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by myoung8 18y ago
very well-written and persuasive argument. the one thing i think a lot of people are glossing over, though (i've seen this same chart many times in various posts over the past few days) is that fun != useless. just think about sites like ad
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by myoung8 19y ago
come to the "Creating Infectious Engagement Conference" next Thursday at Stanford.
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by myoung8 19y ago
What a terribly-written post.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Because, at least according to a handful of VCs at DFJ, 70% of the work they do involves interacting with and convincing other people (usually people who can help their portfolio companies in some way, shape, or form). In general, MBAs are
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Beating Traffic by Joining the Network(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by myoung8 19y ago|0 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
But just because a quarter of the student body signed up doesn't mean it was a huge hit. I created an account, deployed a few troops, then got bored and never came back. I'd like to see some stats on how sticky the app is.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Although the examples are not the epitome of what I think he's trying to get across, I would describe the overall thesis as "great startups are those that engage in creative destruction" (to quote Schumpeter).
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by myoung8 19y ago
this is quite old, YV was started almost a year ago, if not more, i think.
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by myoung8 19y ago
I have an entry about a startup I co-founded that failed on my resume. I also explicitly put in the description: "I learned a lot...from the business' failure." I've been doing a lot of interviews lately, and most people are impressed that
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by myoung8 19y ago
I've often thought about applying a similar model to the book publishing industry. Technologically, this is fairly simple. The hard part is getting people to use it.
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What do you think of this idea?(associatedcontent.com)
3 points by myoung8 19y ago|4 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
Very, very impressed. Still not going to see the movie, but props to the advertising folks who came up with that. It's interesting to note what kind of audience they're targeting by observing the screen names and messages in the chat box...
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by myoung8 19y ago
Make sure to zoom in a bit, it's to the left of the pop-up.
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by myoung8 19y ago
From WSJ.com: Say you've designed a cross-shaped building, but it looks dull. So, you add an extra wing to all four points. This way, you've neatly created four near-courtyards with one building. Sound like a neat idea? Well, look at the sa
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Swastikarchitecture(maps.google.com)
3 points by myoung8 19y ago|2 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
You guys should also create a centralized listing of all jobs on SnapTalent on your destination site so that people can browse through more than those that appear on a given blog.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Is there still a way to download the PDF? What if I want to download the file permanently to my desktop and read it in Preview?
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by myoung8 19y ago
The odds are that you're going to lose money since you can't diversify like YC or a VC can.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Yeah, then you're on the scale of "friends and family" like Will said. I suggest reading Venture Hacks if you want to learn more about VC, and the blogs of people like Fred Wilson, Don Dodge, etc. I'm sure you can find a list somewhere out
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by myoung8 19y ago
I gave the site a whirl, but my main problem is that it just aggravates information overload. There are way too many headlines to scan through and most of them don't appeal to me. I like the concept of an auto-generated RSS aggregator for t
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by myoung8 19y ago
Assuming you want to be a VC: 1. set up a limited partnership (LP)--you'll need a good lawyer for this 2. word of mouth is how the business operates for the most part, but you could gain some exposure by hosting/judging at business plan com
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by myoung8 19y ago
Agreed. I feel like everyone has a green and white deck that rocks. A well-crafted blue deck can destroy green/white, though.
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by myoung8 19y ago
I built a version of it in Rails in a day or two once just for fun. It wasn't quite production-ready, but all the functionality was there.
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by myoung8 19y ago
Looks like their valuation hasn't changed much in a year and a half: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997001.... "People in the know say Digg is easily worth more than $200M"
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by myoung8 19y ago
It's KPCB. KPMG is an accounting firm.
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Ask YC: What's your bounce rate? What's good?
4 points by myoung8 19y ago|0 comments
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by myoung8 19y ago
shouldn't we only be able to vote for one option in the polls? I guess I could live in North America and Antarctica...
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by myoung8 19y ago
This was on YC like 3 months ago...
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by myoung8 19y ago
Can someone give an example of a practical application of the semantic web?
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by myoung8 19y ago
Are people not allowed to have more than one idea at once?

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