Harj

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Startup School on Twitter, we'll be tweeting all day from @startupschool(twitter.com)
2 points by Harj 16y ago|0 comments
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Live Justin.tv feed of YC Q&A Session in Boston with Alexis and Harj(justin.tv)
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YC Q&A Sessions coming to Boston (11 Oct) & NYC (13 Oct)(alexisohanian.com)
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by Harj 16y ago
YC is an investor in startups. the best term for describing us would be investors. the reason this label feels strange is because we do so much more for startups than what investors have typically done. as competition for investing in the b
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by Harj 16y ago
while reading this it struck me that we do most of these things at YC.
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by Harj 16y ago
yes this is what i meant, am very excited to have alexis on board
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See Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Graham speaking at facebook(justin.tv)
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by Harj 16y ago
no. we do not make anyone sign an NDA. what happens is if a startup has not yet publicly launched and still wants to be able to give someone an exclusive/control how they launch then they mark themselves as off the record. what this prevent
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by Harj 16y ago
to suggest that they're the only ones building awesome tools could you point out when this was suggested?
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by Harj 16y ago
that's how jazzy and stammy roll
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by Harj 16y ago
depends on the company. since the songkicks were working on live music, it made sense for them to be somewhere with an active live music scene e.g. london. if you're working on something completely location agnostic and you're getting a lot
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by Harj 16y ago
1) we can figure these things out later, they won't affect the investment decision 2) yes. there are several companies on the current round who applied when they had both a launched product and were also already generating decent revenue.
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by Harj 16y ago
i switched to a nexus one/android recently for a few weeks. the experience made me really appreciate the importance of the intangibles involved in hardware design. if i had to break down the iphone and nexus/android into a comparison of fea
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by Harj 16y ago
because at the stage we invest at, we assume the idea is inevitably going to change so we're really looking at how strong the founders are. that's why it doesn't matter to us if google could 'do it themselves' or if there's competition from
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by Harj 16y ago
we didn't ask that question because we don't care what the answer is. the biggest threat is almost always from another startup anyway, not google/microsoft/etc so we want to back the best founders. if you've met the rapportive team, you'll
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by Harj 16y ago
i often take walks, especially in SF. as strange as it may sound i can't think of another activity that gives me as much of a sense of pure freedom as purposeless walking (and thinking) in a city
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by Harj 16y ago
In most cases, where you're talking to investors simultaneously you do the note on the same terms for each investor. The exception to this would be e.g. I intend to raise $150k, i get this amount of money in the bank and then more investors
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by Harj 16y ago
Rolling round is done with convertible notes. No valuation talks take place. that's not true, most of the convertible notes we're seeing include a valuation cap in them i.e. the investor never converts their debt at a valuation higher tha
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by Harj 16y ago
In short, they managed to strike a nice balance between being user friendly vs overwhelming the users with financial theory. it's not coincidence or luck they've struck that balance. for the past two months they've paid a painstaking amou
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by Harj 16y ago
"His belief was that it was likelier to get worse before it got better and that it could be 10 years or more before the economy bounced back. “I think we’ll see Dow 4,000 before we see Dow 12,000,” he told me." sure but as long as you belie
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by Harj 16y ago
i agree the prospect of filming yourself is somewhat uncomfortable but i've been stunned during the YC application review process by just how much a video adds to the application. it's actually, for me, the most important part of the applic
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by Harj 16y ago
You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. i've been surprised by just how true this statement is. i resolved to make some lifestyle changes this year to be health
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by Harj 16y ago
I agree with this. I'm particularly exposed to seeing how founders/CEO's differ within YC and at these mixer/networking events - the generic "location based recommendation something" ideas are talked about at the latter rather than the form
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by Harj 16y ago
Helps you understand how he's more than just the ultimate networker in SV since joining yc, i've met a lot of people and come to realize there's two types of 'networkers' and it'd be unfair to class Ron as a 'networker' without defining t
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Index Ventures Puts Heavyweights Behind New Seed Fund(techcrunch.com)
6 points by Harj 16y ago|1 comments
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Paul Graham speaking on SXSW panel today and YC meetup after(ycombinator.posterous.com)
64 points by Harj 17y ago|15 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
well we fund single founders, the bar is just higher. and since the bar with a co-founder is already high, that becomes a very high bar. and yes you can outsource development but boy were we infinitely more productive once we had a tech co-
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by Harj 17y ago
yes, it's easy for us to spot and will not help the application
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by Harj 17y ago
VCs do months of due diligence before they'll write you a check. We review an application from and write a check after speaking with you for 10 minutes.
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by Harj 17y ago
http://tweetvite.com/event/ycsxsw my bad, still getting up to speed on all the companies. this was a common request and creating an event on tweetvite was significantly easier than upcoming

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