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by aditya 18y ago
They've been around a while, and are state-funded ($2MM fund, I believe) but they've only invested in 3 companies so far... I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people applying so I'm guessing they're being really selective/non-risky (which is
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by aditya 18y ago
We will give up to 10 teams a small amount of funding, space, and mentorship in exchange for a small piece of equity in whatever they build. I thought the cash was a little low, I mean, this is NYC, after all? They are providing space (wo
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NYCSeed's summer program: $10k for 5% for 10 groups(nycseed.com)
38 points by aditya 18y ago|26 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
college student? i hear they love internships and are having a hard time finding them :)
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by aditya 18y ago
The first rule of negotiation is to not give a shit. If you care about the job, you risk losing it, if you don't give a shit, you will more often than not walk away with a better deal. If you're ok with the odds, just tell them that you thi
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by aditya 18y ago
What bar was it? I just moved to Bushwick and all I see is Popeye's and Dunkin Donuts. Maybe I'm just further out...
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by aditya 18y ago
Agreed. But I don't think he's really advocating shielding programmers completely from the sales process, or from customers. He does say: some patient tech support saints who help customers get the product working and help the programmers
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by aditya 18y ago
Love the nice clean interface, couple of points: 1. Definitely go mobile 2. Detect my location and immediately show me stuff nearby (there was a geolocation database on HN recently) 3. You're making me zoom in too much with those nice aggre
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by aditya 18y ago
$60/hr for 2080hr/year (assuming 40hr workweek) == $124,800/yr - plenty of developers would take that.
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by aditya 18y ago
I think the reason there are lesser product companies compared to services companies in India is two-fold, culture and lack of easy access to capital. To start a product company, you have to forego cash up front for a bigger payout (either
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The future of our cities(radar.oreilly.com)
5 points by aditya 18y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
So, Eric and co have been plugging lean startups for a while now and it is no doubt an interesting way to structure things, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experimented with trying to implement these practices in full and could share y
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by aditya 18y ago
Whiteboard on desk top = brilliant. :-)
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by aditya 18y ago
Seems like something that could be fairly easily solved by proposing an extension to the DNS spec - making it ICANN operated public infrastructure might not be a good thing, though but it seems right from a technology perspective.
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by aditya 18y ago
My only issue with blueprint and compass was that it seems overly complicated for what I'm trying to do so far. I'm not a CSS guru so maybe I'm missing the point but is there a good reason to use a CSS framework on medium sized projects? Or
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Ask HN: What WYSIWYG editor are you using to make HTML form/textarea input easy
26 points by aditya 18y ago|29 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
No - I'm just going to take your word for it :) Thanks! Edit: oh wait. In the top 10: Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct Direct Traffic includes people clicking a bit.ly link from: - Desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook or App
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by aditya 18y ago
how? this seems a lot more traditional VC: We invest anywhere from seed stage to mezzanine and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance. Does this mean mentorship? Demo Day? Who knows, bu
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by aditya 18y ago
they're primarily parasiting their users off another popular service (Twitter) source? not sure that's totally true. (maybe for tinyurl, which twitter uses automatically, but bit.ly?)
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by aditya 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508278 Really, really good discussion there.
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by aditya 18y ago
It is also about lowering the barrier to engaging with the product as well, right? Facebook has done this amazingly well with first the 'comment on this story' interface, and now the like/unlike buttons. Simple AJAXy elements like these exa
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by aditya 18y ago
Intense. What has happened?
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Electrons per Song on an iPod(raquo.net)
12 points by aditya 18y ago|3 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
I see. But if all you want is money, why not go to a bank and ask for a credit line? The one charm and appeal of programs like YC is that it is 'smart' money: advice, network, etc.
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by aditya 18y ago
Taken but don't know what you mean by online investment platform... like Etrade or like Kiva?
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by aditya 18y ago
It will not show up on searches if they own the search engine!! ;)
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by aditya 18y ago
you know that you can always switch to a part-time H1b to make more time, right? Also, apply to YC if you are interested and ready to commit, the visa thing is hard but not insurmountable (especially if you raise money). IIRC, The buxfers d
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by aditya 18y ago
This is good, because now there's at least 3 opportunities for funding/advice local to the northeast region: 1. Start@Spark 2. NYCSeed 3. NYCEnt Anyone know of any others?
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NYC Entrepreneurship Week: 4 days of advice and talks for free(nycentweek.com)
7 points by aditya 18y ago|2 comments
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by aditya 18y ago
More detail here: http://www.startatspark.com/start/start-index.html

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