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Canadian government comes to Silicon Valley to poach high-tech workers(siliconvalley.com)
2 points by pshin45 13y ago|0 comments
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by pshin45 13y ago
> If you are a YC founder, your username will show up in orange to other YC founders to enable these entrepreneurs to recognize and meet each other. Silicon Valley is supposed to be this great meritocracy where it doesn't matter where
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by pshin45 13y ago
Fiction becomes reality: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-still-searching-fo...
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Ask HN: Does it EVER make sense for a startup to work on two products at once?
4 points by pshin45 13y ago|2 comments
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by pshin45 13y ago
> But many people feel the same way about, for example, physical exercise: they don’t enjoy doing it and find it to be very hard work when they try. But it would be strange indeed to say that you can’t “do” exercise. You may not want
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by pshin45 13y ago
I much preferred Josh Williams' (former Gowalla CEO) recent blog post [1] on the Foursquare vs. Gowalla "Check-in Wars" and how it was Instagram who ironically emerged as the "victor". Much more informative and insightful than this Vanity F
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We're At An ‘Absolute' Low Point In Startup Quality(m.techcrunch.com)
5 points by pshin45 13y ago|1 comments
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by pshin45 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your story both here and in your website, and I agree with much of what you say, particularly your 3 points. As the article points out, judging people based on beauty is deeply ingrained in human nature, but I think we ca
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by pshin45 13y ago
It's not part of the post, it's the personal website of the person who wrote the parent comment: http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/about
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No more fun and games: Zynga earnings wither as users flee the farm(theverge.com)
1 points by pshin45 13y ago|0 comments
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by pshin45 13y ago
Not sure if this is exactly what you're talking about, but it's a good read nonetheless - For just $68, the author was able to create a 100% fake Twitter celebrity (a tech and social media guru) with tens of thousands of followers and a "ve
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by pshin45 13y ago
I live in Seoul right now, which probably has the highest per capita rate of plastic surgery (and plastic surgery advertisements) in the world, so I'm already getting a taste/preview of the effects. There's something to be said for "democra
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by pshin45 13y ago
Yeah I agree it's like the subway in that sense. I just have trouble wrapping my mind around how a shared driver-less car economy would work, especially when it comes to the role of government vs. companies. For example, who would maintain
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by pshin45 13y ago
The real question is, how long do we have to wait until Google's driver-less cars become a mainstream reality? Will they become available for everyday use within our lifetime? Today's ride-sharing startups (Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, etc.), while
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by pshin45 13y ago
Yeah there are so many of those "we're at a weird time period where..." that we're in the midst of right now. I think thankfully computer graphics has gotten good enough in our lifetime that CGI animation in movies & TV will soon become
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by pshin45 13y ago
> Technology is making it easier to go car-free This makes me wonder what the future of driving and personal transportation will look like. Regarding the sharing economy, pg recently Tweeted "Will ownership turn out to be largely a ha
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by pshin45 13y ago
Twitter and FB are amazing tools for spreading ideas (Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Rebecca Black's "Friday", etc.) but they have also resulted in a shameful lack of fact-checking and an inexcusable free-fall in journalistic reporting st
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by pshin45 13y ago
I believe I read somewhere that in his first YC application (the one that was rejected), Drew Houston applied not with Dropbox but with the SAT prep company he used to run before making Dropbox.
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by pshin45 13y ago
One of my startup's products ( http://cookiewords.com/en/ ) won us a hackathon in Korea that was hosted by Evernote, who flew us to Evernote HQ in Silicon Valley this past February. We weren't part of an accelerator per se, but during our w
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by pshin45 13y ago
I don't know if anyone here is a fan of MMA aka Mixed Martial Arts (as I am), but I think the parallels between the startup/hacker world and MMA are fascinating. Not unlike startups, success in MMA requires proficiency in several very diffe
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by pshin45 14y ago
It always bothered me whenever Groupon and Living Social were referred to as "social commerce" companies. Buying coupons is not a social activity (i.e. by sharing you're basically announcing to the world that you are a cheapskate who won'
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Photoshop doesn't work(jimramsden.com)
2 points by pshin45 14y ago|0 comments
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by pshin45 14y ago
Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1] If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to sho
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The new Foursquare, 4 years and 3.5 billion check-ins in the making(blog.foursquare.com)
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by pshin45 14y ago
Touche, but is this hyper growth in startups necessarily a bad thing, or just a bump in the road and a bottleneck to be overcome? Despite how mainstream tech entrepreneurship has become, and despite how many founders are not in it for the r
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by pshin45 14y ago
The reason Dave McClure is sick of being pitched is not because he's jaded or tired of doing what he does. It's because it's not humanly possible for a single investor, be it Dave McClure or a YC partner, to process the sheer volume of pitc
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by pshin45 14y ago
When I first learned who Dave McClure was and saw his flippant attitude and penchant for profanity, I was not a fan. I thought he seemed extremely unprofessional and was making other startup founders look bad. But over time as I learned mor
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by pshin45 14y ago
This Gates Foundation challenge focuses on making a more pleasurable condom, but what about just good old-fashioned scare tactics like we see for cigarettes (blackened lungs, people breathing through a tube in their neck, etc.)? Include (ex
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by pshin45 14y ago
I also think it's notable that we're starting to see more and more international startups like Strikingly in YC. (I define "international" here as a team of founders with roots and/or a strong network in a country outside the US) I'm biased
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by pshin45 14y ago
Stay open and allow others to help. Realize you need people around you to who can be a support network. This is the hardest thing to do when you are suffering from depression. Couldn't agree more. When I was suffering from depression, I

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