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by far33d 20y ago
The biggest suffer because they are too popular: it's like trying to read through my Yahoo Mail - too much spam, recruiters making huge lists of keywords, etc. It must be just as bad on the receiving end: imagine how many terrible responses
902.
Job Boards suck... What would make them better?
1 points by far33d 20y ago|2 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
I think there are a few reasons why this is compelling from a content standpoint: first, reality television has accustomed people to watching non-actors as entertainment. However, reality television has lost its appeal, as the contrived gam
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Traits of the Best Entrepreneurs(venturebeat.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|1 comments
905.
by far33d 20y ago
More importantly, one of two things will happen as they become more common: either computers will just come with more memory, or browsers will become optimized for these particular tasks. The market rules, not the limits of the machine.
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Google - Ultimate Money Machine(readwriteweb.com)
5 points by far33d 20y ago|1 comments
907.
by far33d 20y ago
Wow. That is amazing. If you don't have time to read it all, just read the last 3 paragraphs. Terry Semel was my high school graduation speaker (this was way before he was at Yahoo) and he was boring and uninspiring....
908.
by far33d 20y ago
People say this about every software innovation when it first appears. It's too heavy. It uses too much CPU. It's bloated. There's always a subset of computer-savvy people who don't think it's hard to install software, configure machines, u
909.
by far33d 20y ago
Strange. I submitted this 9 hours ago and no one upvoted it (though I found it funny). It seems the morning gets more response than the evening (maybe because of east coast / west coast, evening here is already late in the night on the eas
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30 Apparent Reasons You Launched Your Startup(valleywag.com)
3 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
911.
MuniFi a Bust?(gigaom.com)
2 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
912.
by far33d 20y ago
done!
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by far33d 20y ago
One of my blog posts was linked here and had 9 points, putting it on the front page for about 36 hours or so. Now that it's headed down the list, I thought it would be interesting to share the statistics on how many clicks came from: -main
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Quick Stats on news.yc clickthroughs
16 points by far33d 20y ago|6 comments
915.
by far33d 20y ago
http://valleywag.com/tech/startups/why-google-wont-buy-you-250885.php Valleywag's opinion on the same quote....
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if the company were founded today on an empty lot, we would build the buildings brick by brick.(paul.kedrosky.com)
2 points by far33d 20y ago|2 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
Here's a great example of something that used to take a lot more effort to build. I had a bunch of friends who started a company to do annotation of websites just like this in 2000. They probably had 30 employees, and quite a bit of funding
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by far33d 20y ago
I love the 'you can choose a gender preference of a co-rider' feature. Never hurts to put a dating twist into an idea.
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by far33d 20y ago
The goal is something you want and you know other people want. The process is to constantly iterate, know your story, and be flexible for change. The rest of these (artistic merit, technical innovation, making boatloads of money) are side
920.
by far33d 20y ago
http://www.zachbaker.com/articles/2007/04/09/mspw-trumps-technique nice followup..
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by far33d 20y ago
Go to Disneyland!
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by far33d 20y ago
Wow. Here's a guy who understands less than the record companies.
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Zell wants end to Web's "Free Ride"(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|3 comments
924.
by far33d 20y ago
like I said a few weeks ago.. Steve Ballmer is Ringo Starr. He just happened to be at the right place at the right time with talented friends.
925.
by far33d 20y ago
"Holding up Apple and Google as the Microsoft killers is curious. Microsoft is a software company. Apple is a hardware company and Google does consumer web search. I have a lot of respect for Apple and Google, but Microsoft killers? I don
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SFGate on Friendster Founder and Socializr(sfgate.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|5 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
I can't decide whether etiquette requires you to allow the author of an article to post it if they are members (founders) of the site. Then again, etiquette doesn't help entrepreneurs much.
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by far33d 20y ago
Debt is only reasonable if you already have enough positive cash flow (not positive revenues.. more money in than money out) to finance that debt. But even if you have positive cashflow, it generally makes sense for young companies to rein
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CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability (who needs a lab?)(readwriteweb.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
930.
by far33d 20y ago
If "big hard problems" without "nasty little problems" is what you want, you should go to grad school. Even companies that look like they're dealing with the "big and hard" are actually mostly dealing with the "nasty and little". Trust me,

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