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by dbul 17y ago
He uses a false analogy in my opinion. Hotel guests don't congregate and ask each other, "Do you reuse your towel?" The ad campaign may be effective in that case. But if you tell a group of teenagers, "Most teenagers don't do drugs" they'll
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by dbul 17y ago
First of all, his Japanese accent would probably be accepted as native which is impressive. I wish he had discussed his point about learning languages more, because it seemed that he spent more time showing off than getting points across.
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Firm Lets Others Choose Startups(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dbul 17y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
"And in actual fact it is very rare to hear a good idea from a group we don't want to fund." -- pg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548299 My co-founder noted that the rejection email contradicted this, but I'm sure there is some there
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by dbul 17y ago
This sounds nice in theory, but I don't think it is always true. There are techies who have a career and those who have a job. It is better to get as many who have a job doing what they are passionate about, because they are probably wastin
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by dbul 17y ago
Which part? Just as an example, let's say a school teacher uses her computer for email, web browsing, managing files, photo editing, and maintaining her second grade web site. Gmail, (some browser), dropbox, snipshot, and splashup/weebly wo
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by dbul 17y ago
Robotics other than military, industrial, and medical is really nonexistent at this point. Japan's robotics are cosmetic and hardly taking over anything. With something like robotics it is difficult to weigh who will end up funding you. The
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by dbul 17y ago
I appreciate the caution expressed in the essay; that it is unclear both that an event is on its way and that location is necessarily decided. No doubt SV is the capital of startups, but I still think in the world of startups it is slightly
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A Local Revolution?(paulgraham.com)
102 points by dbul 17y ago|99 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
Yep, including one of the startups I'm working on. Good luck to you. がんばって。 edit: p.s. our idea was rejected by yc, so maybe it is a terrible idea. we still think it is great which is why we are working on it.
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by dbul 17y ago
I would hope they do backups. With such a small team restoring the data wouldn't be quick especially since it is Easter weekend.
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by dbul 17y ago
I wonder if there is an (inexpensive) service where people would be given free reign on a dev site? If not, I imagine one could be made kind of like rent-a-coder: every time a user found an exploit, the site owner would give them karma for
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by dbul 18y ago
Unless you have about the education of a PhD in economics and have studied the impact of the US economy by allowing more visas (e.g. will the median income of Americans increase?), then I don't think an essay or a blog post will have much i
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Self-Reliance by Emerson [scribd](scribd.com)
1 points by dbul 18y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 18y ago
Why isn't this in faq.html? It appears to be launched.
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by dbul 18y ago
Apparently http://www.innomi.net
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by dbul 18y ago
The only way we'll know is after Dr. Schmidt's tenure as CEO of General Motors.
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by dbul 18y ago
Good choice. It is most definitely an underrated school. I miss the burrow.
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by dbul 18y ago
Well actually I'm glad you pointed it out. I'm sure several people had thought/would have thought it was an arrogant quote. Yes, there should be a way of communicating more easily. Why isn't chatterous embedded in HN? I've been tempted to c
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by dbul 18y ago
I'm not sure what your idea is exactly, but I had a similar one after reading Cuban's rants on the television industry.
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by dbul 18y ago
Kind of odd. I randomly clicked on http://renegadescooters.flyingcart.com/ and it took me to "heel hunters." Not sure if that's a bug or the store owner changed their business.
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by dbul 18y ago
It was rather tongue-in-cheek: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=As+far+as+we're+concerned%2... And I will report back about my startup on demo day in August -- I'd rather it be a "you can succeed if you weren't accepted" story rather than
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by dbul 18y ago
But it is absurd to say that it can only be done in the valley. Did Microsoft go to the valley when HP and Apple had a huge presence? No. People came to them .
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by dbul 18y ago
As far as I can tell, Pennsylvania isn't spending their tax dollars. Maybe you can tell differently. http://www.innovationworks.org/About/index.html
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by dbul 18y ago
You must have missed the point. Google was successful because the founders developed a brilliant algorithm. But in anycase, Carnegie Mellon is apparently a top CS and business school drawing talent from all over the world including SV. If y
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by dbul 18y ago
It's not so much putting up a straw man as it is flat-out whining. There wasn't much profound in his complaint. Too many concepts -- what language doesn't? Hard to compile -- nonsense. Too much memory -- like any language, it depends
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by dbul 18y ago
It's only a downside if you think you need the connections. Other than that I fail to see the downside.
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by dbul 18y ago
Well unfortunately not everyone can get into YC or save up enough money to go move to the bay area to fund themselves while developing connections. If Google had been started in Pittsburgh, they still would have been successful. I heard abo
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by dbul 18y ago
while(!successful) { successful = AttemptSuccess(); } ExploreMarriage();
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by dbul 18y ago
If you are smart, you will be able to succeed anyway. Somehow it escapes us that companies can be built without being in SV and knowing everyone there. Sure, it would be a heck of a lot easier if we were there and did make connections. I'm

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