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LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses(techcrunch.com)
86 points by garry 14y ago|27 comments
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by garry 14y ago
It's absurdly simple to email writers directly. Unless you need some sort of direct access to traditional media, PR firms don't make sense for a startup.
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by garry 15y ago
This is actually not true. Previous bubbles were surprising to most everyone, because the general accepted reality was that of a "New Economy." The previous tech bubble did not become widely known as a bubble until it popped.
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by garry 15y ago
Yes, what they are describing is participating preferred, not liquidation preference.
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99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet(techcrunch.com)
208 points by garry 15y ago|146 comments
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by garry 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about the age thing. In terms of pure skills, a designer who can hack one of the most valuable roles to fill for any consumer web/mobile product today.
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by garry 15y ago
GoCardless is an example of a startup that came out to YC and moved back to their native London. They're thriving.
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by garry 15y ago
Snapfish and all other photo sharing sites lack one fundamental thing that any photo enthusiast will identify immediately as one of the biggest problems. Image de-duplication. Snapjoy has the only image de-duplicating algorithm that I've se
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by garry 15y ago
All founders by definition must figure out stuff for their own and take risk. This invalidates your assertion that "YC is not for founders who like to go their own route." YC is for founders.
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by garry 15y ago
This is a critical observation. By default, for most people who have been through the modern school system, and/or worked for companies -- they're used to covering their ass and sounding smart. The market doesn't care about cover-your-ass -
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by garry 15y ago
Notably, median money raised after seed funding is normalized, as it is not scaled by the number of companies.
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by garry 15y ago
(good friends of mine -- fantastic profitable startup run by brilliant and fun hackers -garry) -- Software Engineer at A Thinking Ape A Thinking Ape is currently looking for an extremely smart and talented Software Engineer to become perman
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Have coffee with YC, SV Angel, NEA partners and support the arts(aaww.org)
24 points by garry 15y ago|0 comments
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Have coffee with Charlie Cheever and support the nonprofit arts(aaww.org)
27 points by garry 15y ago|2 comments
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by garry 15y ago
Wow, honored to be on your homepage! Thanks. Can I claim my account? =)
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by garry 15y ago
To be clear, the Airbnb team is offering liquidity to all of the employees to address this very concern, and have since resolved this issue.
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by garry 15y ago
It is difficult to determine how substantiated a valuation is without access to the books of a company and a sense for its future revenue and cashflows. Being a private company, these books are not publicly available. Given that, it would m
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by garry 15y ago
I was early at Palantir (employee #10). Trust me, the founders assumed way more risk than I did when I joined. I didn't even quite understand that fact until I myself started a company. If you know the Airbnb story, you'll know these guys w
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by garry 15y ago
At YC startups especially, it is quite common. Founders often take the minimum amount of money necessary to survive. But they will often pay market (especially after Series A) or near-market to their hires, plus equity.
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by garry 15y ago
As YC matures, more and more startups come with a fully built out product, traction, revenue/earnings. It's no mistake that these are the companies do find themselves accelerating their progress. Feel free to email me if you have additional
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by garry 15y ago
Omnigraffle is phenomenal as well. I believe in using some level of fidelity in mockups. Omnigraffle gives you all the tools to quickly line up elements and try on layouts / copy really fast. It's the essential tool in my app bar that helps
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by garry 15y ago
I highly recommend reading the source. Download the source, and read through the implementations, especially around routing. For most open source, not just Rails, this is often your best bet. I rarely use any open source software out-of-box
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by garry 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and you should ask your lawyer this. This is why experienced startup lawyers are valuable to startups. They know what is normal and what is not, and can protect you. If you don't have a startup lawyer, you should get one A
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by garry 15y ago
Talk to founders who are in similar but not the same markets. They know VC's and angels and may have taken money from them. The best way to connect is through an existing portfolio company with a warm intro from that founder.
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by garry 15y ago
This sentiment is an insult to the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that my YC friends and colleagues put in every single day. YC is made up of brilliant, hard working hackers, designers and hustlers who are trying to change the world thr
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by garry 15y ago
What is M? In order for n people to connect to n-1 other people (n-1 number of additions of people to circles), it approximates to n*n, or n^2.
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by garry 15y ago
You're right, the Google drag-and-drop thing works pretty well and is quite innovative. That's certainly a direct way for them to mitigate the circle-creation problem. Arguably that's actually a critical piece of making Google+ work even th
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by garry 15y ago
Shared circles -- this makes sense to me. I wouldn't be surprised if Google already had this coming down the pipe.
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by garry 15y ago
Nobody uses Facebook lists. That's the main reason I didn't bother mentioning it.
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by garry 15y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd prefer to use a private family group for this. If my mom wants to post something to the group, I will have already created it and she won't have to re-make the circle. Can you even imagine having your mom make circles?

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