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by dabent 16y ago
I'm not sure how much I've "learned" but I can talk. You wouldn't be going to Startup School, would you?
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by dabent 16y ago
Thanks!
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by dabent 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.glancely.com/
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Show HN: My side project, Instant Visual Search for Etsy.
18 points by dabent 16y ago|19 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I would, but it was submitted less than a month ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678415 It really is a good article and worth the read.
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by dabent 16y ago
I've heard there are two kinds of genius, one that blossoms at an early age and those that develop their craft over time to achieve great things later in life. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius.html
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by dabent 16y ago
I hesitantly admit to knowing that Opie and Anthony have even called him out: http://gawker.com/5035006/even-shock-jocks-hate-tucker-max Tucker hit a sweet spot when blogs were blooming, with his stories of debauchery and was small enough
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by dabent 16y ago
I want to publicly thank you for being cool and answering a question I had about ytinstant by email. Your instinct for hacking is an inspiration.
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by dabent 16y ago
A bed, a blanket chest and lots of other smaller projects. Woodworking helped me realize that I really like building things, so I've stuck with that on the software side.
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by dabent 16y ago
If one's regret is tied to the success or failure of the activity, then they might want to adjust their regret minimization algorithm accordingly. I think a lot of entrepreneurs would regret not trying, or at least that's the impression I g
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by dabent 16y ago
And I'm surprised at his drive "I’d work until I passed out, and wake up eight or nine hours later, which might be 4 p.m. or 3 a.m. Then I’d work again until I passed out." I don't think I've known many people to push it quite that hard.
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by dabent 16y ago
Zod approves: http://www.dropmocks.com/mpUa Seriously, what a great project. If this is just a weekend project and a start for HTML5, I can't wait to see (and build) what's next.
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by dabent 16y ago
"BCC sucked at launch, but no one saw it" Strange thing is, the advantage Facebook had is that it launched to a small audience initially with very limited functionality.
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by dabent 16y ago
This a thousand times. I understand that not all traffic is created equally, but there's no value in no traffic. Technology problems can be surmounted. Solving the traffic problem is hard.
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'YouTube Instant' creator, 19, finds instant fame(cnn.com)
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by doing the exact opposite. The founder, Bob Parsons, built something people wanted - a cheaper way to get domain names. His marketing tactics are, um, a bit different from most online/tech companies, but he's
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by dabent 16y ago
They did try an IPO a while back and decided not to go through with it. Bob Parsons blamed the way accounting rules worked with his business and SOX if I recall correctly.
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by dabent 16y ago
I think I get it, so when you said "shell out some cash to keep your exposure to the company's upside" you mean buy the options for the value you were granted them (the "strike price" I think). Is that right?
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by dabent 16y ago
> When you leave the company, you'll be required to shell out some cash to keep your exposure to the company's upside I'm not sure what that means. He has to purchase the options in order to exercise them later? I thought once somethi
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by dabent 16y ago
I noticed this post from Biz (his first since July 7th) and compared it with this analysis of a post from Ev: http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/09/03/twitter-ecosystem-a... It seems to me that a couple of people are trying to show how mu
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Timing Lessons(bizstone.com)
165 points by dabent 16y ago|37 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I will take a shot at this. Netflix does have competition, from RedBox and pay-per-view on cable. People probably spend about $9-$15 on those competing services. When it comes to those SaaS and dating services: Never underestimate the va
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by dabent 16y ago
Very similar to an idea I had recently for photo sharing. It's both cool and sad to see that someone's doing it. Edit: I've done a bit more reading on this. Is this Fliggo's (YC08) second iteration? Going to their old site redirects me t
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by dabent 16y ago
I hear you there. I've created a few sites, and hit a point this summer where I asked myself why I was building yet another site. The one I learned by far the most from was the one I completed and had real customers heading to. Since then
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by dabent 16y ago
"You probably don’t even know what skills you need, so don’t worry about it. Start with what you already know." For my first startup, I created the whole site from scratch. I had developed software for years and thought I had a pretty good
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by dabent 16y ago
Apparently the editors at Inc. came up with that headline, not the author: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646234
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by dabent 16y ago
I thought the video was funny, but was more impressed by the "If you can type, you can make a movie" concept. Very cool startup idea!
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by dabent 16y ago
I've seen Guinness ads plenty here in the US. I also see plenty of ads for other "unique" products. Even if one makes a stand-out product, people still have to know about it.
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by dabent 16y ago
App crashed This application is temporarily offline. If you're the administrator of this app, please check your heroku logs for the backtrace.
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by dabent 16y ago
I've found that the skeptical comments are a pleasant side effect of the lack of a down vote button. HN seems to be a fairly scientifically minded community and, as such, wants proof to verify claims. The skeptical comments can be a good f

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