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by jedc 17y ago
I'm hoping to compile them; I just know that PG keeps accurate records. :)
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by jedc 17y ago
Interesting, and I agree that more and more YC clones are coming from outside the Valley. I guess the question is if the city/region has enough expertise to make a clone successful. Perhaps if focused on a more vertical field it has a bet
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by jedc 17y ago
Interesting... particularly as it's probably easier to build sufficient expertise in a vertical outside the normal geographies. The question to me is how many of these kinds of startups need seed-level funding versus proper VC funding? I
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by jedc 17y ago
I would love to be able to verify that, though I agree it looks to be true. My dream would to get a fairly comprehensive list of startups to come from all of the different programs, and see which of those are a) still in business, b) rec
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by jedc 17y ago
Exactly. I'm hoping to write a generalized framework to help guide others in what's important and what's not, and how to adapt it to specific goals!
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by jedc 17y ago
I didn't realize AlphaLab and DreamIt are funded by the state. But as part of my project I hope to recognize the different types of funding sources & people that are starting YC clones. I've even heard about companies that are looking
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by jedc 17y ago
My instinct is that I agree. But YC seems to be the top-tier choice for companies applying to the whole group of incubator-type programs. Is that because YC is seen as a better/bigger step toward connections and further investment?
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Ask HN: Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it?
25 points by jedc 17y ago|39 comments
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by jedc 17y ago
Since nearly the very beginning of Google proper (aka, not BackRub) they've had a separate search for government sites and for Linux. And also Universities... I vaguely remember both a University of Michigan and a Stanford search. (Larry
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by jedc 17y ago
And it makes a lot of sense for a lot of small businesses. My old boss/company could have saved a ton of cash had he just migrated to Google Apps instead of paying a part-time IT admin to maintain the MSFT Small Business Server / Exchange
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by jedc 17y ago
It reminds me of a contest my old hometown newspaper used to run each year: a treasure hunt with clues printed daily in the paper. It certainly helped boost readership rates! Yes, it's a bit odd, but it's a new way to get users to try IE8.
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by jedc 17y ago
Ouch. Big mistake, but great advice NOT to ignore the legal paperwork. As mind-numbing as it can be to go over contracts, NDA's, etc., you need to know what you're signing. At least in his case it was his father, so he didn't have to worr
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by jedc 17y ago
A quick usability thing... your main icon features an iPod, so my immediate thought was that it was something to manage photos/videos on an iPod/iPhone. That doesn't quite match to your app which is web & desktop based.
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by jedc 17y ago
Unfortunately you're incorrect. Accidents are very strictly defined, and none have happened in the history of the US Navy. There are incidents where reactor water is released into the sea. These are rare, and the radioactivity released i
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by jedc 18y ago
The technology is really simple. As we occasionally described it: "Hot rock -> make steam -> make boat go." The complexity really comes in the metalurgical issues, in my opinion. 40 years is a substantial period of time. And yes,
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by jedc 18y ago
Yes. My instinct is that for companies that need that "warm fuzzy" of support their contracts make sense.
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by jedc 18y ago
That's where a professional and well-trained workforce is important, with indepenent and very strong regulations. I'm a former US Navy submarine officer, and the US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors in some of the harshest environme
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by jedc 18y ago
YES. Don't even worry if your school doesn't offer the class for it. A friend of mine and I did self-study for one AP test, and started about 3-4 weeks before the text. I didn't "ace" it, but I got a high enough score that it got me out o
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by jedc 18y ago
While I hated these teachers when they were doing this, I've grown to appreciate their advice. I wish more did stuff like this.
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by jedc 18y ago
Surely it's not too different from what Scaled Composites had to do when they built/launched SpaceShipOne. (Yes, stationary launch is different from air-launched, but the regulatory approvals as I understand them have to do with space , n
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by jedc 18y ago
Disclaimer: I went to UMich. Go to Michigan. It's a great combination of a GREAT school, fantastic school spirit, and great college town. Also, as a hacker you might enjoy working on the Solar Car Team ( http://www.umsolar.com ) A few of
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by jedc 18y ago
I always enjoy chatting with people about the Monty Hall problem. That separates the people with flexible minds (or statistics knowledge) from all the rest...
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by jedc 18y ago
I've heard the NSA's got a computer or two that work reasonably well on stuff like this...
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by jedc 18y ago
Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft all come to mind. Yahoo and Microsoft for relevance to search, and Amazon as a bookseller. They're all big enough and technically competent enough to do it, in my opinion.
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by jedc 18y ago
Interesting. I used to be a Navy submarine officer, and qualified and ran our boats reactor. Not nearly the size of the plant he's talking about, but lets say that we needed to be able to handle bigger... transients. :) I'm glad he brough
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by jedc 18y ago
The thing that strikes me about all this craziness over Google Book Search is that Google did an extraordinary thing: they made significant progress toward scanning every book ever printed. With great effort (and risk) comes great reward.
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by jedc 18y ago
Of course for this to work, you have to have someone at/near the top that believes in it! (...says someone who used to work in a place that would have gotten me fired if I had worked like this.)
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by jedc 18y ago
Organizations are complex systems. Cherry-picking parts of one system (whether it's from Joel, 37signals, or anyone else) is essentially useless outside of the original context. It's why culture is so important to get right from the start
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by jedc 18y ago
Having ridden the Tube for years, this article is spot on . This is exactly the way that I think when trying to grab a seat.
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by jedc 18y ago
I understand that cycles can be stolen easily, but somehow I think cash might be a tipping point. The reason that spam works is that they only need a 0.00(ridiculous)1% response rate to make money. The risk of getting caught stealing vers

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