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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Are you analyzing performance / satisfaction after getting hired? Would be interesting to see distribution across types.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I certainly understand this POV, as I once held it, until living and working on an off-grid farm. My point is that the abhorrence towards animal slaughter has more to do with the industrialized process, and the poor treatment of animals bec
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Slaughter has never been the negative side of raising animals. It is in fact, the slaughtering of an animal that teaches us to respect it, to honor its life given, and ensure that we provide as humane a life and death as possible. Distancin
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Privacy is an asset that people are willing to exchange for tangible benefits. Especially because most people don't really know how to value their privacy until it's been breached. Create a system that realizes the tangible value
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I'd be curious to hear more about these issues, either from founders who've encountered them or VCs who've created them. I understand the idealogical variance at stake, but the key difference is not whether that money will be
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
With YC's network growing bigger and bigger, how do you keep alumni involved and engaged so you don't lose/dilute the benefits of that network? (arguably the best thing about YC...)
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
To add to Sam's take, I'd say the real benefit of joining a startup is the opportunity to work closely on a problem that you care about. Do you want to expand your POV and learn new skills? Do you want a high-degree of personal re
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
How is the remote aspect of YCF going? Something to explore more?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
"Build something people love." ~sama
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Any advice for single founders applying? (other than get a cofounder...)
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Are you ready to talk about which domain you intend to start with for YCR?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
"heretical" "dangerous" "free to everyone" Strong language. Especially coming from an organization that generally touts "ideas as useless." Well here's a model based exponentially upon the promis
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Yeah, certainly, each has its own vibe. Sort of depends on what you're looking for. Colorado in general IMO is the coolest state in the nation (and I've lived in a few). The different areas represent magnitudes of that. They are a
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
When people are posting images of text, you know your product is broken... but in a good way.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The greater effect has been on the suburban sprawl towns in between Boulder and Denver. Places like Louisville, Lafeyette, and Longmont have seen dramatic increases in both prices and quality of living, just in the past 5 years. These towns
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
We have the same affordable housing problem here in Boulder, but on a much smaller scale than SF. It's been this way for over a decade... Unfortunately, fixing this housing dynamic is not so simple as increasing supply. Incremental inc
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
But do you have a sticker on your Macbook?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Seems like the question of naturalness or "knowability" speaks more to the nature and limits of the human mind than of the universe itself. Definitely agree with Gross. It's why the loss of species, destruction of our environ
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I would recommend the ability to browse other photos and understand what you're outputting, as [noted below] people are going to be very suspicious of uploading their own photo, or just won't care enough to upload a fake photo.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Money. Ideas. Engineering. Pick 2. Which combo has the greatest chance of success?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
"Do you not see the broken incentive system here? The more efficiently you work, the less you get paid." Changing the unit of time does not change this. You're just making it easier for yourself to justify charging a full day
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
PG wrote that in 2006. Market forces and opportunities around startups have changed astronomically in the past 9 years. It was probably harder for 2 people to start a "growth" business in 2006 than it is for 1 person today.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I've been thinking about this recently. Especially as the term "startup" feels distasteful, a verb that's been turned into a noun. I'm not building a startup. Nor am I continually starting (though sometimes it feels
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Sam says it right in the interview: the YC community is their #1 advantage/value. It's also the reason Techstars is #2. Brad Feld has done an amazing job of community building. Network effects take time.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
40 year olds today were the first generation to grow up with computers. 10 years ago, 40 year olds were "old" in computer parlance. The myth of the 20 year old hacker will go away over time, as more and more people grow up immerse
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Except markets are not a zero-sum game. The best capitalists make the pie bigger by creating new value.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The Stream is modeled after The Inbox, which, despite long-standing calls to kill email, is a component of the most powerful and effective communication tool The Internet has given rise to. The underlying philosophical tenants of this artic
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Evernote uses local clients that are "online" only for backup / sync between devices. Everything's stored on your machine in a local db. They've got a browser app, but in 4+ years of use, I've never used it. Ev
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Such curation does not exclude alternative choices. The mind works by narrowing the field of possibilities down to a manageable bandwith. We make tools to help us do this. But the choice is always still our own. And we can choose anything w

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