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Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck(blog.pmarca.com)
43 points by eposts 19y ago|13 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
Folks here are getting a little too obsessed with karma points.
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Cringely: The $200 Billion Broadband Ripoff(pbs.org)
9 points by eposts 19y ago|2 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
I meant to post this as a good thing for web 2.0, but for some reason my comments never showed with the original post. If Dvorak is calling it a bubble it might be a good thing... considering his record.
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Bubble 2.0 coming soon(pcmag.com)
6 points by eposts 19y ago|12 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
>Crystal ball into future< "Hey Paul, I am getting all these requests from YC clones to apply to their program." "You're right. Someone went on a cloning spree. Now I am going to have to do something to prevent this kind of kind of
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by eposts 19y ago
"In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have." Why would poor people have more stuff Paul? I see rich people living in McMansions have a lot more stuff than poor people and I am pretty sure Bill G has more stuff than m
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by eposts 19y ago
I've been practicing this minimalist form of existence for some time now. For those that have too much stuff, here is how you get rid of stuff: 1. Mark a portion of your basement or apartment for some of your "stuff" 2. After a year or two
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by eposts 19y ago
Karma for PQ=0. Maybe its time to stop the experiment now.
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by eposts 19y ago
This will be an interesting experiment to watch. Its taking the reddit/digg style voting to the world of internet ads and hoping that users will tell what kind of ads they want to see. If every user is like me, it'll mean no ads... maybe ev
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by eposts 19y ago
Get rid of "any" kind of ad from that page coz its annoying the hell out of visitor(s) :).
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by eposts 19y ago
Its plastered all over paulgraham.com, not just the essays. I personally like the ad free version of paulgraham.com :). I wonder if adpinion is another YC startup.
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Spectrum auction could revolutionize US telecoms(forbes.com)
5 points by eposts 19y ago|0 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
Good catch Paul! Surprise, surprise Seth Levine is a "mentor" at Techstars: http://www.techstars.org/site/page/pg5883.html What a shame!
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by eposts 19y ago
Was this article written in response to Seth Levines comment? What Seth Levine doesn't know or doesn't want to tell is that a lot of YC alums could raise the 5K/founder on their own, so money is NOT the primary reason they are there.
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by eposts 19y ago
To become a very successful startup that makes tons of money for the founders, employees and investors... :)
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by eposts 19y ago
You might want to check Manjuls blog about this story. http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_26_indi.html He is not making it up. He is talking about the best engineers that he could recruit for his startup in India.
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?(blog.pmarca.com)
15 points by eposts 19y ago|4 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
Do you plan to keep the number at 20 this time too or its too early to tell?
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by eposts 19y ago
I predict a huge increase in the number of applications this time, thanks to all the publicity and YC success stories. Good luck to everyone!
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Paper of the week: The Justin Timberlake effect(blog.pmarca.com)
2 points by eposts 19y ago|1 comments
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies(blog.pmarca.com)
10 points by eposts 19y ago|3 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
Say NO to Google. Say NO to Microsoft. Say YES to your startup.
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by eposts 19y ago
Just what yahoo needs. Hope this changes Yahoo, the way Jobs changed Apple after Sculley.
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by eposts 19y ago
Is there no way to change your vote once you vote?
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by eposts 19y ago
Well you don't have to be competing directly. If you work as a software developer, you could be working on a product thats really different from your employers but its still software that you are developing in your free time.
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moonlighting: do you get something in writing from your employer?
3 points by eposts 19y ago|3 comments
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How Facebook was born(thecrimson.com)
2 points by eposts 19y ago|0 comments
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by eposts 19y ago
Don't want to start another language war :). Just want to see what others here are using and why? Sorry if your are a ROR(or...) fan.
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Which python framework are you using for your projects?
1 points by eposts 19y ago|2 comments

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