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by myoung8 19y ago
I've thought about a similar phenomenon many times--that the Earth is nothing more than an atom floating around in the body of some greater being. But to see something like this published in the NYT...that was a bit surprising. Interesting,
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by myoung8 19y ago
This post completely decontexualized the situation. RSS Feed Readers barely qualify as a free-standing product--of course you can't charge for them and expect to be wildly successful. There's a big, not so subtle difference b/w "charging f
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by myoung8 19y ago
1. Go out and tell your customers "I have this product, it does X, Y, & Z" (make sure you use the present tense). 2. Tell them it costs $D 3. Observe 4. Change D as necessary 5. Repeat until the reaction you consistently get is "Wow! Th
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by myoung8 19y ago
This completely makes sense and in some ways justifies the success of companies like Apple and 37signals. Rather competing on features, companies should compete on ease-of-use. Getting past the endowment effect also comes down to using con
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by myoung8 19y ago
It's the kind of book you would read at say Stanford GSB or Harvard Business School--it's definitely reputable. That said, davidw just summarized pretty much everything a tech entrepreneur would get out of the book. All it says is that th
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by myoung8 19y ago
That's awesome. I don't think I'll ever use it because I don't like the idea of meeting completely random people, but the fact that he did so fast on the cheap is impressive.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Why?
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by myoung8 19y ago
yeah, but how many are aligned flush with the side of the screen? it can't even be one pixel away for it to be super-usable.
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What are you thoughts on the FishEye menu?
1 points by myoung8 19y ago|1 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
wow. everyone should read this. i had one of those "holy crap i just learned something new and interesting" moments. what it has to say will probably surprise most of you. my only question is, what's the best practice for designing website
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by myoung8 19y ago
sarcasm meter explodes perhaps more importantly, what do you guys think about the long-term viability of the YC model? are we going to get to a point (i.e. post-Web 2.0) where there just aren't any more opportunities for lightweight web c
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by myoung8 19y ago
love the usability walkthrough's. would be nice if they showed some examples of what doesn't work too.
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by myoung8 19y ago
dude, please change the color scheme on your site, i got a headache trying to read it. white on black doesn't work. try #F6F6F6 on #333 if you must have a dark background. good luck with finding a partner. have you heard of kongregate? migh
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by myoung8 19y ago
Without saying it on their website, Tandem is just another incubator. I would be skeptical of this type of setup. A friend of mine has dealt with a similar company in Mountain View that shall remain nameless. At first things were going wel
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Upper Limit On # of news.YC posts? & Average Karma
1 points by myoung8 19y ago|3 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
I kind of took the route of #3. Granted we didn't really fail because technically we never started the company (but we did do a lot of market research and planning). My "expertise" from having gone through those stages was enough to get me
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by myoung8 19y ago
And they're swamped. Would give you an upper limit on the price though.
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by myoung8 19y ago
duh.
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by myoung8 19y ago
My best advice is to write it in plain and simple English. A ToS doesn't have to be written in legalese. For a good example (that got an award for being so good), check out BillMonk's ToS and Privacy Policy. They wrote it themselves with th
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by myoung8 19y ago
I've heard a lot about LinkedIn vs. FB recently and how they aren't compatible because one's for business, one's for, basically, effin around. I think a smart move for FB would be to let people categorize their friends/acquaintances/contac
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by myoung8 19y ago
Has anyone else ever wondered: what would I tell my parents if I got involved in the adult entertainment industry?
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by myoung8 19y ago
I think it's incredibly risky to build an ad-network on Facebook because of backwards-integration (i.e. Facebook will just build it too if it's successful). Once Facebook has a proprietary system, they can leverage all the other data they
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by myoung8 19y ago
Consumers got screwed. Damn shame.
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by myoung8 19y ago
are you guys planning on letting people actually input their ad preferences? or are you just going to determine them based on what they vote on? i wrote this in another thread, but i would gladly spend a few minutes telling an ad-server wha
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by myoung8 19y ago
I was reminded heavily of 37 signals reading the post. Some of their front-page copy sums it up nicely: "Everything you need, nothing you don't." Although that's not quite accurate, it's a good generalization. I think the 2 standard deviati
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by myoung8 19y ago
The headline reads "CEO Libraries Reveal Keys to Success." That suggests to me that the keys are in the library...
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by myoung8 19y ago
correlation != causation odds are fortune 500 CEO's just happen to like to read, it's not a prerequisite for success. journalistic sensationalism at its worst.
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Edit: so long as they are relevant and done well. Despite, for example, my desire to buy a Wii, I would not tolerate a "hit the monkey and win a Wii" ad.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Actually, most people aren't. Apparently, most people actually LIKE ads--so long as they are relevant. I don't know about you guys, but I actually enjoy looking through the ads in Wired. Usually they're catchy and they are almost always rel
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by myoung8 19y ago
This is true to a certain extent, but on the flipside, Google does have to optimize. What may be a "bottom-of-the-list" revenue generating opportunity for them may be a cash cow for a one or two person team.

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