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by adora 8y ago
Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
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YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course(blog.ycombinator.com)
850 points by adora 8y ago|180 comments
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by adora 8y ago
I grew up on Thomas Sowell. Extremely articulate economist. I've now come to disagree with probably one-third of what he writes but all of his works are really good frameworks of how to think.
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by adora 8y ago
“Dealers of Lightning” by Michael Hiltzik - on Xerox PARC and its highly inventive cast of characters “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl - on choosing your own attitude “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones - on America’s opioid epidemic “Te
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by adora 8y ago
It's the same book. For some reason they changed the title for the later printed paperback version.
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by adora 8y ago
Founders should be where their customers are, so if your customers aren't in SV, then you probably should be elsewhere. We work with with each team to figure out what the ideal arrangement should be.
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by adora 8y ago
Have you finished the whole novel already (and just publishing chapter by chapter) or are you writing and changing as you go? Also, this might make more sense for non-fiction work but what are your thoughts on letting a book evolve over tim
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Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs(blog.ycombinator.com)
1 points by adora 8y ago|0 comments
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Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Virtual Currency Plans(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by adora 8y ago|0 comments
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by adora 9y ago
One example that YC has already funded is Substack https://www.substack.com/ Writers on there are making more than have ever made elsewhere.
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by adora 9y ago
It's not just about living to 1000 years old. To me, it's more about solving age-related diseases, e.g. Alzheimer's, etc.
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by adora 9y ago
Age doesn't factor into our decision at all. We've accepted founders in their 60s+. Apply away!
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by adora 9y ago
Dilbert IRL.
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by adora 9y ago
This is apparently getting big in China. Less than three months since the first online claw crane platform was established, over 30 online similar platforms appeared. New platforms continue to appear at doubling rate. The monthly revenue r
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Retrofitting a Claw Crane Game for Twitch Play(blog.hackster.io)
1 points by adora 9y ago|1 comments
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by adora 9y ago
I've spoken with parties highly involved with the IER that are actually much more optimistic. Would recommend everyone talk to their immigration attorneys about their own status and whether applying is worth it or not.
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by adora 9y ago
This is great. TIL notifications are my favorite thing about the Reddit app (right behind /r/explainlikeimfive). So my only suggestion is to add notifications for new, trending ones.
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by adora 9y ago
I can see how people might think the timing is clever. But in reality, the four founders are no longer full-time so they just decided to put this together. It's a good reminder of what YC has been and should always be about and what th
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by adora 9y ago
The story of Derek Black is also interesting. A former white nationalist (godfather was David Duke) who would later denounce his racist views after befriending an Orthodox Jew. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/th
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by adora 9y ago
One-liners are hard. One problem is people trying to pack ALL the features and ideas into that summary. So in the pursuit of wanting everyone to get the entire vision, the "what you offer right now" is lost. As a company's pr
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by adora 10y ago
just tried it. so basically this makes microsoft office usable again? hallelujah.
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by adora 10y ago
at the very least, you can get LOIs or POCs
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by adora 10y ago
somewhat relatedly, best engineer i know is an english major.
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by adora 10y ago
i hired a firm to close down everything, including the sale of remaining assets - some of which ended up with aaron. obviously everyone around the table could've done better.
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Dear Future Homejoy Engineer
1 points by adora 12y ago
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by adora 12y ago
I decided 7 years ago, despite not knowing anyone in Silicon Valley, to just quit school and move there. Got the first startup job that I could, which happened to be at Slide (founded by Max). I hate networking and generally avoid the whole
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by adora 12y ago
if their ultimate monetization strategy is the smarter yelp stuff, then building on the foursquare app makes more sense (trying to reacquire all those users would be costly)
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by adora 13y ago
didn't have a choice. initially applied to cleaning companies in mountain view (and surrounding areas) but was rejected. almost went all the way to santa rosa to take a gig there but the sf job turned up, which saved me two additional
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First Engineer at Early-Stage VC Funded Startup with Revenue
1 points by adora 14y ago
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Be the first engineer at Pathjoy
1 points by adora 14y ago

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