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by dfranke 20y ago
Here's something I'd like to see tried: fetch the text of the referring page, and use Google to figure out what they meant to link to.
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by dfranke 20y ago
Nice: VB has gotten about cut in half. Die! Die! DIE!
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by dfranke 20y ago
Am I restricted to people who are actually in the seed or VC business? If not: Woz.
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by dfranke 20y ago
And there was much rejoicing! yaaaaaay. Thanks, Paul!
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by dfranke 20y ago
If this had existed a decade ago I might have ended up as an EE. As a kid I had just as much interest in electronics as I did in programming, but having no money and growing up in suburban hell with no decent electronics stores within driv
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by dfranke 20y ago
This was a pretty believable story until the point where Gates takes it seriously. Jobs was completely in-character but Gates isn't that stupid.
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by dfranke 20y ago
I'll be sending in a YC application in a couple days if my cofounder decides to commit. I'm 21. He's 18.
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by dfranke 20y ago
Big companies are missing the "under the radar" component, so you get less duplication.
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by dfranke 20y ago
news.yc is a little more straightforward: geek reads submitted articles. Geek learns about building startups. Geek applies to YC. Geek gets rich. Geek gets laid.
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by dfranke 20y ago
Well, elm came before pine, and the mailreader I use now, mutt, is elm-descended.
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by dfranke 20y ago
I want fdisk for the internet.
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by dfranke 20y ago
So is the idea basically to integrate social networking with computer networking by letting you associate your network identity with your real-world identity? That sounds a lot like UNIX finger. Considering that many people, myself includ
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by dfranke 20y ago
Is this essentially different from being an incubator? I thought those died out with the bubble.
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by dfranke 20y ago
Two reasons, which both boil down to "freedom": 1. So that I can spend my time implementing my own vision rather than someone else's. 2. For the money, which gives me the freedom to decide who is worth impressing.
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by dfranke 20y ago
"There have been several businesses that successfully grew by paying both new and inviting users. The economics can make this more difficult for media models than commerce models. However, it can drive a lot of new adoption, and did for Al
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by dfranke 20y ago
I'm trying to apply this to Reddit, but I'm drawing a blank.
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by dfranke 20y ago
You'd better throw in some epsilon of tolerance there, or finding two people both willing to work with each other is going to be *really* hard :-)
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by dfranke 20y ago
There's already an official thread for feature requests: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363.
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by dfranke 20y ago
Not many companies get past the inflection point; so few that I think it's disingenuous to call it that. Most just languish there and clog themselves up with more and more management overhead. The only exception that comes to mind is Goog
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The start-up inflection point(scottberkun.com)
1 points by dfranke 20y ago|1 comments
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3 Archetypes of Startup Founders(jkanstyle.com)
2 points by dfranke 20y ago|0 comments
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Have a great startup idea? Hmm, maybe not.(paultyma.blogspot.com)
5 points by dfranke 20y ago|0 comments
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by dfranke 20y ago
Ability to view my own comment history. When I click on someone else's user id, I see their comments. When I click on my own, all I see are my preferences. Edit: correction, I guess the user pages show just submissions and not comments, f
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by dfranke 20y ago
Why not pull a Kiko?
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by dfranke 20y ago
His criteria for the definition of A teams all seem to revolve around experience rather than talent. Experienced people probably already have some money, which means they have the potential to lose it, which means that they're likely to be
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by dfranke 20y ago
For Digg to sue Conde Nast would be a complete waste of time. There's no obvious cause of action, and even if they managed to find one, the damages are inconsequential. Also, this blogger's English is nearly incomprehensible. And I though