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5,600 | comment | bootload | 2007-03-22T03:28:12 | null | the question is ... can you extract your data? <p>Then you can do with it, what you like! This is the bane of my existence and I want to <i>own</i> this problem! | null | null | 5,595 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,601 | comment | myoung8 | 2007-03-22T03:34:32 | null | I wouldn't call it "blogging for the lazy." There is a very legitimate reason for Tumblr. Don't you ever have an idea or come across something that you just wish you could jot down or share with the world without writing a lengthy opinion piece about it?<p>In a world that is feeling the weight of information overload, I think it's great that someone is allowing people to just get to the point and "cut the crap" so to speak.<p>I'm not saying that blogs like TechCrunch aren't worth reading. They are. But I bet Michael Arrington has a lot more to say every day than he can write full blog posts about.
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5,602 | comment | paul | 2007-03-22T03:35:59 | null | I would pay more at the moment Sequoia invested. There are a few reasons:<p> - They have a record of picking winners<p> - They probably invest at a lower price than other VCs (because people would rather have them as their VC)<p> - The odds of success are improved due to the credibility and connections provided by Sequoia.<p>It would basically be a cheap way of getting in on their fund, assuming the premium wasn't huge. | null | null | 5,558 | 5,533 | null | [
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5,603 | comment | amichail | 2007-03-22T03:45:13 | null | And this:<p><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2005/september/79342.html">http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2005/september/79342.html</a> | null | null | 5,599 | 5,598 | null | null | null | null |
5,604 | story | paul | 2007-03-22T03:52:22 | Secrets of Success | null | http://www.synapsoftware.com/blogit/articles/2007/03/21/secrets-of-success | 2 | null | 5,604 | 1 | [
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5,605 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T03:56:29 | null | Dan, thank you for sharing that awesome list. Joel's recommended books are great; in fact, back when I was developing a micro ISV, I used to turn to Joel's website for advice. That is where I discovered Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters". Since then, I have shifted my allegiance to a new mentor :) I think the book brought three major changes in how I think:<p>1. Think big: Since I was developing a micro ISV, I had never really considered scaling the business to millions of customers (aka users). "Hackers and Painters" entered my life just a few weeks before I was about to launch my product; and I realized I had to develop something that can scale. I took a leap of faith and decided to instead pursue web startups; the opportunities for growth were many times in magnitude.<p>2. There are others like me: Toronto, Canada is not exactly a Silicon Valley. So uptil then, I didn't know there were so many other young entrepreneurs pursuing the same goals as me. Eventhough I wasn't acquainted with other hackers, I could at least gain a sense of security that I am not alone.<p>3. The Art of the Start: The single most valuable lesson I learned from Paul's book was the governing dynamics of web startups. Before reading it, there was not much inspiration or reason to think big because even if I did venture into online startups, I wouldn't know what to do.<p>
While I have read some excellent books, I can credit Paul's work for watering the first seeds. | null | null | 5,576 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,606 | story | amichail | 2007-03-22T03:59:04 | Dating Web site targets 'fit, good-looking' people | null | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921/ | 1 | null | 5,606 | 2 | [
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5,607 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-22T04:04:42 | null | I had long pined to read Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, but couldn't convince myself to spend the money; when I arrived at university, I immediately found a copy, and greatly appreciated it (not to say I agreed with every point). I thence read Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and found it fascinating--for anyone who's ever taken an interest in typography, visualization, or the theory of communication, it's an excellent read. Even if none of that interests you, you'd still benefit from the book: it shows you how to think analytically about human factors, which is a relatively rare discipline. | null | null | 5,584 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,608 | comment | notabel | 2007-03-22T04:13:30 | null | "Hackers and Painters" had an immense impact on me a couple of years ago. Like pg, I multiplex art and hackery (I suck at painting though--sculpture, printmaking, and theatrical design are my areas), so to read a book that validated and supported that duality was to find a good bit of clarity regarding my course in life. I still go back to H&P every few months, when I get worried about such things.<p>Just yesterday I started reading "Founders at Work", and from what I've gotten through, it's going to be great. More on that later, if this thread last. | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | [
