2007-08-07 07:01:34 UTC
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40,007 | 40,005 |
palish
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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Looks awesome! Out of curiosity, why can't a user upload a sound or image and use it in their cartoon? If you're worried about NSFW issues, you can always use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mark a sound or image as NSFW.
| null | 2 | 29 |
2007-08-07 07:17:06 UTC
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40,008 | 39,939 |
tuukkah
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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"Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. We're less likely to accept groups that are already incorporated, because it costs so much more to deal with existing documents than to start from scratch." http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 2 | 9 |
2007-08-07 07:19:58 UTC
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40,009 | 39,939 |
chaostheory
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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hmmm I could be wrong because I'm not a lawyer (so you have to check this with a real lawyer), but I heard that even if you incorporate you're still somewhat liable as long as you're not a passive investor.For example, if you (yourself) accidently release all of your users' confidential data to the public; you're liable for the damages that stem from it
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 5 | 9 |
2007-08-07 07:31:32 UTC
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40,010 | 40,005 |
dhouston
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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congrats guys!!
| null | 12 | 29 |
2007-08-07 07:34:22 UTC
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40,011 | 40,005 |
PStamatiou
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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double congrats to them! A few of them went to Georgia Tech and were in classes of mine. my thoughts about it from yesterday: http://urltea.com/15s0
| null | 6 | 29 |
2007-08-07 07:40:37 UTC
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40,014 | 39,845 |
far33d
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Amie Street Closes Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com
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mqt
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Brown represent!
| null | 1 | 3 |
2007-08-07 08:37:09 UTC
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40,016 | 39,983 |
rchambers
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Marketing Your Startup. Any comments?
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pepeto
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This is a good article with a interesting point of view. I would simply add that sometimes a great product sitting in my development environment or hidden from the world is worthless. You have to consider even a minimal amount of effort in getting your viral marketing started. Hopefully the theory focused on by the article will save you tons in marketing expenses once it gets going.
| null | 2 | 11 |
2007-08-07 08:40:47 UTC
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40,019 | 39,927 |
rokhayakebe
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Startups: What's the worst that could happen?
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jraines
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Loosing your wife
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I am curious to know what happens to the majority of startup founders -- the ones that fail. Financial ruin? Slinking back to the cube farm? Moving back in with mom and dad? Exhilarated by the experience and trying again? What is the best way to manage the possibility of failure without planning to fail? Am I just being too risk averse?
| 8 | 10 |
2007-08-07 09:59:26 UTC
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40,020 | 40,005 |
davidw
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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I had some fun with it, no offense to anyone involved. It's pretty cool actually, because of how simple it is.http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400
| null | 0 | 29 |
2007-08-07 10:04:40 UTC
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40,039 | 40,005 |
joshwa
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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Reminds me a bit of http://quickcomic.com/ - but done right. Well done guys.
| null | 9 | 29 |
2007-08-07 12:44:44 UTC
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40,040 | 40,005 |
pg
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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This is strangely addictive. I still haven't figured out
exactly why.
| null | 1 | 29 |
2007-08-07 12:46:35 UTC
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40,042 | 39,983 |
wensing
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Marketing Your Startup. Any comments?
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pepeto
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Excellent article, and the illustrations do a fantastic job of visualizing your points.I agree with your assertion, by the way. However, it does take something 'extra' (the "if you really want to spend money" part at the bottom) to make something into a total social phenomenon. That said, I still believe the magic sauce could be inventing something that is just so downright amazing (ex.: a perpetual motion machine) that people (and the news) must talk about it. That is the dream-stricken inventor in me, at least.
| null | 1 | 11 |
2007-08-07 12:48:36 UTC
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40,043 | 39,977 |
jkush
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Highest karma/submission
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pg
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I've also wondered if "karma" as defined here is anything like real world karma (if there is such a thing). What I mean is: Does upvoting a comment or submission effect your own karma points? Have the folks on the leader board also upvoted a lot? Is there any correlation at all?
| null | 2 | 10 |
2007-08-07 12:55:56 UTC
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40,048 | 40,023 |
davidw
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Fleeing free
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terpua
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Arrington's comment several pages down is worth reading and considering:> Jason, you don't address the fact that it takes two parties to transact. Simply charging for a piece of software doesn't bring in revenue. Someone has to actually pay for it.I guess this is easy to overlook if you're 37signals...
| null | 0 | 17 |
2007-08-07 13:16:26 UTC
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40,058 | 39,939 |
rzwitserloot
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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Just incorporate. Over here in europe you need 18k in the bank and it costs at least 1200 dollars in notary fees, and most people still do so. (Or alternatively you could get an english limited but this makes further legalese difficult as you need to conform to two different nation's laws).The biggest problem, as I understand it (at least over here) is that changing from non-incorporated to incorporated AFTER your company has built up significant value is a complete pain in the arse.
