Harj

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by Harj 19y ago
A lesson in why you should check colors on different monitor screens. The green looked cool on our screens but not so much on others we tested on. Fixed now. Hopefully less headaching inducing.
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by Harj 19y ago
I've posted one techcrunch comment and one comment here disagreeing with him. That's a combined total of about 10 minutes of my time which in my view is justified use of it, as it was time spent defending an organization that has done noth
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by Harj 19y ago
What I find most amusing about this is guy is how he so passionately bashes Y Combinator on his blog, Techcrunch and probably any other form of medium he can get his hands on. Each time he argues how YC is worthless and irrelevant. The pr
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by Harj 19y ago
my thoughts as an ex-competitor: http://mealticket.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/36/
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Facebook Marketplace Stirs Up Old Dreams(mealticket.wordpress.com)
5 points by Harj 19y ago|0 comments
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by Harj 19y ago
This is no PR stunt. Auctomatic are living out of suitcases atm and we're pretty pissed.
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by Harj 19y ago
There's a difference between adding value and doing things for you. Believe it or not, once you get into YC you still have to put your own work into your start up and not expect YC to magically work everything out for you...
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by Harj 20y ago
The problem with this is that I can't see the people involved. Who are the investors? What are their backgrounds? Why are they going to increase my chances of success? Replicating the YC seed funding model is fair game. What I find irri
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by Harj 20y ago
Your relationship with your co-founder is EXACTLY like being married. Think how high your bar would be for marriage and set it at the same level (namely very high - you're going to go through stupidly stressful times with his person so mak
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by Harj 20y ago
YouTube beat Google video by a mile. Not everything Google does turns to gold.
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by Harj 20y ago
No. Only the second part of my statement "best startups will be formed" can be labeled as an assertion of my opinion. The first part is fact. SV has produced more great startups than any other area in the world. Arguing with that fact is
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by Harj 20y ago
essentially yes.
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What I Expected from YC and What I Got(mealticket.wordpress.com)
35 points by Harj 20y ago|10 comments
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by Harj 20y ago
Considering TextPayMe was acquired they'd expect to be on that list. You'd be hard pushed to find someone that hadn't heard of Kiko and despite all the claims of failure, they still got bought and generated a return for their investors.
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by Harj 20y ago
i think it's quite cute how people who lack the balls to do their own startups feel so qualified to comment on the people that do. still criticism is more useful than congratulations and when the writewith guys make this a massive success,
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by Harj 20y ago
I'm currently doing a bit of financial planning for our startup - nothing serious just playing with some numbers to see how much money we'd burn if we hired a few more people and how much longer that means we could last for. A question I'm
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How far to the future should a startup look?
6 points by Harj 20y ago|3 comments
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by Harj 20y ago
This is far too literal an interpretation of what pg's essay is saying. No one is claiming Microsoft is dead today - rather they are dying. Saying "Since when does growing $4 Billion a year = Dead?" sounds a lot like a cancer patient in den
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by Harj 20y ago
This really is a personal choice. We were lucky with our startup because we got desk space at the Obvious corp building in South Park (Obvious are the guys behind Twitter, Evan Williams et al). It's a fantastic working environment with lo
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The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers(wired.com)
1 points by Harj 20y ago|1 comments
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by Harj 20y ago
The very point of this article is an argument in favor of applying to YC and not against it. Like it or not, all successful web companies have at some point taken on funding. It is an inevitable part of building a company. Raising fundin
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How to Kung-Fu battle with investors(mealticket.wordpress.com)
5 points by Harj 20y ago|1 comments
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by Harj 20y ago
you read my mind
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by Harj 20y ago
auctomatic "moved" back to London in the sense that we're filing visa applications to get back out there asap. what's more interesting is the number of Cambridge startups that end up in SV (usually in the Crystal Towers building)
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by Harj 20y ago
this is amusing
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by Harj 20y ago
admittedly im biased based on my own personal experience but even at a general level it is hard to argue that the best startups have not come from the valley and the best people naturally want to be where the best startups are.
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by Harj 20y ago
you could have 11,000 reasons not to move to the Bay Area and they would be out numbered by the one single biggest reason to move here: This is where the best startups have been formed and will be formed.
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by Harj 20y ago
just my opinion but i'd approach this question more from the angle, what is the $X I need to have financial freedom. do the math based on the % of the company you own to work out how much you'd need to sell the company for to make that amo
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by Harj 20y ago
boso was also launched and had an active community at the time of funding, though it subsequently evolved into auctomatic which we've only just launched.
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by Harj 20y ago
good initiative. well done.

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