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by johnrob 16y ago
I've encountered bugs that were not reproducible due to the speed of local socket connections. I had to use a remote server to debug.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Definitely a frustrating story to read. That said, two things stand out: 1) Deals fall through. PG et all write about this all the time. It's probably easy to figure why they fail in hindsight, but that doesn't make them any easier to ma
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by johnrob 16y ago
It's backwards because, if this trend continues, every publisher is going to be supporting x different versions of y different platforms. iOS 2,3,4 + android 1,2 + chrome + mozilla ... etc. Standard web development has it's own support pro
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by johnrob 16y ago
What the author is really saying: "Build a business, not a slide deck".
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by johnrob 16y ago
Starting early certainly isn't a requisite, but it can be a pretty big advantage in most fields.
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by johnrob 16y ago
It didn't mess up my life, but when I was in high school the conventional wisdom was that being well rounded helped you get into good colleges. I spent a lot of time playing team sports and the saxophone; neither of those are hobbies of mi
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by johnrob 16y ago
In what way are the 'legit' applicants conservative? Normally that term would imply less risk combined with less reward, but I would think these applications merely offer less risk.
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by johnrob 16y ago
I assumed the large numbers were dates, when they are actually times (13 = 1 pm, not the 13th). I'd either use 'am/pm' or add ':00' to each time to make this more apparent. Large numbers inside boxes is a similar pattern to calendars, whi
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by johnrob 16y ago
I would try to get the company to answer these questions: - Which is the most likely exit?: 10 MM, 100MM, 1B, 10B? - Which best approximates my ownership?: .0001%, .001%, .01%, .1%? If you can get answers to these, it's probably enough of a
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by johnrob 16y ago
Do you like the investor? Would you want him to be involved even if you didn't need the money? If so, do your best negotiating and take the money. If not, either do consulting work or get jobs and work nights and weekends. Giving signifi
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by johnrob 16y ago
For a moment I thought this was a tool to help you apply to all the different incubators... the name (incubatorincubator) would be a good one if you actually wanted to create such a service.
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by johnrob 16y ago
It all seems like chump change when compared to the holdings of the CEO and founders (according to the article they hold over half the stock). Google is in amazing entity when you think about that. The smartest people in the world work th
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by johnrob 16y ago
At this point, you guys have seen a significant slice of the startup world. Has YC ever thought about how large your batches could become? You've said several times that the only real limit is the number of quality teams... but have you e
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by johnrob 16y ago
Hacker News is reasonably guilty of this. How many headlines have we seen with something like (YC W10) in it?
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by johnrob 16y ago
Actually, it's a great thing! Since you hate schmoozing (I do too), this is good news - there are other people out there that will do some of it for you (or, more accurately, give you access to the fruits of years of schmoozing). Every in
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by johnrob 16y ago
Great question. That 5K will seem cheap when the lawyer you work with starts introducing you to angel investors. The valley is ALL about connections. Everybody here is a full time network-er. The job title, such as 'Lawyer', is just som
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by johnrob 16y ago
Can you say with confidence that any of them will address these three needs well enough, and for enough developers, to ensure a steady supply of quality software? If one of these tablets supports flash in its web browser, then it will hav
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by johnrob 16y ago
"Type like you would in MS Word" might be better.
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by johnrob 16y ago
The submissions are missing the most important part - founder bios.
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by johnrob 16y ago
You might avoid doing certain write-esque operations if you know you are in test mode. For example, you wouldn't want to charge a credit card or update someone's facebook status.
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by johnrob 16y ago
The fact that on the mobile screen there’s just not room for that stuff makes me increasingly wonder how much we really need it. So true. It's so bad on the (normal) web these days that I often visit the mobile version even from my compu
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by johnrob 16y ago
I was asking myself a similar question - do people want out of debt bad enough to cut spending? Even if the answer is no, you can still make money from people's desires. Gyms are the best example - they sell access, but it's up to you to u
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by johnrob 16y ago
It may be spyware, but I'd still like the option of installing it if I want to. Nobody every said freedom came without flaws.
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by johnrob 16y ago
The 10K/mo fee buys access to press connections that PR firms have spent years cultivating. Bringing a large block of ice to Moscone does not require any previous experience, just effort.
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by johnrob 16y ago
I was under the impression that good PR firms cost 10k/mo or more, which is much more than one should be paying for stuff like this.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Someone should start a PR firm that focuses only on stunts! If the press is willing to write articles about stunts, that legitimizes the method in my book. Think how much people pay to get press, and think about how cheap these gags are.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Let advertisers leave a voice message. In most cases, the call will go to voicemail (even if the person finds the phone they'll probably ignore the call).
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by johnrob 16y ago
The type of employees YC companies look to hire are probably never in need of jobs (thus they will have problems hiring, in any market). To solve the problem mentioned on the news segment, we need companies that (for lack of better words)
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by johnrob 16y ago
I think YC should consider removing the "describe your idea" portion of the application. I can imagine that there's some value in it for the reviewers, but I'm pretty sure its presence inevitably causes applicants to over value it (and und
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by johnrob 16y ago
Years ago, my boss at the time told me that every 5 or so years, the hot trend switches between client-based and server-based architecture. It was probably 2004 at the time, and web apps were getting hot. He was definitely right. ~6 years

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