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36,306 | rustartup | 2007-07-24T09:08:59 | How many registered domains to settle down | How many domains do one register before making final choice? By registering I mean actually paying for it. Now I've already registered several domains for my new venture and still new names keep coming so am forced to fight them or ... register, just in case :) | 1 | 1 | [
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36,307 | 7media | 2007-07-24T09:23:32 | Ever checked out movies.yahoo.com, no its not to check the top movies | Its not for the movie names or the top movie list, but have you noticed its the big movie companies that make it to the top and the other wind down.
Is it true for the start-ups? | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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36,313 | rchambers | 2007-07-24T10:40:55 | Domain names: 21st century real estate | Inside a midtown hotel, Larry Fischer is on his cell phone with a financial backer as his partner Ari Goldberger does quick research on a laptop computer. They are bidding furiously at this auction of Internet domain names, with hopes of snagging megayachts.com. The duo won't be deterred. They want this name. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_bi_ge/domain_name_dealing;_ylt=AgqxYN04Sr7rO4tzw7VUfdWyBhIF | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More | null | null | BusinessReutersTSMC to suspend production of advanced AI chips for China from Monday, FT reportsTSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7 nanometres or smaller, FT said on Friday. The U.S. has imposed a raft of measures aimed at restricting the shipment of advanced GPU chips - which enable AI - to China to hobble its artificial intelligence capabilities, which Washington fears could be used to develop bioweapons and launch large-scale cyberattacks.1 min read | 2024-11-08T17:17:54 | null | train |
36,315 | edu | 2007-07-24T10:57:39 | Six Apart merges (code) with Facebook | http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/07/six_apart_merge.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,316 | rms | 2007-07-24T11:21:47 | The 12 Kinds of Ads | http://www.slate.com/id/2170872/slideshow/2170932/fs/0//entry/2170933/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,324 | jcwentz | 2007-07-24T12:01:18 | Jaxtr Doubles Users in 27 Days | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/23/jaxtr-posts-some-big-numbers-but-not-because-of-social-networking-sites/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,325 | jcwentz | 2007-07-24T12:03:54 | Userplane Offers Exportable, Interactive Chat | null | http://mashable.com/2007/07/24/userplane-minichat/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,327 | farmer | 2007-07-24T12:17:16 | Analyst Says AT&T Gives Apple $11 per Month per User | null | http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/analyst-says-at.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,330 | drm237 | 2007-07-24T12:30:40 | SecondSpace launches with cash flow, A-list team | Second Space, the Bellevue startup, has been operating its first two Web sites for a year, generating more than $1 million, before it disclosed its game plan today. | http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2007/07/secondspace_launches_with_cash.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,331 | eastsidegringo | 2007-07-24T12:39:40 | Here's a Game You Won't Find On Your iPhone | One of the benefits of playing when you're an adult is you can do things on a much bigger scale. You also don't have anyone to tell you your little play project might not be such a good idea (remind me to post the video of the tower of blocks we knocked over with the ceiling fan!).
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36,332 | nanijoe | 2007-07-24T12:42:52 | SFBeta - Worth Attending? | For you guys in the bay area, is this a worthwhile event to attend? I live in NJ, but am in the bay area for work, is this a good use of my time? I plan to transition from 'office worker' to a startup in about 6 months, and am hoping I can get something out of the event that will help me in my future role. | 2 | 1 | [
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36,333 | joshua8883 | 2007-07-24T12:55:20 | Why You Probably Won't Survive as an Independent Consultant | <p>Don't take the title of this blog post wrong. I hope you survive as an Independent Consultant... I really do. Yet before you jump ship for the bountiful glory that is independent consulting, allow me to tell you the story of Zed - a person much like you that failed to realize the true evil that lurks behind the facade of independent consulting.<p>Meet our Hero: Zed<p>Meet our hero, Zed. Long ago, Zed was working as a star programmer for a consulting company getting paid $30 per hour while billing out $150 per hour to their client (probably more). Zed used his superior analytical skills to learn that his company is being paid $120 per hour more than Zed is being paid. Thats just ludicrous!<p>So Zed did what any entrepreneurial minded superhero would do - he quit his job and went to work for the client as an Independent Consultant. This move now got him paid $60 per hour. The client paid out less, Zed's made twice as much, and that evil consulting company had been banished into oblivion. <p><pre><code> Everything is now right in the world. Zed is now living the life as an Independent Consultant - the dream job that's easy to start and nearly impossible to sustain.
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But Zed's bliss would not last forever. Little did Zed know, that a new menace was about to rear it's ugly head - An evil force known as "Nu Bidnsss." <p>Our Villain: Nu Bidnsss<p>Within his first year of consulting, Zed was protected (financially) from ever having to deal with Nu Bidnsss. He was heavily sheltered in the warmth of a paying client to whom he could enjoy a prosperous life. <p>Yet like every consulting engagement, the client too eventually fell out of love with Zed. Zed's incredible programming abilities eventually gave the client a product they were proud of, and soon Zed would not be needed any longer.<p>One day, as Zed left a client "wrap up" meeting, he felt a cold chill across the back of his neck. He tensed, turned around quickly and saw the most fearsome creature he had ever laid eyes upon - Nu Bidnsss.<p>Nu Bidnsss Sucks<p>Without a lofty paying contract firmly in his hands, Zed did not know how to attack Nu Bidnsss. Beating this evil beast required abilities he had never learned, like salesmanship, networking, and the Shaolin art of the "Ass Kiss." <p>Zed realized at that moment, that his training was all wrong. Until now he had made a great living by being a star programmer. His skills had made him heavily recruited out of college, highly sought-after in his consulting company, and well-paid from clients. Certainly with these skills he would never have to come face-to-face with Nu Bidnsss. Yet here he was, staring it down.<p>The Fall of Zed<p>Try as he might, Zed could not stop the force of Nu Bidnsss. It quickly swallowed up his savings, his second mortgage, and all of his credit cards. As Zed struggled wildly to defeat the beast, he realized that it was not his ability to work for clients that would save his life, it was his ability to get new clients, that would be his lifeblood.<p><pre><code> Alas, Zed has no frigging clue how to get new clients.
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And so Zed was defeated by Nu Bidnsss. Drained of any of his financial resources, emotional excitement and his seemingly endless list of smart-ass remarks, he was taken by Nu Bidnsss and forced to work in the salt mine cubicles of hell - Big Corporate.<p>- The End -<p>Epilogue<p>This story is as sad as it is consistently true. <p>Surviving as an independent consultant isn't about actually consulting (it's a given that you can do that.) It's about finding new business.<p>As it happens, most people suck at finding new business. Once the Pixie Dust of the first client engagement wears off, the painful reality of having to beg for business becomes very obvious.<p>If you truly want to build a business as a consultant, focus on the business of selling yourself, not specifically on delivery. If you're not good enough to get yourself in the door on your own merits, your life as an Independent Consultant is going to be short-lived at best. Like our boy Zed. | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/7/24/why-you-probably-wont-survive-as-an-independent-consultant/10179/view.aspx | 7 | 12 | [
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36,334 | brlewis | 2007-07-24T12:59:18 | AOL buys behavior-targeting ad co. for $2-300MM | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/aol-gets-its-ad-network-too/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,336 | bootload | 2007-07-24T13:21:50 | Reading to go 'completely online' (Gates) | null | http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/115076.asp | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,344 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-24T13:44:01 | Young keep it simple in high-tech world: survey | http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSL236796320070724 | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,360 | explorefare | 2007-07-24T16:03:42 | how to do financial plan for advertising model web startup | Hello
I am releasing a travel web site based on advertising revenue, adwords and affiliate links.
