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by paul 15y ago
I also miss the old Google. I think it's a mistake to blame this on ads though. I don't believe that the G+ crusade is being driving by advertising (though I'm sure it looks that way to people who assume that everything is about ads).
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by paul 15y ago
I know this isn't obviously startup related, but it is. Please read.
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Eight years today(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
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by paul 15y ago
I find these logistical details strangely fascinating. Still, I'm having a hard time believing that the iPad3 will account for enough of the shipping traffic (they aren't that big!) to have such major impact on rates.
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by paul 15y ago
That's not entirely true. A lot of very talented people are being wasted at bad jobs. In many cases, they don't even realize it because one of the features of a bad job is that it will often make you feel bad about yourself (as with other t
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by paul 15y ago
The story was about revenue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689712 It's hard to believe that a fb board member could make more accurate revenue predictions than random people with strong opinions commenting on HN ;)
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by paul 15y ago
That's not a list of top shareholders (despite the headline). I think they only need to report the holdings of officers, directors, and anyone with more than 5%. Sean Parker does not fall into any of those categories, so they don't report h
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by paul 15y ago
Big success takes longer to be visible since early acquisitions are typically small. I think weatherbill is doing very well, and there are quite a few promising yc companies started by former Googlers (such as optimizely). And of course 2/3
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by paul 15y ago
I mean "misleading" as in "leading in the wrong direction", such as "have you considered doing X?", where X is something that I think is a bad idea. If they agree with every I idea I have, then they will even agree with bad ideas, and won't
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by paul 15y ago
The purpose of the interview is to find people who will make good founders. It is not a salon for intellectuals to sit around and be "comfortable debating and discussing ideas in an extremely logical and thoughtful way". It's closer to a bo
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by paul 15y ago
"Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the point that the fun of cartooning wasn't in the money; it was in the work. This turned out to be an important realization when my break finally came." I feel like this is the ke
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by paul 15y ago
Public stocks and the like are heavily regulated. If we let random people invest in startups, a bunch of people would get scammed out of their money, then there would be calls for more regulation to protect investors, which would only serve
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by paul 15y ago
I don't recommend angel investing for anyone who can't afford to lose a fairly substantial amount of money, which pretty much excludes anyone who isn't already an accredited investor. Finding the next Facebook or Google is a lot harder than
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by paul 15y ago
Fixing the immigration and patent systems would be infinitely more helpful (i.e. stop getting in the way).
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by paul 15y ago
Misleading headline. At the moment, LinkedIn is down 2.78%, the dow is down 2.11%, and Google is down 2.54%, not a huge difference. This headline could be "Google Shares Tumble After LinkedIn Lockup Expires" and it would be just as accurate
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by paul 15y ago
I think you're missing the point. He was an intense, emotional visionary. He believed in what he felt, not what others told him. That's why he smelled, why he was rude, why he cried all the time, and why he made people hate him. It's also w
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by paul 15y ago
This is good. I've considered doing something like this and making it part of a daily process -- at the end of every day, any email that I haven't dealt with gets a NACK, and every day starts fresh. Email is a disaster because it lacks flow
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by paul 15y ago
This is a good example of why Google became a great company: they understood the big picture. Zynga apparently does not.
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by paul 15y ago
We send our kids to Waldorf inspired schools. Most schools (especially public schools) give me a sense of dread, like a twelve year prison sentence would. The Waldorf schools have a warm, human feel that actually makes me a little jealous o
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by paul 15y ago
They are all false. The point is that people hide parts of themselves so that they can more cleanly fit into whatever categories they identify with. How many straight men act macho out of fear of seeming gay?
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by paul 15y ago
It seems a little ironic that he would copy the standard religious formulation. The problem with this approach is that you may devote your life to the wrong bigger thing and then end up in the middle of a "religious" war.
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by paul 15y ago
Exactly.
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by paul 15y ago
Once you think you know, there's a risk that you stop learning, that you discard other possibilities.
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by paul 15y ago
It's about finding an unconstrained perspective. Perhaps re-read the last paragraph?
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by paul 15y ago
That sounds like a very different concept actually. Worshiping a king seems more likely to narrow your perception.
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by paul 15y ago
It's true that fear, insecurity, etc can provide us with drive, but they are not the only or best sources of drive.
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by paul 15y ago
There's no such thing as a totally unique idea. When Airbnb was in YC, most people saw it as a derivative of couchsurfing.
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by paul 15y ago
It was actually just in their own apartment to start with. It went so well that they then decided to make it possible for other people to rent out airbeds in their apartments. Eventually they discovered that people would rather rent bedroom
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by paul 15y ago
AirBnb started out as a site for renting airbeds and now they're worth over a billion dollars, so I'm not too worried.
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by paul 15y ago
The edit history is interesting to review. They actively remove useful information from the article, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y_Combinator&d... I'd love to see someone create a non-broken wikipedia that keeps the

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