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by mlinsey 15y ago
I'm so dependent on Gmail-specific features that aren't in The mail app that I use the Gmail mobile web interface exclusively, despite the drastically decreased responsiveness from using a web app. This will be a breath of fresh air.
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by mlinsey 15y ago
This page was sent out to a bunch of YC founders before posting it here. Just scanning the list I see at least two YC alumni (and usually three or more) at every meal except for La Fiesta, where it's apparently just me so far!
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Kottke was one of Jobs' friends at Reed, then later traveled with him to India and also was one of Apple's first employees, helping to assemble computers in the garage. He stayed with Apple for eight years. The story Winer is referring to i
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Impressive that iPhone sales, despite dipping vs. the previous quarter, were actually up 21% year-over-year. The year-ago quarter was the iPhone 4's launch quarter. If I'm remembering correctly, the iPhone 4 was supply-constrained around la
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Those numbers being off just by a factor of "only" 10-50X (which I think is reasonable given Compete's record) would make a big difference for a B2B site. Even more important from the perspective of a startup would be the presence of an up
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I don't have access to Indinero's data, but for my own startup, Compete's data is no more accurate than a random number generator. Both the absolute numbers and the shape of the graph have essentially zero resemblance to the real data.
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Like Siri? Sonalight Brings Powerful Texting-By-Voice To Android(techcrunch.com)
4 points by mlinsey 15y ago|0 comments
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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs(facebook.com)
8 points by mlinsey 15y ago|3 comments
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by mlinsey 15y ago
This isn't really about the main thrust of your argument, but I wanted to address this: What would be the end result of this? On a particularly music-filled day I might send 100+ posts about songs I've listen to? Really? People will ever l
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Not quite. More like, instead of pressing the 'like' button on each story you want to share, there will be a "share what I read on FB" button which acts like a switch-it doesn't start sharing until you opt-in, but then it shares everything
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Imagine K12′s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology(techcrunch.com)
23 points by mlinsey 15y ago|3 comments
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Were those Southwest flights? I think SWA doesn't let any of the aggregators display prices for their flights - I was pleasantly surprised that I saw Southwest flights at all.
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Crowdbooster's (YC S10) Social Media Appeal: From Esther Dyson To Lil' Wayne(forbes.com)
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Crowdbooster (YC S10) Launches Social Media Monitoring Dashboard (techcrunch.com)
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Exactly, this is a perfect application of Jobs' quote from the '80s about how a carpenter wouldn't put a piece of plywood on the back of a cabinet, even it was just going to face the wall.
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by mlinsey 15y ago
YC has always preached launching as soon as possible, which means that upon launch you'll only get a tiny hint of a startup's future ambitions. I actually think the way forward is a little bit more obvious for this one. Without even talking
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Crowdbooster (YC S10) Nudges You When New Twitter Followers Have Klout(mashable.com)
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by mlinsey 15y ago
this has taken too long for this to happen. If you note in EJ's post, she states that she would not be compensated for any damages and she was on the hook. Airbnb didn't step up to the plate until it was posted on Techcrunch. Is this real
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Debteye (YC S11) Wants To Be Your (Much Cheaper) Credit Counselor(techcrunch.com)
93 points by mlinsey 15y ago|42 comments
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I'm with you. This is how it works on Facebook and I suspect this is how the majority of people expect it to work. Not only that, this is not only the behavior I expect but the behavior I want. I suppose it might be OK with me if someone
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I agree with Gruber's analysis, but one part that worries me is the idea of having each SVP accountable for product decisions for their own area. I think that so much of Apple's advantages stem from hardware and software that are designed
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by mlinsey 15y ago
From the link: "For 18 of the top 21 I used the postmoney valuation of the most recent funding round. The other 3 had grown significantly since their last round, and to estimate the values of those I used the opinions of independent experts
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Yes, but as explained in the post, that's a decent estimation for the value of the whole portfolio (of the 210 companies through S10). This is because startup valuations follow a power law, which among other things means that almost all of
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by mlinsey 15y ago
When you join a startup, you are trading potential salary (from a big company) for equity. That means you're making an investment, and you should ask all the normal questions an investor would ask: what is the company vision, what's the bac
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by mlinsey 15y ago
41 days ago, PG's estimation for the sum of the value of all YC companies was 4.7 billion. http://ycombinator.com/nums.html Congrats to Drew, Arash, and the whole Dropbox team. (Ordinarily I would say that giving congratulations before
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by mlinsey 15y ago
OK, so this is the second time in a week I'm going to have to post this PG quote: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on
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by mlinsey 15y ago
We'll see. I agree that Facebook Groups is much less powerful than Circles and much less fundamental to the core Facebook experience than Circles is with G+. On the other hand, Facebook Groups takes less effort to use - each person does not
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by mlinsey 15y ago
since a lot of people keep gmail open ... Not as common to keep one's facebook page open. Do you have data on this? I'd think it would be close, if not the opposite. Edit for clarification: In my social circles, what you said is probably
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I think only a few things in iTerm2 are really unpolished. That said, when a tool becomes part of how you do work for 14+ hours a day, feature-set and efficiency can matter more than simplicity and intuitiveness. After all, that's why we're
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by mlinsey 15y ago
You die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Facebook, Google, Microsoft...all were everybody's favorite scrappy insurgents at one point. Once perception shifts the other way, it's hard to turn things around be

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