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by il 14y ago
Most enterprise software in 2012 looks a lot worse than Google in 1998.
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by il 14y ago
YC companies are told to launch an MVP with a design that's good enough as fast as possible and iterate from there. Spending months obsessing over a pixel-perfect design before you know you've made something people want is the wrong way to
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by il 14y ago
So who gets the $12M that was paid for the team?
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by il 14y ago
If your predictions are so good, why not keep the data to yourself, get on Intrade, and make a ridiculous amount of money?
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by il 14y ago
It's interesting to contrast this post with all the posts about multi million dollar funding rounds currently on the front page.
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by il 14y ago
Yes, but my poll is from 2010 and yours is from 2006. Whether the actual number is 40% or 20% or 11%, I'm sure it's much higher than other modern, secular countries. That's all I'm saying. In any case, that's not the scary poll. It's polls
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by il 14y ago
Your personal experience living in a high-tourist city does not represent the rural, Evangelical majority that actually votes. Here's one poll with the 41% number: http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=1043
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by il 14y ago
Religion seems to be much more pervasisve in public policy in America than anywhere else. 40% of voters believe the Rapture/end of the world will occur in their lifetime. This is unprecendented in any secular country, and it affects all sph
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by il 14y ago
Congratulations on your success- but you must realize that a 400 person, instantly profitable service company is the exception, not the norm. The vast majority of service companies are two guys in a garage treading water and struggling to s
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by il 14y ago
If you've done it before, you'll know that getting a high leverage (technology) company profitable, is really, really hard. This does not apply to service companies, but service companies rarely have the big impact you're talking about. A s
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by il 14y ago
Hey everyone: can we hold on for just one minute before forming an Internet Lynch Mob and maybe try to get the other side's perspective? Because we only have one side of the story right now. How do you know the OP isn't lying? Or that OP is
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by il 14y ago
The best intros to investors came to us from our customers.
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by il 14y ago
Angel and VC are completely different fundraising processes. An angel might commit to invest $50K after one 45 minute meeting. A VC could give you $5M, but it will always take multiple meetings, thorough due diligence, the approval of all t
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by il 14y ago
Why do you think that? If you're focusing 100% on raising money and taking meetings every day, 4-5 weeks spent fundraising is about average, at least in Silicon Valley.
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by il 14y ago
So how does this work if the winner is unable to form a coalition? Do they just keep having new elections every month?
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by il 14y ago
And owned by Microsoft.
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Founders p0wn investors(wired.com)
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by il 14y ago
Any plans for OS X support?
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by il 14y ago
I don't understand your point. If you're preparing for an opportunity that never comes, that preparation is wasted. Better to find as many opportunities to succeed as you can and try to seize them when they present themselves, even if you'r
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by il 14y ago
I don't think the possibility of a $50B exit vs a $100B exit will make any difference for most angel investors.
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by il 14y ago
MixRank cofounder here. We're fully compliant with all legal regulations- we only crawl publicly available data, like the ads on the page. Just as Google can index any page without violating terms, we index only a part of the page(the ads).
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by il 14y ago
Tech blogs make it look easy, but raising hundreds of thousands or millions in funding is actually very difficult-most startups try to raise money and fail. You could be the most brilliant engineer in the world, but if you're not good at sa
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by il 14y ago
I don't think this is good advice. If you have the burning desire to start a company, you should start the company and not worry about timing the market to ride the bubble. People start startups because they have a solution to a major probl
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How much are your eyeballs worth? [2000](money.cnn.com)
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by il 14y ago
I'm wondering why so many of them are looking for $200K or less. $200K is more of a friends and family sized round- it's very rarely enough to get a startup to Series A or profitability. It seems like saying you're raising a small amount se
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by il 14y ago
Airbnb is frequenty cited as a counterpoint to all the bubble talk because they have a real business model and are making money. Same goes for all the other highly valued YC companies(Dropbox,OMGPOP,Heroku,etc).
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by il 14y ago
I think he's saying that, because many first time entrepreneurs would happily take a $XX million offer to sell, most will sell early rather than holding out for a chance to be the next Dropbox. So even if the potential/expected value to be
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by il 15y ago
Craigslist is a horrendously mismanaged business. I wouldn't be surprised to see AirBnB dwarf Craigslist soon- that's the kind of company VCs want to invest in, not something like Craigslist that has been stagnating for years.
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by il 15y ago
VCs don't want your dividends, they want you to deploy that capital into growing the company.
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by il 15y ago
Well, YC only takes the top 3% of startups. If you believe that they have any skill at all at judging startups, that number should be a lot more than twice. Investors are not just counting on the fact that YC makes a company more successful

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