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5,609 | story | rmason | 2007-03-22T04:19:24 | Nick Bradbury on Tips for Independent Developers | null | http://www.creative-restraint.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/21/Nick-Bradbury-on-Tips-for-Independent-Developers | 3 | null | 5,609 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,610 | comment | dropbox | 2007-03-22T04:25:00 | null | i've been in this situation before and in general, i agree. and there's a similar kind of suckage being the only technical guy in a startup (i've run a startup for a couple years with a non-technical guy -- smart, but not a hacker.)<p>in my case, i'm working on a new idea alone at the moment while i find the right cofounder. i've found that a good compromise that still allows you forward progress is to hang out with people who are in the same boat, even if you're not working on the same stuff. i worked over the summer with a couple yc guys who were also starting their own thing and it was great to have other people to bounce ideas off of and frankly to have other people who were stuck inside on friday nights or up at 3am (welcome to the startup world, kids -- often not as glamorous as you'd hope :)) when everyone else is out drinking. it didn't matter that we weren't working on the same stuff -- there was still that esprit de corps and a shoulder to tap when you're working on something cool.<p>i think it's just the being-in-a-room-by-yourself that sucks, especially if you have roommates on a completely different schedule. and i think it's worth waiting for the right cofounder, even if that means you have to hack the prototype or even launch a beta by yourself -- more startups implode for people reasons than anything else.<p>there's hope; a good friend of mine has been running his own show for a while after his cofounder left and he's doing fine (but works in an office with other entrepreneurial types), and founders at work has numerous examples of people who had to hoof it on their own for a period of time and did ok (evan williams, a bunch of others).<p>so if you're in this situation, just get some moral support and keep making forward progress until you find the right cofounder. good luck!<p>-drew | null | null | 5,494 | 5,482 | null | [
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5,611 | comment | goodgoblin | 2007-03-22T04:26:39 | null | Agile Web Development with Rails was very helpful | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,612 | story | lupin_sansei | 2007-03-22T04:27:35 | GStock Supercomputer - Free stock picks, stocks and stock market quotes | null | http://www.gstock.com/ | 1 | null | 5,612 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,613 | comment | dropbox | 2007-03-22T04:36:03 | null | some that haven't been mentioned:<p>- the innovator's dilemma by clayton christensen<p>- blue ocean strategy (kim and mauborgne) -- these two books give you a little bit more of a framework to evaluate where your idea adds value and give you examples of how/why some successful companies have been successful<p>- high tech startup by nesheim -- a little dated, but lots of info<p>- negotiation/people books: getting to yes (fisher, ury) and getting past no (ury), influence by cialdini
(useful for more than just startups)<p>- maybe some management books: peopleware (demarco and lister), the art of project management (berkun), first, break all the rules (buckingham)<p>- founders at work (livingston) to get inspired<p>+1 to crossing the chasm, and the godin & gladwell books, art of the start<p>blogs: onstartups.com, fred wilson, brad feld, seth godin, etc., guy kawasaki<p>-drew<p> | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,614 | comment | fireandfury | 2007-03-22T04:36:39 | null | Anyone here work better with a lot of background noise (like in a coffee shop)? Personally, I can hardly get anything done when it's noisy. | null | null | 5,538 | 5,538 | null | null | null | null |
5,615 | comment | fireandfury | 2007-03-22T04:38:18 | null | Haven't read it yet, but my first impression strongly agrees with the premise of the article. | null | null | 5,598 | 5,598 | null | [
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5,616 | comment | fireandfury | 2007-03-22T04:40:10 | null | Ok I read it. The article loses some credibility for almost completely being an advertisement. | null | null | 5,615 | 5,598 | null | null | null | null |
5,617 | comment | fireandfury | 2007-03-22T04:41:22 | null | 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | [
