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Welcome Harj

87 points by pg 17y ago

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Shamiq 17y ago
Does this mean he's moving down to Palo Alto, or telecommuting from Seattle?
- pg 17y ago
  He lives in the Bay Area. He's flying up to Seattle for the meetup.
linkfrek 17y ago
how did Harj's time at liveCurrent go? Im very interested as I remember all the press that Harj/Auctomatic recieved when it was purchased. What was accomplished at liveCurrent?
- Harj 17y ago
  it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resources we'd been promised weren't available. from other people I've spoken to who have been acquired, this isn't an atypical scenario. still, I ended up working on cricket.com and enjoyed it, took it from a site of spam links to a community for cricket fans with 1m monthly uniques and $30k revenue a month. I left after just over a year there.
  - robryan 17y ago
    Wouldn't be surprised if cricinfo made a big offer for that domain at some point. Where do you pull the scorecard data from?
    - Harj 17y ago
      we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.
    - zaidf 17y ago
      That would be silly of cricinfo IMO. They have a well established decade old brand(in fact, one of the first websites on the Internet, I believe).
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  - johnrob 17y ago
    Why do you think they bought you guys then? I'm assuming the product has been shut down, and the team has since moved on - what did they get out of the acquisition?
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coryl 17y ago
Hi Harj, Will you be engaging only promising groups, or all groups? Or will there be promising groups that aren't engaged at all until the deadline? Thanks - an anxious applicant :)
- Harj 17y ago
  i simply don't have enough hours in the day to engage all groups :) i'm engaging promising applications where i'd like to know more about the team but no doubt i won't be able to engage them all before deadline so if you don't hear from me, it's not an indication you've not made it to interview
startupcomment 17y ago
No offense to anyone involved, but someone with an undergraduate degree from 2006, no matter how bright or congenial, seems a bit young to be a director of BD. It seems to me that YC would have been better served by an individual with more practical business experience, especially for one who will be passing judgment on prospective candidates for funding.
anson 17y ago
awesome news! like pg said, anyone who has met him knows how smart, determined, and genuinely nice he is. certainly a very valuable and welcome addition to the yc camp and he's already helped our group a ton.

Welcome Harj

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Shamiq 17y ago

Does this mean he's moving down to Palo Alto, or telecommuting from Seattle?

pg 17y ago
He lives in the Bay Area. He's flying up to Seattle for the meetup.

linkfrek 17y ago

how did Harj's time at liveCurrent go? Im very interested as I remember all the press that Harj/Auctomatic recieved when it was purchased. What was accomplished at liveCurrent?

Harj 17y ago
it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resources we'd been promised weren't available. from other people I've spoken to who have been acquired, this isn't an atypical scenario. still, I ended up working on cricket.com and enjoyed it, took it from a site of spam links to a community for cricket fans with 1m monthly uniques and $30k revenue a month. I left after just over a year there.
- robryan 17y ago
  Wouldn't be surprised if cricinfo made a big offer for that domain at some point. Where do you pull the scorecard data from?
  - Harj 17y ago
    we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.
  - zaidf 17y ago
    That would be silly of cricinfo IMO. They have a well established decade old brand(in fact, one of the first websites on the Internet, I believe).
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- johnrob 17y ago
  Why do you think they bought you guys then? I'm assuming the product has been shut down, and the team has since moved on - what did they get out of the acquisition?

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coryl 17y ago

Hi Harj, Will you be engaging only promising groups, or all groups? Or will there be promising groups that aren't engaged at all until the deadline? Thanks - an anxious applicant :)

Harj 17y ago
i simply don't have enough hours in the day to engage all groups :) i'm engaging promising applications where i'd like to know more about the team but no doubt i won't be able to engage them all before deadline so if you don't hear from me, it's not an indication you've not made it to interview

startupcomment 17y ago

No offense to anyone involved, but someone with an undergraduate degree from 2006, no matter how bright or congenial, seems a bit young to be a director of BD. It seems to me that YC would have been better served by an individual with more practical business experience, especially for one who will be passing judgment on prospective candidates for funding.

anson 17y ago

awesome news! like pg said, anyone who has met him knows how smart, determined, and genuinely nice he is. certainly a very valuable and welcome addition to the yc camp and he's already helped our group a ton.