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by 13ren 18y ago
success factors: [be] thorough and careful and take on relatively unambitious projects which don't stretch the assumptions or structures of the discipline too much. irrelevant factors: [being] the best and the brightest, the most imagina
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Don't Copy a Design — Steal It http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283094
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A copy ... remains one step behind. True for startups too. When imitators win, it is because they grasped the heart of the idea, and grasped/did it better/differently.
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I see what you mean: a copy is always in reference to something else. When possessing (a physical object), it exists in its own right, is its own psychological center.
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...and postscript, leading to Adobe.
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Nice story, but a shame her handwriting is perfectly regular...
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no problem. :-) BTW You could get a valuation at http://younoodle.com/ also, I think your site dovetails with theirs somehow (pre/post formation?), and their background strategy (of building a community - the founders commented on it here
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BTW it's cool, but how do you make money from slinkset?
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A competitor has already entered this space, validating it! Though the similarity of likely gives rise to a case of passing off, or statutory misleading and deceptive conduct (not an infringement of a registered trademark as I doubt one has
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Now that's built-to-flip. It hope he has a liquidity event, validating the accelerating pace of business development and shortening of the product life-cycle of today. And when I say "today", I mean of one actual day. Seriously, it would
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What happens if you have that, and then enter a new field? How do you learn the basics without copying, and losing your identity as a creator?
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Maybe "working later on a late project makes it later"?
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This made me look at http://slinkset.com (which its "powered by"), for creating "social news sites" in the HN/reddit style. I think it's well-known here (but not to me). It's amazing, and enables you to try out a cool idea (like JustHackI
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You've struck a chord: there is a problem to be solved. But your solution is imperfect. This is the ideal situation! If your solution was perfect, someone could just copy it as is. But if you need to keep improving it, building it, it bec
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maintaining understandability, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment. There's also complexity of interactions between features.
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Be unafraid to die, and you will live! Reminds me of "9 out of 10 businesses die": If you start 10 startups, you have near-certainty of making it (yeah, I know 1-.9^10<1), assuming you learn a lot from each attempt. What can stop you: g
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Whenever clever people work on new problem-spaces (ie. not yet mined-out), they have good chances of being the ones to have the fundamentally new insights; so your odds are good. But the two kinds of technology-based businesses make me thin
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You can be "problem seeks solution" or "solution seeks problem". Both work, but the former is easier. Are we solving a customer pain with Fuzzyshot? But what customer pain are you solving? You describe your solution but not the problem...
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Thanks for explaining the slow-burn/patent correlation. I'm looking at Justin.tv, and I've never seen smooth live video online before. It's consistently smooth (though minor freeze-frames every so often). Your implementation is a better met
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Who cares about employee count when you can have profitability? Using their spreadsheet (which I like, but not all the shortcuts work in the browser): profit/revenue as % MS 29% ORCL 25% GOOG 25%
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Great insight. Search used to seem such a fragile business, because where's the sustainable competitive advantage when there're no switching costs? When better search comes along, everyone switches! But... unless the competitor is significa
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Overcoming the uncanny valley: "I've seen better" [video] (awntv.com)
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I like his argument that Erlang's concurrency is a secondary benefit. The main one is reliability . Erlang's price of inefficiency ( tax ) is affordable with today's faster machines.
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Most YC companies seem not to be technically revolutionary, but applying existing technology to solve real problems (not a criticism, an observation - after all, there is great opportunity there for making money). - Are there any technology
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There are some ways to separate the selection process vs. YC input: The startups offered YC-funding, who declined it... how did those guys work out, in comparison? (although the offer itself is an important YC input). Also, the YC guide say
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Wow, freaky tingles up and down my spine from that last paragraph.
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multiline string literals... also available in C (using \).
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You mean WoW is beyond a game? The wish to improve one's "self" with respect to some numeric metric, and especially in comparison to others, has broader application than cults: academic performance. work performance. sports performance. mon
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I'm pretty sure they mean ROI: profit/investment. Which is profit normalized for investment. It enables the profitability of different-sized businesses to be compared.
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John Galt games? Still, the idea of a MMORPG taking place on (and for) well-known webpages is intriguing. Though it doesn't actually say what his alternative business model is (apart from reducing costs). I'd guess advertising.

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