My problem is how to estimate the revenue for raising finance? no idea how many users will go there and how many will click affiliates etc.<p>bye
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36,365 | mmaunder | 2007-07-24T16:23:13 | Think you work hard? Think again. | http://markmaunder.com/2007/think-you-work-hard-think-again/ | 23 | 20 | [
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36,368 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-24T16:30:25 | Google acquires ImageAmerica to boost mapping which can capture details as small as 6 to 12 inches | http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9748227-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,371 | brett | 2007-07-24T16:43:39 | Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/23/surprise-facebook-apps-may-help-grow-home-sites/ | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,378 | danw | 2007-07-24T17:08:36 | It's Time to Replace eBay | http://fourstarters.com/2007/07/24/its-time-to-replace-ebay/ | 19 | 32 | [
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36,383 | KB | 2007-07-24T17:18:37 | The Web's Top Takeover Targets | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_webs_top_takeover_targets.php | 3 | 1 | [
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36,385 | amichail | 2007-07-24T17:21:03 | If lifecasting is too much for you, why not try "Lifehinting"? | http://mindrosity.blogspot.com/2007/07/if-lifecasting-is-too-much-for-you-why.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,391 | drm237 | 2007-07-24T17:38:14 | Back to the Future of the Web | 10 years from now what will we look back on as important to the web? That's what we asked 16 top designers, developers and entrepreneurs. Read what they had to say. | http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/back-to-the-future-of-the-web | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,392 | horatio05 | 2007-07-24T17:40:03 | Careless Obfuscation Can Lose You Business | null | http://www.codesqueeze.com/careless-obfuscation-can-lose-you-business/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,393 | danw | 2007-07-24T17:41:30 | The Del.icio.us Lesson: Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it? | null | http://bokardo.com/archives/putting-the-delicious-lesson-into-practice-part-i/ | 12 | 7 | [
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36,397 | ivan | 2007-07-24T17:50:59 | David Heinemeier Hansson says No to Use of Rails Logo | http://www.rubyinside.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-says-no-to-use-of-rails-logo-567.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,405 | robertgaal | 2007-07-24T18:26:57 | Startupoholic - a video podcast about startups | null | http://startupoholic.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,408 | drm237 | 2007-07-24T18:40:06 | Interview with Seedcamp founder Saul Klein | We recently reported on the launch of Seedcamp, a VC-backed project that will provide a shot in the arm to Europe's technology startups. | http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/363867/interview-with-seedcamp-founder-saul-klein.html | 1 | 1 | [
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36,419 | scrollinondubs | 2007-07-24T19:21:03 | JumpBox redefines server software by making it easy to throw away | http://www.kstaken.com/archives/126_jumpbox-redefines-server-software-by-making-it-easy-to-throw-away.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,431 | brightgreen | 2007-07-24T20:19:28 | Green Wiki | null | http://www.tiptheplanet.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,436 | aswanson | 2007-07-24T20:31:36 | Superstition: Startups with derivative names fail... | Even if you have first mover, e.g. Feedster, Friendster,...so be original. | 3 | 2 | [
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36,440 | ordersup | 2007-07-24T20:42:38 | Netflix reeling from customer losses, site outage | null | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19932882/ | 6 | 5 | [
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36,441 | rchambers | 2007-07-24T20:53:58 | Takkle goes for another funding round | Sport social networking site TAKKLE is always making news. Today the startup announced that it has raised additional funding from Sports Illustrated and the New York City Investment Fund along with TAKKLE's original investors. | http://startupsquad.com/2007/07/23/takkle-goes-for-another-funding-round/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,442 | phil | 2007-07-24T20:58:26 | Atom is done | http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/07/24/Atom-is-Finished | 8 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,446 | djworth | 2007-07-24T21:22:30 | My First Facebook App - I Want One | This app provides you and your friends the ability to vote on different Amazon.com products. You can add products via an Amazon Search or an Amazon Wish List.<p>Please feel free to check out the app and provide feedback.<p>Thanks! | http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2389878632 | 1 | 1 | [
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36,450 | nickb | 2007-07-24T21:28:20 | Coding Horror: Will My Software Project Fail? | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000917.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,452 | nickb | 2007-07-24T21:31:43 | When JSON isn't JSON | http://blog.extracheese.org/2007/07/when-json-isnt-json.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,454 | nickb | 2007-07-24T21:32:24 | Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation" | http://www.linux.com/feature/118201 | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,455 | nickb | 2007-07-24T21:34:22 | ActionMonkey: New JavaScript engine from Mozilla and Adobe | http://ejohn.org/blog/actionmonkey/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,471 | thinkingserious | 2007-07-24T22:44:52 | Will This be the End of Online Advertising? | null | http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/07/24/will-this-be-the-end-of-online-advertising/ | 4 | 3 | [
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36,482 | sanj | 2007-07-24T23:23:13 | Celebrity Deathmatch: Facebook vs. EC2 | I'm wondering what the YC crowd thinks of Amazon's web services (S3 and EC2) as a means to handle Facebook traffic.<p>The pmarca blog entry about facebook intoned <p>"the Facebook Platform is primarily for use by either big companies, or venture-backed startups with the funding and capability to handle the slightly insane scale requirements. Individual developers are going to have a very hard time taking advantage of it in useful ways."<p>Can EC2 and a considered strategy to distribute load across [Amazon's] servers mitigate this?<p>Are there other tools and services that scale with usage in this way?<p>Anyone have experience with them? | 1 | 4 | [
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36,487 | ordersup | 2007-07-24T23:51:23 | Angry Mob Gathers Outside SF Datacenter | http://valleywag.com/tech/breaking/angry-mob-gathers-outside-sf-datacenter-282053.php | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T13:45:30 | null | train |
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36,492 | ordersup | 2007-07-24T23:57:20 | 365 Main outage causes aftershocks in Web world | Honesty is always best when it comes to guys that can make you cry one line of code at a time... :P | http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/365-main-outage-causes-aftershocks-in-web-world-282072.php | 8 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,497 | marrone | 2007-07-25T00:20:48 | Don't Break The Chain | Some good advice that can apply to any aspiration | http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-281626.php | 43 | 16 | [
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36,500 | palish | 2007-07-25T00:28:20 | News.YC bug: You can submit sites multiple times by putting spaces after the URL. | http://news.ycombinator.com | 6 | 5 | [
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36,512 | dawie | 2007-07-25T02:21:29 | Series A Financing: How Much to Raise? | null | http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/07/series_a_financing_how_much_to_1.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,514 | davidw | 2007-07-25T02:45:17 | OSCON, anyone? | Anyone else here at OSCON? I have a presentation at 16:30, wednesday, which is also the only full day I'm in town. Anyone care to meet up and chat? Email me at davidw .... at ..... dedasys.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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36,530 | lupin_sansei | 2007-07-25T05:01:31 | The Web's "Hardest to Parse" Article | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/shannons_thirst.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,533 | PStamatiou | 2007-07-25T05:28:34 | Pics of Web Company HQs in California - Digg, Facebook, OpenDNS.. | http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/07/21/california-hq-pics/ | 21 | 8 | [
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I posted a few pictures from each place but if you want to see them all, visit my Flickr set. I'm in SF for WordCamp, which is going on right in front of me now.
