jimboyoungblood

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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Swaziland. Makes no difference to us americans.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Not your imagination. Posted four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179649 Of course, eCrush, crushlink, and many others did this years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_matching
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
How many of your users are actively using the site?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Newsflash: Flickr Beats PicPlz To An API.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Don't forget Eli!
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
No, actually it's about saving $22K.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
If so, I'd hate to see what a severe case looks like.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
instead of traveling, maybe you should try to start your own business with that capital instead. for someone with the degenerate poker player personality type, the only sustainable career paths are vagrancy and owning a business.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The job is crushing your soul. Quit and go do something you give a damn about.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I think he was being sarcastic. At least I hope so.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I imagine putting up an anti-Google billboard in SF had something to do with it.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Fair enough. But in their defense, neither of them were expecting to do this interview. Hermione was there (i/o ventures in SF) filming some other interviews, and Scott just happened to be in the building at the same time.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
What would make an interview "useful" in your opinion?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
What you just said. Tell him you want him as an investor, but that you can handle the other stuff just fine yourself. If he has a problem with that, you don't want his money anyway.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
This blog post could be utterly wrong and, absent someone screaming bloody murder enough to embarrass The New Yorker, not affect their reputation one iota. Except that if it were utterly wrong, somebody would scream bloody murder, and i
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Or in other words, reputation does matter.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2124262
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The names you cite have pretty good advice to give, but they also have obvious incentives for doing so. That is, they are all trying to sell something to aspiring entrepreneurs. As are you, judging from your website. For those who are not l
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
If you're only 6 months in, you have no idea where your startup will end up. Your advice might be helping others, but it's also possible you're leading them off a cliff.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with writing about one-off experiences. For someone in similar circumstances, such advice could prove to be the most valuable. What's awful are the articles written by first-time entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs who hav
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Judging from their homepage, I'd guess they sell bowties for ducks.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The research is part of the European Union-backed SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) and it's the first time that "vehicle platooning" technology has been demonstrated outside of a simulator. Uh, the PATH Project at Ber
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
In other words, it's insipid marketing fluff. A silicon valley version of "Just Do It"
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I think owning the social mobile space is a great idea!
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
You should offer to sell it to one of their competitors. That might increase its perceived value a bit.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
They kinda all look the same to me. Pretty, but unmemorable.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Agreed that it looks a lot like formspring. But according to Crunchbase, formspring raised a $10MM series B just over a month ago (well after the decline was obvious). I wouldn't be surprised if some of that went directly into the founders'
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Yup, all those YC CEO's are sure rolling in the dough.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
You are using CEO salaries of publicly traded companies as comps for the "CEO" of a startup journalism nonprofit (with NO employees to manage, as of the CEO's first day on the job). You don't see anything wrong with that?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
1) In general, the database is always the bottleneck. It's easy to throw up more webservers- can't do that with db's. 2) Throw up an ad or two, with the goal of having the ad revenue pay your server costs. This will allow you to not worry

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