Harj

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by Harj 17y ago
Afraid not, the schedule is quite packed right now with interviews and demo day right around the corner. We will be doing more meetups over the coming months though.
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YC @ SXSW, Mon 15th March, 5 - 7pm(ycombinator.posterous.com)
31 points by Harj 17y ago|8 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
no don't read anything into it, there are only so many applicants I can reach out to. there's almost certainly far more that I haven't looked at yet than ones I've looked at and decided not to contact.
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by Harj 17y ago
no, everyone on the team reviews the apps. i'm just contacting groups that seem interesting but i want to have some more information about. if you applied early you had a higher chance of being contacted, which is an advantage since you hav
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by Harj 17y ago
you'd do more harm than good with this approach. you'd be much better off concentrating on communicating what you perceive are your strengths as a team rather than guessing what you think might hook me in, which will likely be wrong anyway.
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by 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,
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by Harj 17y ago
we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.
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by 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
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@ycombinator(ycombinator.posterous.com)
64 points by Harj 17y ago|22 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
never say never. if there's a topic where there wouldn't be reason for off-the-record stuff, we'd be happy to stream it. it's hard to think of something right now, possibly hiring.
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by Harj 17y ago
there was someone squatting on it
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YC is now on twitter, will be updating with YC news and events(twitter.com)
6 points by Harj 17y ago|2 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
FriendFeed = left google -> friendfeed -> acquisition by friends at facebook. pb didn't have personal relationships with the people at facebook pre-acquisition. sure they knew of his achievements prior to friendfeed but by that de
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by Harj 17y ago
hmm I might head to Vancouver afterwards for the weekend, any chance you could ping me? harj AT Ycombinator DOT com
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by Harj 17y ago
yes, we will be doing a meetup during sxsw on Mon 15th march at submerged from 5 - 7. pg will be at that one also as he's on a sxsw panel. will send out more details soon.
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by Harj 17y ago
not yet, we'll be doing a few meetups in different cities over the next few weeks.
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Y Combinator Seattle Meetup, Feb 25 (ycombinator.posterous.com)
45 points by Harj 17y ago|16 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
1. learn by doing, not by memorizing theory. 2. find a good teacher. these two things impact how effectively you'll learn hard stuff by orders of magnitude more than anything else.
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by Harj 17y ago
i thought this would be a good idea for a twitter app - something like you tweet your goal then each day you tweet what you did towards it and if you didn't it'd auto tweet that you broke the chain. idea being you don't want your friends to
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by Harj 17y ago
can anyone find a price for it?
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by Harj 17y ago
you could extract such generalized advice from almost anything. the article he references, http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=4249 , contains a little more substance but reeks of the halo effect and backwards rationalization to
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by Harj 17y ago
What do the brightest and poshest students at Oxford and Harvard want to study? Business. as an Oxford alumni, i'd love to know what she's basing that statement on.
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by Harj 17y ago
I lived in Canada for a year working for my acquiring company and I love beer + clamato. do I count?
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by Harj 17y ago
i was on the same yc batch as octopart. whenever i think about determination in founders, these guys are at the top of my list.
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by Harj 17y ago
- the vc's themselves will have large person networks if they're working at a top tier VC. more often than not, if you need a deal done with company X they'll have a personal connection to someone there. this isn't a vc-specific value-add -
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YC Founder looking for Rails Tutor(blog.harjtaggar.com)
5 points by Harj 17y ago
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by Harj 17y ago
no, fixed
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by Harj 17y ago
we moved our startup from London to SV in Jan 2007 partly due to this line of thinking. it is false, no-one productively works 24/7 and trying to do so is a mistake i don’t intend to repeat on my next startup. the vision of the workaholic
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European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it(eu.techcrunch.com)
35 points by Harj 17y ago|24 comments
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by Harj 17y ago
What safe investment pays 10%? i use lendingclub.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lending_Club during less severe economic times you could also make around 10% via high yield savings accounts

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