Digg
Mike and I met up with Digg/Pownce designer Daniel Burka on Tuesday. Great guy, great companies.
Flickr
Flickr was among the most lively places. Cubicles are only half height and in the "bullpen" format, which facilitates fun activities such as shooting finger rockets across the room and faceball.
Yahoo!
I went back to Yahoo! to visit with friends from my internship last year and friends currently working there. An internal hack day had just begun when I got there.
Mint
Mint is a cutting-edge, pre-launch finance web app startup in Mountain View.
Flock
Flock is the social web browser I have talked about several times before. They're within a block of Mint HQ and near Meebo HQ.
Facebook
I visited Facebook on Wednesday when they announced their purchase of Parakey, a web OS startup by two of the Firefox guys, so it was understandably very busy and active. The environment is amazing and has a huge number of people that appear to be under 30 if not mostly under 25. Definitely a place I might consider working in the future.
Google
Google had a strict policy about photos and makes visitors sign an NDA, so I could only snap a few pics outside. The free lunch was great though. There are many cafes in different buildings with a variety of foods.
And of course it wouldn't be San Francisco without some fancy cars, such as this 440,000 Porsche Carrera GT.
update: I forgot about OpenDNS.
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36,538 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-25T06:42:51 | Opening credits roll for Facebook's colorful court hearing | null | http://news.com.com/Opening+credits+roll+for+Facebooks+colorful+court+hearing/2100-1030_3-6198541.html?tag=nefd.lede | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,542 | stu_utterguy | 2007-07-25T08:00:26 | Quick Q | Hey, I don't know much about computers but I'm interested in learning how to make great web pages, Web 2.0 Apps,and Facebook Apps. Right now, I have been brushing up on C++ and Pascal (languages I have previously learned). Basically what is the right progression for me to develop the skills for the aforementioned? | 2 | 2 | [
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36,544 | nickb | 2007-07-25T08:17:02 | Django Master Class (presentation and notes from OSCON 2007) | http://toys.jacobian.org/presentations/2007/oscon/tutorial/ | 13 | 3 | [
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36,545 | nickb | 2007-07-25T08:21:31 | "Why I quit" by Linux kernel developer Con Kolivas | http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas | 17 | 3 | [
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36,547 | rchambers | 2007-07-25T09:12:01 | How Much Stake Do You Feed An Angel (Investor)? | You know your startup will need outside financing - an angel on your shoulder who blesses you with cash. But you want to keep as much control of your company as possible. What do you do? | http://www.startupnation.com/articles/1546/1/angel-investors-stake.asp | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,551 | vlad | 2007-07-25T10:01:19 | Internal Code Reuse Considered Dangerous (agree) | http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Internal-Code-Reuse-Considered-Dangerous/Internal-Code-Reuse-Considered-Dangerous.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,553 | mmpcse | 2007-07-25T10:14:59 | Open Source Software Strategies for Venture-Funded Startups | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/open-source-software-strategies-for-venture-funded-startups/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,554 | terpua | 2007-07-25T10:18:03 | Justin.TV To Film Itself Filming Itself | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/25/justintv-to-film-itself-filming-itself/ | 6 | 3 | [
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36,556 | zx76 | 2007-07-25T10:30:01 | Google joins hands with Band of Angels | http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=1&autono=292203&tab=r | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,558 | edu | 2007-07-25T11:33:31 | Manager Mathematics | A simple equation to see how much money is being wasted each day due to stoppers. And without havint into account the fact that these stoppers break the flow. | http://blog.assembleron.com/2007/07/16/manager-mathematics/ | 3 | 6 | [
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36,560 | terpua | 2007-07-25T12:08:49 | How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine | null | http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking) (thesitewizard.com) | null | Christopher Heng |
To Check Your Site for Cross-Browser Compatibility
How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine
(Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking)
by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com
We all know the importance of checking our web pages with multiple browsers, especially when we are designing a new layout for a website.
This is the case even if we are
writing validated standards-compliant code.
This article suggests some ways for you to run multiple browsers (and if you wish, even multiple versions of each)
on one computer.
Mozilla Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox browser has an auto-update facility that automatically
keeps it up-to-date, so in most cases, it is enough for you to test your site with the latest version, to know
how it will appear for most Firefox users.
However, if you want to be thorough, there is also an
ESR (short for Extended Support Release) version
of the browser, with a slightly earlier rendition of its engine, which Mozilla maintains for the
sake of big companies that don't want to keep chasing new versions of browsers that update every few months.
I tend to ignore the ESR version in the testing of my sites, but if you feel you need to check yours with multiple
versions of Firefox, you can easily do so, since they can co-exist with each other (with a little help from you).
To do this, install them into separate directories and create a different profile for each browser you install.
(The browser allows you to create different profiles so that you can store different settings for different
situations.) To create a profile, start the browser with the following command line:
"c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox" -ProfileManager
(The above assumes that this particular version of the browser was installed in "c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\".
Adjust it accordingly for each different version.)
Once you've finished creating profiles, you will want to create shortcuts to run the
different versions of the browser. It will make life easier for you since you can then just click the appropriate icon,
and it will load using the correct profile. To specify which profile the browser is to use, put the profile name after
a "-P" option.
For example, if you have created a profile named "currentfirefox", your command line will look something like this:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P currentfirefox
Similarly, your command to run a different version of Firefox with a profile called "oldversion" may look like this:
"c:\Program Files\Old Firefox Version\firefox" -P oldversion
And so on.
Anyway, as I said earlier, you may not need to keep different versions around to test.
I suppose it's useful if your site uses bleeding-edge features that are only implemented in the latest browsers.
For most people, simply installing and testing with the latest version will probably be adequate.
Chrome and Microsoft Edge
Google's Chrome browser,
and the latest version of Microsoft Edge both use
the same engine (called "Blink").
In general, you can expect that the vast majority of people who use Chrome to be using the latest released version,
since that browser automatically updates itself whether you want it to or not.
Although the version of Microsoft Edge that uses the Blink engine has been released, and can be
manually downloaded from Microsoft's site, it will only
be automatically rolled out to all Windows 10 machines in the May 2020 Windows 10 feature update (or so I assume).
Don't be deceived by the "May 2020" designation. That is just the release name. Feature updates are staggered,
presumably to avoid problems, so not everybody will receive it in May 2020. That said, once this latest version
of Edge is installed, it will automatically be kept up-to-date by Windows.
Since these browsers are automatically updated to the latest versions, I merely test my sites with whatever
is currently available. In addition, they use the same engine, so you don't really need both. If a site
works with one, it will probably work with the other.
Internet Explorer and Legacy Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer ("IE" for short) used to be the majority browser in its heyday, though it has long
been dethroned. And since Microsoft has already replaced it with its newer Microsoft Edge browser, it is
also no longer updated.
If you feel that you need to test your site with that browser, the main version to try is IE 11,
since earlier ones have been discontinued. If you don't have a version of Windows that has IE 11,
or if you don't use Windows at all, the easiest way is to install a virtual machine. It is not only that it is
officially Microsoft-sanctioned method, but they even provide the necessary virtual machines for you to use.
