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by dcurtis 19y ago
You asked about censorship and then deleted an article on the front page a few days ago that had some interesting comments. It was a stupid article, to be sure, but did you have to completely delete it? There's no "send to second page" butt
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Also, Younoodle.com! Pretty much the entrepreneur social network. It works pretty well, too.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
It didn't cover Google's properties.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Might be good publicity, but also somewhat of a risk, if you were sued.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Do you understand the demographics of the American people and of MySpace?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Oh. I'd define "inactiveness" as never visiting again, or visiting so irregularly that you don't really get any value from the app. You're an "active" user of MySpace if you go there every couple of weeks, in my opinion.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
150 million are slightly too old to understand it, internet illiterate, or poor. And the other 100 million are too young, or haven't graduated from MySpace yet.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
That's an interesting position you bring up, but I'm not sure how well it would work for most types of acquisitions. For example, there are tons of sites that are far, far better than YouTube, but it grew fast due to its popularity on the o
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Is that a joke? Are there more levels of activeness besides Inactive and Active?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
62%? Considering the vast number of bands on MySpace, I'd say that's a huge number. For most web apps, that's a good number of active users. Why do you say "only"?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Why in the hell is Yahoo, all of the sudden, so valuable to Microsoft? Why didn't they make this offer a year ago or six months ago? What prompted them to suddenly, out of the blue, give them an unsolicited offer? And now that they've essen
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by dcurtis 19y ago
I really like this analogy I heard on one of these threads a long time ago here: "You don't 'find' a cofounder, just like you don't 'find' a wife. It's a relationship with someone else that evolves over time and then someday, someone pops t
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Awesome. Maybe I mistook your tone. I agree that a positive, confident attitude is probably productive, but you made your point by turning the positivity against Y Combinator because you are upset that you were not accepted. Right?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
pop me an email: dustin@zivity.com interested in 3banana
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Delete it, and then create a new comment in the other thread with the text of this one, maybe?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
How much do you look at the news.yc username correlation in your decision making?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
There's already a thread for this. Can a moderator close this one and move it into a comment on the other thread or something?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Sounds kind of like you're disguising your YC-denial under a veil of "I've done this before, and I'm better than you" type of thinking. Are you sure that's productive? What was your successful execution?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Do the decision letters for accepted groups ask them not to post that they were accepted? It seems like, after every funding cycle, no one admits they were accepted in these after-threads.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
I bet being called "the offspring of Jef Raskin" probably pisses off or severely annoys Aza Raskin. Call him by his name, yeah?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Hmm, I'm surprised at the negative reaction to this comment. Anyone care to expand on why they voted it down?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
No, it's evil to steal from companies smaller than you, but admirable to steal from companies bigger than you.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Oh my god. That is just comical. They took the food pyramid and, to my utter amazement, made it WORSE than before.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
But Google has probably hired ten PhDs just to make sure none of their products gets exploited like this. But the PhDs failed. Thus, it's newsworthy.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
At this point, considering how many people have been confused by that form, it's PG's fault for not fixing it.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Ah, makes sense. Thanks.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Ah, makes sense. Thanks.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
I figured this was obvious-- if the company fails, you lose the money invested. That's the nature of equity and stocks in general. I wouldn't consider losing 5k after exercising options (and knowing the obvious risks) as being "fucked," tho
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Care to elaborate? You can't say you know someone who was "fucked" by doing something, and then not tell us what fucked them-- that's teasing!
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, that made my day. Thank you. I'm amazed they got 4 of the 9 pigeons to actually return the ping.

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