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5,618 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T04:46:40 | null | That is indeed an excellent book for personal development. Anyone who hasn't yet read it should certainly look into it. | null | null | 5,617 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,619 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T04:48:29 | null | The content of #17 doesn't really match the title in my opinion. I read the content more like "Solve a Problem You Have or Have Observed Yourself".<p>So many people want to start a company, any company, that they end up cloning someone else's solution with the idea that because they're so smart they can do it better. Sometimes this works, but it's a huge gamble because your product starts out 95% similar to someone else's and they're already way ahead of you.<p>Flixster is attacking an old tired monopoly (IMDB) that stopped innovating 10 years ago. Killing dinosaurs seems a pretty successful strategy -- worked for Google. Just don't try killing Flickr by cloning it and adding some oddball feature only techies care about. | null | null | 5,550 | 5,529 | null | [
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5,620 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T04:50:13 | null | Has anyone read "ANSI Common Lisp" by pg, yet? The painting on the front cover is actually by Paul :)<p><a href="http://images.pearsoned-ema.com/jpeg/large/9780133708752.jpg">http://images.pearsoned-ema.com/jpeg/large/9780133708752.jpg</a> | null | null | 5,608 | 5,572 | null | [
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5,621 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-22T05:11:31 | null | adhd and add are overrated. so many people have it. i was even diagnosed with it. its just so easy to fit into the DSM/IV description. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM_IV">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM_IV</a> | null | null | 5,598 | 5,598 | null | null | null | null |
5,622 | comment | mynameishere | 2007-03-22T05:13:59 | null | Keep talking.<p><a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Neumann-U87-Ai-Shockmount-Set-Z-Microphone-with-Box?sku=271404">http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Neumann-U87-Ai-Shockmount-Set-Z-Microphone-with-Box?sku=271404</a> | null | null | 5,537 | 5,486 | null | [
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5,623 | story | dmon | 2007-03-22T05:18:08 | Y Combinator Startup News clone in spanish | null | http://www.bochinchoso.com | 1 | null | 5,623 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,624 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-03-22T05:28:58 | null | Okie, I think the biggest issues are:<p>1) Aiming money only, in other words, money as a cause not a consequence<p>2) Not that will lead to a failure, but will make your life harder. Startups that deal with technology for technology, in other words, are trying to solve problems of the technology itself. You should create something that will bring a better life for the slashdot nerd reader and to the 3rd world 60th years old retired "guy"<p>Do something that will make people happy, to feel better to waste less time and you'll be starting something with more survival probability.<p>I don't agree with the derivative idea concept. Google is the worse example you could have used. Before google we had yahoo and a bunch of spider/bot search engines. Their idea wasn't original, they just did something better aiming to solve search problem helping people not to waste their time.<p>More than just to create a search engine they created a way to make your life easier.<p>regards
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5,625 | comment | domp | 2007-03-22T05:30:02 | null | Keep talking? Why are you linking to a 3000 dollar microphone? I don't see how this is relevant in recording cheap or adding to the conversation that we were having. There's a lot more to recording a band than having an expensive microphone. | null | null | 5,622 | 5,486 | null | [
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5,626 | comment | nickb | 2007-03-22T05:37:19 | null | There's plenty of interesting books out there and many are fairly specific for the task you're trying to solve. The book that has helped me out the most is Getting Things Done by David Allen:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done</a><p>
It's better than any other personal development book.
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5,627 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-03-22T05:43:59 | null | - Tipping point (creates a urgency feeling)<p>- Built to last (tips and best practices)<p>- Blink (helps not to waste ideas, shows how your first impressions/thoughts could be useful)<p>- Phylosophy Books (Republic and Politics) - you can understand and have good insights about this social networking and community fever moment.<p>Anything you could read regarding usability, interfaces and scalability would help a lot when dealing with low money web2 related startups. <p>To know about extreme programming would be very good. | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,628 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-03-22T05:45:19 | null | I agree 100%!
