freshfunk

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by freshfunk 17y ago
I like your attitude Daniel. Keep on truckin'! (Frankly, I have qualms working with anyone who still uses hotmail... haha jk.)
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I'm with Daniel. If you only try things you think have a high probability of success, then you're probably not going to embark on being an entrepreneur period. The percentages of success are very low. Applying to YC was fairly easy and didn
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Part of being a successful entrepreneur is being tenacious. If you fold at the first sign of opposition, I doubt you'll get far. I don't know this person's particular case but it's possible that he made significant progress on his idea betw
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I had 0 questions so consider yourself loved. :)
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I was denied ("rejected" sounds so harsh :)). But I'm still moving forward with my idea. I'd love to meet up with other YC rejects who are looking for a support group-- I mean people to share ideas with. :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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Ask HN: Meetup in SF for YC rejects
18 points by freshfunk 17y ago|8 comments
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by freshfunk 17y ago
The typical argument is that China cannot resist the money. But, to be a devil's advocate here, perhaps they think that it's MORE risky to their business to stay in China. That is, someone was trying to steal their technology. If someone go
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Ask HN: Y Combinator-minded local meetups for socializing and networking
1 points by freshfunk 17y ago|0 comments
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I've always heard of fail fast in the sense that Eric Ries and Steve Blank talk about it: Get your product in front of customers as soon as possible. Iterate. Don't hole up and build your grand ideas for 1 year before anybody sees it and gi
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Having a fulltime job and doing your project outside of it is like sticking a dagger into the heart of your idea. If it's a great idea, someone is likely working on a solution (sorry, but there are other smart/creative people out there). I
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by freshfunk 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. When you're out of college, you're used to living on a shoestring budget. You can get by without quite little because you haven't really raised your standards of living around a big salary. When you've worked for a few
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by freshfunk 17y ago
ROFL love his joke on how it's russian roulette with 5
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Short but sweet. I think the other thing that entrepreneurs should keep in mind is that while you will need to work hard to succeed, don't neglect your family/friends/health. Success will take time and if you neglect these things, you'll ei
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I would say that you need startup metrics from day one. How do you define success? I feel that most great ideas revolve around a very simple idea. If this simple idea proves itself in a microcosm and this microcosm is a good example of what
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I'm a pretty sophisticated web user and I have intentionally clicked on ads while doing Google searches. Why? Because I was looking to purchase something and I was looking for merchants. The organic listings were either equivalent or less r
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by freshfunk 17y ago
What I meant was the line I prefaced this statement with: "However, I think most sane entrepreneurs (heh) usually have some background and expertise that will increase their chances of success in their venture." When I think of "measured ri
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Meh. Interesting juxtapositions but it doesn't really do it for me. There is a fine line between barking at the moon and a 5% chance of success? Really? I think a more apt comparison would be barking at the moon and selling all your possess
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Ok. What's your point? Is someone supposed to know? I think people didn't really have any idea how the iPhone would really have an impact. At best people said, "Now I don't need to carry a phone and an iPod." That's probably one of the leas
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I'm a fan of the NoSql movement and have been exploring Cassandra as an option for data storage. I had a conversation with an engineer who works at a pretty well-known company here in SV and their sys admins are dropping Cassandra and pushi
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by freshfunk 17y ago
"It may seem like selling for millions to Google is a foregone conclusion given how brilliant you are, but it’s not. ...If you can trade a little bit of equity to nudge up your shot at success by a few percentage points, you should do so."
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Single person profitability sounds great. But I guess it really depends on why you started a company in the first place. Did you start a company primarily because you didn't want to work for anyone else and really didn't care to work with a
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by freshfunk 17y ago
+1. I'm doing a startup with a friend (I'm engineering, he's business). And I know a bunch of smart, capable people through my 10 years of doing startups in Silicon Valley. I think finding smart, capable people is the easiest thing to do. H
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by freshfunk 17y ago
I have my iPhone syncing with my google contacts, google calendar and gmail. It's very easy to do and probably the top link if you google it.
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Don't have any special insight into flash but I do know that there certainly seem to be issues with playing flash on my mac (with any browser) vs PC. I'm guessing it has to do with GPU vs CPU issues but whenever I play a video (via flash) m
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by freshfunk 17y ago
That's not ironic. People have very different expectations between Gmail and Facebook. When I used FB I expect that my news feed is public to my friends. It's used for open social interaction. The same goes for Twitter. When I use Gmail I e
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by freshfunk 17y ago
Well Google's play book used to be push stuff out as beta or a labs feature. Let only the very sophisticated users opt-in and try things out before pushing it out to the general public. This was obviously rolled out in a very different fash