You can also use this method to test your site with what Microsoft calls "Legacy Microsoft Edge", that is,
Edge running the older EdgeHTML engine.
Loosely speaking, virtual machine software allow you to run another copy of Windows within your existing system, be it
Windows, macOS,
Linux,
FreeBSD or
whatever.
The virtual machine software pretends to be a new computer, running in a window within your existing system.
Microsoft provides pre-activated copies
of Windows with IE 11 and Edge in virtual machines free of charge to web developers who need to test their sites
with these browsers. The pre-activated Windows expires periodically, so you will need to download a fresh copy from
time to time.
You will also need to install one of the supported virtual machine software. There are a number of
free software available for this listed on the
Free PC Virtual Machines page.
Once you've installed the software and downloaded the virtual machine from Microsoft, all you have
to do is to run it. This will give you a copy of the appropriate version of Windows with a matching version of IE or Edge,
which you can use to surf to your website to test it.
Safari
The macOS Safari web
browser shares a lot of code in common with both Chome and Edge (the Blink version), since their engines
were all originally derived from a browser called Konqueror. This similarity will diverge
over time, since the engine for Safari (called "WebKit") is being developed separately from the other two.
There are no current versions of Safari for Windows, so I don't test my sites with it. Frankly, I doubt many
Windows/Linux webmasters do either.
(Before you ask, although there are things such as
free Mac emulators, which are
software that run in Windows but pretend to be a Mac and thus can run Mac software, they are not particularly useful
from a webmasters' point of view. The working Mac emulators pretend to be the old obsolete Macs, not the modern ones.)
Mobile Phone Browsers
If your site uses a straightforward
responsive web design,
that resizes itself according to the browser window width, in most cases, you can get away with
resizing your desktop browser window to see what a mobile phone user will get when he/she visits your site. Firefox even has a
"Responsive Design Mode" with preset window widths that makes it easy to do this.
For more complicated sites (eg, if yours provides an online game which your visitors can play),
you will probably want to test it on a real phone. There are also such things as
Android emulators,
that you run on your computer to mimic an Android phone.
Conclusion
It's a good idea to test your site with multiple browsers, particularly if you plan to do anything fancy with
style
sheets on your site. This way, you can at least have confidence that things will appear as they should.
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36,563 | jcwentz | 2007-07-25T12:45:59 | LicketyShip Now Making Speedy Deliveries All Over California | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/25/licketyship-now-making-speedy-deliveries-all-over-california/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,564 | jcwentz | 2007-07-25T12:46:26 | iPhone v. BlackBerry: Side By Side, Two Week Comparison | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/25/iphone-v-blackberry-side-by-side-two-week-comparison/ | 5 | 1 | [
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36,565 | drm237 | 2007-07-25T12:49:23 | Legal startup has its eye on the iPhone bandwagon | A technology startup in Sugar Land is trying to boost the launch of its new software with a little of the hype left from the rollout of Apple's iPhone. | http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4996469.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,572 | mmpcse | 2007-07-25T13:37:09 | Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down FaceBook A | null | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/lawsuit-seeks-to-shut-down-facebook/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,576 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-25T13:48:12 | Small reviews site packs a loud Yelp | null | http://news.com.com/Small+reviews+site+packs+a+loud+Yelp/2100-1038_3-6198638.html?tag=nefd.lede | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,577 | djworth | 2007-07-25T13:49:00 | Can I get some YC.News love for My Facebook App? | <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/iwantone/" rel="nofollow">http://apps.facebook.com/iwantone/</a> | http://apps.facebook.com/iwantone/ | 4 | 2 | [
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36,579 | drm237 | 2007-07-25T13:58:24 | Aussie Startup Launches One-Stop Shop for Web Searches | SYDNEY - An Australian Internet startup has created a one-stop shop for users wanting to mash up web search results from multiple websites onto a single page. | http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-25/58001.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,580 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-25T14:00:39 | Google: Strong company, inflated stock price | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141308/index.htm?postversion=2007072403 | 2 | 4 | [
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36,587 | joshua8883 | 2007-07-25T14:50:50 | The Value of Friend-Raising | During my last trip to the Bay Area, I visited with FoundRead's Carleen Hawn. When Carleen asked me what I was up to, I explained that I was buried in back-to-back meetings with folks around town discussing my current project, Go BIG Network. "Are you fund-raising?" she asked, to which I responded: "No, I'm friend-raising!" I wasn't kidding. I was on a mission to make as many new friends as possible.<p>You see, our company's growth isn't only dependent on finding more cash; but it is dependent on us meeting more people. And frankly, I've always found "raising friends" is far more valuable than raising money.<p>The Monetary Value of a Friend
For the sake of this argument, let's set aside the fact that true friendships aren't really about money. But in a business context we're probably not talking about true friendships at all. We're talking about building relationships with people who can help grow your business; put another way, people whom you would otherwise have to pay money to meet.<p>For example, you could take some of your VC funding and hire a business development executive to go out and build new partnerships on behalf of your company, and to extend to your operations with his or her existing rolodex of "friends." But, you'd be "purchasing" those relationships and deals X to the tune of about $100,000 in annual salary for the biz dev executive.<p>Now imagine that this same biz dev exec is a friend of yours. Instead of shelling out six figures in cash, he or she simply would make the same introductions for you as a favor. In this case, the value received is exactly the same, but the cost to you is zero.<p>So while many entrepreneurs spend most of their time ingratiating themselves with VCs in order to collaterally gain access to useful people, I figure out who those useful people are first, and then spend all my time trying to meet them myself.<p>This is what I mean when I say I swap fund-raising for friend-raising.<p>Wait a Minute! Isn't that just "Networking?"