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 3 | 9 |
2007-08-07 13:54:54 UTC
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40,059 | 40,054 |
pg
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A detailed look at Vancouver's startup scene
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heri
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One YC funded startup is based there, Snipshot.
| null | 0 | 16 |
2007-08-07 13:56:36 UTC
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40,065 | 39,939 |
rfrey
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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There have been a number of comments about how effective incorporation is at protecting you from suit, etc. They're all guesses: Sarbanes Oxley changes all the rules, and the old rules concerning the corporate veil no longer apply. (Anticipating an objection, no, SarbOx does not apply solely to public companies.)The problem is that nobody knows exactly what the new rules are. There is no case law yet surrounding SarbOx IT compliance that I'm aware of. That doesn't really matter, though. nickb said that not incorporating is "just dumb": if that's the case, there are an awful lot of really dumb entrepreneurs out there, and really dumb business advisors, too. The cost of incorporation is more than the couple of hundred bucks to file the paperwork: there's ongoing compliance which costs both money and mindshare. It's probably not worth it until you require the different tax regime or have a specific need for the limited liability.The bottom line is that you won't get sued until you have substantial revenue, and then you'll get sued no matter what you do. Lawsuits follow the money. Nobody is going to sue you to get your house because it would cost more in legal fees than your house is worth. A website is different than a business with a storefront, which has to deal with the possibility of personal injury claims, and which invariably has an insurance policy to provide the honeypot for suits.
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 1 | 9 |
2007-08-07 14:19:45 UTC
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40,069 | 39,939 |
goofygrin
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Going live with an alpha release before incorporating -- and not losing my house.
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ivankirigin
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What about something like an umbrella policy? Would that cover a sole proprietership (sp)?
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In what situations is it reasonable to make a site live without
Incorporating my company? What if I'm taking money from users? What if I'm not taking money but am taking private data like email addresses?I love the idea of pushing something out to users as soon as humanly possible, but I really don't like the idea of getting sued.
| 7 | 9 |
2007-08-07 14:28:17 UTC
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40,076 | 40,005 |
far33d
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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Wow. This is great. I was just (yesterday) thinking about how there are no user accessible animation tools out there. There's a long way to go, but this is a wonderful start. Congrats.
| null | 7 | 29 |
2007-08-07 14:47:08 UTC
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40,078 | 40,017 |
aston
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Marcus Frind: What Would You Do With a $300K Monthly Budget For Hiring and Strategy?
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staunch
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PlentyOfFish has an incredible reach, especially for a one-man job in ASP.NET. I think it's probably the best example of the power of the network effect I've ever seen.Given a traffic juggernaut, your focus has got to be on 1) growing it, and 2) monetizing it better.
| 0 | 10 |
2007-08-07 14:55:37 UTC
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40,080 | 40,005 |
mynameishere
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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Couldn't get it to work. I have Flash 8. No error or anything.
| null | 4 | 29 |
2007-08-07 14:59:42 UTC
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40,095 | 40,005 |
luxiou
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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
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dhouston
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This is a fine piece of flash/flex engineering -- congrats guys!
| null | 10 | 29 |
2007-08-07 15:45:39 UTC
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40,100 | 40,088 |
donna
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Does anyone have experience with mynewcompany.com?
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jkush
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interesting concept, however i dislike the name "mynewcompany.com" and turns me away.
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This looks like an attractive deal .There's a huge price difference between this and hiring a lawyer - so what are the drawbacks of using a service like this?
| 2 | 2 |
2007-08-07 16:11:01 UTC
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40,109 | 40,107 |
donna
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The World's Most Advanced Bionic Arm
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donna
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I find this story fasinating, especially with the numbers of soliders living with lost limbs around the world. I'm curious about how robotics will be included into the mainstream in the future.
| null | 1 | 4 |
2007-08-07 16:22:31 UTC
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40,113 | 40,088 |
davidw
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Does anyone have experience with mynewcompany.com?
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jkush
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I looked at it, but decided against it, and did things myself, after having bought some books (the nolo.com LLC ones). In the end, since the books are pricey, I don't know if I actually saved any money, and certainly didn't save time, but I feel a bit more connected to the whole process, and learned a few things on the way.
