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by brett 20y ago
my favorite line: "At any rate, it seems clear that some people simply want to believe that entrepreneurship is harder than it really is."
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Is Your Startup Destined to Fail? - The 90 percent failure rate myth(entrepreneur.com)
7 points by brett 20y ago|5 comments
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by brett 20y ago
He seems pretty well respected due to his writings, but I don't have any sense of what people think of Garage. I recognize a few names: http://www.garage.com/portfolio/index.shtml, but they're not on the list that Paul compiled: http://ycom
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Where IS Guy Kawasaki's Garage Ventures in the pecking order?
6 points by brett 20y ago|7 comments
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by brett 20y ago
The earlier you set up your own servers and take care of them the better you'll be at it. If your seriously strapped for time maybe you can put it off, but it's a skill you want to have.
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by brett 20y ago
Yeah, given the amount YC gives it's as if they just want to make sure poorer founders won't have to get day jobs in the time they've alloted to impart advice.
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by brett 20y ago
If that's true then question then is how bad off are you if you take money from such a lower-grade fund. In the long run is it not even worth it to take their money?
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by brett 20y ago
This is precisely the kind of data I always am hoping to hear about but almost never do.
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by brett 20y ago
It's cool how even though there is a lot of noise surrounding advice about startups a bunch of precepts have an air of unanimity. "Release early and iterate" would be one of those.
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The Freedom of Fast Iterations: How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site(uie.com)
13 points by brett 20y ago|5 comments
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by brett 20y ago
via gigaom: http://gigaom.com/2007/03/11/ski-pitch-get-funded/
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Peak Pitch - Pitch to VCs on Skiing Chair Lifts(peakpitch.com)
1 points by brett 20y ago|1 comments
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by brett 20y ago
Agreed. What users see is way more important than what they do not see (except maybe in the sense that the code is producing what they see, but, anyways). As for craigslist, the author of that post seems to be using "design" interchangeably
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by brett 20y ago
The part about 30boxes and Google Calendar's quick add features brings the point together: "The quick-add feature doesn't even really feel like an interface, which is the highest compliment an interface can get: the better an interface is,
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Humanized Weblog: Command Line for the Common Man: The Command Line Comeback(humanized.com)
1 points by brett 20y ago|1 comments
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by brett 20y ago
If by "you're on dope if you are banking on an acquisition" you mean "you're on dope if you are banking on being acquired eventually" then it's sort of a funny point to be made by a VC. If you're taking VC money then presumably you're work
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by brett 20y ago
there's an awesome picture of his book full of stickies
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Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work(blog.guykawasaki.com)
32 points by brett 20y ago|22 comments
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Why VCs should not ask for Founder Indemnities(venturelaw.blogspot.com)
3 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
710.
by brett 20y ago
same here.
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GeoSign Raises $160 Million For Content Acquisitions(techcrunch.com)
3 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
On second thought you might be able to do it here if you scraped the fnid before you rendered your page. I have not tried it so I don't know if the fnids are user specific, if not it should work.
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by brett 20y ago
I had not read up on this. Good to know. news.ycombinator looks pretty safe with all the random fnids.
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Cross-site request forgery(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by brett 20y ago|2 comments
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SF Chronicle article about new search startups(sfgate.com)
13 points by brett 20y ago|3 comments
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KillerStartups.com(killerstartups.com)
6 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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customer reviews online bias very positive(smartmoney.com)
3 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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[IBM developerWorks] Develop Web applications for local use - Learn when a browser is better than a GUI application, and when a CGI is best of all(www-128.ibm.com)
2 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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Greenspun's ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up(waxy.org)
10 points by brett 20y ago|0 comments
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by brett 20y ago
That article is awesome. I've always has trouble articulating my belief in the power of positive thinking without sounding like a hippie.

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