Okay, sure it is. It's networking. It's business development. Sometimes it means pretending that the people I meet at a cocktail party aren't as important to my business as they are, and so forth. It's all of those things, but more importantly, it's recognizing that money typically buys relationships in an indirect way. It's also recognizing that the more relationships I build, the less money I need.<p>My Friendship-Development Plan
You've heard of a "Business Development Plan". It's a series of targets and milestones that execs use to grow their sales efforts. I've worked on BD Plans for ten different companies, and in every case, it was ultimately about creating relationships.<p>When I realized this, I shifted my focus to the Friendship Development Plan. I laid out all of the relationships that I would need to have X everyone from investors and advisors to bloggers and customers. Then I created milestones or targets, focused on a few people whom I would try to build a relationship with along a specific timeline.<p>I divided the list of friend prospects into strategic categories. For example, I knew Go BIG would need a voice in the blogging community, so I set out to build relationships with the folks at GigaOM (parent of Found|Read), VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. I've now written for all four of these sites!<p>By simply picking up the phone and forging relationships with Om, Matt and Mike directly, I avoided needing to pay some PR agency a $10,000-a-month retainer for the same benefit.<p>Getting Serious About Friend-Raising
Most founders know that they need to network more, but they still don't do it. Yet inexplicably, entrepreneurs happily devote countless hours to courting the gods of venture capital.<p>If you could take all the time and energy you've spent courting capital and express it in terms of "useful resources purchased," I think you'd find that getting serious about "friend-raising" is the more economical proposition.<p>Your plan to build friends won't ever be as quantitative as a tradtional sales planXin which it is possible to tie new customer relationships directly to receivables. Don't be so callous as to try to equate every new friend to a dollar figure (which is just weird). Quantify it this way: as the total value of time and energy you save in terms of the fund-raising you no longer need to do_.<p>In Go BIG's case, by taking all the time and energy that might have gone into fund-raising and refocusing it on building relationships ourselves with the media, customers, partners, and talent, we avoided taking a first round of capital. I can't say how much any one of these friend-relationships is worth in simple dollars, but I do know that we skipped raising what otherwise would have been a $2 million A-Round. And Go BIG did just fine.<p>Of course, now that I've said all this, I'm probably get a bill from Carleen. But it still will have been worth it. | http://www.foundread.com/view/the-value-of-friend | 5 | 1 | [
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36,589 | gaconnet | 2007-07-25T14:51:31 | yc input on rehomer - free, open, disinterested marriage of technology and real estate | The rising popularity of <a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software</a>">free open source software</a> and <a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>">free knowledge</a> excite my fiancee and me to no end. I imagine many industries can benefit from open and free philosophies. This manifesto explains our attempt to bring some of this culture into the real estate industry. The project is in its early stages--heavy prototyping and feature research.<p>Thoughts? Concerns? Good idea poorly executed? Bad idea decently executed? We present it to this fine community first; I figure if a bunch of open-minded entrepreneurs hate it, then I am probably off target for any audience.<p>Regarding the length, I understand it's wrong for the general public. At the moment we are targeting the copy to those people with a twinkle in their eyes--the ones who like to sweat the details and meditate on text. Hopefully those who merely skim it will catch at least one paragraph that turns on a light bulb.<p>For those who are lazy, like me, here is an abbreviated edition:<p>Consensus decision-making + free disinterested service + community moderation of listings and individuals + mobile features = the future of real estate established at rehomer.com<p>If you like the idea, point your real estate friends to the site; we will need legions of bright, courageous leaders to establish new standards of quality, possibly while under scrutiny from powerful competitors. If you dislike the idea, I respect your right to rip into me.
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36,594 | migpwr | 2007-07-25T15:33:56 | Why do we require user registration? | So I've recently been driven nuts by having to register for new services. I just cant justify spending the time registering anymore... I know I wont come back but maybe a handful of times.<p>The app I am writing is a small video editor and I am starting to change my mind about requiring user registration. It seems like the default these days but I cant see any significant gain to the user from an account on my site. Keeping track of a few video clips does not seem like enough justification... not to me anyway. There is no profile to what I'm writing and there are no friends.<p>Aside from being able to say I have xx number of users why do we require user registration? Would your usage not increase if it's completely open? Thoughts?<p>Thanks and my apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it. | 8 | 11 | [
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36,603 | amichail | 2007-07-25T16:21:21 | Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills required! | When you submit your app to Facebook's Product Directory, it may be rejected with a very vague reason such as this:<p>"Thanks for your submission of "<appname>" to the Facebook Platform's Product Directory. We have reviewed your application, and unfortunately cannot yet add it to the directory because it is unfinished or under construction. Please fix this problem and resubmit the application."<p>Now you get to have lots of fun trying to guess what this is all about. In fact, looking through the Developers' group might give you some ideas. Maybe one day you might stumble upon the reason for the rejection. Or maybe not. | 8 | 14 | [
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Tucked inconspicuously into an older office building in downtown San Mateo is a young, small company that churns out online applications – slide shows, animations, glittery text and more – that anybody can use to jazz up and decorate their online alter egos in blogs or profiles in MySpace or Facebook.
This is RockYou, a 14-employee company that’s making a name around the world, not only for its applications – or “widgets” as the online industry calls them – but also for the way the company is outsourcing its work over the Internet.
To increase production and contain costs, RockYou subcontracts some of its widget projects to engineers in China, India, Japan, Romania and Canada.
RockYou is emblematic of what Nicolas El Baze, a French venture capitalist who sits on RockYou’s board, calls “the rise of the micro-multinationals.” Not unlike multinational giants such as Cisco Systems or Intel, a “micro-multinational” is a small company that acts big by skillfully using the Internet and other technologies. In the ultra-connected 21st century, these kinds of start-ups are now quickly able to form distant partnerships online to enhance production and reach global markets.
Founders Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen say some of the outsourced work involves people they knew from previous jobs in Silicon Valley who have since returned to their respective homelands.
“It’s what you can do. It doesn’t matter where you are,” Shen said.
RockYou’s Japanese developers, for example, “are very creative, excellent Flash designers.” And for a complex technical problem, RockYou might turn to the Romanians.
“They’re an excellent technical team. Just very smart guys. But I wouldn’t ask them to draw me anything,” Shen said with a smile.
RockYou also has forged a strategic partnership with Gizmoz, an Israeli-based avatar maker that on May 31 splashed into the marketplace with an animation contest sponsored by MTV and Taco Bell. Gizmoz’s primary gizmo allows users to convert a photographic portrait online into a 3-D animation.
The widget makers chiefly earn revenue through advertising on their own Web sites, while exploring other ways to monetize the fast-evolving online market, perhaps through partnerships with big consumer brands like Nike or Coca-Cola.
This is the new reality of the Web 2.0 world, or second generation of Web services that allows people to exchange and share information online. It enables entrepreneurs to tap the global workforce in a way that could only be imagined in the day when software tools were comparatively crude and expensive, and broadband was rare.
During the Web’s childhood, low-cost Internet international phone services like Skype were but a notion. While most early Web start-ups burned through capital to build brand recognition, the Web-based “viral marketing” can have stupendous results at minimal cost.
“Now there are a lot of tools that allow you to interact with people in other times zones pretty efficiently,” said Susan Choe, founder of Outspark, a 50-employee start-up in San Francisco that links game developers across the globe to the Western market. “We use Skype all the time,” she added. “Our phone bill is virtually zero, even though we are calling all over all the time.”
San Francisco-based Slide, a company that also makes Web site widgets for teenagers and young adults, takes a different tack to globalization. About 20 percent of its 50 employees are foreign nationals, including three engineers from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Having climbed to the No. 31 ranking in Web site traffic, according to the research firm Quantcast, Slide is widely considered the leading widget maker. Founder and chief Max Levchin, best known as co-founder of PayPal, was delighted when he learned that North American Free Trade Agreement provisions would make it relatively easy for Sergio Villareal, one of Mexico’s top tech bloggers, to legally relocate to San Francisco to work for Slide. Villareal has since helped bring in two friends.
Levchin, who immigrated from Ukraine to Chicago at age 16, said he has “an oscillating flirtation” with outsourcing. In 2006, Levchin took his first trip to his homeland, in part to scout outsourcing possibilities. On other journeys, he has scouted prospects in Russia and China. But in the end, he said, he prefers his team operating under one roof.
“No matter how much you believe in video conferencing and instant messaging,” he said, “it’s easier to lean over someone’s shoulder and say, `Hey, what are you doing?’ “
But Slide pursues global markets in other ways; its Web site offers a choice of seven languages.
A key to both Slide’s and RockYou’s marketing strategy – they liken themselves to hip, free stores in a shopping mall that allow teenagers to personalize their own sense of style – is to build a clientele within the various social networks that serve the world. And some of those social network companies happen to be headquartered in greater Silicon Valley.
