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by jl 11y ago
Haters are very demoralizing/depressing personally but more dangerously they say things that people start believing as the truth (and it usually isn't).
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by jl 12y ago
Yes, there were so many technical snafus with my set-up that I eventually wound up giving up on these.
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by jl 12y ago
Part of what inspired me to dig these up today was the spamwall.
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by jl 12y ago
When I read the headline, my first thought was, "This must be a guest post on TechCrunch."
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by jl 12y ago
P.S. Carolynn Levy was in the interview and she is a 44-year-old woman. I'm not sure how she was mistaken for a young boy.
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by jl 12y ago
Bikanta, Ginko Bioworks, Helion, 20n, Farmlogs, uPower...
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FFC: Adora Cheung of Homejoy (YC S10) on Scaling Your Company(youtube.com)
2 points by jl 12y ago|0 comments
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by jl 12y ago
You'd be surprised how often people don't follow what seems like obvious advice.
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by jl 12y ago
We've been doing pretty much the same things since we started in 2005: we've never given specific feedback about rejections at the application stage (it wasn't going to scale even when we only got a few hundred applications).
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Students Grade Teachers and Panorama Education (YC S13) Harnesses the Data(nytimes.com)
22 points by jl 12y ago|0 comments
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by jl 12y ago
Nothing too specific. I read this article last week and found it appalling: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/07/what-it...
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by jl 12y ago
Your point is a good one, but, in the case of Adora, you may be missing some of the facts. She was an accomplished programmer and had worked for Max Levchin at Slide, where he was so impressed with her that he agreed to be one of her first
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by jl 12y ago
Thanks nqureshi for making these notes. Unfortunately, I couldn't travel to this Startup School and am really missing it (missed live stream, too, because I'm with my kids). I'm most curious to know if attendees enjoyed the t
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by jl 12y ago
I'd recommend limiting your attendance to one. Our goal with SUS has always been to share a lot of useful and inspirational advice from startup experts. We'd like to keep as many seats open as possible for people who've never
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by jl 12y ago
Congrats Amanda!
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by jl 12y ago
If you did not get a response and you did not apply late, please be sure to check your spam folder.
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by jl 12y ago
This article was of course a distilled version of a much longer conversation. The uneven equity split that causes problems is usually along the lines of 75% vs. 25%-- or worse, when one founder gets 10% or less. We see this happen quite of
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by jl 12y ago
I found myself saying to the reporter over and over, "This may seem obvious, but..." and it's true that many of ideas don't seem like anything new. But because I see them happen over and over again, I thought they were i
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by jl 13y ago
Congratulations to Andrew for all your wonderful interviews since 2008! Glad to be a part of the celebration. I meant to ask you during my interview: what have you found is a secret to getting people to open up and share their most interest
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Andrew Warner's Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview(mixergy.com)
173 points by jl 13y ago|32 comments
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by jl 13y ago
As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, that's for sure. I don't think he ever planned it that way and I&#
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by jl 13y ago
It's funny, I just wrote a blog post yesterday about how I don't contribute to many public discussions because I'm too afraid of the hostility that can come along with my participation (I'm pretty thin skinned). I haven&
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by jl 13y ago
"We didn't think we were what YC was looking for..." I'm so glad you took the time to apply! Your idea was slightly different back then, but I remember how impressive you were during the YC interview. As you said in your
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by jl 13y ago
I learned several interesting things from Sam's post actually (I'm Jessica, one of the founders of Y Combinator). I hadn't known that women really want more YC women in the interviews. That would have been hard at first, when
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by jl 13y ago
After attending the conference, I'm even more convinced that 2014 could be the tipping point. I was blown away by both the depth and quality of the presentations. There was a degree of openness that I've really only seen at a YC d
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by jl 13y ago
My role isn't changing at YC. I'm sure our clever son will have PG working on all sorts of projects for him in no time.
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by jl 13y ago
Sam, you already know this, but I just want to say publicly how happy we are to have you leading YC.
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by jl 13y ago
Yes, we are planning to stream this. Check out the conference site closer to March 1 for more details.
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by jl 13y ago
We want to give priority to women, since we have limited space.
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Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)(blog.ycombinator.com)
216 points by jl 13y ago|275 comments

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