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Bloomberg Taps TechStars for TV Show About Startups(mashable.com)
7 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 15y ago
If you believe the Lean Startup thesis*: Success = F(#Iterations) #Iterations = Runway / Speed of each iteration Runway = Cash on hand / Burn rate Then things are looking quite good for this team if they can continue to build, va
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by dtran 15y ago
Unless you have a good reason for forcing really terse questions (even shorter than Twitter's 140-character limit), please, please make the tiny text input into a textarea. Or if you want to be fancy, start it off as a one-line textarea but
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Google Pagerank Update(webmasterworld.com)
16 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds(techcrunch.com)
6 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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Intel Museum of Me - Create and explore a visual archive of your social life(intel.com)
3 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 15y ago
+1 for Chart.io. We use it and love it. It addresses the most costly part of BI tools which someone pointed out above - paying one of your engineers to hook up your data with an external tool or have to code something custom from scratch.
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Lark’s Silent Alarm And Sleep Monitoring System Lands At Apple Retail Stores(techcrunch.com)
3 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 15y ago
I don't understand why YC is even mentioned in this blog post if the purpose is to encourage people to apply to Techstars (other than the obvious: to be linkbait). The best way to get people to apply is just to talk about your experiences a
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by dtran 15y ago
Joe Kraus once said in a talk that companies, especially startups, need to triple down on what they're good at rather than focusing on all their weaknesses - that's really the only way a startup can win since it can't be better than a big c
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Crowdbooster (YC S10) launches analytics for Facebook Pages(blog.crowdbooster.com)
9 points by dtran 15y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 15y ago
This format definitely detracts from the total benefit these companies can get from these office hours, but the possible press from getting their idea vetted by you on stage somewhat compensates for not being able to ask the pressing questi
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by dtran 15y ago
While not ideal, you can fallback to SVGWeb (using Flash 10) for older browsers. Some members of the Protovis community have released some updates to make this work: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/protovis/GoD5ihZzZlg
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by dtran 15y ago
I'm really happy to see this. I think sort of joshu buying the company back, this is one of the better possible outcomes for the future of the delicious community.
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by dtran 15y ago
A good corollary question to "How do you know that people actually want this?" is "How are people solving this problem now?" If founders respond that there aren't really any current solutions, then it usually means that either a) They aren'
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by dtran 15y ago
Not unless you want someone who only shows up 1/3rd of the time and shows up under the influence when they do. Source: http://twitter.com/#!/jonbeilin/status/48467573053997056
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Salesforce Acquires Radian6 For $326 Million(mashable.com)
3 points by dtran 16y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 16y ago
I can't seem to find out much about delivery on the site - is that a service you're going to provide to the chefs or do they have to cook/deliver the food themselves? Either way, great work guys!
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by dtran 16y ago
After they launch we’re going to publish a blog post encouraging startups working on software for schools to apply to them instead of us. - PG I don't think you can give any higher compliment than that. I spoke to Geoff briefly about Imag
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by dtran 16y ago
No, sadly it wasn't. IANAL and neither was the customer service person at the cruise line who cited the Jones Act to me, but to my understanding, it applies because passengers technically count as cargo. Therefore passengers embarking on a
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You shouldn't apply to YCombinator if...(blog.crowdbooster.com)
129 points by dtran 16y ago|40 comments
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by dtran 16y ago
It is interesting that you chose the "He (Federer, Jordan, Ronaldo, Hank Aaron, etc.) makes it look so easy" analogy because you generally know if he's making it look easy during games/matches, it's only because he's practiced it a million
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by dtran 16y ago
Des has very aptly compiled a list of the leading analytics tools and we’re honored to be included in this list alongside so many great tools (We use and love Chartio and Mixpanel). I also definitely agree that it would be rather difficult
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by dtran 16y ago
According to our data, 90% of active Twitter users use official Twitter apps on a monthly basis. As soon as I saw that, I immediately thought "I'd like to see the breakdown by tweet source," since that's really just a hollow number that m
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White Paper for Viaweb: How Catalog Companies will Use the Internet (1995)(lib.store.yahoo.net)
6 points by dtran 16y ago|1 comments
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by dtran 16y ago
Startups are definitely emotionally draining, and while I would like to believe in my resiliency, if I didn't have two awesome co-founders there in the trenches with me, I'm not sure I'd still be fighting the good fight (Thanks Ricky and Ma
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by dtran 16y ago
Way to go Dan and Pete! Didn't get a chance to play around with it, but the cross-browser testing and interactive modes sound like really useful features even outside of the context of A-B testing.
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by dtran 16y ago
Awesome! Automated YSlow is definitely something I would like to have. If I pushed something and it's making my pages load slower and that's costing me users, I need to know. I know some Mozilla folks were working on an automated YSlow tool
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by dtran 16y ago
Having more functionality isn't necessarily better. Laser-sharp focus on doing one thing better than the alternatives just shows that you really understand what your users want and can sometimes make you stand out more in a competitive envi
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by dtran 16y ago
Does Chrome send back (anonymized) data about usage? Or are there instrumented versions of Chrome/Chromium that do do this? I wonder what the usage numbers are for how often you focus on the URL bar and change it within one tab. I notice in

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