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by aneesh 18y ago
Not necessarily. Even pg will agree that a lot of the things that make a startup so productive and exciting fundamentally break when you have 15,000+ people.
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by aneesh 18y ago
No, ratings don't change without votes being cast. But new posts automatically start out with a higher rating, so a post must grow its (positive) vote differential by 10x to "keep up" with the new posts. The rating increases as a log of th
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, you're right. I simplified it since posts falling down is easier to conceptually understand. New posts start out with a higher rating, and an old posts needs to boost its rating 10x to be at the level a posts starts out at 12.5 hour
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html Some of the MIT hacks are nearly as impressive, though the MIT kids have the advantage of modern technology. One that stands out was a police car on top of their main dome, complete with coff
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by aneesh 18y ago
So, a couple people asked for an explanation, so here goes: t_s basically serves as "gravity" to make older posts fall down the page. Why Dec 8, 2005? Maybe that's when they launched. Anyway, what t_s does in the function is equate a 10-
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by aneesh 18y ago
Nobody really knows what a reasonable valuation for facebook is. They've yet to turn a profit, and it remains to be seen how well they can monetize all those users. Plus, value is in the eyes of the investor: it was worth over $15 billio
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is on the front page of HN? Must be a slow news day.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Great article, but the one point it glosses over is how to get the first customer on board. It talks about how to identify good markets, as well as what to do when a company is already interested in buying from you. But getting a big comp
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, the mere fact that you know what Live.com is will make Microsoft happy. Frankly, Microsoft has done a bad job with branding, and I still think most people don't even know that Live is Micrsoft's search engine. What happened to MSN be
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by aneesh 18y ago
they leave a negative impression in the minds of many smart developers" They also have a lot of smart developers working for them ;)
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, and there continue to be lots of people in that phase. It's even more surprising because you'd expect the market not to give them funding, and eventually people would learn its not worth their time to seek funding at that stage. So t
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by aneesh 18y ago
insightful? yes. surprising that he's insightful? no.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, facebook's Microsoft round was valued at roughly 100x revenue which is a ridiculous multiple. Basically you're worth what people are willing to pay (which isn't very helpful, I know). See how you fit in strategically with the potenti
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by aneesh 18y ago
He got tired of waiting for the semantic web ... So he's building it. From scratch. By himself.
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by aneesh 18y ago
You can work with others. Develop point-of-sale software to improve efficiency at crowded stores. Cell phone software can make markets more efficient and prevent price-setting that farmers suffer from. Then there's medical records softwa
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by aneesh 18y ago
pg made it less obtrusive: See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227105
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by aneesh 18y ago
How would closing their German office solve anything? Google says: "We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany"
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A Letter to Apple(joegoesghana.blogspot.com)
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by aneesh 18y ago
Did RescueTime have anything to do with them finding the new idea more tempting? I always thought those two were awfully close to both be funded by YC. And I personally liked RescueTime more. Did 8aweek have any traction before they jump
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by aneesh 18y ago
Of course, the latest "platform" example is facebook. Now, they're a platform for web apps, and I'm sure that was in their original vision. But they couldn't have started out saying "hey, we're a platform for apps". So they solved a prob
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by aneesh 18y ago
I love the idea, but the site looks horrible in IE7 (lets not get into the reasons I'm using IE7 right now ...)
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, unless you're hotmail or YouTube, it takes more than 2-3 years to be "really successful". YC has only been around for something like 3 years. Give it some time.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Visual studio part of "server stuff"? Yep, take a look at any Microsoft org chart ( http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/sample/DOMIS/orgchart/s... )
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by aneesh 18y ago
From friends who've interned at both places (and from my own experiences at one of the two), I would agree with this assessment. Google gets all the hype for free food and being quirky, but Microsoft seems to provide a more consistent expe
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, all those, plus you missed a couple whole divisions: Entertainment: XBox, Zune Servers stuff: Windows Server, Visual Studio, etc Online stuff: Live search (and ads, etc), hotmail, etc Have a look at the organization and you'll see
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by aneesh 18y ago
Healthy or not, it's human.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Everyone's definition of "notable" might vary a little, but: Paul Buchheit: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=paul
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by aneesh 18y ago
More importantly, why do you want to create a small EBay? EBay works because of it's size & scale. The hardest part of this would be handling the actual payments. The rest of it can be done with whatever you like best. Edit: After
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by aneesh 18y ago
You mean "economies of scope". "Economies of scale" are a great idea - it refers to the concept that the more of one thing you produce, the better you get at it (and the cheaper you can make it). Take Google and online ads as an example. "
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by aneesh 18y ago
So that you don't have to read the article to answer the question of how they make money: 1) Ads 2) Premium subscriptions 3) Selling content to companies on prospective employees

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