Awesome insights and helpful concepts/information
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5,629 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T05:52:32 | User Community and ROI | null | http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/user_community_.html | 5 | null | 5,629 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,630 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-22T05:54:06 | null | Dang, wish I knew about it earlier. I've a once a week class next to Fred's A-list PhD office at UNC.<p>This added social networking does not surprise me - Fred's report on social networking has been widely quoted so I am sure this must not be a weekend job to look cool. | null | null | 5,583 | 5,583 | null | null | null | null |
5,631 | story | youmon | 2007-03-22T06:12:37 | Startup Metrics Series | null | http://blog.boxxet.com/category/metrics-series/ | 1 | null | 5,631 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,632 | story | myoung8 | 2007-03-22T06:17:19 | Anyone interested in joining a team of Stanford students to try to get a Lightspeed VP Summer Grant? | null | http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=5632 | 1 | null | 5,632 | 2 | [
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5,633 | comment | comatose_kid | 2007-03-22T06:44:46 | null | Business side:<p>
Most business books are fun to read, but it's really hard to say that any have been truly helpful. Most lean more to the motivational/inspirational side, instead of focusing on case studies. My suspicion is that business is probably not best learned from a book. But I'll list a few I like anyways.<p>Alan Sugar: The Amstrad Story
- Great story about how Sir Alan grew an empire selling stereos out of the back of a car. Instructive because his key insights revolved around understanding what the average user wanted, as opposed to the technical elite. <p>Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison
- He started his first company at 33 after working for other high tech firms. This book is neat because Ellison adds his own comments in the footer when he disagrees with the biographer.<p>Founders @ Work
- Pre-ordered it. I was tempted to read it all at once, but decided to spread it out over 2 weeks. I'm glad that I did - there's a lot to digest....<p>Product side:<p>
<i>Designing Interactions
- If you want to design great user experiences, it helps to see the thought processes great designers go through to create successful products.<p></i>Bulletproof Web Design
- Well written, concise. Cederholm knows CSS.<p><i>Hardening Linux
- I've seen many guides at the bookstore. This one appealed to me because it has both breadth and depth. The chapter on configuring firewalls was alone worth the price of the book.
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5,634 | comment | henryw | 2007-03-22T06:56:00 | null | it's an interesting idea, talk about niche targeting. ironically, the design of this site doesn't make the cutoff score (but then i probably shouldn't be talking). how did they make it onto msnbc.com?
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5,635 | story | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T07:45:49 | Breaking: News Corp and NBC Partner To Kill YouTube | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/21/kill-youtube/ | 1 | null | 5,635 | 0 | [
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5,636 | story | JMiao | 2007-03-22T07:48:58 | Kongregate (user generated flash games) gets funding | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/22/kongregate-gets-1m-launches-user-generated-games/ | 1 | null | 5,636 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,637 | comment | JMiao | 2007-03-22T07:54:47 | null | Domp, I've been loving the discourse that has emerged between you and far33d, and I have absolutely no idea what mynameishere is trying to say.<p>Not sure if the post is trying to be offensive, or if it's simply trying to help (though not clearly) the conversation. | null | null | 5,625 | 5,486 | null | [
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5,638 | comment | JMiao | 2007-03-22T07:56:20 | null | Well I'd assume this would be very dependent on what you're planning to work on. | null | null | 5,632 | 5,632 | null | null | null | null |
5,639 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T07:58:26 | null | It would be nice to be able to downvote this kind of submission. | null | null | 5,358 | 5,358 | null | null | null | null |
5,640 | comment | JMiao | 2007-03-22T08:01:40 | null | null | null | 5,635 | 5,635 | null | null | null | true |
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5,641 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T08:05:07 | null | Same reason they're on YC News: They're doing something remarkable, in the Godinian sense. ( <a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/">http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/</a> )
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5,642 | story | staunch | 2007-03-22T08:11:41 | If Viaweb was a YC-funded Startup Today, What Would it Look Like? | null | 3 | null | 5,642 | 5 | [
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5,643 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T08:22:39 | null | Competition could help -- "someone to race against" as Reid Hoffman discussed in an interview. | null | null | 5,488 | 5,482 | null | null | null | null |
5,644 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T08:27:15 | null | "Shared Struggle" is one of the most compelling reasons for doing startups. A small ragtag band of hackers battling the odds.<p>When you're trying to do it alone there's the feeling that even if you did make it no one would know how hard it was.<p>Besides, who's going to write the tell-all memoir about the "real" you?