Consider a company called Bebo. Only 20 months old, Bebo claims 33 million users while becoming the top social-networking site in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Its headquarters are in San Francisco.
Bebo’s husband-and-wife founders, Michael and Xochi Birch, are, respectively, English and American. They met as computer science students in London but didn’t launch Bebo until they had relocated to the Bay Area.
Some social networks have achieved regional dominance largely by happenstance, due to the nature of “viral marketing” – the often potent way information spreads online that can make some Web products especially popular, say industry observers. That’s why the much-hyped San Francisco-based Friendster, now considered a flop in the United States, has a substantial audience in the Philippines and is popular elsewhere in Southeast Asia, industry observers say. And Orkut, a social network launched by Google from its Mountain View headquarters, is big in Brazil.
RockYou founders Tokuda and Shen, by contrast, are entrepreneurial upstarts who struck out on their own after working together at two previous companies. They launched the first widget, a slide show application, on Nov. 14, 2005, and promoted the free service by posting six messages over two weeks in a MySpace forum. “We got 6 million users out of that,” Tokuda said. The company now claims 18 million users.
The founders say 70 percent of their customer base is female, and they may alter their Web profiles day by day to show off their personality and style. And industry tracker ComScore found that about 24 percent of Internet users had seen a RockYou widget in the past year.
“Not bad for a 14-person company,” said Tokuda.
Contact Scott Duke Harris at [email protected] or (408) 920-2704.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Y Combinator Management, LLCCompany typePrivateIndustryStartup acceleratorFoundedMarch 2005; 19 years agoFoundersPaul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, Trevor BlackwellHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United StatesNumber of locations2 offices (2014)Key peopleGarry Tan (CEO) Michael Seibel Jared FriedmanProductsVenture capital, investmentsWebsiteycombinator.com
Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005[1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies.[2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Companies started via Y Combinator include Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Reddit, Stripe, Lezzoo, and Twitch.[4]
Founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell,[5] Y Combinator (YC) initiated operations with concurrent programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. However, operational complexities arising from managing two programs prompted a consolidation in January 2009, resulting in the closing of the Cambridge program and the centralization of activities in Silicon Valley.[6]
In 2009, Y Combinator secured a $2 million investment led by Sequoia Capital, enabling increased annual funding for around 60 companies.[7] Sequoia further supported YC in 2010 through an $8.25 million funding round, bolstering the organization's capability to accommodate a growing number of startups.[8] Concurrently, Kirsty Nathoo joined the team, initially as an accountant, and subsequently as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2012.[9] In 2011, Yuri Milner and SV Angel offered every Y Combinator company a $150,000 convertible note investment.[10] The amount put into each company was changed to $80,000 when Start Fund was renewed.[11]
Paul Graham talking about Prototype Day at Y Combinator Summer 2009
Former headquarters in Mountain View
Advisory roles were assumed by Harj Taggar and Alexis Ohanian in 2010,[12] and Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar were named partners in November.[13] Michael Seibel joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner in January 2013 before becoming a full-time partner in 2014.[14] In September 2013, Y Combinator began funding nonprofit organizations that were accepted into the program after testing the concept with Watsi.[15] Sam Altman took part in Y Combinator's inaugural cohort in 2005 as a founder.[16] In 2014, Paul Graham appointed him as President.[17] Altman introduced a revised equity offering of $150,000 for a 7% stake.[18] Collaborations with Transcriptic and Bolt improved support for biotech and hardware startups.[19][20][non-primary source needed]
Global outreach became evident in 2016 as YC partners embarked on visits to 11 countries (Nigeria, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Israel, and India) to engage with founders and learn about international startup communities.[21] That summer, Altman returned to Y Combinator as a founder and worked on OpenAI.[22] Leadership responsibilities were delegated to Ali Rowghani and Michael Seibel for YC Continuity and YC Core programs, respectively.[23] Startup School, introduced in 2017, provided startups with online courses and personalized coaching. More than 1500 startups graduated from the program in its first year.[24]
In 2018, Y Combinator announced a new batch of startup schools. After a software glitch, all 15,000 startups that applied to the program were accepted, only to learn a few hours later that they had been rejected.[25] In response to the ensuing outcry, Y Combinator's accepted all 15,000 companies involved in the incident.[26][27] The same year, Qi Lu, a former CEO of Bing and Baidu, briefly assumed the role of CEO for YC China.[28] In November, YC announced Lu's departure and their decision to not pursue a program in China.[29] YC China later morphed into MiraclePlus, an accelerator similar to YC, with Lu once again at the helm.
Geoff Ralston succeeded Altman as Y Combinator's president in 2019.[30][31]
Adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic, Y Combinator conducted its summer 2020 batch remotely.[32] In January 2022, a revised standard deal of $500,000 was introduced, comprising $125,000 for a 7% equity stake and an additional $375,000 via an uncapped safe mechanism incorporating a Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause.[33] The summer of 2022 saw a deliberate reduction in the startup intake by 40%, from 414 companies to 250.
In January 2023, Garry Tan assumed the positions of president and CEO, succeeding Geoff Ralston.[34][35][36] Tan's leadership marked the discontinuation of the YC Continuity growth fund.[37]
YC moved its headquarters from Mountain View to San Francisco in the spring of 2023.[38] It had been considering such a move since 2019.[39]
In March 2024, Seibel stepped down as managing director.[40]
Garry Tan is looking to raise $2 billion in new capital in 2024 for YC itself.[41]
Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive a total of $500,000 in seed money as well as advice and connections. The $500,000 in funding is made up of $125,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 7% equity and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a "most favored nation" ("MFN") provision (i.e.: "we get the same best terms you give anyone else in the next round").[42] Non-profits receive a $100,000 donation.[43] The program includes "office hours", where startup founders meet individually and participate in group meetings. Founders also participate in weekly meetups where guests from the Silicon Valley ecosystem (successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, etc.) speak to the founders.[citation needed]
Y Combinator's program is designed to teach founders how to market their product, refine their teams and business models, achieve product/market fit, and scale the startup into a high growth business, etc. The program ends with "Demo Day", where startups present their business and technology prototypes to potential investors.[44][non-primary source needed]
Y Combinator operates additional programs and a fund designed to support and invest in startups which have already graduated from the main accelerator program. The Series A Program, YC Post-A Program, and YC Growth Program are operated by the same team and focus on helping fast-growing YC startups, and startups raising their Series B funding of $20 million to $100 million.[45][46][non-primary source needed]
Y Combinator has introduced additional programs since 2015, including:
In July 2015, Y Combinator introduced the YC Fellowship Program, aimed at companies at an earlier stage than the main program.[47] The first batch of YC Fellowship included 32 companies that received an equity-free grant instead of an investment.[48] In January 2016, YC changed the program, with participating companies receiving $20k investment for a 1.5 percent equity stake. The equity stake is structured as a convertible security that converts into shares only if a company has an initial public offering (IPO), or a funding event or acquisition that values the company at $100 million or more.[49] The fellowship was discontinued in 2017.[50]
In October 2015, Y Combinator introduced the now-defunct YC Continuity Fund. The fund allowed Y Combinator to make pro rata investments in their alumni companies. The program was shut down, and staff were laid off in March 2023.[51]
During 2017–2019, YC launched Startup School, the Series A program, the YC Growth program, Work at a Startup, and YC China.[52][non-primary source needed]
As of late 2023, Y Combinator had invested in over 4,000 companies,[2] most of which are for-profit, holding a combined valuation of $600 billion.[53] Non-profit organizations can also participate in the main YC program.[54] Few non-profits have been accepted in the last years, among them Watsi, Women Who Code, New Story, SIRUM, Zidisha, 80,000 Hours, and Our World in Data.[55]
In October 2015, YC introduced YC Research to fund long-term fundamental research. Altman donated $10m.[56][non-primary source needed] Researchers were paid as full-time employees and can receive equity in Y Combinator.[56][57][58]
OpenAI was the first project undertaken by YC Research, and in January 2016 a second study on basic income was also announced.[59] Another project was research on new cities.[60]
The Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) project was set up in 2016 with the "mission to ensure human wisdom exceeds human power".[61][62] The project was inspired by a conversation between Altman and Alan Kay.[63] Its projects included modelling, visualizing and teaching software, as well as programming languages. Members included Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Bret Victor, Vi Hart, and Patrick Scaglia.[64][65] HARC was shut down in 2017.[66]
Australian quantum physicist Michael Nielsen was a research fellow at YC Research from 2016 to 2019.[67]
YC Research disaffiliated with Y Combinator and was renamed to Open Research in 2020.[68][69]
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36,655 | pq | 2007-07-25T19:20:01 | "The Customer Is Always Right" is Wrong | http://positivesharing.com/2006/07/why-the-customer-is-always-right-results-in-bad-customer-service/ | 5 | 4 | [
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When the customer isn’t right – for your business
One woman who frequently flew on Southwest, was constantly disappointed with every aspect of the company’s operation. In fact, she became known as the “Pen Pal” because after every flight she wrote in with a complaint.
