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by rabble 16y ago
Once you're lucky, twice you're good. The thing is, Ev did it a LOT more than twice. He started companies and products over and over and over again. Two of them became widely used. One, Twitter, even managed to make money. He was in a good
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by rabble 16y ago
So i'm assuming this is the YC company in this batch that didn't present in Demo Day?
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by rabble 16y ago
Yeah i know a lot of people rant about monkey patching. It's one of those things the community does but doesn't want to promote. Monkey Patching is the recreational drug of the Ruby Community.
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Ruby Culture Keynote Video - The way community and culture shape technology(anarchogeek.com)
14 points by rabble 16y ago|4 comments
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by rabble 16y ago
I've thought of doing something like this for years, you could do job references, former landlords for rent, etc... the list goes on and on. I just couldn't bring myself to build it because of that tiny thing with not being ethical.
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by rabble 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Heroku doesn't want autoscale. I know it's been proposed many times, i asked myself many times. They think it encourages people to write bad code which isn't optimized.
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by rabble 16y ago
I tried a ton of things and settled on xero.com it works well. It also has a ton of documentation which explains both how and why. Reading the docs and using the app, teaches you accounting. Pretty neat trick. If you're not based in the US,
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by rabble 16y ago
Has anybody posted a 'YC Demo Day Pitch Deck' online on slideshare or elsewhere? I know most won't want to post it, half the companies didn't even want their product talked about publically. Some must have raised money and gone on far enoug
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by rabble 16y ago
rabble rabble rabble! I just had to reply to that one!
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by rabble 16y ago
Most folks who churn already have a mortgage or some don't care about maintaining a really high credit score. I was mostly talking about what you can do, what people do, not what you maybe should do. American Airlines and Citicards right no
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Hacking Frequent Flyer Programs (video)(anarchogeek.com)
36 points by rabble 16y ago|11 comments
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by rabble 16y ago
Studying might be interesting, find a community and activity you're passionate about and can connect with people. Our jobs play a major social role in our lives. Not needing a job means you need to have that social community some other way.
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by rabble 16y ago
I sometimes wonder how many people do startups focused on helping other startups. Or build applications that help people who build developers of applications. Yes you are scratching your own itch. But you're also building something for peop
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by rabble 16y ago
Post emails / insider info on the founding of now super successful startups. In my case Twitter. Worked wonders. I also found that it's pretty easy to get posts about YC itself, and how it relates to startups and fundraising.
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by rabble 16y ago
The first email i've got from jack, saying he's got a prototype running on his laptop is from March 14th 2006. He called the app "twttr stalker" in that email. I remember it being "friend stalker" as a joke name thrown around as well.
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by rabble 16y ago
Yes, the twatter thing, wasn't something we thought of, but many other people had it pop right in to their heads. It was, unfortunate.
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by rabble 16y ago
Ev started his first company when he was a teen, and kept starting them over and over again. Biz had founded Xanga, many years before. Sure, they were over 30, i think Jack and Noah were too, when twitter got started. All of them had starte
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by rabble 16y ago
Ev had a bundle of pre-IPO google stock, so he could afford it. Also Odeo stil had cash in the bank, but he didn't want to buy the vowels until he was sure there was something to the idea. Obvious was supposed to be a company which hacked o
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by rabble 16y ago
Nobody liked the word tweet. It was a term created by the user community, and only slowly accepted by the team.
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by rabble 16y ago
Mind you, these aren't paying clients or anything, just a 160 twitter accounts. At the time you had to have it created FROM a mobile phone, so the onboarding process was clunky. We were showing it to our friends, tell them how cool it was.
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by rabble 16y ago
Two things, one, a $10 Million valuation for an angel round is really high. I'm suspecting that the real statement was something more like "one of the YC companies even got a $10 Million pre-money valuation" rather than the average. Second,
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by rabble 16y ago
Yeah, i thought i had it back up, went in to a meeting, came back and it's down. When i went in and looked at it there were a ton of apache2 processes. It's my blog server, so i don't pay a lot of attention to it, i probably should. I dropp
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by rabble 16y ago
It was always PRONOUNCED twitter, but we did write it twttr, everywhere, back in the day.
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by rabble 16y ago
The hard drive filled up and mysql corrupted a table. It's fixed now.
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by rabble 16y ago
Not sure what happened, sshing in to the server and poking around.
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Internal status email: Twitter at 3 months old. 160 Users & 100 Tweets per day (anarchogeek.com)
104 points by rabble 16y ago|49 comments
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by rabble 16y ago
I had the same problem looking for recurring payment providers and payment gateways in Latin America. I think it's much easier to open a subsidiary company in the US remotely than to process them outside the US/UK/Canada.
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by rabble 16y ago
This is the kind of question which should be asked over in Quora, because you can have a wiki edited list of schools.
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by rabble 16y ago
It'd be interesting to see. African Americans and Latinos* make up about %28 of the US population, but are very under represented in startups. East Asians, South Asians, Arabs and Jews are over represented in tech based on over all populati
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by rabble 16y ago
Learn to code. Even if you aren't able to code well enough to build your own thing, if you have not built an application and launched it, you will never be able to manage a team to do it. Much less be able to do with with an outsource provi

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