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Carnegie Mellon Launches Startup Accelerator Program In Silicon Valley(pehub.com)
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Eternal September(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I believe you are referring to "How to start a startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html derived from a talk to the Harvard Computer Society in March 2005
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Are you considering going back to the 2 city model where you have a YC batch on both coasts? It would seem to make sense in NYC, as the city has made great strides as an internet startup hub and probably significantly ahead of where Boston
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I love that they are profitable and have been for a long time. I've recommended their product to small business novices and they have been impressed with how easy it is to use. I'd love to see more articles about companies that are profitab
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101 Ways To Save Apple (1997)(wired.com)
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Fighting the (credit card processing) System(cmu.edu)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Would be nice to see this on a monthly or weekly basis to track overall trends. This page shows the most popular articles (Dec '10): http://stats.grok.se/en/ Interesting, though I can't figure out for the life of me what Special:Export/Ro
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I would guess that they almost certainly had all of their commits before the past week and have just announced them now. Too early to see the effects of the crash on VC's in funding announcements imo
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Yes. See also: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/18/can-pittsburgh-save-de... http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/changing-gears-what-det... Honestly though, all of these studies harp on different things that Pittsburgh has done than
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Top Google Ranking Captures 18.2% of Clicks [Study](searchenginewatch.com)
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Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department Coke Machine(cs.cmu.edu)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Interesting that that post itself ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864557 ) is now on the 2nd page despite having 400some upvotes in the past 7 hours (odd because there are several posts with many less votes in a similar timeframe on
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by pitdesi 15y ago
It's Amazon.com, not Amazon.co.uk, so no.
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by pitdesi 15y ago
One out of every 1200 Internet users (source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+internet+user... ) The real question is why do you think that can't be right? It's too high? I'm surprised it hasn't happened to one of my friends
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Why Is a 70-Year-Old Woman Being Sued for Porn Piracy?(techland.time.com)
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Bloomspot Raises $40M To Prove Their Local Offers Model Works(techcrunch.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
We are very similar but in a b2b space... http://feefighters.com - Love what you guys do... it is in many ways exactly what we do (as for the site layout, hey - it looks good!)... The trick is convincing people that what you're providing
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Tech Stock Crash: End Of The Bubble?(huffingtonpost.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Corporates are real people too, and people enjoy humor. That's one thing we've realized with our name change. We were formerly the incredibly boring "Transparent Financial Services..." and our website was the terrible http://transfs.com u
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The inside story of Keurig's rise to a billion-dollar coffee empire (boston.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
People commonly misinterpret this stat to mean that only 27.5% of current high school students will go to college. That's completely wrong - it's just that few of the old people in this country went to college. These days, about 68% of high
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by pitdesi 15y ago
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ is great for understanding what's going on right now There was a fantastic 1980 PBS (video) series called Free to Choose, by Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman and his wife Rose. It's available
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by pitdesi 15y ago
An answer to the question we're all wondering- "What happens now" answered well in a planet money from a couple of weeks ago: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/138164761/what-happens-if-u-s-... TL;DR - "I'm not sure it will have any impact.
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San Francisco Rental Agents see a Tech Bubble (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Keep playing to see more cool stuff...
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Former Google Engineer Builds Turntable.fm Clone: Rolling.fm(wired.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
1) Private Equity is different from hedge funds... PE is investing rich people and institutional money in private companies, Hedge funds invest mostly in public stocks, though recently there has been a lot of alternative investments in this
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Related, but very different: Reasons to leave the corporate world to join a startup (and why you should consider it too) http://feefighters.com/blog/5-reasons-to-leave-the-corporate...
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Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed(snopes.com)
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