kevin

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   by kevin 12y ago

   We send emails to everyone. If you didn't get one, email us at apps at ycombinator dot com
2. 182.▲
   by kevin 12y ago

   We do still allow late apps. We're working on the problem and hope to have it back up soon. Sorry guys!
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   by kevin 12y ago

   I believe Taro would be the first person to tell founders they should NOT follow their path to building a company. In retrospect, he realizes how ridiculously naive they were. The lesson that I take away from their story is that even if you
4. 184.▲
   by kevin 12y ago

   You're right that most people's experiences don't turn out this way, but that's why it's worth reading. I also think it's unfair to say that this is nothing more than clickbait. It's easy to see a lesson a
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   by kevin 12y ago

   "We started in January 2012, and may still be the only Asian YC founders ever." So that is not true. 9gag is from Hong Kong. Semantics3 is from Singapore. Strikingly is from China. Memebox is from Korea. Cleartax is from India. Th
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   by kevin 12y ago

   No. We don't remove nor can we edit your apps. If you don't see a url by that video question, it means we didn't get the link.
7. 187.▲
   by kevin 12y ago

   Never used them, so I don't really have an opinion on oDesk specifically. I like my process to be as simple as possible and rely on hiring remarkable people. Those people tend to just do their jobs and do them well.
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   by kevin 12y ago

   Hmmm...I don't know. It was great being able to send all the customers a card that first year. That said, if we had done it every week, we probably would have gotten through all of them too. I actually liked the weekly cards better tha
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   by kevin 12y ago

   Yes, we'd definitely do it the same way again. To be honest, there certainly might be more than 3 (it's hard to keep track of 700 companies!). The Zapier guys write a lot of great stuff on remote working on their blog.
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    by kevin 12y ago

    I've not seen that post, but I'll read anything with dinosaurs in it. Fromm's ideas are very interesting to me. The one you think doesn't apply (about getting users' feelings), actually does. I talked about it a bit
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    by kevin 12y ago

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-start-a-startup/i...
12. 192.▲
    by kevin 12y ago

    Ugh. Definitely not Bartlett's material. I now see why pg writes down all his presentations.
13. 193.▲
    by kevin 12y ago

    You can access the slides for the talk here: https://kivo.com/p/Ga9PIsNe
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    by kevin 12y ago

    Thanks to Nick Sivo for turning these around so fast. I think it takes YouTube awhile to add automated closed captions to the videos (couple of days if I remember last time). Because they're not great, we're also in the process of
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    by kevin 12y ago

    Thanks to Nick Sivo for turning these around so fast. I think it takes YouTube awhile to add automated closed captions to the videos (couple of days if I remember last time). Because they're not great, we're also in the process of
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    Startup School SV 2014 Videos(youtube.com)

    7 points by kevin 12y ago|1 comments
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    Twenty Milliseconds: What works and what doesn't in VR interface design(twentymilliseconds.com)

    1 points by kevin 12y ago|0 comments
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    Red Blob Games (redblobgames.com)

    2 points by kevin 12y ago|0 comments
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    by kevin 12y ago

    This is so cynical. If you ask any alumni, you'd know that we spend most of the time during the program to tell startups NOT to even think about fundraising. 11 weeks of the program is focused on them talking to users and building stuf
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    by kevin 12y ago

    Yes, we'll put them on YouTube like the other Startup Schools. It does take awhile for us to transcribe the talks for closed captions, so that might take a week. but the videos will hopefully be up by Monday.
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    by kevin 12y ago

    We don't roll our own, we use a third party. Regardless, we're sorry for the issues everyone is having! Hopefully, it'll all get ironed out for everyone.
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    Startup School Silicon Valley 2014 Live Stream(ycomstream.com)

    67 points by kevin 12y ago|37 comments
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    by kevin 12y ago

    It's not just about story stream, it was also about different users needing to see different things based on settings, permissions and function outside HN...until recently, the software that powered YC and powered HN were the same. Lik
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    by kevin 12y ago

    Wouldn't exactly describe Hacker News as failing. It allowed one person to run a site for a growing community in his spare time and the sacrifice was the occasional expired link for some of its users. Not only do I think it was a fairl
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    by kevin 12y ago

    There are two people dedicated to HN development. Daniel and Scott. Four other people from the YC software team also contribute, but not full time because they have to also work on other projects: Nick, Brett, Trevor and myself. Other peopl
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    by kevin 12y ago

    Written by dang in response to a question asked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423482
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    What we did about expired links on HN(pastebin.com)

    192 points by kevin 12y ago|96 comments
28. 208.▲
    by kevin 12y ago

    You really want to use the Firebase SDKs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423055
29. 209.▲
    by kevin 12y ago

    Oh and if you guys build anything cool with the API, please let us know at api@ycombinator.com.
30. 210.▲
    by kevin 12y ago

    Use the Firebase libraries rather than the REST one to efficiently handle requests. I believe it uses a websocket internally. "It does all the work for you and is awesome." to quote Nick.