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news.yc leaders' average points per submission
8 points by brett 20y ago|20 comments
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How to Have a Business Conversation - Ben Stein(finance.yahoo.com)
7 points by brett 20y ago|1 comments
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by brett 20y ago
Did anyone mention when someone's cell phone started to ring in the middle of Paul's talk? After 3 or 4 rings he realized that it was his own, in a bag, across the room.
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by brett 20y ago
A good place to start this is things you're personally dissatisfied with. Develop a healthy sense of annoyance with the things you use. Start to look for things thought you ought to find really annoying but don't because you've gotten used
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James Hong: Enough with the Facebook/Friendster analogies...(james.hotornot.com)
4 points by brett 20y ago|9 comments
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A VC: The Banner Is Back(avc.blogs.com)
9 points by brett 20y ago|3 comments
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by brett 20y ago
I've got an account now. Where do I go to invite more people? Do I have to earn invites?
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by brett 20y ago
awesome. thanks.
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by brett 20y ago
brett AT thusth.us
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by brett 20y ago
Inkling is "still-stealth"?
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by brett 20y ago
That's a pretty good point. Some VC funded startups (namely ones that have not launched) probably have less traffic than some laundromats and that clearly does not mean traffic is not important. My guess is that buzz amongst VC firms is mor
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by brett 20y ago
Yeah. It's a give and take to be sure. I'd take Twitter's current position any day. But you're right they're still in a position to stay ahead of competition and net productivity of development and scaling has to be considered. Worth notin
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by brett 20y ago
The point he was making there was that while VC's claim team quality is the highest priority, it's not (and most VC's are unable to accurately evaluate team quality anyways). Regardless: Are you claiming that all VC funded companies have re
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by brett 20y ago
To me this reads as relatively diplomatic for DHH. The interview in question is pretty critical and while DHH seems to suggest that scaling like this is going to suck rails or otherwise he does not address all the criticisms head on and his
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by brett 20y ago
Looks like reddit also adds a description tag with a couple escaped anchor tag inside of it google reader and their home page thing both show these links along with the main link. edit: there was an example but it's getting destroyed. can I
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What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New Startup -(wired.com)
2 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
This is really relevant from the employee point of view. When the first company I worked for gave me stock options I was content to just know the number of shares I was getting because I did not know any better. Had I know enough to ask I w
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Reining in the recruiters - DHH on getting bogus recruitment emails(37signals.com)
1 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
Odd the bookmarklet did not redirect me to the existing one. Looks like the exact same url...
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by brett 20y ago
I read it more as a request to YC instead of the founders themselves. I guess the later's not a problem if people feel like disclosing.
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by brett 20y ago
I'm not sure this is up to YC. I doubt they want to go to everyone they're trying to fund and ask permission for this nor do they want to deal with potential investees feeling like their trust has been breached. Furthermore it's probably i
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by brett 20y ago
I was pretty certain is was going to be a no the second I had to put two names in the founders box and one in the "moving to boston" box. Not that I'm sure that was the only issue, but timing's a bitch. Good luck to anyone going to Mountain
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by brett 20y ago
I never claimed VC funding is required for quick (or expansive growth). There are obvious examples where that's not the case. I'm not sure how you can claim that VC funding is not a means to an end. There are clearly cases in which a lot o
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by brett 20y ago
their RSVP page: http://ases.stanford.edu/speaker_eventrsvp.shtml
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Paul Graham speaking at Stanford on Wednesday (4/11/07 - 5:30PM)(ases.stanford.edu)
10 points by brett 20y ago|9 comments
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by brett 20y ago
I think it's an interesting point, but using Rails doesn't mean you have to structure your business like 37 Signals. I did read Getting Real, but with a grain or two of salt. It had some really good points, but understanding their point a
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by brett 20y ago
Make urls in parens link right by ignoring the final paren in the href see: ( http://bugbear.com)
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by brett 20y ago
http://lucene.apache.org http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
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Anyone using Lucene (or Nutch or Solr)? How's it working?(feld.com)
2 points by brett 20y ago|4 comments
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by brett 20y ago
Yeah. And if yc got 38 % on the dollar they had to have been holding common stock (or something like it I am unaware of) or they would have at least got their money back. Preferred shares don't really make sense for YC given the amount they

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