She didn’t like the fact that the company didn’t assign seats; she didn’t like the absence of a first-class section; she didn’t like not having a meal in flight; she didn’t like Southwest’s boarding procedure; she didn’t like the flight attendants’ sporty uniforms and the casual atmosphere.
Her last letter, reciting a litany of complaints, momentarily stumped Southwest’s customer relations people. They bumped it up to Herb’s [Kelleher, CEO of Southwest] desk, with a note: ‘This one’s yours.’
In sixty seconds, Kelleher wrote back and said, ‘Dear Mrs. Crabapple, We will miss you. Love, Herb.'”
The phrase “The customer is always right” was originally coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909, and is typically used by businesses to:
Convince customers that they will get good service at this company
Convince employees to give customers good service
Fortunately more and more businesses are abandoning this maxim – ironically because it leads to bad customer service.
Here are the top five reasons why “The customer is always right” is wrong.
1: It makes employees unhappy
Gordon Bethune is a brash Texan (as is Herb Kelleher, coincidentally) who is best known for turning Continental Airlines around “From Worst to First,” a story told in his book of the same title from 1998. He wanted to make sure that both customers and employees liked the way Continental treated them, so he made it very clear that the maxim “the customer is always right” didn’t hold sway at Continental.
In conflicts between employees and unruly customers he would consistently side with his people. Here’s how he puts it:
When we run into customers that we can’t reel back in, our loyalty is with our employees. They have to put up with this stuff every day. Just because you buy a ticket does not give you the right to abuse our employees . . .
We run more than 3 million people through our books every month. One or two of those people are going to be unreasonable, demanding jerks. When it’s a choice between supporting your employees, who work with you every day and make your product what it is, or some irate jerk who demands a free ticket to Paris because you ran out of peanuts, whose side are you going to be on?
You can’t treat your employees like serfs. You have to value them . . . If they think that you won’t support them when a customer is out of line, even the smallest problem can cause resentment.
So Bethune trusts his people over unreasonable customers. What I like about this attitude is that it balances employees and customers, where the “always right” maxim squarely favors the customer – which is not a good idea, because, as Bethune says, it causes resentment among employees.
Of course there are plenty of examples of bad employees giving lousy customer service. But trying to solve this by declaring the customer “always right” is counter-productive.
2: It gives abrasive customers an unfair advantage
Using the slogan “The customer is always right” abusive customers can demand just about anything – they’re right by definition, aren’t they? This makes the employees’ job that much harder, when trying to rein them in.
Also, it means that abusive people get better treatment and conditions than nice people. That always seemed wrong to me, and it makes much more sense to be nice to the nice customers to keep them coming back.
3: Some customers are bad for business
Most businesses think that “the more customers the better”. But some customers are quite simply bad for business.
Danish IT service provider ServiceGruppen proudly tell this story:
One of our service technicians arrived at a customer’s site for a maintenance task, and to his great shock was treated very rudely by the customer.
When he’d finished the task and returned to the office, he told management about his experience. They promptly cancelled the customer’s contract.
Just like Kelleher dismissed the irate lady who kept complaining (but somehow also kept flying on Southwest), ServiceGruppen fired a bad customer. Note that it was not even a matter of a financial calculation – not a question of whether either company would make or lose money on that customer in the long run. It was a simple matter of respect and dignity and of treating their employees right.
4: It results in worse customer service
Rosenbluth International, a corporate travel agency, took it even further. CEO Hal Rosenbluth wrote an excellent book about their approach called Put The Customer Second – Put your people first and watch�em kick butt.
Rosenbluth argues that when you put the employees first, they put the customers first. Put employees first, and they will be happy at work. Employees who are happy at work give better customer service because:
They care more about other people, including customers
They have more energy
They are happy, meaning they are more fun to talk to and interact with
They are more motivated
On the other hand, when the company and management consistently side with customers instead of with employees, it sends a clear message that:
Employees are not valued
That treating employees fairly is not important
That employees have no right to respect from customers
That employees have to put up with everything from customers
When this attitude prevails, employees stop caring about service. At that point, real good service is almost impossible – the best customers can hope for is fake good service. You know the kind I mean: corteous on the surface only.
5: Some customers are just plain wrong
Herb Kelleher agrees, as this passage From Nuts! the excellent book about Southwest Airlines shows:
Herb Kelleher […] makes it clear that his employees come first — even if it means dismissing customers. But aren’t customers always right? “No, they are not,” Kelleher snaps. “And I think that’s one of the biggest betrayals of employees a boss can possibly commit. The customer is sometimes wrong. We don’t carry those sorts of customers. We write to them and say, ‘Fly somebody else. Don’t abuse our people.'”
If you still think that the customer is always right, read this story from Bethune’s book “From Worst to First”:
A Continental flight attendant once was offended by a passenger’s child wearing a hat with Nazi and KKK emblems on it. It was pretty offensive stuff, so the attendant went to the kid’s father and asked him to put away the hat. “No,” the guy said. “My kid can wear what he wants, and I don’t care who likes it.”
The flight attendant went into the cockpit and got the first officer, who explained to the passenger the FAA regulation that makes it a crime to interfere with the duties of a crew member. The hat was causing other passengers and the crew discomfort, and that interfered with the flight attendant’s duties. The guy better put away the hat.
He did, but he didn’t like it. He wrote many nasty letters. We made every effort to explain our policy and the federal air regulations, but he wasn’t hearing it. He even showed up in our executive suite to discuss the matter with me. I let him sit out there. I didn’t want to see him and I didn’t want to listen to him. He bought a ticket on our airplane, and that means we’ll take him where he wants to go. But if he’s going to be rude and offensive, he’s welcome to fly another airline.
