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by iseff 18y ago
Heh, I totally agree. Unfortunately, these tasks do have to be done at some point, and they aren't the goal of your startup, so they do take you off-course. Minimizing the time they take would be a good thing, I think.
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Ask HN: What tasks stop you from working on your product?
11 points by iseff 18y ago|36 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
Yeah, but if I did it, I would sell for a billion dollars. :)
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HN Seattle meetup tonight, 7:30, at University Zoka(news.ycombinator.com)
13 points by iseff 18y ago|4 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
Now remove the period at the end of the URL. :)
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by iseff 18y ago
P.S. One of the ones that I do have on my list of companies that failed is The New York Times and its TimesSelect program.
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Ask YC: Examples of freemium companies that did not work?
2 points by iseff 18y ago|1 comments
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Nate Silver (of FiveThirtyEight) on Colbert Report(uchiblogo.uchicago.edu)
3 points by iseff 18y ago|0 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
The irony? AFAIK TechCrunch hasn't taken any cash, and is profitable. By this measure, TC is not well-suited to survive the downturn.
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More About My Project: The Windows Explorer of the Web(blog.openomy.com)
6 points by iseff 18y ago|5 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
I'm impressed. A kid has the guts to go out, follow his idea, meet some well-connected folks, sell those folks, get some funding, execute on his idea, and then sell the NYTimes on it. Reminds me of a quote I read from John Mackey, founder/C
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America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2008(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by iseff 18y ago|0 comments
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The Vision For An Online File System (blog.openomy.com)
1 points by iseff 18y ago|0 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
What? Really? 1. "It's not evil." Okay, because it asks if you want a different default search engine, it's not evil. You're entitled to your opinion. 2. "It’s fast, minimalist and clean." Right, but it's not that much faster, it's ugly, an
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Interview with David Karp, founder of Tumblr(mediabistro.com)
1 points by iseff 18y ago|0 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
Interesting. I took away: Always maintain a hunger for learning and good things happen to those who do, not talk.
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Entrepreneurship Advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe(getrichslowly.org)
22 points by iseff 18y ago|5 comments
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So Much for One Person, One Vote (How Oprah influenced the democratic primaries)(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by iseff 18y ago|16 comments
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Proving your concept by rolling out slowly(iseff.com)
13 points by iseff 18y ago|1 comments
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The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance(finance.yahoo.com)
38 points by iseff 18y ago|40 comments
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Great quotes from Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds(royal.pingdom.com)
38 points by iseff 18y ago|18 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
Really? It's not clear to me that they are an obvious pair. Google really excels at building technical solutions to challenging problems, while Digg has done a great job building a community-based solution to a challenging problem. It seems
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How To Earn Your First Love Dollar(stevepavlina.com)
3 points by iseff 18y ago|10 comments
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by iseff 18y ago
http://featureorbug.com/post/25634511/david-barack-obama-how... (video)
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by iseff 18y ago
It's shocking how well replacing "Microsoft" for "Google" and "1989" with "2008" works.
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by iseff 18y ago
I was just going to say this. Two striking examples: 1) Last week my girlfriend, by far not a hacker or nerd, said she wanted to join Twitter. She's joined, and found many of her also non-technically savvy friends on it as well. It's becomi
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by iseff 18y ago
Please don't get to work scaling your architecture yet. Work on making your app awesome and wanted by lots of people. Trust me, I've been bitten by this problem myself. It's so easy to get really worried about the number of hits you're goin
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by iseff 18y ago
Well, MSFT does actually have a fair amount of office space and employees in the Valley, so I'm not sure the effect would actually be that great. The "SVC" (Silicon Valley Campus) actually houses some interesting projects.. I think, from Go
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TechStars: Starting your Startup [video](techstars.org)
3 points by iseff 18y ago|2 comments
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Meet Your New Recruits: They Want to Eat Your Lunch(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by iseff 18y ago|0 comments

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