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by pshin45 14y ago
There's a startup idea in here somewhere... Perhaps an Airbnb exclusively for new startup founders which offers affordable long-term housing in SF/SV in return for a small amount (1~2%) of equity? Given that this is a huge problem that all
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by pshin45 14y ago
+100
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Great find. Silly me, should've checked Quora first. Indeed, the first examples that came to mind were the iPod, as well as Android which has arguably "overtaken" iOS at this point. To be fair though, for my original question I wanted to tr
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I'm not saying Gowalla originally copied Foursquare, but this blog post got me wondering - What are some notable examples of a "copycat" startup actually overtaking the original "innovator" startup? Because I'm having trouble thinking of an
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by pshin45 14y ago
Good point, his email reply got me wondering how familiar he is with Korea and whether he was deliberately tailoring his message for a Korean audience as well. He talks about not learning from books, not caring about what others think about
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I'm living in Korea right now and I'm fascinated as to how and why Woz decided to reply to this Korean high school student's email, of all the emails he could've replied to, and how often he does this for people. So random but so awesome. A
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^ i lol'd
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Not surprising given that the term "Angel" has its roots in the arts, more specifically Broadway. The use of Angel as an investor term originates with Broadway shows, and the “Broadway Angels” that provided investment capital so “the show
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by pshin45 14y ago
Almost everyone in the US knows how to read, but only a small percentage are actually great writers and most people are downright terrible at it. The same goes for programming. It should become a prerequisite at schools because software is
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by pshin45 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a concept video. I will edit my post above accordingly.
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I've seen their [EDIT: concept] video (below) and it was wildly successful in getting me excited about the product. The video combined with the tagline "UNLEASH YOUR INNER JEDI" definitely gave me goosebumps. http://youtu.be/oWu9TFJjHaM
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by pshin45 14y ago
What MM is doing at Yahoo seems eerily reminiscent of what happened at Apple when Steve Jobs first came back in 1997. John Lilly (of Mozilla fame and former Apple employee) recounts the atmosphere at the time: "[Steve] said 'You know what,
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by pshin45 14y ago
New article from Business Insider with "inside information" for what that's worth: http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-yahoos-confess-marissa-may... "'For what it's worth, I support the no working form home rule. There's a ton of abuse of t
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by pshin45 14y ago
One crucial piece of info missing from this article is how long this "no more remote work" policy will be in effect. Yahoo's cut a lot of staff and (acqui-)hired a lot of new people over the past few months, and so for the sake of team re-b
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Ask HN: Best way to ask YC alums for application help?
1 points by pshin45 14y ago|0 comments
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They're not very popular on HN, but there's a great sit-down discussion between Mark Suster and Steve Blank from a while back in which they touch on this topic, among others: "Let me know the last time (traditional) venture capital led an i
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by pshin45 14y ago
There is a famous saying in Japanese "七転び八起き" which means even if you fall 7 times, get up 8 times and move forward. But at the same time, the Japanese wants to do things well and organized, the citizens does not like failure, it's a count
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I've always been surprised how little disruption there has been in the field of corporate hiring. As other people have mentioned, many employers use a college degree as a rough proxy for intelligence and/or work ethic, but how good is it re
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How would you define "success"? Forbes publishes a ranking of accelerators based on financial results, and YC was #1 for what it's worth: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/04/30/top-tech-i... "The rankings are based on a number
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by pshin45 14y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying. If I were to sum up why YC might have succeeded like it did, I'd say that pg is great at pattern recognition and is better than most at figuring out who might become a great entrepreneur vs. who is
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All factors are not created equal though, and you must admit that there is probably a combination of a few key factors that help explain most (but not all) of their success, no? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle ) I think that
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Fascinating findings. When it comes to studying and trying to retain information, I've found in my personal experience that greater "inefficiency" ironically leads to better retention i.e. the fact that I spend more time and effort taking p
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by pshin45 14y ago
Given that YC is essentially the "Harvard" of startup accelerators, I think that by analyzing how Harvard got to where it is today, we can gain a lot of insight into YC's success as well. Not unlike YC, Harvard was also the first of its kin
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by pshin45 14y ago
I've always believed Silicon Valley to be the Mecca for entrepreneurship by an overwhelming margin, but more and more I'm seeing NYC mentioned as the next best place to start a startup, with Boston being mentioned less and less. Thoughts?
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Made in NY - Why Your Startup Should Be, Too(linkedin.com)
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> The Web is new, and our response to it has not yet hardened. That is a large part of its appeal. It is something half-formed, growing. Larval. It is not what it was six months ago; in another six months it will be something else agai
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by pshin45 14y ago
I've got nothing against either endeavor, I just don't like the way Groupon and Zynga in particular go about it. (Thus my "more harm than good" accusation) Otherwise, there are plenty of small business marketing and entertainment companies
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Like I said, I'm a bit of a lot of newb, but I appreciate the correction :)
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Point taken, and I'd rather not even attempt to define the two because I think that is outside the scope of HN altogether. I'm pretty new around here and the last thing I want to do is be starting political/moral/religious flame wars in a p
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by pshin45 14y ago
Agree, technology for the sake of technology and growth for the sake of growth does not a business (or social good) make. I love so much of what YC does but I wish their motto was not "Make something people want " but rather "Make somethin

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