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by kovar 16y ago
Ahh, I didn't know it had hit the vernacular. Thank you.
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by kovar 16y ago
You've been associated with California LE, or similar, me thinks. Edit: Apparently Van Halen used "5150" for an album title. Shows how out of touch I am.
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by kovar 16y ago
It isn't just the industry, it is the entire economy that suffers. The rush of funds to the industry drives demands for service industries and their jobs, among other things. When the bubble bursts, the industry certainly takes a hit, but s
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by kovar 16y ago
Man, my head is in the wrong place, I keep seeing "IED" when someone writes "IDE"....
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by kovar 16y ago
I wonder if encouraging people to digitally record everyone around them will lead to legal troubles at some point? Back in the day when I shot film, I'd often get the subject to sign a model release. Society and technology have changed a lo
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by kovar 16y ago
I'm trying to ignore the market as it really has little significant impact on what I'm doing. The effects it has on me are: - It is creating a scarcity in developer resources. This just forces me to relearn how to write good software, defin
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by kovar 16y ago
So, of the $41M, $3M goes to technologists and $38M goes to ad agencies? Hmmmm....
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by kovar 16y ago
You assume that we have a small set of data points, which is a really bad assumption, even if you were just making it about me, personally. Assuming that the HN community commenting on this bubble/not bubble doesn't have a lot of experience
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by kovar 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, why did you hide the other URLs behind bit.ly but not your own?
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by kovar 16y ago
I'm sure I am missing something, but if this is the desired behavior, why not mandate it in the UI, why give users the option to not use the bookmarklet?
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Python, open source, and fast web application stacks in the mainstream news.(news.yahoo.com)
3 points by kovar 16y ago|0 comments
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by kovar 16y ago
- If it is going to take them a few years to get to their eventual, profitable, goal, why invest $41M now? Why not invest $20M now and another $21M when they're on the track that will be truly profitable, once they've demonstrated where the
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by kovar 16y ago
To that end, a VC friend of mine pointed me to this collection of legal and funding documents for startups - http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/... I've used Nolo Press to set up several companies and non-profits.
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by kovar 16y ago
Just checking - have you seen TrunkClub.com? I've not used them, but some of what you're doing seems to be similar to their offering.
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by kovar 16y ago
I disagree - my chances of success are far higher than 1% without YC, and I think most other applicants feel the same way.
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by kovar 16y ago
I think my major take home from the process is that I don't need YC to succeed. I still have an application in, and will certainly appreciate the opportunity should we be accepted, but being accepted is far from make or break.
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by kovar 16y ago
Yep. You can apparently down vote for any reason you like. Figuring out why you were downvoted is part of the game...
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by kovar 16y ago
The issue is inebriation, not time of day ....
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by kovar 16y ago
I tried using sedo to obtain a domain that has been parked for eight years. The initial asking price was $15,000. I countered with $150. A response came back within five minutes for $14,900. I countered with $250. The other side cancelled t
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by kovar 16y ago
This happened during the dot com era. Beer busts, Friday afternoons initially, but expanding into other time slots, were the norm. Then HR and legal started looking at liability issues and the frequency of such events dropped off. We'd go o
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by kovar 16y ago
When I see posts such as this, I wonder what problems were encountered that required engagement with customer service, and what the expectations were. If the expectations were unreasonable, customer service is certain to get a bad rep. I've
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by kovar 16y ago
If there are other startup mentors, not VCs, lurking here who'd be interested in discussing a SaaS offering that will likely create a destabilizing event for the ediscovery market, please drop me a line. I've got five years in that market a
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by kovar 16y ago
I do not believe that anyone is saying that you should judge an individual based on one mistake, or one interaction with a waitress. However, the advice is to look at this incident in context, seek out trends (or the lack of trends), and ad
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by kovar 16y ago
The trick is finding an effective way to include this in your story. YC isn't, or shouldn't, be your only incubator option and others will require you to communicate your story with very few words. (And just because YC doesn't require it do
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by kovar 16y ago
In certain contexts, this happens frequently. However, I know that some firms ask their employees not to do this as it gives competitive intelligence information away. Your profile shows who you work for, and if you have it enabled, LinkedI
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by kovar 16y ago
LinkedIn is what you make of it. And if you're saying "LinkedIn is full of fakes", or "it is for the unemployed" then I suspect that you're only looking at a small segment of it. Any community will have outliers, and the fakes and unemploye
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by kovar 16y ago
Finding good talent elsewhere is non-trivial, but with some care it is much easier. We're currently doing our development in WA (one founder), NH (lead developer, almost founder), and IL. If we get into one of the Bay Area programs, I'll mo
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by kovar 16y ago
No, he's wrong and you were right - they are ads.
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by kovar 16y ago
I am looking at my paid version of Angry Birds. It contains ads for Angry Birds plush toys, an original CD, and St. Patrick's Day cards, just to name a few items.
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YC reading habits - comments more than articles
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