ericwan

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by ericwan 18y ago
Going to 9th grade. Didn't know of Paypal, Excite, or even eBay. Yahoo is the only pre-bubble company I know. Hotmail was not a startup to me, it was a product of Microsoft.
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by ericwan 18y ago
but he's saying, in order to get rich very likely you will need to do those things other people dare not to do, i.e. doing these things raise your chance of getting rich, which is true.
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by ericwan 18y ago
Yep, especially for techies in america, they already have the right skills and conditions to feed themselves and families, then getting out of bed at 5am just to make some more sounds absurd. Not so much if your purpose is change the world,
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by ericwan 18y ago
Mitch Kapor is definitely more well-known.
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by ericwan 18y ago
agree. though the site doesn't sound impressive, what he's doing is still way better than going to school or figuring out ways to get alcohol
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by ericwan 18y ago
bear in mind that most rich people are not like Steve Jobs. most of them the Bushes or people behind Enron.
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by ericwan 18y ago
we'll see. =) i'd say it won't too, or it morphs into something totally different and succeed.
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by ericwan 18y ago
agree that pawer balance != somebody get fucked over for instance America is a benign hegemony. Though they still fuck over people at times, they did it much less than, say, UK, or Rome, etc. but a counter-point - having a market means peop
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by ericwan 18y ago
i don't acting like being fucked over means not doing anything. To me it means fight back (or, well, fuck over back).
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by ericwan 18y ago
do it part-time or something. delicious started that way.
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by ericwan 18y ago
>> people realize how much the power elite is fucking them over. isn't that true though?
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by ericwan 18y ago
And when you start creating your own thing, you realize how hard it is to build and you criticize less
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by ericwan 18y ago
thank you. this is an awesome post, and makes me recall how many times i've fallen into these traps. I've always wanted to be in politics and finance, and thought that's the best way to maximize my potential. Then i find out politics/financ
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by ericwan 18y ago
neither of you guys mentioned loopt, but it is supposed to be one of the startups that PG has the most expectation. do you guys think it won't succeed, or what is it? personally, I don't get it either.
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Del.icio.us 2.0 (now delicious.com)(delicious.com)
14 points by ericwan 18y ago|9 comments
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by ericwan 18y ago
I'm pretty sure MSFT has a venture wing. So is Intel
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by ericwan 18y ago
the title is very link-baitish
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by ericwan 18y ago
get enough sleep, a while ago i went to a google interview after an all-nighter. it felt like 100-hour long. read more about data structures and algorithms, and make you can explain it in laymen terms.
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by ericwan 18y ago
I'm not sure how Kiko compared to the first 5~10 big failures that burnt 100mil + dollars. Kiko is a well-justified experiment on couple hundred grands.
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by ericwan 18y ago
agree except the sports part. most of the discussion are of low quality and can be done with a smarter audience on HN or some other newsgroups. But sports teams are good. it really encourages self-discipline, work ethics, and a competitive
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by ericwan 18y ago
well there's an exception:give up freedom at present for money, and use the money to buy even more freedom in future
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by ericwan 18y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Just added you on AIM: qcericwan about the email. Corp email and LinkedIn account: Yes it's on the roadmap but we haven't added it yet. Thanks for telling me. number of reviews for a company: that too, but I woul
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by ericwan 18y ago
(1) If I really got sued we're be fairly big. I mean companies would only sue me if I have money to pay. Viacom wouldn't sue Youtube if Youtube wasn't acquired by Google. Who doesn't want to be Youtube? =) (2) I haven't paid much attention
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by ericwan 18y ago
Currently there're no ads on the site =) We think it's more important to attract users/content before we put on any ads or other revenue stream.
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by ericwan 18y ago
We're focusing on more general, soft issues such as the boss, coworkers, training, etc. On that respect we're more focused on glassdoor.com than coderific.com. Meanwhile now we're focusing just on the tech industry. Later down the road we'r
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Ask YC: Feedback on my Startup please!
6 points by ericwan 18y ago|10 comments
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by ericwan 18y ago
Lots of the entrepreneurs we know are from these schools, and that's evidence to prove against the article's theory. I think it really depends on the personality and background of the person. People who stand out in the top schools are real
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by ericwan 19y ago
Thanks for reminding me. I don't even remember that they will give out the interviews today. Take it easy.
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by ericwan 19y ago
How will you make money?
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Facebook is more than just a marketing channel(lsvp.wordpress.com)
1 points by ericwan 19y ago|0 comments

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