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Paper of the week: Superstar CEOs(blog.pmarca.com)
3 points by dshah 19y ago|0 comments
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Angel investors deserve respect from VCs(dondodge.typepad.com)
1 points by dshah 19y ago|0 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
Once you have a few domain names picked, you can use http://www.DomainGrader.com (still in alpha) to see what score it gets.
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Startups: Are You A Trusted Adviser Or A Responsive Assistant?(onstartups.com)
3 points by dshah 19y ago|0 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
You can check out http://www.DailyHub.com. Not nearly the traffic/submissions as News.YC but is focused on business geeks (and extends beyond just startups). Not for everyone, but if you're looking for decent content on marketing, strate
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by dshah 19y ago
This is not a luxury. Get some competing quotes from small business health insurance providers in your area and pick one.
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by dshah 19y ago
I prefer the term developers. Programmers program computers. Developers develop software (which involves programming computers, but goes beyond that).
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by dshah 19y ago
You could try the OnStartups Linked-In group (800+ members now -- most of whom are interested in startups in some capacity). I know at least a couple of people have made contact through that mechanism (though the LinkedIn group functionalit
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by dshah 19y ago
Plans? We don't need no stinkin' plans (particularly not a time-phased one). Seriously: Marketing success (like software development success) seems to be highly correlated with getting something out there and iterating as frequently as po
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by dshah 19y ago
I agree with Eric. VentureBeat is great with high quality content and a relatively savvy readership.
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by dshah 19y ago
MIT just started a entrepreneurship focused curriculum as a specialization within their MBA program. Babson (also in the Boston area) is also rumored to have a very strong entrepreneurship focused program.
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by dshah 19y ago
You need to separate the analysis: 1. What he/she gets as part of investing capital in the company (and whether that's going to be equity or debt) 2. What he/she gets as part of having an operating role in the company. The good news is that
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by dshah 19y ago
Will throw mine out there: Dharmesh Shah's blog: http://OnStartups.com
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by dshah 19y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with seeding your early content personally. As noted, the reddit folks did exactly that, and over time, it worked out. I'm doing something similar with http://www.DailyHub.com (a social content site f
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by dshah 19y ago
I've also setup a LinkedIn group for startups and any News.YC folks are welcome to join. It was a pain in the butt to get created, but there are 600+ members now, so might be useful. Of course, would be happy to join the News.YC group as we
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by dshah 19y ago
My problem is different. If I fail to respond to an email within the first few hours, I'll often forget to respond to it at all. It's not that I'm mulling them over, it's that they get overridden by a new flurry of messages. It's hard to
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by dshah 20y ago
Glad some of you are finding the Website Grader tool somewhat useful. It started out as a simple experimental project (basically I wanted something to meet my own needs). Since then, it's taken on a bit of a life of its own. The algorith
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by dshah 20y ago
Are you sure the Ruby on Rails craze is over? I didn't get that memo.
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by dshah 20y ago
I would disagree with your thesis that 99% of the experience is based on pursuing your idea. Many entrepreneurs start companies for reasons other than pursuing their own idea. Some simply like the control, autonomy and culture of a startup
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by dshah 20y ago
I find it curious that you think that's what it is. Candidly, I'm not naive enough to think that I'm going to attract anyone worth attracting if that's all it was.
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by dshah 20y ago
I tried to be careful on point #1 and stated it as "leans heavily towards startups with 2 or more co-founders". I think this was a reasonably fair characterization, as I don't think you reject applicants purely on the fact that they are a
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by dshah 20y ago
I agree with all your points. That's why my offer doesn't really compete with YC. In fact, you have to have applied to YC and been turned down in order to be considered for this option. I can't provide the peer-group support and advice th
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by dshah 20y ago
I would liken this more to Google's summer of code or Joel Spolsky's paid summer internship program. I think it's really hard to compete with Paul and what he's built with YC. Strong following, great set of people and a very difficult set
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by dshah 20y ago
Thanks. This is a pet project of mine (amongst others). Response so far has been pretty good. We haven't officially "launched" it yet, but about 9,500 URLs have been processed by the tool so far. It's a fun little tool to work on.
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by dshah 20y ago
That's the hope. Though I'm a big PG fan, I'm no PG. My thinking is that my experiment can extract a few more people into the startup mindset (and clearly, there's some upside for me too). In my experience, simply resisting the temptati
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by dshah 20y ago
This is a reasonably fair characterization (though candidly, I have not worked out all the details yet). I considered simply making an equity investment (like YC does), but don't have the bandwidth to do something like that at this time. On
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by dshah 20y ago
As an alternative, I humbly submit: http://www.websitegrader.com Provides more useful information and the server is still running.
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by dshah 20y ago
Thanks for the compliment. I've struggled with articulating my position on this issue, and still haven't nailed it yet. Here's another pass: I completely get the fact that projects are not a bad thing. Most of the best businesses actuall
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by dshah 20y ago
Got it. Fair enough.
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by dshah 20y ago
I must be missing it. To help me understand the error in my ways, can you: a) identify specifically the part where I attacked? b) cite where my position on the issue tried to be a statement of fact that was wrong. Truth is: I do belie

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