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by elad 18y ago
Having interviewed quite a few people, I tend to think that there's a correlation between not just a degree, but also the quality of the school where it was attained, and the quality of the candidate - as measured by his/her professional kn
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by elad 18y ago
myspace, facebook, bebo, hi5 - they all make money from advertising. They're not making as much as you'd expect given the number of page views that they're getting though, so if you're planning a new social application keep in mind that you
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by elad 18y ago
Search has made gazillions for Google because it captures purchase intent, which they translate into the best possible (for now at least) targeted advertising. So if you're in search it'd make sense to try the same strategy (if it ain't bro
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by elad 18y ago
CentOS works well for us. I like the idea of having a free version of a commercial distro (RHEL).
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by elad 18y ago
Speaking from experience: I coded many thousands lines of Ruby code for my startup all alone. Then we raised seed, and hired a few additional developers. Two of them joined my project and took over the development from me. They're both very
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by elad 18y ago
I think that names shape the way in which you think about your product, as well as the way that other people you talk to respond to your idea. Hence, a good name up-front is important IMHO. When trying to select a name, think about the mess
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by elad 18y ago
Second that. Who's got time to watch video? Plus, text gets indexed, and you can search it.
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by elad 19y ago
Think about what your application's supposed to do - what are its benefits for users, then come up with some metaphors for that. Should be terms that give people a general concept of what it is that you're offering. Then use the various dom
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by elad 19y ago
TortoiseSVN just sucks. I'd rather use the command line. Actually, I do... For the times you just have to use a GIU, try SynchroSVN. It isn't free, but worth the price IMO.
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by elad 19y ago
My co-founder and I worked each in his own home for about 8 months, meeting face to face one per week or two. That worked OK, but it was obvious that we'd be more productive if we both worked in the same place. Recently we stared hiring mor
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by elad 19y ago
CentOS 5
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by elad 19y ago
Second that!
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3rdRail - CodeGear (Borland) new Rails IDE (video tour)(video.codegear.com)
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by elad 19y ago
Depends on what you mean by webservice - SOAP or REST. Rails works great for REST, but not for SOAP. For DB interaction, I really like ActiveRecord. Don't think that PHP can offer any serious ORM alternative. As for scaling, well, Rails has
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by elad 19y ago
Depends on what you mean by webservice - SOAP or REST. Rails works great for REST, but not for SOAP. For DB interaction, I really like ActiveRecord. Don't think that PHP can offer any serious ORM alternative. As for scaling, well, Rails has
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by elad 19y ago
Can you persuade potential investors that you have a concrete advantage over competitors? Something that they can't (or won't) copy easily? As for the size of the market, IMHO there's no such thing as "large enough for all of the competitor
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by elad 19y ago
If you had/are having fun and don't regret for a minute having left your day job to start your startup, then it's a success. Of course, it's best to measure that at least a year into the thing.
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by elad 19y ago
I guess that's true in most industries - women had to work much harder than men just to get their foot in the door, but eventually perceptions change - when there are enough women there to change the (mostly unconscious, I think) perception
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by elad 19y ago
31. My first startup was at 22 though.
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by elad 19y ago
Senior Software Engineer at a large co. that was still somewhat connected to its startup roots. Then it got acquired by a huge co. with a real stifling culture and it was time to leave. On the plus side, I made good money during that period
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by elad 19y ago
We're using both Java and Ruby. We started out with Ruby and Rails, which worked great for the prototype but we have some very processor-intensive operations and the Ruby code won't scale. Rewriting these in Java produced an instant 100-fol
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by elad 19y ago
You've just stumbled onto the reason that big companies take some many more people and so much more time than startups to solve a given problem - they don't (and can't) allow themselves to ignore the extra information and its complicated by
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by elad 19y ago
TRAC's my current favorite. Too all the people using comments in the code and the like, that's very good when you're a 1-2 person team, but when you (hopefully) have more coders, possibly QA people and (god forbid) customers who complain ab
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by elad 19y ago
The real question isn't "Can you compete with Google" but rather "Should you compete with Google"? Startups have slim chances of success to begin with. Making them even slimmer by battling it out with Google isn't a very good idea. Why not
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by elad 19y ago
In my first company (founded 9 years ago) we were three founders and I was CEO. The decision was easy - the other two were better technologists, and I had better people skills. In my new start-up the first thing I did was bring in a friend
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by elad 19y ago
Definitely. Unlike what pg thinks, it seems to me that there are a lot of stupid ideas out there that get funded, and that most of them are merely features rather than full blown products, that simply wait for someone to buy them.
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by elad 20y ago
I absolutely agree. I used to work for a big enterprise software company, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that we're selling crappy software for millions of $ a piece. I think the problem is that large enterprises trust other
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by elad 20y ago
"don't make users register" Funny that I had to register to post here :)
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by elad 20y ago
Well you can just start a startup that works on hard problems, instead of one which revolves around your ajax code rendering correctly on various browsers. You can solve a hard AI problem with a couple of good hacker friends, just as you co