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   by garry 12y ago

   This is absolutely false. It's an absurd thing to say that founders over a certain age are washed up — and it's a lie to say that is something we believe. Startups move to the Bay Area for three months and go anywhere it makes sen
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   by garry 12y ago

   The team actually built their own streaming tech from scratch so it works quite a bit better than VNC.
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   Facebook's aha moment is simpler than you think(blog.modeanalytics.com)

   7 points by garry 12y ago|0 comments
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   RideCell (YC W12) is hiring a senior back end engineer(ridecell.theresumator.com)

   1 points by garry 12y ago
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   by garry 12y ago

   This happens quite a lot actually. Premature optimization with the basics not being figured out. Always get your database indices figured out first, and then cache after that. Pick a reasonable place to start scaling horizontally, but only
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   by garry 12y ago

   > Complete and utter bull. Maybe in Sam's world, sure! White? 20-something? No-kids? Harvard/Stanford? B2C? Let’s chat! > Early-40's/Late-30's? Not-white? Married w/ kids? Not-Harvard/Stanford? B2B?
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   Tilt launches Pre-Orders, accept orders on any site in minutes(blog.tilt.com)

   18 points by garry 12y ago|0 comments
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   Silicon Valley may finally elect a real congressman to protect the Internet(blog.garrytan.com)

   2 points by garry 12y ago|0 comments
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   SoundFocus (YC S13) launches Amp iPhone audio case(ampaudio.com)

   62 points by garry 12y ago|13 comments
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    by garry 12y ago

    I would very much like to be wrong on this one.
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    by garry 12y ago

    Let's call it a rule of thumb. There are always exceptions in startups.
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    by garry 12y ago

    Airbnb from the beginning was an experience set apart. We stayed in Venice on my honeymoon and we had perfect local recommendations by a schoolteacher who lives there. We stayed at her house, and had breakfast with her every morning. It was
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    by garry 12y ago

    I'm in the market for a house now, and I use Zillow/Redfin every single day at the moment. I'm right there in the "I love this thing" state. I haven't purchased a home before, so it wasn't until now that I
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    by garry 12y ago

    It helps that many of the YC partners are developers themselves.
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    by garry 12y ago

    The alternative to known and published APIs is no API, not closed APIs. In general the API companies we do fund are of the open sort and they accomplish something useful in the real world, eg Lob, EasyPost, Hellosign.
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    by garry 12y ago

    The founders Chrys and David are among most impressive engineers and designers I've ever met. There's something magical about the stage of the company they're at. If you want to know what it was like to be one of the first 20
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    by garry 12y ago

    This is absolutely factually untrue. I expect more from a fellow founder than this form of libel.
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    by garry 12y ago

    You are ascribing malice to an entity that has good intent. 45% of the world's market cap for public equities remains in the United States, and that's something that is a function of governance, rule of law, court systems, financi
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    by garry 13y ago

    Hi all. I'm a partner with Y Combinator and will be there! Through random chance I am in Tokyo this week.
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    At Google, Bid to Put Its Google Glasses to Work(nytimes.com)

    2 points by garry 13y ago|0 comments
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    by garry 13y ago

    I bought an early Oculus Rift developer kit as a part of the Kickstarter. I paid $300 for it and it was worth every penny. I had no expectation of equity from it, because the product was cool and something I wanted. It's the wrong thin
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    by garry 13y ago

    There are many paths. Best of luck to you sir.
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    by garry 13y ago

    Actually we have quite successful founders who move with their families to Mountain View — notably the two founders of Mongo HQ and their families shared a rented house there for the duration of the batch. They happened to stay in the Bay A
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    by garry 13y ago

    Incidentally YC is actually the YC for all startups everywhere. Lots of startups move to Silicon Valley for 10 weeks, raise money, and sometimes they decide the best place for them is where they came from, or another startup hub. Silicon Va
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    by garry 13y ago

    Both Thalmic Labs and the Meta project are examples of longer term projects that raise money through YC. There are a bunch more in the current batch that have a much longer time frame. While the three month demo is a constraint, it is not o
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    by garry 13y ago

    Sorry about that. We're working with GoDaddy now to resolve this DNS issue.
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    by garry 13y ago

    Thanks Charlie! Posthaven cofounder here. In the short term we will run your blog go $5 a month. We've taken a pledge not to get acquired and to run it for as long as possible. Right now we are building it out but in the future as we g
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    Crowdhoster becomes CrowdtiltOpen, launches out of private beta (open.crowdtilt.com)

    55 points by garry 13y ago|18 comments
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    Mixpanel Lets Devs Deliver Targeted Messages Through New In-App Notifications(techcrunch.com)

    41 points by garry 13y ago|11 comments
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    by garry 13y ago

    Should be free if you click through via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=time+to+take+the+bitcoinb+ub...