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931.
by aditya 17y ago
yeah, justininindia.tv?
932.
by aditya 17y ago
Ah, Fair enough. I was just reacting to The problem I have with interviewing startups is that they're full of sh-t. But, like I said, opennness is tricky when you're trying to get publicity and the wheels are falling off, right? No one wo
933.
by aditya 17y ago
Your problem is Observer Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) You're trying to get startups to tell you how much life sucks when all they want is the free publicity. Put yourself in their shoes, and be a little l
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The Zappos way of managing(inc.com)
35 points by aditya 17y ago|8 comments
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Twitter ditches TinyURL for bit.ly(techcrunch.com)
3 points by aditya 17y ago|8 comments
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Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer(gist.github.com)
137 points by aditya 17y ago|19 comments
937.
by aditya 17y ago
Nice example of generating word of mouth buzz (viral message + good trigger), makes a lot of sense if distribution is a major issue for your product - ie. your market (and competitors) are more active offline... Not sure if they can keep it
938.
by aditya 18y ago
Unless you exit before your Series A, which seems to be fairly common for YC companies: Reddit, Clickpass, Auctomatic come to mind... 6% at that early a stage might still be pretty high.
939.
by aditya 18y ago
Are you making the smart money vs dumb money argument? Mark does address that: YC argues their advice and connections are worth this premium. I respectfully disagree. Advice and connections for even idea-stage entrepreneurs are easy to fin
940.
by aditya 18y ago
Agree with everything you've said, but there's an interesting bit of news in yesterday's WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124082748427758659.html Basically, Verizon added more subscribers than AT&T last quarter, so barrier or not,
941.
by aditya 18y ago
The problem with Tracker is that it tries to be a lot more than what it really is, a ticket tracking system. Totally screwing up the do one thing, and do it well idea. Here's my UI issues: Dense information display, MASSIVE over-use of AJAX
942.
by aditya 18y ago
Love the price breakdown, jg! I'd agree with everything except: 1) Basecamp -> Google Docs (I know you said this...) 2) Pivotal Tracker (honestly the worst UI I've ever seen) -> Lighthouse (or Github Issues if you're really cheap) 3
943.
by aditya 18y ago
So, he does raise a great point about being obsessed with metrics. This is key to building and running any stable business. Love your numbers. I think good product people are combination of: 1. obsessed with metrics 2. knowing what to measu
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Trying to track swine flu across cities in real-time(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by aditya 18y ago|0 comments
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Google Server and Data Center Details(glinden.blogspot.com)
1 points by aditya 18y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
The way I see it, your typical VC-backed startup needs 3 different teams from birth, to growth, to exit: 1. startup team: visionary founders, mad hackers getting little sleep to push the envelope on the product, great bizdev, amazing produc
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Engine Yard’s in great hands, and I’ve done what I wanted to do(lancewalley.wordpress.com)
28 points by aditya 18y ago|6 comments
948.
by aditya 18y ago
MySQL Pros: * Easier to replicate (and hence to scale for some people) * Easier to find DBA's for * More popular (twitter, sixapart, etc. use them) Cons: * MyISAM is slow as hell * InnoDB is better but may have licensing issues * Oracle own
949.
by aditya 18y ago
FWIW I think your voice matters. Please keep posting.
950.
by aditya 18y ago
None taken. :-) But you're saying that if you don't get up and wave to people with a stupid grin on your face when you're "in the zone" when writing code and being productive, that makes you an asshole at Zappos and hence fired? Nice.
951.
by aditya 18y ago
I love Zappos as much as the next guy, but I wonder if people feel like they're being forced to be happy. If I was haxin mad codez, and someone walked in and it was expected that I'd get up and wave to them in a silly way, I'd probably flip
952.
by aditya 18y ago
GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year. According to ComScore, GeoCities unique visitors in the U.S. fell 24 percent in March to 11.5 million unique visitors from 15.1 million in March of 2008. Back in October, 2006, it had
953.
by aditya 18y ago
Haven't been to any of the other entrepreneurship week events, then I saw swombat's post and decided to go today, and possibly Friday? Has anyone been to any of the events (especially cuz everything was sold out?!)? For those of us not ther
954.
BootUp NYC(bootupnyc.com)
11 points by aditya 18y ago|5 comments
955.
by aditya 18y ago
No, but then this is a list of startups founded by HNers :)
956.
by aditya 18y ago
Thanks fluff article... now, only if he told us how he really did it. Everyone knows zappos is obsessive about customer service!
957.
Startup Founders: Should You Divide Equity Equally?(onstartups.com)
1 points by aditya 18y ago|0 comments
958.
by aditya 18y ago
Right. No download link anywhere. Just abstracts and citations. Seems suspicious now...
959.
by aditya 18y ago
Would be nice to see the actual paper, and understand how they went from correlating resume's from "a leading online job search site" to employers and the wages they pay their H1-B employees.
960.
by aditya 18y ago
Also, Start@spark

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