menloparkbum

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1051.
by menloparkbum 19y ago
How much do you think the founders at places like Digg and Facebook are making? I can guarantee it is closer to $200K than it is $50K.
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by menloparkbum 19y ago
I didn't realize you had a five-minute rule. The exploding termsheet is back in style for the worst valley B and C-list VC dinks. edit: I'm not saying YC are dinks, but that practice in the valley is very popular amongst the investors you
1053.
by menloparkbum 19y ago
I shouldn't have commented. The post in question is so vague it is meaningless. "Investors" could mean anyone. Angel funding, pre-angel funding, series-A VC money, Paul Graham, your rich uncle, Sequoia capital, etc. I'm speaking from a sili
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by menloparkbum 19y ago
totally wrong on all three counts. I've seen ideas funded with just a half-baked demo. Any VC funded stratup with 1M+ in funding, the CEO is making 100K+, and in my current situation, the founder had his back debt paid up.
1055.
by menloparkbum 19y ago
It isn't really a significant step. You just plug in another web server and make sure the load balancer and DNS settings are right.
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At what point do you quit your startup to find a day job?
4 points by menloparkbum 20y ago|4 comments
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
I'm not convinced the best hackers are found in a university computer lab. When I was in college the only people in the computer lab were IRC addicts who were too broke to afford their own computer! The article mentions "the Woz" and I'm p
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
1) how do I get 1 million + users in 18 months? 2) how do I manage 1 million + users with the smallest team possible? 3) how do I turn 1 million users into at least 10 million dollars? When I think of startups I'd like to be, I think of Win
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
Are you sure you want to work for a startup? In my experience, working at a startup is good for one thing: learning how to manage a bunch of random stuff all happening at the same time. You don't get paid as well as if you just worked at g
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
Startups don't often hire recruiters, This is not true. Usually one of the first people brought in after a series-A round of financing is some sort of VP-level manager whose job is to find other people to hire. This VP often was a recruite
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
The Danger team already accomplished what you want with the sidekick. Word on the street is that Danger 2.0 (android) was acquired by google a few years ago. Everyone I know who works at google (except the lame people) hate it. Maybe you ca
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
I don't know much about cheap living down in the valley. If you are talking SF, there are some other options: www.sfofficelofts.com - a friend of mine (an artist, not in software) rents one of these for $725 a month. It is a huge loft. The
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
"We developed a strategy for reinvigorating Adventure Games- Making them sell when they never had before."
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
In Manhattan terms, it is a "bridge and tunnel" part of town. That is, nothing happens until the weekends - when all the tourists and people coming in from Pinole or Fremont show up to party. The locals are pretty sketchy - lots of tweaker
1065.
by menloparkbum 20y ago
youth hostel on 23rd and Bryant in SF friend's couch shack up with an older gay man
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
The Yscraper is in a lame part of San Francisco, if you are a young person. The building is lame, too... unless you like living in an apartment that is like a college dorm or old folks home. Regarding SF vs Palo Alto. SF is way more fun. B
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
"the office" TV series and "office space" are good ones if you want to know what the rest of your life will be like if you don't start a successful startup.
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by menloparkbum 20y ago
Let's take Loopt as an example. Y combinator gives the founders $10,000. They code and live like animals for three months. Their hard work pays off... another VC gives them $5M. At this point, do the founders still have to share a crappy 2
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If my startup makes it to a series A stage, am I rich personally?
4 points by menloparkbum 20y ago|15 comments