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This looks like an attractive deal .There's a huge price difference between this and hiring a lawyer - so what are the drawbacks of using a service like this?
| 0 | 2 |
2007-08-07 16:25:22 UTC
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40,114 | 40,093 |
pg
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Turns out Google may just be your garden-variety monopoly after all
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puppetsock
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This writer is either the stooge of the carriers, or not very sharp. The most revealing phrase is "forcing the agency into an auction for spectrum that would arguably have far less business value." The government is supposed to be operating in the interests of its citizens, not creating artificial scarcity so businesses can charge them a lot.
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-07 16:26:01 UTC
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40,116 | 39,972 |
dpapathanasiou
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How a Billionaire Financed His First Startup
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MrHaney
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Here's a (somewhat dated) example of how creative financing could work for a tech startup (read the paragraph which beings "Say I decide to become an Internet Service Provider..."): http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1999/pulpit_19990527_0003...Cringely focuses on the the dark-side perspective of taking it too far, but it also shows how you can create an infrastructure without a lot of startup capital.
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Creative startup financing lessons from a billionaire.
| 0 | 11 |
2007-08-07 16:37:30 UTC
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40,119 | 40,097 |
AF
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Dot Bomb 2.0 is coming
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run4yourlives
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Wow. This is an excellent, realistic article. Some of the great nuggets:"Consumer loyalty is directly linked to the amount the consumer invests out of pocket. Apple has a fiercely loyal base partly because they feel really stupid spending an extra $300 on a product that isn't something special. With social networking sites the amount spent is zero - and the loyalty corresponds.Facebook and mySpace are only as valuable as the next big thing. In other words: they are fads. Now, fads can be successful if they're managed right, but they all share one thing in common - they won't be around tomorrow. If you need proof, look no further than Frendster. In 2003 they had 20 million users. Today, they have less than 1 million die hards. Those are fickle crowds.So, why is this a problem? Because eventually investors - be they VC's or acquiring organizations - want to see some growth in their investment. With a fad-based industry, all value becomes speculative and opinion based. In order to make money, investors need to assume that tomorrow, the perceived worth of the product will be higher. Let's pick on Facebook a little. Facebook now needs the next investor to believe it's worth $2 billion at least. - invest $1 billion, recoup $1 billion. Sorry if I laugh a little."And:"Let's put this into perspective: We have a product that has a monetary value of zero to its users being used to build further products of negligible value - and these products are actually being sold or invested in!"And this has me asking the question: is it not better to charge for a product and therefore create a loyal and mature customer base on top of actually getting some real revenue? I mean sure, you might not have 30 billion users, you will probably have to make something that is higher quality than something that is free, but the results to me seem to be much more valuable.
| null | 10 | 13 |
2007-08-07 16:49:25 UTC
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40,120 | 40,097 |
pg
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Dot Bomb 2.0 is coming
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run4yourlives
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This guy doesn't even have a grasp of the basic facts of the web app business. The core of his argument is that an ad-supported business is ipso facto a fad. So is Google a fad? Are all the ad-supported businesses of the past 100 years?Look no further than Friendster for evidence of users' fickleness? Friendster wasn't killed by the market; it committed suicide.
| null | 0 | 13 |
2007-08-07 16:53:22 UTC
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40,125 | 40,097 |
awt
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Dot Bomb 2.0 is coming
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run4yourlives
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He's right. Let's all quit and get jobs crunching numbers in the finance industry. Better yet, lets become farmers. Everyone needs food right? That market isn't going away any time soon.
| null | 3 | 13 |
2007-08-07 17:06:36 UTC
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40,126 | 40,121 |
sherman
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Biggest Mistakes You've Made?
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vlad
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Sitting on ideas only to see other people implement them and whiz by me. In hindsight, I've learned that I shouldn't wait and do what I need to do right now.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-07 17:13:06 UTC
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40,129 | 40,101 |
create_account
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Hans Rosling's 2006 Talk at TED (Inspiring Video)
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dpapathanasiou
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I almost gave up on it before the gapminder.org part -- now that has a lot of startup potential.
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2007-08-07 17:28:01 UTC
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ivankirigin
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Hans Rosling's 2006 Talk at TED (Inspiring Video)
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dpapathanasiou
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I loved this talk when I saw it a few weeks ago. TED is so ripe with good ideas.
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2007-08-07 17:32:25 UTC
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