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by justin 16y ago
Facebook could block Greplin upon an acquisition by Google. Allowing Greplin to get Facebook data by using the Facebook API (which it does) is much different than allowing Google to get EVERYONE'S data by spidering. One involves consent by
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by justin 16y ago
This was more my tongue-in-cheek personal opinion than a recipe to startup success. Please feel free to like other types of music.
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by justin 16y ago
Yeah, I think it was pretty obvious, which is why in retrospect it seems stupid that we weren't pursuing it in the beginning. But I distinctly remember that after launch we debated which direction we should go (options included becoming a l
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by justin 16y ago
I disagree that our idea was bad because lifecasting had been done before. First of all, you are calling it "lifecasting" because we thought of and popularized that term, and the fact that we were similar to two movies didn't prevent the id
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by justin 16y ago
The trolls are rampant and ill-informed. Socialcam is a Justin.tv project under a new brand and all of the founders are still with the company. Only someone without a functional understanding of basic math could look at our funding history
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by justin 16y ago
We still might not know what we are doing... you never know.
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by justin 16y ago
We tried hard to make it seem like we knew what we were doing :) It was a challenge.
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by justin 16y ago
1. A fairly shitty AJAX prototype of a calendar website. You could drag and drop appointments and add new ones, drag to resize, and turn on and off multiple calendars. (This was 2005) 2. Yes.
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by justin 16y ago
You should link their site. I wanted to go to it, but there was no link so I gave up.
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by justin 16y ago
That's the way to do it ;)
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by justin 16y ago
We have an in-house street fighter league at Justin.tv actually, and play every day at lunch.
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by justin 16y ago
Are you coming up, Jason?
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Startupcraft 2 (a Starcraft tournament for Startups in SF) announced(startupcraftsf.com)
56 points by justin 16y ago|28 comments
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by justin 16y ago
I am sorry about that. We try to make it clear that the trial pro account is a trial that upgrades in the copy. If you want to send me an email I can make sure to refund you.
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by justin 16y ago
We will consider it.
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by justin 16y ago
That was a trollish comment but I'll bite. 150k is not going to get a company very far, and certainly not far enough to reinvent the startup model completely. Building a team is still a critical part of building a YC (or any other) company,
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by justin 16y ago
When I first got into Y Combinator, our company with two founders straight out of college with no prior software engineering or startup experience and a prototype calendar demo was valued at 300k. We were ecstatic. That was the best deal I'
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by justin 16y ago
A special ID that gives you status isn't so hard to imagine: it is basically like the Black Card, which is actually pretty shitty in terms of benefits but rich people (and people who want to appear rich) want anyways because it is a status
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by justin 16y ago
Yes, there is. You should tell customers to go away when they cost you more than they earn you. Costs come in many forms, both monetary and emotional. If dealing with specific complaining users damages team morale, then perhaps the company
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by justin 16y ago
New year, new brand. In all seriousness, I promise we will explain this later.
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Justin.tv guys launching new mobile video app Socialcam(socialcam.com)
99 points by justin 16y ago|29 comments
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Justin.tv is hiring software engineers [SF](jobs.justin.tv)
33 points by justin 16y ago
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by justin 16y ago
Well, news flash: so is everyone else. Hence all the things you hate about our culture.
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by justin 16y ago
... aggressive use of basic arithmetic is required to understand Facebook's model compared to high cost, physical goods. If Facebook makes $.10 in advertising off 500m people a month, and each person costs $.05 to serve, that is $25 million
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by justin 16y ago
How "important" work is is only one factor in the creation of value. How much you produce, how it is valued by other people, what your margins are, what your future revenue streams will be -- these things are all factored into company value
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by justin 16y ago
Can't agree more. Doing something ridiculous led to us creating the largest live video site. I try to do ridiculous shit all the time for the hell of it, just to practice thinking unconventionally. Last month I ran through a carwash with my
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Justin.tv hiring summer software engineering interns [SF](jobs.justin.tv)
34 points by justin 16y ago
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by justin 16y ago
We were specifically thinking in terms of time based contextual advertising. I.e. showing you an ad for a Taylor Swift concert if you had a free Friday night (because you didn't have any events on your calendar) and we knew you liked pop mu
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by justin 16y ago
This is the first time I've looked at our app since we sent it in (that I can recall), and I was extremely surprised about how prescient we were on some things. Not only Google Calendar, but who would be potential acquirers (we were talking
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by justin 16y ago
Yeah, I remember that they were based on valuations. I'm almost positive the valuation you gave us was 300k (can't remember if that was pre or post though), so the 12k was 4%. I knew the demo cinched in for us (remember, this was back when

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