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by kevin 11y ago
Use the email address. Send me a link to verify to connect the two.
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by kevin 11y ago
Let me start with some disclosure: We funded a company to do exactly this. I won’t mention them here as a courtesy to you, but know that I will have some bias as I go through this. When I advise startups about landing pages, I usually refer
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by kevin 11y ago
Whoa, this app is feature packed. It's all pretty straight forward except for this part in the beginning : http://cl.ly/image/1d3q2Q3S0029 Why would I click on the hamburger menu icon to add a weight? Seems like I
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by kevin 11y ago
I love static websites. Most of our YC websites are static (www, startupschool, femalefounders, fellowship, etc.) Problem is I'm not sure we've really seem any great innovation here in regards to nontechnical adoption since Movabl
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by kevin 11y ago
Alright so the first hiccup I rant into was when you sent me a postscript telling me that using WhatsApp or Facebook messenger is a better experience. Well, I wanted better so I started going down that path. Unfortunately, I didn’t know how
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by kevin 11y ago
This is so well done! There are so many little touches here that delights me like the keyboard shortcuts for jumping right in and the LaTeX support. Even though this started off as a learning project for you, know that this is probably bett
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How California Is Winning the Drought(nytimes.com)
148 points by kevin 11y ago|191 comments
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Second Measure (YC S15) Offers Live Data Analysis of Public/Private Companies(techcrunch.com)
31 points by kevin 11y ago|8 comments
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Locent (YC S15) Lets Businesses Sell Products via Text Message(techcrunch.com)
17 points by kevin 11y ago|10 comments
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Ironclad (YC S15) Is an Automated Legal Assistant for Companies(techcrunch.com)
95 points by kevin 11y ago|53 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
It's a layer of abstraction. Like Uber or APIs or development frameworks like Rails. The layer of abstraction allows other people, services, companies and ideas to be built on top of them. For example, Instacart and Uber allow neighbor
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YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks(techcrunch.com)
224 points by kevin 11y ago|235 comments
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Shred Video (YC S15) Turns Hours of Video into a Montage in Seconds(techcrunch.com)
66 points by kevin 11y ago|40 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
Yes. http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#probability
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by kevin 11y ago
http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#commitment
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by kevin 11y ago
Yup.
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Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding(techcrunch.com)
218 points by kevin 11y ago|137 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
Get out of beta. You're artificially constraining growth. For example, I wanted to try it out. Couldn't. 1 user lost. You will struggle your entire startup's life trying to get as many people to use you as possible. It's
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by kevin 11y ago
Are you working on this by yourself?
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by kevin 11y ago
Our profit sharing plan pretty much followed the two pool approach. Here's a decent resource covering it: http://www.pearlmeyer.com/Pearl/media/PearlMeyer/PDF/PMP-WAW... That is, of course, if you h
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by kevin 11y ago
Your language here is what I prefer. You wrote this: "professionals in tech that wouldn't mind making $170k to do literally nothing but proxy votes for their district" This description of your first candidates is what I find
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by kevin 11y ago
Users will always ask for more features. Your job is to curate. When you recommend a book or a movie, you don't tell the entire synopsis to get someone to read or watch. You figure out how to curate the recommendation. No different for
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by kevin 11y ago
Yes, people are selfish. That's why you should think of what you can offer them that will make them want to sit in the car for 10-15 minutes longer. That's why unique content came to my head, I've sat in driveways much longer
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by kevin 11y ago
Being a PAC sounds like the most expensive way to do this. Usually, that's not a good way to do a startup. Also, this sounds so cynical. I'd start with the true believers. People who believe this is the best way to represent the p
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by kevin 11y ago
My gut tells me to work on the features that alleviates the bigger hair on fire problem for the customer. Usually, startups have less pressing needs for security than large enterprises, but I can actually see how your tech opens up a lot of
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by kevin 11y ago
I think you go freemium if the market is large enough to support the idea that if you just convert a small percentage of customers, you'll still be a successful company. If the answer is yes it's large enough, then whatever strate
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by kevin 11y ago
Curious. What are the differences in features being asked?
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by kevin 11y ago
What practical application is your chip best for? What can we do with your chip that we won't be able to do with the current line of chips coming in the next few years if they stay on the current path? The biggest problem for hard tech
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by kevin 11y ago
Hey guys, good to hear from you again! Why do think your company is a B2C company? You're selling the software to politicians / political organizations. The consumer awareness part of this will be handled by your customers if this
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by kevin 11y ago
When I think about marketplace problems, I ideally want to solve one side of the equation at a time. That means understanding whether this is supply constrained or demand constrained. Looks like you have an abundance of demand (people who w

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