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by dhouston 19y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=questions+ask+joining+startup there are a bunch of useful "top N questions" blog posts from VCs and entrepreneurs that should give you a good start.
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by dhouston 19y ago
good stuff. sam altman told us the most important thing for him was to remember #8 -- they need you as much as you need them. they _want_ to believe that you're the next google; think of how much it would make their lives easier if you were
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by dhouston 19y ago
embrace and extend. ouch. :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
in what sense? (young entrepreneurs... popular companies... what in particular?)
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How to name your company: Igor Naming Guide(igorinternational.com)
9 points by dhouston 19y ago|0 comments
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by dhouston 19y ago
awesome -- congrats bryan!
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Shared Mutable Memory Must Die(wellquite.org)
2 points by dhouston 19y ago|1 comments
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by dhouston 19y ago
we're still rockin (dropbox)
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by dhouston 19y ago
how much money do you need? what will you need it for? engineers? a sales force? etc. what still needs to be accomplished? 1) look at http://venturehacks.com to get a better understanding of how the fundraising process works and tacticall
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by dhouston 19y ago
congrats guys!
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by dhouston 19y ago
a nice thought, but mit's actually put most if not all of its classes online through opencourseware ( http://ocw.mit.edu ). and (not to belabor the obvious) the learning doesn't come from reading one page cribsheets -- it's from writing th
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by dhouston 19y ago
i don't know if 'old browsers' is the target market, unless there's some funny niche somewhere that can't upgrade their browser. maybe a neighboring idea would be creating a proxy for low-bandwidth devices -- e.g. transparently compressing
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by dhouston 19y ago
they also picked out the key influencers (a-list bloggers) in that community and either met them face to face (e.g. fred wilson @ demo day) and/or sent them personalized, polite emails asking them to try disqus. then it trickles down from t
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by dhouston 19y ago
congrats matt, chad, john and russ!
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YC Summer '07 Draftmix launches: Faster Fantasy Sports for Fun or Profit(techcrunch.com)
25 points by dhouston 19y ago|18 comments
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by dhouston 19y ago
or get your car robbed and laptops stolen, that's what we did :) (followed by long islands and jager bombs. and yes, our data was protected by dropbox, we didn't lose a second of work ;))
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by dhouston 19y ago
check out cilk; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk . i'm not terribly familiar with it, but it extends c++ and adds a few keywords/abstractions to work with concurrency. it's been spun out of its original project at MIT into a startup as w
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by dhouston 19y ago
ok, but how many online to-do lists does the world need? assuming you're a hacker, if your 'good, simple idea' is easy to develop, expect to get your ass kicked by someone smarter than you in business and marketing who can pay a few code mo
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by dhouston 19y ago
float precision issues make me nervous (although it's probably ok here), not to mention log() is kind of expensive compared to bit shifting why not just something like def fn(n): ret=1; while ret < n: ret <<= 1; ret
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by dhouston 19y ago
well, how do you expect your customers to find you (or your competitors)? search? forums? trade shows? word of mouth? then search, look on forums, go to trade shows and ask potential customers what they do to solve the problem you want to f
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by dhouston 19y ago
what if what you're doing takes more than a weekend to build? there are more cost effective ways of seeing what the market thinks besides disappearing into a hole and coding.
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by dhouston 19y ago
it would be nice if it were a little more tangible -- you say you help gather and manage leads and make it easier to manage search marketing. but those are huge spaces and cover a universe of possible features/applications. for example, may
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by dhouston 19y ago
any sample output?
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by dhouston 19y ago
well, for one, it's disingenuous for someone who sells it to couch its benefits in an "ask yc" post without any kind of disclosure (you'll probably edit your post now, but that's where the hostility came from)
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by dhouston 19y ago
could you please stop advertising (albeit usually indirectly or offhand) this shit on here?
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Rejection letter from summer 05
35 points by dhouston 19y ago|27 comments
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by dhouston 19y ago
the founders actually might not be rich -- VCs tend to structure deals that only make founders rich on a big (probably more than the 2x here) exit. (for example, liquidation preferences and other terms can make the returns much uglier for f
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by dhouston 19y ago
fair warning: the business model 1. port useful web app to fbml 2. ??? 3. profit hasn't worked very well. at least the top 50 or so apps seem designed solely to be viral and center around communication or self-expression. sugar, not vitamin
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by dhouston 19y ago
word on the street is they're moving to python for some of the back-end (coupla friends work at okc.) and php for the front-end.
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by dhouston 19y ago
maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but the question is hypothetical and your response isn't shared anywhere outside the app. (i.e. you're not binding yourself to anything by claiming a particularly high or low valuation) on another note, your

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