The fact is that some customers are just plain wrong, that businesses are better of without them, and that managers siding with unreasonable customers over employees is a very bad idea, that results in worse customer service.
So put your people first. And watch them put the customers first.
UPDATE:
This post has spawned a great discussion here and one some other websites.
Digg
“One of the consistent back up statements of “The Customer is Always Right” is the amount of dollars it costs to replace a customer. It costs more to replace a customer than to retain one most times. However, it also costs a lot more to recruit, hire, and train a new employee than it does to keep one happy.”
Kinkoids Unite – a site for Kinko’s workers
“In my region, when an employee is mentioned in a customer complaint, he/she has to apologize to all 11 center managers in a conference call whether they were wrong or wronged.”
AdultDVDTalk (huh?)
“Unfortunately though, most companies in the customer service arena no longer even teach the basics of customer service. They just assume that it is a common-sense thing. Having spent 20 years interviewing job applicants, I can also say that there is no such thing as common sense! Just take a look at the high school and college grads showing up for job interviews in jeans and tee-shirts or chewing gum…or my favorite was the young lady who excused herself to answer her cell phone and carry on a brief but totally unnecessary conversation!”
Reddit
“On a very, very small number of occasions in my various service roles over the years, I’ve asked customers to leave the establishment because they were incorribly belligerent, hostile and abusive, and flat-out refused to accept any attempt to satisfy them. In these cases, the people were shopping for a fight rather than a commodity.”
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36,669 | edu | 2007-07-25T19:39:26 | Project Management is Bollocks! | http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/project-management-is-bollocks | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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36,673 | jcwentz | 2007-07-25T19:45:21 | Joost: 1 Million Users | null | http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/joost-1-million-users/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,675 | pg | 2007-07-25T19:47:54 | IPhone Use Disappoints; Apple Slides | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/technology/25phone.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | 5 | 4 | [
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36,681 | jcwentz | 2007-07-25T19:52:47 | Kyte Adds Multimedia Mobile Chat Features & Launches Facebook App | null | http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/kyte-facebook-app/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
36,684 | palish | 2007-07-25T19:56:56 | A Thousand Lines of Code Per Week | How many lines of code do you write in a week? Let's forget for a moment the fact that line counts in different languages can differ in productivity, and that line counts aren't the perfect way to measure program complexity. Let's also say if you write a line of code then delete it, it still counts as a line. Do you write over a thousand lines of code per week in the language of your choice? If so, Bill Gates says you're an excellent programmer. From <a href="http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&detail=medium" rel="nofollow">http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...</a> :<p><i>"Well, let's figure it out," he said in a slightly condescending tone. "I don't think it could be more than 10,000 lines of code, and a really good programmer like you should be able to write at least a thousand lines of code per week, so I think it will take you less than 10 weeks to write it, if you're as good as I think you are."</i><p>How fast do you write code? | null | 7 | 25 | [
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36,702 | nickb | 2007-07-25T20:55:26 | Want to make your site look better on the iPhone with one line of HTML? | http://furbo.org/2007/07/24/one-line-of-code/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | One line of code • furbo.org | null | null |
Want to make your site look better on the iPhone with one line of HTML?
It’s easy—just add a <meta> tag that lets the iPhone know how wide to display the initial page. I added the following code to the <head> in my template yesterday:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=808" />
Every browser besides MobileSafari will ignore this information. But it does something very important on the iPhone: it optimizes the viewport for your content.
By default, the iPhone uses a viewport of 980 pixels—a value chosen to maximize compatibility with a broad range of web sites. When you specify the viewport width explicitly, you will eliminate any empty space between that 980 pixels and the width of your <body> element.
On this site the <body> is 808 pixels wide, so there were 172 pixels of content-free space being used to display the page. On a screen that’s 320 pixels wide, that’s significant. So much so, that by making this simple change, the headings on my blog posts are now readable on first load of the page (previously, the text was too small.)
As always, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are the changes that could be made on a couple of my favorite web sites:
Zeldman
Looking at Jeffrey’s CSS file, I see:
html {
min-width: 742px;
}
So his one line of code would be:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=742" />
That’s all folks!
Daring Fireball
Likewise, Gruber had specified this CSS:
body {
...
min-width: 760px;
}
Which would mean this addition to the <head>:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=760" />
But there’s a problem…
MobileSafari uses a heuristic to adjust the viewport based on the width and aspect ratio of the page. And since Gruber is a man of many words, the page is long and the initial scale for the viewport isn’t optimal. So he could use this instead:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=760, initial-scale=0.4" />
But his problems aren’t over yet—there’s still an issue with usability. You can double-tap to zoom in to read an article—and when you double-tap to zoom back out, you’re using the suboptimal scale factor again. This is easy to work around by specifying a minimum scaling factor:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=760, initial-scale=0.4, minimum-scale=0.4" />
And it’s still just one line of code!
Are you wondering how I came up with that magic scaling factor of 0.4? I used a tried and true development practice: trial and error. While using this sophisticated technique, make sure to close the window in MobileSafari (by clicking on the red X icon.) The viewport scale is not modified when you refresh the page, so you’ll only see changes when starting on a new page.
Hopefully, Jeffrey and John will read this post and make the changes to their sites—I like reading them on the iPhone :-)
Update: WordPress is turning the double quotes in the examples above into smart quotes. You’ll want to convert them before adding them to your template. And for more information on viewports, check the Apple iPhone developer page (you must click on “Optimizing for Page Readability” to view it.)
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36,704 | wensing | 2007-07-25T20:57:28 | How to learn how to program well | I graduated from undergrad with (essentially) a C.S. minor in 2003. Since then I've managed to pick up some practical hacking skills and projects, but I really want to take my programming to a higher level. What's the best way to do that? <p>FWIW, my language of choice right now is Python, which is what our startup is written in. What little I know and understand about functional programming and recursion, I enjoy, but I feel like I still don't have a very strong grasp on algorithms, performance, and what makes for truly beautiful code. <p>I own PG's ANSI Common Lisp and have considered studying it as part of the answer to this question.<p>To complicate this, a little background: I've been offered two jobs: Job A means I can code in any language I want on a really cool skunkworks project--but I would have to be entirely self-taught; Job B means I would have to code in C#.NET, but I would be surrounded by some serious nerds (OS and graphics types) that would in theory be willing to mentor me.<p>What would you choose, assuming compensation was the same? | null | 3 | 14 | [
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36,706 | crxnamja | 2007-07-25T21:09:22 | No Response Needed | Tired of Pointless email responses? | http://okdork.com/2007/07/25/no-response-needed-nrn/ | 2 | 2 | [
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36,707 | nickb | 2007-07-25T21:11:11 | It's Time to Drop the "www" | http://dmiessler.com/archives/1471 | 8 | 1 | [
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36,708 | szczupak | 2007-07-25T21:11:41 | A startup provides the best way ever to find your work buddies | http://www.businesshackers.com/2007/07/25/a-startup-provides-the-best-way-ever-to-find-your-work-buddies/ | 4 | 1 | [
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36,713 | nickb | 2007-07-25T21:22:27 | http is deprecated | http://no-http.org/ | 6 | 4 | [
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