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841.
I'm a YC Winter 2011 startup looking for a(nother) technical co-founder
132 points by pclark 16y ago
842.
by pclark 16y ago
You can still use a key with the YC startup replacing keys.
843.
by pclark 16y ago
Oh, maybe. I assumed he'd just do the Sprinboard one.
844.
by pclark 16y ago
what is your startup?
845.
by pclark 16y ago
Springboard and The Difference Engine are the same now :) Seedcamp is another.
846.
by pclark 16y ago
Pick up phone; call people. It sounds like you need to do more customer development and work out your sales processes, but in the mean time there is no reason why you aren't devoting serious time to calling people.
847.
by pclark 16y ago
It's interesting to see how the application form has evolved.
848.
by pclark 16y ago
people aren't that anal here :)
849.
by pclark 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435393
850.
by pclark 16y ago
Wordpress has 70+ employees i think.
851.
by pclark 16y ago
I don't understand what he is scaling? the amount of concurrent operations?
852.
by pclark 16y ago
I bought this functionality but have honestly never found the need for it; it kind of reminds me of the dropbox "pack rat" feature. Happy to support a great developer (in both cases, actually)
853.
by pclark 16y ago
Ironically LiveJournal is a service that really struggled to monetize, I hope that isn't the case for Tumblr. Tumblr = New MySpace. Tumblr has been testing their "promote my tumblr" badges for a few months, it's only very select presently a
854.
by pclark 16y ago
It isn't really bizarre other than on paper. Yes, in theory launching a rocket into space should be more expensive than hosting photos. Right up until the point you become successful at hosting photos and then suddenly hundreds of servers d
855.
by pclark 16y ago
AirBnB sold cereal. That is determined and imaginative anyone would fund them.
856.
by pclark 16y ago
I bet the most common rejection for sensible (eg: co-founders, technical, have prototype) startup applicants to YC is "you are too determined on a terrible idea"
857.
by pclark 16y ago
I really hope you haven't been carrying the YC rejection around with you for all this time (or maybe its a good thing as it makes you want to prove them wrong)
858.
Ask HN: What do you look for in a potential employer?
1 points by pclark 16y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 16y ago
You should just apply, if you're talented enough I'm sure they'd accept you. I doubt they have an arbitrary if founder = 1 then reject.
860.
by pclark 16y ago
is this interesting?
861.
by pclark 16y ago
too nascent i imagine
862.
by pclark 16y ago
and blackberry
863.
by pclark 16y ago
or editing your yc application.
864.
Airbnb Raises $7.2MM Series A Round and Releases iPhone App(businessinsider.com)
3 points by pclark 16y ago|0 comments
865.
by pclark 16y ago
Boxee is literally one of my most favourite startups - right up there with Dropbox etc. Boxee has changed how I consume and discover media. It is incredible.
866.
by pclark 16y ago
I think there is a huge difference between a SAN and a Server OS. Specifically, I don't think Promise RAIDs do anything clever to work with XSan. (it's just a SAN with fibre?)
867.
by pclark 16y ago
You're right that it was not that much different - but it was no worse or notably more expensive than HP or Dell solutions. And it ran OS X Server.
868.
by pclark 16y ago
15" i7 MacBook Pro.
869.
by pclark 16y ago
my two cents on RockMelt: why would I change browser (lots of work) for an experience. Is it 10x better at sharing or keeping me informed than my previous tools? I doubt it. (eg: j.mp bookmarklet is awesome, everyone uses tweetdeck, etc) (I
870.
by pclark 16y ago
XServes are really great pieces of kit actually - equal in terms of features vs cost to any other servers + the ability to run Mac OS X. You need AFP servers because Samba share handling is so bad on Macs.

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