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by pclark 15y ago
Looked at mine. First thought: whoa, I hope no one else ever sees this Facebook you scary.
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by pclark 15y ago
"Reading pithy superficial quotes about startups changed my companies trajectory."
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by pclark 15y ago
The different seems obvious to me, we are a community.
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by pclark 15y ago
Numerous of your comments have a very mean tone, can you remember that the companies you list each have numerous people all of whom have spent many years of brutally hard work to get to where they are today, in fact, can you just be much ni
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by pclark 15y ago
This is why I have file vault + password screensaver on my MacBook Pro + insurance. I'd sooner have to wait a few days to get a new laptop than rely on: a) the user not instantly formatting the computer, b) prey finding my laptop, c) the po
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by pclark 15y ago
if you can get the funds for the trip you can crash at my apartment in san francisco. (you can check my hacker news profile to verify that I have been here for a while and am generally not crazy, although, I might try and recruit you.)
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by pclark 15y ago
I think it is really hard to become a limited partner in good VCs, unless you are godlike in some domain (which I guess you especially would be when you eventually exit) or were a founder of one of their successful companies.
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by pclark 15y ago
I have always used Macs and good lord, the days of Mac OS X being out but the processors not being Intel were truly some of the most embarrassing years for Apple computing. I remember owning (and loving - for some reason) an iBook G3 that w
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by pclark 15y ago
Loopt hired JC through Quora I believe. :)
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by pclark 15y ago
You people are ridiculous. Peroni has been around on Hacker News for a very long time and has helped numerous - dozens! - of our community out. Stop being so rude. If people are so offended at the parent comment, they'll down vote it.
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by pclark 15y ago
You cannot work for an American company
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by pclark 15y ago
You're allowed to found a company in the US - just not work for it nor be paid by it. The B1 is a 3-6 month visa, most people just use the visa waiver program.
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by pclark 15y ago
here is how I do it: firstly ask both parties individually if it is okay to intro, explain why the intro is requested. There is nothing worse than intros you do not want nor need. It makes all parties look lame. The nice thing of asking bot
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by pclark 15y ago
no, not at all. Facebook exacerbates this problem if anything.
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by pclark 15y ago
I think that Color is an incredible idea for an application, and when I read their pitch I wanted to bang my head on the desk for not coming up with that concept because it is so beautifully simple yet obvious yet useful ! Isn't it obvious
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by pclark 15y ago
In theory if you can prove you do not live in USA. It's a stress.
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by pclark 15y ago
the problem with vwp is you can only stay 90 days and you really need 180 days for yc + fund raising
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by pclark 15y ago
do from YC till fund raising under visa waiver program. Don't get a B-1 because you'll probably get rejected and this raises lots of suspicion whenever you enter USA in the future as you have to declare it. If more than 2 co-founders and yo
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by pclark 15y ago
not all startups are lean. seriously, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
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by pclark 15y ago
"Mr. Chai, 38, has been wearing a vintage Rolex, loosely dangling around his wrist, “not as a timepiece, but as a piece of jewelry,” he said" This is exactly what Rolex is. There is a fantastic book on the history of Rolex, the name I forge
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by pclark 15y ago
Do good engineers really care who your VCs are? What influence can a VC have over a possible hire? (just curious.)
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by pclark 15y ago
Sync is a tremendously difficult problem for contacts
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by pclark 15y ago
I have over 600 contacts on my iPhone and it is a complete nightmare. The fact that smart phones do not intelligently dial numbers based on where you are in the world is absurd (eg: prepend dialing code!!) The fact I have numerous contacts
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by pclark 15y ago
Just to chime in. I got my Wakemate a few months ago and totally love it. The software had a few flaws (just features id like to see) and support promptly and politely replied with their roadmap and such. I randomly emailed the founders to
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Does reading really make a person smarter, or more economically productive?(blotter-paper.com)
7 points by pclark 15y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 15y ago
SearchYC has actually been tremendously valuable to me and my startups in the past. Hacker News is such a treasure trove of information, anecdotes and friends and your service was the gateway to that. I used SearchYC as my "google for start
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by pclark 15y ago
OnSwipe is the new scribd
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by pclark 15y ago
this is incredibly relevant to my interests.
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by pclark 15y ago
How reliable is this? I can barely read my american co-founders credit card numbers on his card.
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Aaron Sorkin quits Facebook(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by pclark 15y ago|0 comments

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