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by jnovek 18y ago
Adding to the anecdote: This is how I became a Twitter user. It's probably testable -- in fact, it sounds like an opportunity to pick up the Twitter API, which I've been meaning to do for some time now.
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by jnovek 18y ago
While I agree that users generally ignore notification bubbles in Windows, how should users receive notifications? I mean, sometimes you really do have to tell people stuff. Is it OK to pop up a notification bubble if you only do it every
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by jnovek 18y ago
Well, take this statement -- "In 2006, a study of nearly 3,000 nurses with breast cancer found that women without close friends were four times as likely to die from the disease as women with 10 or more friends." The results cited in the ar
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by jnovek 18y ago
No kidding. How is delivering a good user experience and designing a product-appropriate development process Apple's property? Shouldn't everyone who writes software try to do those things?
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by jnovek 18y ago
Today was the first day of our first billing mo. with our first customer. Our second customer will place us clearly in the realm of "Ramen Profitability". It took four ideas, a co-founder revolving door, one false start and copious amounts
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by jnovek 18y ago
If that's true, I think it's very interesting. I wonder if the security community will step up and take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the inherent security issues with the "secret question" method of account recovery.
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by jnovek 18y ago
Like everything else that we feel, I sense that we don't have a lot of control over who we feel great respect for... we only have the opportunity to justify it in hindsight. I think that the people that I respect the most are people that I
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by jnovek 18y ago
I think much of what we see here is the media engaging in the age-old sensationalist tradition of turning on its darlings. However, I think there is some legitimate discussion going on in these anti-YC articles. For example, it is an intere
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by jnovek 18y ago
I have a problem that I've seen mentioned on HN before, but I've never seen anyone with a good, "Here's what I did..." solution. I'm pretty certain that I'm not the only HN reader with this particular issue. Imagine (I'm not saying that I
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by jnovek 18y ago
Talking about regrets and mistakes s a funny thing. There is an implied hypothetical there -- like, "If I had made a different choice, I would be a in a better place." Take, for example, my (admittedly foolish) decision to drop out of the
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by jnovek 18y ago
The newest "AI on the web" strategy seems to center around this stuff -- computers do 95% of the work and rely on actual people when the law of diminishing returns kicks in. We have so many warm bodies on the internet with this marvelous (a
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by jnovek 18y ago
That implies that women have a greater biological imperative to reproduce than men. I don't know that that's true. Honestly, I see my "grad school clock" as an equally big, if not bigger, problem than anyone's biological clock. When you d
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by jnovek 18y ago
Why does there being fewer of them increase their likelihood of getting an opportunity to pitch? Because they are a curiosity?
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by jnovek 18y ago
I think that most intelligent women are capable of not getting pregnant while developing their startup.
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by jnovek 18y ago
So, geeks are mostly male right now. It makes sense that geek startups will be mostly male, as well. It's very difficult for women to break into any field that is male dominated. The fact is, just being different causes a woman to be trea
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by jnovek 18y ago
First, let me say, your comments are very insightful. You force me to amend my position a bit. :-) Regarding your first point -- you are right. Google can't really be like VC. As a company, they are not expected to have failures. Lookin
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by jnovek 18y ago
Ivan, Thanks. Playcrafter looks seriously fun. They look like they could be a big hit -- I'll keep my eye out for them when they have a public release. What does Sproost do? Are they still in "stealth" mode, or is there a press release s
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by jnovek 18y ago
Perhaps the big difference between Google now and Yahoo then is: Google has more cash than they know what to do with. They aren't "taking a gamble" on some new markets, think of it more like VC. As long as they monetize a couple things in
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by jnovek 18y ago
Out of curiosity -- are you guys aware of startups out there that have a female co-founder? I'm aware of TipJoy ( http://www.tipjoy.com ), but no others. Also, anybody around here have a female co-founder on their team? If you ARE the fem
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by jnovek 18y ago
I hate to be nitpicky, but is Ning one of the "valley's 150 biggest corporations"?
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by jnovek 18y ago
I don't really agree that you can go from "Hey, I've got this great idea!" to a spec in 7 minute and 30 seconds for most features; for many of our user stories we debated for hours. This, of course, might just be a sign that we chose vague
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by jnovek 18y ago
"Sell to whom exactly?" And buy what? I agree with Marc's core premise -- monolithic media is going down -- and I suspect that diversification is the answer. But there doesn't seem to be clear information on where the media markets are he
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by jnovek 18y ago
It's interesting to note that Clinton opposes the FISA bill. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/09/obama-clinton-split... I suspect that a large part o this is good old fashioned politicin'. If very liberal Democrats find Obama's posi
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by jnovek 18y ago
This sort of leads me to an epiphany -- a large part of what makes new startups interesting (and possibly palatable for acquisition) is how they choose to sort data. I think a good recipe for a startup (in the current climate on the 'net,
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Ask YC: When and how did you start showing off your product?
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by jnovek 18y ago
I took up photography for the same reason -- keep as far away from the dreaded monitor while I was off work. If I step back and think about it, it's sort of surreal that all the hard work I do in my day job is just flip-flopping bits of da
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by jnovek 18y ago
"I don't have any personal projects anymore, not because I don't have time, but just because I just don't _feel_ like it." This is very similar to my workforce blues that I got after I finished school. I became very apathetic; being at the
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by jnovek 18y ago
We've been using Basecamp + Campfire for a few weeks on our project, and I have to say that I really like it so far. I AM really concerned about the amount of content in our Basecamp site growing out of control -- already, I have to scroll
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by jnovek 18y ago
If you're not interested in the criticism offered, a good strategy is to politely thank everyone for their comments, possibly briefly explaining why you made the decisions you did. An even better strategy is to completely ignore them. Espe
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by jnovek 18y ago
"but he also blatantly disregards useful advice from potential customers (and recognized experts in the field), and in many cases directly insults them" I think he's possibly does worse than making an ass of himself. As "some random guy" w

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