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5,645 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-03-22T08:42:13 | null | Isn't the LightspeedVP Summer Grant's application deadline on March 23rd? There's not a lot of time left to find a team mate.
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5,646 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-22T08:46:11 | null | Actually in my case, my start-up actually took me OFF my ADD-type symptoms. I realized that I had too many ideas that were keeping me from actually working on ANYTHING including school work. Soon as I settled on ONE startup idea, I could quit thinking about potential ideas and started work on that ONE idea. <p>After starting work on the startup, all of a sudden I was short of time and naturally forced to plan my day better. | null | null | 5,598 | 5,598 | null | null | null | null |
5,647 | comment | myoung8 | 2007-03-22T08:49:14 | null | one of the important questions is: are bigcos resistant to the software itself or the notion of buying software from a small startup? <p>from what i've heard about all things at the enterprise level, corporate accounts are notorioulsy sticky because of the process (it takes uncountable pages of paperwork to get anything done).<p>so maybe CIOs are reluctant to switch because they already buy from IBM/MS and it's just easier that way.<p>their loss... | null | null | 5,578 | 5,569 | null | null | null | null |
5,648 | story | zaidf | 2007-03-22T08:49:45 | Post URL to your blog | null | 1 | null | 5,648 | 1 | [
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5,649 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-22T08:50:48 | null | Mine is at <a href="http://www.zaid360.com">http://www.zaid360.com</a><p>With so many "professional" blogs popping up almost everyday now, I'm looking to mix in some "more human" blogs in my daily read. | null | null | 5,648 | 5,648 | null | null | null | null |
5,650 | comment | zaidf | 2007-03-22T08:55:16 | null | Sure one founder often ends up dominating the decision-making if that is how one wants to look at it. I look at it as more like who has more experience to make a particular decision - I'll question my coding partner once about his choice of platform but not twice if he insists; similarly he trusts my business decisions even when he shares his views.<p>This post does little to prove one founder is better than two. If anything, his examples are evidence that most top names have co-founders. | null | null | 5,585 | 5,585 | null | null | null | null |
5,651 | story | danielha | 2007-03-22T09:10:17 | LicketyShip Launches P2P Deliveries | null | http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/licketyship_lau.html | 1 | null | 5,651 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,652 | story | danielha | 2007-03-22T09:13:27 | Read your snail mail on the Web: RemoteControlMail | null | http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9699928-2.html?tag=blog | 1 | null | 5,652 | 1 | [
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5,653 | story | rms | 2007-03-22T09:37:12 | Techcrunch empire to expand into seed-stage financing | null | http://bub.blicio.us/?p=105 | 6 | null | 5,653 | 6 | [
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5,654 | comment | reitzensteinm | 2007-03-22T10:13:29 | null | Dilbert :)
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5,655 | story | bctaner | 2007-03-22T10:42:51 | Biggest security threat? Your naive, careless or malicious users | null | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Networking_and_Internet&articleId=9013618&taxonomyId=16&intsrc=kc_li_story | 1 | null | 5,655 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,656 | comment | bootload | 2007-03-22T11:04:57 | null | '... clean wholesome fun. A watering hole for entrepreneur animals ...'<p>love that quote. Someones whacked up a 'search for co-founder site' ... can't remember where. | null | null | 5,519 | 5,482 | null | [
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5,657 | comment | drop19 | 2007-03-22T11:17:55 | null | We should all be planning to fly under big companies anyway and not targeting these kinds of large organizations at first. | null | null | 5,569 | 5,569 | null | null | null | null |
5,658 | comment | blee001 | 2007-03-22T11:32:27 | null | Be Quick - But Don't Hurry by Andrew Hill with John Wooden. This book reveals the secrets of running a successful organization. | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,659 | story | danw | 2007-03-22T11:46:20 | YC Companies: Where are they now? | null | 2 | null | 5,659 | 4 | [
