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   NYC: Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Program – June 2011(eranyc.com)

   4 points by gyardley 16y ago|1 comments
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   Heh - I'm dramatically different from the 23-year-old me and I'm only 34. (And thank god, because the 23-year-old me was both insufferably stupid and didn't know it.) (Now at least I know it.)
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   This is a perk for Y Combinator companies and has been there for as long as I can remember. Whether you consider it distasteful or not, there's been no more moves in this direction since - so I wouldn't consider it a portent of things to co
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   Thank you for this - I attended the talk because of this post, and it was excellent.
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   Just off the top of my head, there's Katie Cotton and Allison Johnson - someone who knows Apple better can correct me, but I'm pretty sure both are VPs.
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   'Toy' isn't quite right. Closer to 'status symbol'. This isn't necessarily a bad thing for entrepreneurs. When angels are investing for any reason other than 'make more money', valuations go up and terms improve. Seed equity in early-stag
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   Or possibly just an annual fee, paid in advance, to ensure service. Not unknown in rural areas already, where people in unincorporated areas without fire departments can elect to pay out-of-area coverage to nearby municipalities. I remembe
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   According to the article, it's about 'protecting visual space for reading'. But now that I see this comment's been upvoted, I'm curious - if good writing does in fact 'suffer' when placed beside an advertisement you don't trust, why is tha
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   by gyardley 16y ago

   But there is an ever-growing amount of good writing online, much of which suffers from its proximity to these low-rent neighbors. I'm not entirely sure why good writing 'suffers more' from proximity to a direct-marketing campaign - acai b
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Nothing is provable in politics. You're not going to get consensus on 'the people's best interest'. You're not even going to get consensus on 'the people'. (Apparently the stockholders of AT&T aren't invited.) Given that, 'campaign refo
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    That link tells you absolutely nothing, since there is no way to distinguish between 'John Boehner has this stance because AT&T is his biggest contributor' and 'AT&T is John Boehner's biggest contributor because he has this stance.'
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Eight years ago, I was a Ph.D. student in history at Stanford, and had a good friend who was a Ph.D. student in history at Berkeley. Obviously, the situation may be different now, and different for computer science. That said, for me and my
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Hmmm. I remember, three years ago, being advised not to present to multiple angels at once (then typically done to organized 'angel groups') because the premoney valuations they offered were typically much lower than what you'd get from i
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Please don't editorialize in the submission title.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    I wish I could delete the first two words from this article's title. Uptime's related to scalability, but it's not the same thing - scalability encompasses more than that. In my experience, you can get away with lower uptime but your users
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Happy to chat with you about my own experiences merging Pinch Media with Flurry in late 2009, if it'll be useful. My e-mail is in my profile.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Comfy depends on your version of comfy. I'd want to make at least $100K, myself, but I'm softer than some. Depending on where you'll be working in Manhattan, you may want to also consider Hoboken, New Jersey. It's a walkable city and for
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    This looks a bit like AdBrite's now-defunct Spottt, but brought to iPhone applications. I'm a little skeptical, because over the past couple of years tons of advertising networks have tried to make in-app ads for other applications work, an
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    As a product manager at Right Media, I was personally pretty happy with our acquisition by Yahoo. Things gradually got more bureaucratic, but Yahoo gave out some very generous employee retention packages which effectively more than doubled
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    This is how many private bitorrent sites work, or at least claim to work. You are responsible for your invite tree.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Why does snarky title editorializing have this many upvotes? Do we really want this showing up on the front page of HN every time someone reads a TechCrunch post they dislike? Steve Gillmor is nothing but himself - love him or hate him, hi
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Cachexia, the loss of muscle mass to the point where it's unlikely you'll recover from it, is unfortunately both common in end-stage cancer patients and pretty obvious. May you never see it in anyone you care about.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Ah, yes, the 'Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2007'. I'm no tax attorney, but I believe that was the act that subjects me to immediate capital gains tax on all my illiquid assets (read: start-up stock) at their fair market
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    OpenX has an open source offering which has a plugin framework for adding your own functionality to it. Building an ad server that'll meet the needs of larger online advertisers can be a real pain, especially if it's just a single component
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Union Square Ventures is only a small part of the NYC funding landscape. First Round, Betaworks, RRE, DFJ Gotham, IA Ventures, Starvest, SAVP, Softbank, Rho, Greycroft, and that's just off the top of my head (I know I'm missing some), in a
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    I'm hiring. iOS client-side work or graphic design, portfolio / prior experience required. Currently freelance only. I'd prefer full-time availability but would consider part-time for skilled candidates. E-mail is in my profile.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    This article's title is incredibly inaccurate - it should be something like 'six projects for preventing internet access from being shut off by a governmental body'. As the title currently reads, it's just setting us up for the same old tir
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Don't overlook the pain-in-the-ass factor of having to support employees in different jurisdictions with different regulations. Employment contracts need to be customized slightly by state. You've got to sign up for worker's compensation i
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    Looks like a typical commons dilemma to me - recruiter spam weakens recruiting as an industry, but individual recruiters sometimes do find prospects and pocket a substantial fee for it. Because of this, they're not going to stop doing it.
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    by gyardley 16y ago

    No, I targeted professors at the absolute best schools possible, because I was considering a career in academia at the time and you can't get a tenure-track job with a second-tier Ph.D. I got accepted at every school I applied to, but my ap