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by mlinsey 16y ago
I'm not sure if this is the decision I would have made if I were on Groupon's board, but as an outsider I am delighted to see this, because now we get the chance to see if Groupon transcends being a mere coupon site and succeeds at fundamen
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Considering that the list is limited to "launched or founded" in 2010, I'd disagree that using revenue is the best metric.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Can you explain how the statistics cited in your link support your argument? All I see are comparisons of income distributions at various points in time - without any discussion of whether people are moving between different parts of the d
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Advice and a little bit of seed capital does not constitute "a central organization directing the economics." I think your conception of what YC does for accepted companies is pretty far from reality.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Didn't something similar happen with Wattvision when they launched? It was a bug in GAE authentication-the site didn't even intend to do that.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. People in different parts of the company have legitimately different agendas, which is also a source of lots of Microsoft's problems. I have no reason to doubt that that Alex Kipman and Shannon Loftis
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Our initial paid offering is priced based on back-of-the-envelope estimates of how long it takes a full-time employee to manually create the reports we generate, and what these employees are typically paid. For these brands, the benefit the
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Thanks for your interest! And our apologies for the delay in sending out invites. For us, it's actually really important to let people in slowly. A new user signup is the most expensive event for our infrastructure by a huge margin, since
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by mlinsey 16y ago
We just moved to the crowdbooster.com domain (formerly converse.ly) and re-did our landing and about pages in the past few days; SEO is definitely something we need to look at soon. We're loyal GinzaMetrics (YCS10) users so that should help
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Thanks for the interest! We're starting with just a free version for consumers and one price all for paid users. Our first paid feature is reporting, which at $200/mo makes sense for any business which currently has an employee spend hours
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Crowdbooster (YC S10) Launches Twitter Analytics with a Twist(mashable.com)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Obviously you wouldn't write kernels. You would write the equivalent of shell scripts for ordinary users. Imagine if ordinary users could automate their daily workflow or customize MS Word as much as vim or emacs users do with their editor
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I frequently get friend requests from fake profiles on Facebook (sometimes as many as 2-3 per week). They always list themselves as having gone to my high school (which is why I am positive they are fake, since I went to a tiny high school)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
7AM in California? With no blogs saying that they've been invited to a special event? I'm skeptical it's something as major as a new subscription service for that reason.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
On some occasions, seemingly at random from the end user perspective, either logging in, loading a message, or sending a message can take upwards of 30 seconds. Searches are usually fine for me. Loading emails on my phone using IMAP also ta
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Depends on who you are. If you look at my comment history, you'll find several very long comments with many, many upvotes. On the other hand, when I tried to do the "quick one line correction" thing in this thread, it didn't turn out too
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I think you mean PayPal pulled a similar guerilla marketing stunt, unless the people wearing the t-shirts were trained monkeys. ;)
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Amazing the number of rumors flying after two vague, non-committal sentences in the earnings call last week. We should start a betting pool for what companies Apple will buy. Oh wait, such a pool already exists and is called the stock mark
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by mlinsey 16y ago
For most everyday tasks that ordinary users do, the presence of the SSD will make the Air seem like the fastest computer they have ever used. Only desktop games and flash-heavy websites will highlight the relatively ancient CPU.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Higher than average intelligence is in oversupply, but super-genius intelligence never is. However, there are diminishing returns to ever-higher intelligence for most startups.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Amazon is accustomed to operating at razor thin margins. It's one of the advantages they believe they have in the cloud computing business compared to Microsoft and Google.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Multi-touch gestures, App store, home screens, full-screen apps, auto save, auto resume apps when launched. As long as the App Store isn't the only way to put software on my Mac, sounds like a great idea to me.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
"Has Y Combinator ever funded a startup with a GLBT founder?" Yes, definitely. Considering YC has funded hundreds of companies, I expect there are quite a lot of them, but one of the characteristics of hackers is that we tend to talk about
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class, batch, round, whatever you want to call it really.
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The limiting factor is the size of the room it takes place in. I think they hold it in the largest room they can obtain for minimal cost.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I don't get it. The iPad does not turn on instantaneously from being turned off. It does turn on instantaneously from sleep, as does my MacBook Pro (aside from some significant caveats, such as the time it takes to re-join a wireless networ
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Was this much different from expectations? We don't usually see quarterly results on HN, but if these results are a big surprise, they would certainly be newsworthy. I guess I'm missing the context here.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
TapZilla, Optimizely, and CarWoo were all in different batches - Summer '10, Winter '10, and Summer '09 respectively.
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I just listen to the audio podcast while on the go or doing mindless tasks. Slower than reading, but you get the full flavor that comes from hearing people's voices.
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Well OK, if your argument really was "Sorkin created a fake caracter that acts really misogynist in order to make a political point about feminism that I disagree with", and not "what was shown in the movie wasn't misogyny, just college boy

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