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5,660 | comment | danw | 2007-03-22T11:49:48 | null | I'm curious where, geographicaly speaking, are all those YC companies are now.<p>I can see some main options:<p>1) They stay where they joined YC. Either they remain in Cambridge or Mountain View.<p>2) They go home. They return to where they were based before YC, possibly because of visa issues or prior commitments.<p>3) They move to the other YC hub. For example justin.tv moving coasts after kiko.<p>Are there any rough numbers available? | null | null | 5,659 | 5,659 | null | null | null | null |
5,661 | comment | danw | 2007-03-22T11:59:41 | null | GTD didnt work for me.<p>The bits that I did find useful were<p>1) make lots of lists<p>2) read your lists often | null | null | 5,626 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,662 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-03-22T12:02:40 | null | startup by jerry Kaplan. This book really gives you the insight and adrenaline involved in building an idea which was too early for its time. Emotional stuff :)<p>iCon: the unofficial biography of steve jobs. Tremendous into steve's character<p> | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,663 | comment | raju | 2007-03-22T12:03:45 | null | Founders at Work
Hackers and Painters<p>(Disclaimer - I am moonlighting on my startup idea, but have these books to be a huge source of inspiration. Also, Joel's list is highly recommended. Another book, and it may seem off-topic is Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. It helps to study the lives of those who have managed to pull off very successful businesses) | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,664 | comment | danw | 2007-03-22T12:07:05 | null | Well the two problems are operators and handsets. Tsumobi tries to make it easier to make apps for phones, helping solve the handset part of the problem. | null | null | 4,949 | 4,855 | null | null | null | null |
5,665 | comment | chwolfe | 2007-03-22T12:24:09 | null | 1) Make YOUR users happy
2) Get bought out by big company ABC
3) Let ABC worry about selling it to the suits (They'll be better at it anyway).
| null | null | 5,569 | 5,569 | null | null | null | null |
5,666 | story | jamescoops | 2007-03-22T12:24:38 | What's the best way of giving away equity to co-founders e.g. on specific targets met, options, vesting etc? | null | 2 | null | 5,666 | 4 | [
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5,667 | comment | jamescoops | 2007-03-22T12:26:29 | null | Ok so if you're looking to use equity to build your team but already have a product, brand, some traction what's the best way to give away equity to co-founders? Obviously you can't just say here's X% of the stock - what if they leave next week for a new job, dont do any work on the site for the next 6 months? Presumably there are ways of structuring this but what are they and are they expensive in legal terms? | null | null | 5,666 | 5,666 | null | [
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5,668 | story | cdprashanth | 2007-03-22T12:33:15 | Anyone like to be Co-Founder from Bangalore - INDIA ? | null | http://google.com | 4 | null | 5,668 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,669 | comment | zkinion | 2007-03-22T13:08:59 | null | Founders at Work :)<p>and Felix Dennis' "How To Get Rich"
| null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,670 | story | stevendavis0830 | 2007-03-22T13:11:39 | The Traffic Stats for Digg & The Other Top Bookmarking Sites Revealed! | null | http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/top10_largest_social_bookmarking_sites.html | 11 | null | 5,670 | 4 | [
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5,671 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-22T13:15:00 | Follow up on your leads with Lead Management software | null | http://www.scottmeade.com/blogit/articles/2007/03/19/lead-management-software | 1 | null | 5,671 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,672 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-22T13:15:50 | Lack of Mac malware baffles experts | null | http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2186013/dearth-mac-malware-continues | 1 | null | 5,672 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,673 | comment | aristus | 2007-03-22T13:25:03 | null | Sure -- it's what got me into Lisp hackery after I had plateaued on other languages. This led to Emacs and then RSI, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad. :) | null | null | 5,620 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,674 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T13:30:40 | null | Arrington has previously declared CNet his Goliath. I think things like Crunchgear is what he has in mind for expansion. <p>My take is that he finally realized no one can take over writing Techcrunch for him and maintain the quality that makes it so great. So he's hired Harde to work on all the details of implementing his Grand Media Empire Strategy while he's busy feeding the cash cow. | null | null | 5,653 | 5,653 | null | null | null | null |
