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by aneesh 19y ago
My customers/users. They give me specific advice on how to make my product better, AND they sometimes give me money (without taking an equity stake).
782.
by aneesh 19y ago
Ranking on stories/comments is not based on karma of the poster, but on how quickly a particular comment/story has been voted up. But yeah, go check out the code.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Yup, this looks like what you want. "Micro-Payments Support: With Amazon FPS you can track and aggregate micro-payments (e.g. payments less than $0.50 or even $0.01) into a single payment transaction"
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by aneesh 19y ago
How did this get reposted? Isn't there a filter to catch duplicates?
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How to Use Your Advisors Effectively(ben.casnocha.com)
1 points by aneesh 19y ago|0 comments
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Ask YC: How to get TechCrunch'd?
5 points by aneesh 19y ago|8 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
For those of us on a student budget, VistaPrint.com cost me about $7 for 250 cards (and that includes the $2 it costs to take their logo off the back).
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by aneesh 19y ago
Even worse: A partial derivative captcha http://brad.livejournal.com/2331278.html
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by aneesh 19y ago
I can't even count the times airlines or web hosting companies try to tell me I'm wrong, and that that's the way it's supposed to be. A little sympathy goes a long way. On the other hand, when I gave feedback on kayak.com (a much better ve
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by aneesh 19y ago
Microsoft has had some impressive new releases, and some outright flops. Will this be a Surface or a Vista? The biggest thing Microsoft has going for it is that Office (and especially Outlook) still has a strangehold on the enterprise mar
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by aneesh 19y ago
Investment is a slightly misleading term. It's more of a gift, since Google is presumably not taking any stake in Drupal as a result. Yes, Google isn't purely benevolent, and recruiting engineers is probably a goal of this program. But st
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by aneesh 19y ago
for example, I'd say there is a tendency to upmod an item (without really reading it, or agreeing with it) just because it already has 50 karma.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Everything is in the eye of the beholder. I, for one, love to see what my friends are sharing in Google Reader, and vice-versa.
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by aneesh 19y ago
searchyc.com
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by aneesh 19y ago
Having worked on search at another company, I'm pretty sure Google's results can be different based on, among other things, your location or other attributes. Google's algorithm also was semi-recently tweaked to place higher weight on site
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by aneesh 19y ago
Very cool technology. Unfortunately, the page looks ugly because I suck at design, and you're making me do the design. So it ends up looking really tacky. Perhaps this "click anywhere and type/edit" technology can be used to annotate webpa
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by aneesh 19y ago
"Why can't there be a service that will let me post an ad for $5 for the stuff I want that sellers will look for." Craigslist.
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Brazilian VC: Time to start experimenting and take more risks(galaxy.blogs.com)
2 points by aneesh 19y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
Shyness is self-perpetuating. So start small, by doing something as simple as saying hi to people in an elevator (btw, elevators are a great place to talk to people, because they can't avoid you). When you go to social events, go with a fr
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by aneesh 19y ago
Chipotle. Their market cap has increased 3x in the past 2 years, and it's largely through word of mouth. But as an industry, the best marketing/branding job in history has got to be the diamond industry. There was a time when diamonds had
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by aneesh 19y ago
I was half expecting to get rick-rolled with that title.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Reminds me of a similar concept in the wine industry recently where some academic used statistical tools to predict which wines would be best. I'd be interested to see if one could actually taste the difference between tcho's and Hershey's
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by aneesh 19y ago
First hit on google for "recipe sharing": http://www.bakespace.com/ "BakeSpace combines the functionality of a traditional online recipe database, utility of an online food forum/blog and the fun of an online social network with a unique
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Spark Capital Leads $5 Million Investment in Lonelygirl15 Producers(xconomy.com)
2 points by aneesh 19y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
It's telling that further08 hasn't responded. It's even more telling that further08's account on News.YC was created just minutes before making this post.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Who are you? I'm not doubting your intentions, but it seems strange to solicit this information without mentioning at all who you are.
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by aneesh 19y ago
I've always wondered ... developers love to complain about managers at work, but (even at a startup) are loath to BECOME that manager. My last boss, a hacker at heart, was in a "management" role, and he hacked 70% of the day. He was a ple
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by aneesh 19y ago
Actually, I don't think YC should mind. If they're not smart enough, or dedicated enough to think of a few due diligence questions on their own, would a really good startup want them on board as investors?
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by aneesh 19y ago
If you don't have any (or many) ideas, you need to lower your threshold for what you consider a good idea. And when you see something that annoys you, think about how to solve it. Talk about your ideas with friends. Get feedback. Tweak.
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by aneesh 19y ago
I used to think VCs were in the "encouraging & profiting from innovation" business. They're not. They're really in the "let's find the least risky deals and put money in them" business. I used to think good VCs were those who identifi

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