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by aberman 17y ago
I doubt they are intentionally misleading you. If anything, I would guess it's a UI/design issue, rather than malicious intent on their part.
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by aberman 17y ago
Fortunately, if you depress the price of a 20 Trillion dollar asset, you're still in pretty good shape ;)
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by aberman 17y ago
For "Usability Testing", I would recommend Steve Krug's second book, "It's Not Rocket Surgery", rather than "Don’t Make Me Think". "It's Not Rocket Surgery" is entirely about usability testing, whereas his first book only dedicates 1-2 chap
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by aberman 17y ago
Really? This is what happens when you pay interns with awesome experience, rather than cash?
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WePay’s (YC S09) Group Payments Get Some Big-Name Backers, Including Max Levchin(techcrunch.com)
58 points by aberman 17y ago|12 comments
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by aberman 17y ago
I am usually pretty bored by "x lessons from my y experience" posts, but this one hit the nail on the head. Very poignant observations.
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by aberman 17y ago
"only one outbreak in that community, which is far better than your average college campus" So the average college campus has much more than one outbreak of HIV? Somehow I doubt that...
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by aberman 17y ago
I am actually a pretty good sleeper. I naturally sleep about 8 hours a day, and if I wake up naturally, I usually wake up feeling pretty good (haha...people are going to hate me for that). The problem is when I go to bed really late and/or
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by aberman 17y ago
Yeah, no problem. I didn't get to use one of the new, super sleek, production quality ones. I used an early prototype that slipped inside a wrist band (like tennis players wear). It was actually still pretty comfortable to sleep with - I di
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by aberman 17y ago
I was fortunate enough to know these guys while they were building the wakemate prototypes, and even luckier to have had the opportunity to sleep with one (of the devices) for a week. It has made a tremendous difference in how I feel when I
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Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye(techcrunch.com)
289 points by aberman 17y ago|143 comments
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by aberman 17y ago
So maybe the point is to find a small enough niche where you have little competition, and build something that fills that tiny niche/solves that core problem very well (and nothing more). And you can expand from there with features, etc. to
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by aberman 17y ago
I was one of these "victims" last night :( It was heartbreaking.
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by aberman 17y ago
I wish I could up-vote this comment twice. So true.
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by aberman 17y ago
Who cares if it's "slightly embellished"? I'm sure the spirit of the story is true, so who cares if the details are slightly "improved" to create a more compelling story? I think all founders should be able to provide a compelling narrativ
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by aberman 17y ago
I know this might be little consolation, but if you knew the author, you might appreciate this post a bit more.
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by aberman 17y ago
"Mudge submitted an early version of AtD to Y Combinator Demo Day, Spring '09 and was promptly rejected." I imagine that YC rejects EVERYBODY that applies to YC DEMO DAY.
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by aberman 17y ago
What you describe sounds more like a small business than a startup. YC only funds startups (i.e. scalable and disruptive). The two are not synonymous. YC primarily funds software and web-based companies because you can create a scalable an
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by aberman 17y ago
No, but obviously better if you have one.
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by aberman 17y ago
"other than as an indicator of the aforementioned smarts & personality" Shouldn't that be enough? Having an idea gives you a starting point from which to iterate.
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by aberman 17y ago
I am getting tired of all these articles analyzing twitter's userbase and the nature of tweets. Yes, there are a lot of spammers and "marketing gurus" on twitter. Yes, people tweet about nauseatingly stupid shit. Use twitter how you want to
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by aberman 17y ago
This augmented reality thing is crazy. I was skeptical when I first heard about it, but every demo I have seen has blown my mind. This is by far the coolest application of AR that I have seen.
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by aberman 17y ago
If an actual rockstar ever becomes a programmer, they are going to be in very high demand.
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by aberman 17y ago
I hear really good things about Mixpanel
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by aberman 17y ago
Can somebody please explain to me what a "business coach" really does, and how one qualifies for that position? Not trying to be smug, i'm genuinely curious...
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by aberman 17y ago
Yes, and I couldn't even tweet about it!
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by aberman 17y ago
"Different organization sizes are appropriate for different tasks." Yes, if you are making chairs or cars, it makes sense to have more people (up to a point of inflection where the diminishing returns would make adding new workers grossly i
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by aberman 17y ago
I could not believe dropbox was left off that list. It's the first one I thought of when I saw the post title.
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by aberman 17y ago
Reed Hastings tried this experiment in 1997 with DVDs. It worked, and he founded Netflix.
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by aberman 17y ago
Billionth app downloaded, and now this?! When are you guys gonna be invited on stage after Jobs's keynote, Loopt style?

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