5,675 | comment | aristus | 2007-03-22T13:33:40 | null | I've had to make up for a college education so these may be old hat.<p>Alan Kay's UI lectures: <a href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978270">http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978270</a><p>Ed Tufte, especially Envisioning Information<p>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
<a href="http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/">http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/</a><p>Ed Yourdon: Death March... this is a great guide to dealing with enterprizey development. This shows you what to avoid in your own org. | null | null | 5,572 | 5,572 | null | null | null | null |
5,676 | story | veritas | 2007-03-22T13:33:48 | VCs, the Economy, and Employment | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/21/vcs_the_economy.html | 2 | null | 5,676 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,677 | story | veritas | 2007-03-22T13:34:27 | DFJ's Fast First Close | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/20/dfjs_fast_first.html | 3 | null | 5,677 | 1 | [
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5,678 | comment | staunch | 2007-03-22T13:45:42 | null | null | null | 5,667 | 5,666 | null | null | null | true |
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5,679 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-22T13:48:40 | null | I talked with the reddit founders, and they indicated that they're doing around 160,000 unique daily visits these days.<p>That would make Quantcast's number (100,308 uniques) seem low... I have a hard time even believing compete's 433,070 unique monthly visitors.<p>This also contradicts with Alexa's data, which ranks reddit at 888 world wide, & 239 in the US... | null | null | 5,670 | 5,670 | null | null | null | null |
5,680 | story | joshwa | 2007-03-22T13:49:37 | 3 Different Ways To Market Your Web App | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_market_your_web_app.php | 5 | null | 5,680 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,681 | comment | danw | 2007-03-22T13:50:42 | null | null | null | 5,653 | 5,653 | null | null | null | true |
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5,682 | story | staunch | 2007-03-22T13:53:59 | Jackpot of 21 Podcasts For web designers, developers and entrepreneurs | null | http://odeo.com/channel/103179/view | 1 | null | 5,682 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,683 | story | vegashacker | 2007-03-22T14:03:56 | Schedule up for Startup School -- includes a recent founders panel | null | http://startupschool.org/schedule.html | 13 | null | 5,683 | 2 | [
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5,684 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-03-22T14:23:14 | The shrinking server market (due to multi-core and virtualization) | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070321-multicore-virtualization-and-a-shrinking-server-market-maybe-or-maybe-not.html | 2 | null | 5,684 | 2 | [
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5,685 | comment | awt | 2007-03-22T14:24:52 | null | If business wants slow response time and lack of innovation then they're welcome to it. | null | null | 5,569 | 5,569 | null | null | null | null |
5,686 | comment | mynameishere | 2007-03-22T14:26:46 | null | Sorry for the extreme confusion. You mentioned making a "great album". When artists go to make a "great album" they need to use great tools. Great tools are expensive. Ergo, 1000 dollars isn't going to do it.<p>"There's a lot more to recording a band than having an expensive microphone."<p>Indeed there is. Great point. Really great. Having _multiple_ good microphones is just one tiny necessity. It's just one tiny expense compared to everything else, and so that is why I linked to _one_ item. Do you want me to provide links to mixing boards, high-end reel-to-reels, synths, pianos, rental prices on orchestras, estimated costs of studio musicians, singers, engineers, producers, etc, etc? Because all of those things cost more than even very expensive microphones.<p>Hope I've cleared up the bewilderment. | null | null | 5,625 | 5,486 | null | [
