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601.
by pg 13y ago
That's a very Kate Courteau picture incidentally. She's our architect, and is the reason YC looks so distinctive. It's hard to get simple right, but she does.
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by pg 13y ago
It's so true. I can do routine work with noise, but not the kind that requires insight. The sad thing is that noise is yet another example of the phenomenon of "the tragedy of the commons." Which means things tend to get no
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by pg 13y ago
Please don't use all caps for emphasis.
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by pg 13y ago
I'm one of them. It is definitely a double-edged sword.
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by pg 13y ago
This is a subtle example of the advantages of the Internet. When people made things like this in 1980, you'd never even hear about it.
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by pg 13y ago
If the author wanted to be fair, the title should be "Why Silicon Valley funds SpaceXes and Teslas, and not Hyperloops." And then it would be clear that the answer is simply that Elon is working on SpaceX and Tesla, and not on th
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by pg 13y ago
That seems a bit of a stretch. Hackers & Painters wasn't a book about startups. It was a collection of essays about topics related to computers. One of them ("How to Make Wealth") happened to be an analysis of the ec
608.
by pg 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words, but I think you may be attributing ideas to "How to Make Wealth" that you picked up elsewhere at about the same time. Perhaps from your peers building Facebook clones. The whole point of that essay is
609.
by pg 13y ago
Can you give an example of advice I give about startups in Hackers & Painters that you consider to be mistaken?
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by pg 13y ago
You email info@ycombinator.com to get an invitation.
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by pg 13y ago
If you mean companies we've funded, you can reach them by emailing them individually or by coming to Demo Day. Unfortunately the next Demo Day (on tuesday) is already full. But there will be another in March.
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by pg 13y ago
No. I doubt they'd even notice.
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by pg 13y ago
The title of this article may unintentionally embody a point about 20% time, because GMail and AdSense have something else in common that Occam's razor implies was more important than Google policies: http://en.wikipedia.org
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A third of venture-backed IPOs between 2006 and 2012 had an immigrant founder(fastcompany.com)
75 points by pg 13y ago|37 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Swiftype was one of the sleepers. They'd been growing really fast but were known mostly to their users rather than to the people who talk about startups. There are quite a few of these.
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by pg 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by pg 13y ago
This is an interesting case of a disadvantage becoming an advantage. The CEO suffers from significant hearing loss, but that enabled him to see a huge market that most 20-something founders overlook.
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by pg 13y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding him. Perhaps deliberately. But I will clarify this for you anyway. You don't have to do these things simultaneously. You start out with a handful of people, and reach profitability making something sm
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by pg 13y ago
Wow is this list good. It has the kind of resonance you only get when you're writing from a lot of hard experience. As I just wrote when I sent this link to the current YC batch, if you see advice here that puzzles you, it may be a si
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by pg 13y ago
That is exactly right. I'm trying to get a complete guide to fundraising done in time for Demo Day, so I don't have to repeat all this stuff verbally (and incompletely) yet again. There is at least one more coming on fundraising
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Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come(blogs.getty.edu)
14 points by pg 13y ago|2 comments
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by pg 13y ago
The email wasn't from one of us.
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by pg 13y ago
The post was flagged by a lot of users.
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, I know. But that was not fundraising in the sense I'm talking about. That was just to support the IPO price.
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The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The State House(forbes.com)
61 points by pg 13y ago|53 comments
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by pg 13y ago
No.
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by pg 13y ago
I realized a long time ago that indignation about political issues was for forums what bad currency is in Gresham's law. We actively compensate for that in various ways. Sometimes when an issue seems a genuinely big deal and/or
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by pg 13y ago
I've often wondered about this. As some commenters have pointed out, we don't work quite as hard as people used to have to. But we still work a lot. I suspect the short answer is healthcare costs. I was an expert in the earn-l
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by pg 13y ago
No, you don't get banned if you create an account over Tor. We autokill submissions from such IPs, but we resuscitate legit ones if we see them.
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by pg 13y ago
Most of those accounts are a sockpuppet ring. They tend to all post at once, which means when they do the new page is mostly dead if you have showdead turned on. I explained this in a comment about a week or two ago, the last time someone

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