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841.
by pg 14y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/imeem-founder-dalton-caldwe...
842.
by pg 14y ago
If this thing = making sure users want what you're making, that particular cargo cult would find to their delight that planes were starting to land.
843.
by pg 14y ago
As far as I can tell that article implies the main goal of medallion limits was to increase prices by decreasing competition. Which is exactly what I would have expected.
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How Optimizely Is Improving Website Personalization [video](bloomberg.com)
49 points by pg 14y ago|4 comments
845.
by pg 14y ago
While that may be a benefit of medallions (or not), it's almost certainly not, historically, why they exist.
846.
by pg 14y ago
Structurally this practice is a lot like the preindustrial precursor of taxation, when governments would sell monopolies on the import or production of things in exchange for a lump sum. When obsolete government practices persist, they tend
847.
by pg 14y ago
Did you notice the graph in that post? I think you mean to say "I'm curious how they've been differentiating themselves."
848.
by pg 14y ago
No initial product is likely to contribute to solving those problems, because most initial products don't lead to anything. Conversely, a startup that grows sufficiently big can contribute to the solution of almost any problem, including
849.
by pg 14y ago
Are you sure you wouldn't say the same thing if it was 1975 and they'd made a Basic interpreter for a toy computer used by a few hobbyists? Big things often start small. In fact, usually start small. And in any case it's just mean of you
850.
by pg 14y ago
"he is a shrewd businessman subject to the fallibilities of all shrewd businessmen." Rather a broad generalization, don't you think? Like most fields, business turns out to have more variation than outsiders think. "Businessmen" range fro
851.
by pg 14y ago
No moderators are removing anything. (Except this, which I'm about to kill, because in the site guidelines we explicitly ask users to email us if they have a complaint about moderation, even a mistaken one.) All the stories in question are
852.
by pg 14y ago
I wish people wouldn't treat us like an oracle that can predict startups' success. If only. The fact is we read applications fast and make plenty of mistakes. One thing YC has taught me is that this must be true of practically every appli
853.
by pg 14y ago
No we're not. Gawker has been banned for years.
854.
by pg 14y ago
"It was like walking around on a winter day when it just snowed." Reading that made me want to move back to the East Coast. Not take Modafinil, which is probably a good sign.
855.
by pg 14y ago
Stylish and smooth-talking are the last words I'd use to describe Tim. Whereas they do fairly accurately describe the tone of this article.
856.
by pg 14y ago
The number of partners you need is not the log of the number of startups. It's more like n/15.
857.
by pg 14y ago
In its then form, every partner had to know what every startup was doing, and the number of partners was a function of the number of startups.
858.
by pg 14y ago
much more so than the idea that multiplying 66 by 1.27 would be the key thing in turning something that works into something unmanageable Ever run into an n^2 algorithm?
859.
by pg 14y ago
To be honest, I wasn't sure whether or not the noidea application was live. I had to go look at the source. So it looks like we de facto killed it by never enabling it for s13. Frankly it's not a big deal either way. We only accepted one
860.
by pg 14y ago
YC itself. We still fund young founders if they're good. And even in the first batch a lot of the applicants turned out to be people who had already graduated.
861.
by pg 14y ago
That is a hard question. Probably the best you can do is ask people who've seen a lot of similar situations.
862.
by pg 14y ago
We noticed that, and it's actually an encouraging sign. If YC reached the limit case where we had all the best new startups, that's what it would feel like: there would be so many good ones that it would be hard to pick the best.
863.
by pg 14y ago
Yes, probably. Thanks!
864.
by pg 14y ago
No. The money we gave them was a donation, not an investment in the sense of buying stock.
865.
by pg 14y ago
They're not trying to fix poverty itself. They're trying to fix the medical problems of people who are poor.
866.
by pg 14y ago
Not really. The founders are the domain experts. If they're competent and not afraid of some area, we trust their judgment.
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by pg 14y ago
This wasn't an instance, as the word "top" should tell you. They merely meant that they're going after that subset of online retailers, not the small ones.
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by pg 14y ago
I've heard people have already started using it actually.
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The Billion-Dollar Bet On Jet Tech That's Making Flying More Efficient(forbes.com)
15 points by pg 14y ago|1 comments
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by pg 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387864

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