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5,687 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-22T14:28:27 | How to be Silicon Valley | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html | 3 | null | 5,687 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,688 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-22T14:29:43 | Founder of Silicon Valley "as detestable as he always appeared" | null | http://www.newstatesman.com/200607030058 | 8 | null | 5,688 | 4 | [
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5,689 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-03-22T14:31:25 | Why are there so few startups outside of the US? | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html | 4 | null | 5,689 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,690 | comment | lak | 2007-03-22T14:57:04 | null | I'm running an open-source software startup (apparently one of the three entrepreneurs who read this site and don't care about web apps), and I get plenty of interaction from my community. My problem is that no one else knows the code base or the problem space nearly as well as I do, which means the majority of my technical decisions are made with essentially no feedback.<p>I don't have problems with loneliness, and never really did even before I had an active community; I just have problems making competent decisions, especially since I'm a sysadmin turned developer, so I'm a bit out of water doing a software startup.<p>All you web guys need to quit yer complaining; at least you've got thousands of other entrepreneurs who are in the same boat. There is almost no one else in the sysadmin space, and pretty much everyone's eyes just glaze over when I mention that I'm working on infrastructure, not AJAXy web 2.0 bling. | null | null | 5,482 | 5,482 | null | null | null | null |
5,691 | comment | mynameishere | 2007-03-22T15:00:13 | null | Wow. What college did you go to? Unless you're talking about some particularily interesting skirt, I would have missed that... | null | null | 5,559 | 5,482 | null | null | null | null |
5,692 | comment | lak | 2007-03-22T15:02:21 | null | It shouldn't hurt to follow the same basic model as most companies use -- some amount of options, vested at a specific rate, probably with a one year cliff and then monthly vesting after that.<p>You have to be a lot more willing to fire, though; you don't want to find yourself owing stock to someone who wasn't productive for a year just because you couldn't think of the right way to fire him/her. | null | null | 5,666 | 5,666 | null | null | null | null |
5,693 | story | amichail | 2007-03-22T15:15:57 | Paul Graham on what business can learn from open source and blogging. | null | http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail657.html | 1 | null | 5,693 | 0 | null | null | null |
5,694 | story | far33d | 2007-03-22T15:30:19 | NBC, NewsCorp to announce YouTube Competitor | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/22/news-corp-nbc-may-announce-distributed-youtube-competitor-tomorrow/ | 5 | null | 5,694 | 6 | [
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5,695 | comment | far33d | 2007-03-22T15:30:45 | null | Great Kicker: Google doesn't seem to be particularly worried, either: execs are reportedly referring to the project as "Clown Co." | null | null | 5,694 | 5,694 | null | null | null | null |
5,696 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-22T15:36:06 | null | Here are a couple: <a href="http://www.flagr.com/maps/40">http://www.flagr.com/maps/40</a><p>Quite a few of them are in San Francisco, too. | null | null | 5,659 | 5,659 | null | null | null | null |
5,697 | story | danielha | 2007-03-22T15:41:27 | CNBC video clip: NBC and News Corporation announce partnership | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/breaking/nbc-and-news-corporation-announce-246259.php | 1 | null | 5,697 | 1 | [
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5,698 | comment | danielha | 2007-03-22T15:42:49 | null | Sorry to add to the influx of NBC/News Corp. announcements, but I just caught this on CNBC and a video might help the early-morning drowsy readers. | null | null | 5,697 | 5,697 | null | null | null | null |
5,699 | story | danielha | 2007-03-22T15:43:35 | HP goes web 2.0, buys Tabblo | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/22/hp-goes-web-20-buys-tabblo/ | 3 | null | 5,699 | 1 | [
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