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by brett 20y ago
adobe's site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
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by brett 20y ago
he covers a bunch of this in his startup school speech: http://wiki.ycombinator.com/presentations/apr06/Joshua_Schacter.mp3 worth a listen.
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by brett 20y ago
Yeah, it's a different company with the same name (and same main investor).
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by brett 20y ago
Anecdotally: I used to work for "Grand Central Communications". It was really a vision of what not to do with a startup: Enormous development cycle, bleeding money (Hasley Minor, the principle investor and CEO, used to compare it do driving
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O'Reilly Radar The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived(radar.oreilly.com)
8 points by brett 20y ago|4 comments
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Make Way for Copyright Chaos - Lessig on Viacom vs Google(nytimes.com)
4 points by brett 20y ago|1 comments
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Ask the Wizard: Options and Restricted Stock, Prologue(burningdoor.com)
5 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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The top 25 UK web 2.0 start ups | The Register(theregister.co.uk)
7 points by brett 20y ago|4 comments
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by brett 20y ago
There's definitely got to be a market for a company with better data on the value of a given site to advertisers, you just have to figure out how to get the data. What about some sort of third party google analytics that specifically target
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by brett 20y ago
I like that they mention in Nielsen's comment "that many news sites force visitors to click multiple times to read longer stories in sections" and then they make you do that.
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by brett 20y ago
Interesting idea. If your consumer's are going to redistribute your product anyways just embrace and encourage them as distribution channels. The if you can't beat 'em, join 'em approach to piracy. Interesting to think about the logistics
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A VC: Superdistribution(avc.blogs.com)
5 points by brett 20y ago|2 comments
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by brett 20y ago
I really Joe Kraus' comment on this (I think from one of the previous startup schools): "if you don't put your business model into beta along with [your product's beta], your feedback's totally skewed" - http://wiki.ycombinator.com/present
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Xobni Blog Archive - Top Mistakes in Year One(blogs.xobni.com)
4 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
3 interesting points. I really like how he explains the lack of open APIs in terms of giving your competitors, as opposed to your users, a chance to fill in gaps in your service. I can't say I have much experience with his advice on partne
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Ask the Wizard: Creating Competitors(burningdoor.com)
13 points by brett 20y ago|3 comments
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by brett 20y ago
Hopefully this isn't too linkjacky. Guy's got some interesting comments, but the full article's better. I read the blog entry first.
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The Effort Effect(stanfordalumni.org)
9 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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Small Biz 101: Cash Flow - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)(37signals.com)
2 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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Guy Kawasaki on "The Effort Effect"(blog.guykawasaki.com)
7 points by brett 20y ago|3 comments
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by brett 20y ago
No, it's not anything you're missing, just your conclusion from the data given. In my opinion, if we're talking about value here, the negatives listed in that blog entry just don't stack up against the value add YC brings (e.g., as mentione
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by brett 20y ago
Is this about upmodding the Phil Mickelson comment from the YC dinner pictures? http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3921
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by brett 20y ago
I understand the timing thing. The Y Combinator schedule is rigid, it's not always going to fit your situation perfectly. After that though, the rest of the downsides listed just seem like quibbling compared to the list of upsides.
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Ask the Wizard: Too Many Companies??(burningdoor.com)
5 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
yeah i could have phrased that title better.
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by brett 20y ago
It can't be that cut and dry. Creative people tinker with stuff. You want creative people. Obviously there is a point where side projects interfere with what you are trying to get done, but a "if you're working on anything else you're not g
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by brett 20y ago
#2 is pretty helpful for me in terms of thinking about the problem. It seems really obvious now, but I tended to think of performance and usability as different buckets each to be optimized on their own. I just thought of better performance
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by brett 20y ago
Meanwhile on my terminal: svn ci -m "no password confirmation"
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by brett 20y ago
Many accounts that never get logged into again? Anyone emailing because they entered a funky password? It feels right but still scares me; I'm always mistyping things. Who else doesn't confirm passwords?
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How is the lack of password confirmation working out on YC News?
6 points by brett 20y ago|5 comments

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