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by pg 14y ago
Like most trends among VCs it has started at the top. The top west coast firms are the most willing to concede power to founders. Lower-tier firms, and firms in other places, are less willing to, largely because in this as in other respec
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by pg 14y ago
This is sort of true, but what it misses is that money and power are only loosely coupled. The real story is that VCs have decreasing power over the companies they fund, regardless of the deal size. For example, it is now the norm among Y
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by pg 14y ago
Jessica grabbed me at the YC din last night and told me excitedly that she had some good news. I was sort of hoping it would be something more exciting, but it was that Instacart had added Whole Foods. Instacart is one of those cos like He
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by pg 14y ago
I'm constantly amazed at the human mind's inability to measure happiness on an absolute scale Under its other name, the ability to adapt to misfortune, this inability has been a very useful thing for humans to have.
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by pg 14y ago
http://paulgraham.com/gba.html
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by pg 14y ago
3. But tis true I got rid of that funny sounding accent pretty fast.
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by pg 14y ago
There seem to be so many stories of this type. E.g. yesterday http://upgrd.com/matthew/thrown-off-a-united-airlines-flight... 9/11 seems to have given a big swathe of people in the US the ability to do outrageous things more or less at w
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by pg 14y ago
This comes on top of an article a few days ago that (to people in the business at least) was almost as preposterous, in which their ranking criterion for VC funds was number of acquisitions. http://www.privco.com/top-20-venture-capital-fi
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by pg 14y ago
No, he says explicitly it does not get near 4x.
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by pg 14y ago
It would require a good deal of work to keep up to date, and it wouldn't benefit the startups in any way. If we're going to spend our time on something, I'd rather spend it on something that will help the companies we fund.
941.
by pg 14y ago
No, there isn't. Nor for that matter is edw519 banned in any way.
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by pg 14y ago
Actually Google would have had one of the clearest answers: that the web is growing to the point where (a) search matters a lot and (b) ranking results based on textual similarity is no longer enough.
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by pg 14y ago
A very aggressive crawler.
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by pg 14y ago
This is actually one of the most important questions.
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by pg 14y ago
Another and possibly larger factor is that we cracked down on crawlers.
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by pg 14y ago
Actually I think Authy is in Colombia.
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by pg 14y ago
http://www.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html The site was originally called Startup News. We changed the name and focus about 6 months later: http://www.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
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by pg 14y ago
Someone should define a canonical way to transform dolphins' whistles into syllables. Then we could at least sort of refer to them by their names.
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by pg 14y ago
Here's the first month: http://www.ycombinator.com/images/news.yc.1month.png
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HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning(ycombinator.com)
445 points by pg 14y ago|114 comments
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by pg 14y ago
Some of the better known ones are Songkick, A Thinking Ape, Vidyard, Lanyrd, Upverter, GoCardless, and Directed Edge.
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by pg 14y ago
A YC partner fat fingered the kill button on an iPhone. BTW, I'm killing this now.
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by pg 14y ago
Sick children. People maltreating startups we've funded. Any sort of deal involving third parties that might let us down. E.g. fundraising, when we were a fund.
954.
by pg 14y ago
I think almost any programmer running a service used by hundreds of thousands of people would hate the idea of it being down. It's part of building things to want them to work properly.
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by pg 14y ago
There are around 20 people working full or part time for YC now, including 5 of us doing what I used to do alone in the old days. There are 47 startups in the current batch, which works out to less than 10 apiece. So things are actually p
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Why HN was down
1049 points by pg 14y ago|287 comments
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by pg 14y ago
The idea is not entirely made up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_helmet I wonder if Doepler was influenced by the discovery of the Waterloo Helmet 8 years before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Helmet
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by pg 14y ago
We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
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by pg 14y ago
http://imgur.com/VuSH2j5
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by pg 14y ago
We're moving to Posthaven.

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