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by nwenzel 11y ago
When I interview candidates I always bring up his book and ask: "If all this goes well and you come work for us, what's next for you after that? Where do you want to be positioned to go after you move on from here?" It's
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by nwenzel 11y ago
But it is a look at the process that eventually impacts users. It explains why upset has taken so long. A bit of chaos and a bit of politics.
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Nothing quite like seeing the sausage get made. But, the open discussion, while perhaps unnerving, is certainly preferred (IMHO) to a closed source development process happening behind closed doors. A bit of chaos is the price to pay for th
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Even if your data doesn't fit in RAM... and even if it does... when you're developing, you should be using a sample of your data that fits into RAM.
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by nwenzel 11y ago
D3 can do DOM manipulation a. It's more well known for its charting (SVG) functionality. But I've used it to build tables and other data-based DOM structures. It's not ideal for all use cases. But for updating the DOM based o
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Have you looked into whether that 1-2M threshold still applies if the tables are partitioned? Such as a multi-tenant application where a search might be constrained to a single user_id. I wonder if that would provide, at least temporarily,
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Two Factor Authentication. Please, all companies that have any of my data, don't just give me the ability to use 2FA, please force all of your employees to use it on their email, GitHub repos, everything. It should be a requirent right
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by nwenzel 11y ago
Not true. At least not for this YC alum. I didn't know anybody. I learned about YC after stumbling across pg's essays. Decided to apply. Got an interview. I didnt even know there was an official notification day for application ac
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by nwenzel 12y ago
There's a difference between a) flushing water down the toilet and b) pouring it back into the ground. edit - clarify; Edit2 - add the following I shouldn't have been so short or flippant. There is a difference between using wate
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I watched the video, but then read further down. "We even wrote a little app to continuously flash a list of potential YC partners’ questions every 10 seconds, training our brains to not go too long-winded with our responses." Was
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Great story! I seem to recall a university sending out acceptance letters by mistake. At least this mistake had the happier ending. Measure twice, cut once.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
WeFunder offers the ability to invest in YC (and non-YC) startups.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I'm mid-30s. Dangerously close to upper-30s. Married. Two kids. Non-elite school. No graduate degree. I was in the YC Summer 2013 batch. I wasn't an outlier. The one thing all YC founders have in common is that we are all incredib
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by nwenzel 12y ago
This is actually helpful on the employer side too. Makes initial conversations with potential hires easier because we both get a sense of whether it's worth investing more time into something that may not even be a possibility.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
How does 24 hours and no cost compare to the time and cost without this utility? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4 (nsfw-language: Louis CK bit)
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Django Developer. 1 senior, 1 junior. Mountain View or Irvine, CA. SimpleLegal is software for General Counsels. CFOs have everything from QuickBooks to NetSuite to Oracle. Other c-level exec's have Marketo, Salesforce, and Zenefits. W
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Check out Snapchat Discover. It really doesn't have anything to do with instant messaging. It's more like headlines that you can dive into or move on from.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I'm fascinated with the concept of moving up the corporate ladder. I went from a dotcom high growth company in 1999-2001 where the avg age was roughly 25 to a post dotcom company where the avg tenure was close to 25. I always wondered,
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by nwenzel 12y ago
If you liked building it, then it's worth continuing. The icons look great.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Happy to see someone makes this point. I think people assume I'm a little nuts when I try to explain that inflation is a tax.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
"The biggest predictor of whether a graduate wasn't thriving was whether he or she had student loans. Fourteen percent of those without any debt said they were thriving, compared to 2 percent of those with more than $40,000 of deb
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I worked at a company that had many dot-com boom and bust companies as customers. 1-800-flowers changed their name to 1-800-flowers.com to increase the value of their brand. Barron's published some research in March (I think) of 2001 f
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Congrats Apoorva and team! Wow. Instacart wasn't first. Webvan was around over a decade ago. More proof that ideas aren't worth much. Execution is everything.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Business Development Companies are actually a thing [0]. They're consulting firms that take equity. So... yeah. You're pretty much right on. That said, YC is a fantastic way for a young company to identify what's really impor
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by nwenzel 12y ago
I love tools that make it easier to get a version 0.1 out the door quickly. Thanks for putting this out there!
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Says US, Canada, and UK: http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/14/checkr-raises-9m-to-help-o...
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by nwenzel 12y ago
"It ended?" Was my thought when it ended. It was getting really interesting. I think an interview with the two of them on Charlie Rose would be the right format to explore YC and how it came into being and evolved.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
Well, to know that it wasn't enough money to care about you would first have to have done the math to know that it was only $900M. I like your first point about it not being about the money. I suspect it's more about proving tha
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by nwenzel 12y ago
New products increase the size of the pie. When websites became something everyone could have, some work was lost to do-it-yourself tools but more was gained by the larger market.
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by nwenzel 12y ago
How to figure out if you've built something people want. 1) Get someone to give you money. Hearing, "oh, I'd buy that!" is not the same as, "here's my credit card number." 2) Get them to give you money eve

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