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by portLAN 19y ago
You're asking me to resolve ambiguity by presenting more ambiguous choices. I think you intend " solely dependent on" when you say "dependent on". A decision is both likely to be affected by, and dependent on, multiple factors. In YC's p
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by portLAN 19y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "sharing" in this context but I did note your mini-autobiography above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588 Here's an example of what I mean by there being no generic "good" team: Give me the top 5 ath
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by portLAN 19y ago
I agree with nostrademons. Make YC a sideline, not a destination or starting point. There's great power in taking charge for yourself. If you don't feel compelled, it's because your goals aren't inspiring you. You need bigger goals. Pos
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by portLAN 19y ago
"What I'd like" isn't the same as, "here's how I can make money for you". That's what it boils down to with almost all investors; minus ones who are okay with sinking in money regardless of profit to scratch a personal itch (of course they
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by portLAN 19y ago
All personal evaluations are subject to whims. An investor does or doesn't like the idea; does or doesn't like the people. Cisco was turned down by 70 or 80 VCs. Nobody has a crystal ball, and at the end of the day, you guess; the dealm
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Can we apply as single hackers who don't care about which project we take on? Not to be YC specific, but just in general, who would want to invest in someone who doesn't care?
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by portLAN 19y ago
Why wait for someone else's approval? Don't leave your fate up to someone else's whim. And don't forget there are many, many other investors. [Edit: Also don't forget you can set up Google ads on your own; or have actual paying customers.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Wait, you marked it as "Dead" so now it's invisible on the NEW list to people other than myself? If I'm not logged in the submission text disappears and just says "dead". That's pretty underhanded, pretending something is there for the use
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Do the HackerNews Readers have any constructive critism for us? anything is good. I do. Don't put all the "The" bands under "T".
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by portLAN 19y ago
> There was a rash of startups doing this to get attention a few months ago. That will kind of solve itself as most of them go nowhere and nobody ever hears about them again.
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by portLAN 19y ago
It is a reject.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Do you want bugs under Feature Requests too?
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by portLAN 19y ago
If they weren't rated at all, all that would be needed to keep order would be a "spam" flag.
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by portLAN 19y ago
IMO comments shouldn't even be rated this way. Posts full of useful information score less than one-liners of opinion; controversy is an automatic point-killer. I'd just turn it off, or separate it into categories, like "agree with sentim
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by portLAN 19y ago
> The fact is that the startup process is able to do what big companies are simply incapable of doing. They aren't incapable of it, they do it too. They just have different priorities. A company's goal is to grow as large as possible.
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by portLAN 19y ago
I didn't mention Microsoft -- I would not hold them up as a shining example of software development. >startups are the best way anyone has found to develop great new software YC's program is 10 weeks. The time ALONE means they aren'
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by portLAN 19y ago
Great chutzpah setting the record straight in front of everyone. Note for presenters: Have a contingency plan if your demo breaks that involves something other than insulting a guy who's doing you a favor. Good restraint saying "I wasn't
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by portLAN 19y ago
> In that illusion, people hide one hand in their lap and look at a rubber hand set on a table in front of them. As a researcher strokes the real hand and the rubber hand simultaneously with a stick, people have the vivid sense that th
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by portLAN 19y ago
Just write a Lisp program to transcribe it for you.
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by portLAN 19y ago
If someone wants to claim "very small companies are more likely to try something legally dubious because they have very little to lose," that's a completely different argument. Not to mention, YouTube and then Google had to pay up in ord
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by portLAN 19y ago
Everything they buy they do a huge amount of work on, and they don't merely scale; they add features. Google Video was already easily superior to YouTube for the player alone (actual random access); they bought YouTube for its audience. Y
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by portLAN 19y ago
No, they aren't.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Everyone wants to get acquired by Google, and yet it doesn't stop them doing their own stuff in-house. Unless AdSense, GMail, Calendar, News, Froogle, Video, Finance, etc. were bought instead of built. Not to mention all the work that ha
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by portLAN 19y ago
Whee, let's resubmit the entire PG archive. Free points!
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by portLAN 19y ago
It reads like a marketing pitch to acquirers -- "don't build, buy! Look at this one, a 2.0 webby thingamajig, ain't she a beaut? Only nine ninety nine nine nine nine ninety-nine. Hardly any miles!" Google sure seems to have a lot of succ
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by portLAN 19y ago
With that price tag? "Although a single unit sold for $16,000, a typical office would have to purchase at least 2 or 3 machines along with a file server and a print server. Dropping $50,000 to $100,000 for a complete installation was not a
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by portLAN 19y ago
"Or maybe we're hairball paste you feed a cat so a hairball won't get stuck. They're cats and the hairballs are all the little problems that crop up. But you've got to lick yourself anyway, right? Just don't choke. Programmers are a lot
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by portLAN 19y ago
Actually that's fairly indicative of personal letters of the well-educated of that era. People often used such terms when writing about those they had met who they were on friendly terms with or admired. The world was smaller then, and ev
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by portLAN 19y ago
I know, he's a regular Einstein.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Ideas have tons of value. In my opinion, ideas are insanely important. Ideas are also a dime a dozen and everyone has great ideas. Execution is the hard part. And if you don't learn how to do it yourself, you will always have to re

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