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by babul 18y ago
I had not read these proverbs before and found some real insight to them and points I had not considered.
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by babul 18y ago
YC is not the be all and end all. We all have rough rides at time and fall down. Pick yourself up, learn from the experience and keep moving forward, don't stop.
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by babul 18y ago
From a retailers point of view, yes, if you do it right i.e. phrase your ad well, go for the niche keywords (cheaper, higher quality leads), have relevant landing pages (ads go direct to the product buy page, not higher level category page)
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by babul 18y ago
"You will lose money chasing girls, but you will never lose girls chasing money" ...from my first employer after he came in to work late once day from what must have been a crazy night out.
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by babul 18y ago
so true, at least for me ... :(
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O'Reilly Radar: Entrepreneurial Proverbs(radar.oreilly.com)
37 points by babul 18y ago|7 comments
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by babul 18y ago
Yes, I absolutely agree. It goes without saying, but in this case I was curious to see thoughts on the vs issue i.e. if you had to go for one or the other what you would base it on.
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by babul 18y ago
Thanks for the links.I saw the latter on hacker news a few days ago but missed the former (made me smile because that sounds like me, er, yay!). Anyway, I am not investing money but have been approached to (help) build it. I have declined t
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by babul 18y ago
True, but they do have some networks they can use to gain good intial traction and a decent user base. Some stacks allow you to scale fairly easily but the focus shoudl be really on the core product value/service initially.
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by babul 18y ago
I have already asked them all those questions and more explaining that the evolution of the product should be guided by its usage/userbase and will almost certainly involve at least one complete/major rewrite (due to change of direction/p
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by babul 18y ago
I agree and pointed out this and other contradictions during our conversations. But, I think the general idea is you can derive patterns and rules from experience that can be applied to other fields to help prevent repeating mistakes.
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by babul 18y ago
just because something is difficult to learn does not make it a goog weeder. Python/Perl/etc. were not thatdifficult to learn and back in late 90s were goog indicators as people who used them were focused on getting things done easily and e
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by babul 18y ago
nice. very useful.
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Is experience or skill more important when creating a web startup?
3 points by babul 18y ago|13 comments
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by babul 18y ago
The timing of the coalition in opposition is really suspect to me. Am I conspiracy theorist if I think it sound like a front for MS backed pressure groups to scupper the deal?
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by babul 18y ago
Twitter is already breaking apart at times. This will cause breakages to be worse.
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by babul 18y ago
It seems everyone is creating an incubator these days.
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by babul 18y ago
I think the term "rockstar" should be banned here (unless you are a rockstar, in which case, er, can I have your autograph).
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by babul 18y ago
The test of time is the best test in my book, and hence they fail in this case as over time Python still seems to be the favoured.
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by babul 18y ago
They have thier uses but will not be readily adopted as Python as it is too hard for most people to change thier thinking to functional programming.
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by babul 18y ago
No. These languages have been around for a long time (I used ML in uni 10 years ago) and have never taken off in a big way.
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by babul 18y ago
0% equity as 80% salary is good enough considering for summer jobs other places may pay 100%~120% salary (assuming market rates do not fluctuate) but many will also pay ~<80% as it is established that interns will also gain experience,
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by babul 18y ago
But this is still good to get started.
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by babul 18y ago
There are newer tutorials on youtube!
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by babul 18y ago
See http://www.paypalsucks.com for the horror stories I and many others have suffered at eBay/PayPal.
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by babul 18y ago
eBay is a rule unto itself. They love buyers and do not care much about sellers. I used to be a powerseller but stopped as I was fed up of people lying on eBay, especially buyers who received goods and complained to eBay they did not. In
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by babul 18y ago
me too!
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by babul 18y ago
Find someone to join you who loves doing that e.g. with marketing experience/degree and passion for online marketing i.e. who is into SEO, SEM, AdWord marketing, affiliate linking/campaigns, article publishing campaigns etc. etc. So you can
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by babul 18y ago
Find a co-founder to bounce material off and interact with. Ideally, you will motivate each other!
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by babul 18y ago
In other blogs these people would read, using services like the YC funded snaptalent which does just that :)

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