cwilbur

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by cwilbur 19y ago
Getting rejected by YC is not failure. YC has specific things they're looking for, and only so many resources to go around; getting rejected means that (a) you didn't match what they were looking for or (b) you didn't seem as promising as
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by cwilbur 20y ago
If I need a stimulant to keep me awake, I go to sleep. Pulling an all-nighter when I'm already in sleep debt only produces code that sucks. The next day, I'm too tired to be functional and I've got a bunch of code that needs to be thro
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by cwilbur 20y ago
The UI for the project I pitched to YC. It's one of the two hard interesting problems in the project, and it's the one that has the most effect on the success or failure of the project. (There's another hard interesting problem, but it's
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by cwilbur 20y ago
$500 for incorporation is a very low figure for some states. If I remember right, the cost of incorporation as an LLC in Massachusetts (which is what I was researching at the time, because that's where I am) runs about $1000 between what y
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Right - that means that instead of having a camera in whatever room Sean Patrick is in, and long stretches of dead time when he's somewhere that can't be wired for filming, you see Justin's environment all the time no matter where he is. B
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Sometimes I really regret the computer science major. The things I learned were right, but the credential was wrong -- it basically certified me as sufficiently trained to work in IT cubicle hell. (It was really a math degree at its core,
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by cwilbur 20y ago
You know, this whole televised life thing got old when it was Sean Patrick Live, nearly a decade ago. Is there something I'm missing about justin.tv?
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by cwilbur 20y ago
That they think can succeed in YC's particular approach to startup building, you mean. pg has a fairly clear set of factors that he thinks indicate success -- being physically in a startup hub, for instance; having multiple founders; the so
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by cwilbur 20y ago
I didn't bother with the winter round because I live in Massachusetts and have family and friends mostly in New England, and it seemed silly to move across the country rather than waiting six months and moving across the state.
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Depends on the site. A site offering customized Christmas cards won't do well immediately if you launch in January; a site offering something useful for preparing for college won't do well immediately if you launch in November. Launch the
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Well, slow growth while I work at my day job. $10-$15K is the difference between being able to quit my day job and get the company going in 3 months and having to keep my day job and get the company going in 9 months to a year. And if I nee
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by cwilbur 20y ago
I knew I was a long shot. I had two strikes against me in that I'm a single founder and I'm more interested in building a company I want to work for than in becoming rich at it -- so my interests and investors' interests don't line up. Of
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Rejected here too. I'm not surprised; it was a long shot to begin with, and I don't think my goals as a founder and their goals as investors really lined up. It probably didn't help that I'm a sole founder, either. Time for Plan B. Power
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Positively? the job listing tells me what I want to know in order to determine whether I want to find out more about the position (what am I doing, what tools do they provide, who am I working for, where are they located?) Negatively? Eva
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Microsoft's money is as green as any other money I'm likely to be offered for the software; my decision would depend on other things like the amount they were offering and the terms of the deal. For instance, "must move to Redmond," "must
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Oops. Teach me to post before reading all the threads.... I thought the deadline was last night, not tonight.
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by cwilbur 20y ago
I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trite when I first filled out the form, so I left it blank and decided to come back to it later. (As far as I'm concerned it's a long shot. I don't think my idea and my goals for my business l
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by cwilbur 20y ago
The problem with enterprise software (at least as I understand it) is that it's frequently bespoke data processing software, written in-house -- it's not the sort of thing that you can do once and sell to multiple clients, it's the sort of
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by cwilbur 20y ago
The reason to start a startup when you're young and single is because you have no commitments. Once you have kids, you can't afford to take that kind of chance with your life because you're also responsible for their lives. But a spouse/s
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by cwilbur 20y ago
Engineering can be a lifelong profession, but the longer you spend trying to be a good engineer the more likely you are to work for someone who just Doesn't Get It. Once a company gets to be a certain size, especially if the people in char