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by randall 12y ago
I always appreciate a good critique, but I think maybe you nailed it when you said: "Perhaps my expectations were misaligned" The comment about the power outlets, leading the piece, seems like the clearest example of misalignment.
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by randall 12y ago
We already had revenue which was paying for my salary, and had been for the prior 6 months. We were in a position where YC's value and my desire to be with my family meant we could spend the cash to achieve both.
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by randall 12y ago
I totally valued the experience of being home on the weekends... I was commuting from Utah, but it was really really draining to travel that much. If possible, I think I'd opt to bring the family out. (My wife was pregnant, so that was
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by randall 12y ago
This is one of my favorite things i've read on the internet in recent memory.
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by randall 12y ago
I had a cofounder who split about 3 months before, but he wasn't full-time and hadn't contributed any code in the months leading up to it. I had hired a sales guy right before yc, which helped somewhat. During yc, I basically bo
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by randall 12y ago
As a solo founder from the w14 batch: I can tell you it feels more difficult to do everything yourself. I'd recommend if you can organically find someone to work with on the company, you should. Happy to answer any solo founder related
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by randall 12y ago
Who are you selling it to / what's your plan to grow any part of the biz?
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by randall 12y ago
Then you haven't done a good enough job communicating why it's important. :) My wife was really supportive because she knew it'd be worth it.
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by randall 12y ago
I had a pregnant wife and a kid at home when I went through YC last January. Another friend of mine had 3 kids and a wife he had to leave home. Realistically YC doesn't care what stage of life you're in, they just want you in Moun
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by randall 12y ago
Original: http://www.quora.com/Salaries-and-Wages/What-is-a-job-that-m...
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by randall 12y ago
We use it for two separate apps that are both largish, and one baby app we expect to continue to grow in size. Code organization gets simpler if you use a fractal approach where each module follows a convention which you fractal down as muc
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by randall 12y ago
I know of a bootstrapped startup with 2 employees that was offered $4-5mm to be acqu-hired. It really depends on who the acquirer is, and how much they want you. Just say the number you want, and see what happens.
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by randall 12y ago
I don't want to think about the app install process. If I mess with an app, I'd like to register whether I liked it or not.
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by randall 12y ago
The thing is I want to know about these fun new games. I feel like discovery is the actual problem. If I had a random app installed on my home screen every day and I could say "more like this" or "this is horrible" I thi
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by randall 12y ago
Keep in mind Stripe's original name was /dev/payments. If you do some research you'll see they were in a pretty bad spot right until they opened publicly as Stripe.
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by randall 12y ago
Correct. My bad. They acted just like the rats.
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by randall 12y ago
Another researcher thinks effects like this are due to language in humans. (Maybe not directly linked, but somewhat related) Basically the experiment was to have a rectangular room with 4 white walls, and then another box with one blue wall
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by randall 12y ago
Wasn't gmail released in 2004? Your timeline shows it in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
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by randall 12y ago
To my knowledge it's still privately held.
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by randall 12y ago
It's doing gcc 4.2, and when you try to install / compile a higher version it fails. Pretty sure.
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by randall 12y ago
Correct... but many ruby gems and node.js modules compile using gcc. (v8 being the most annoying one for us)
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by randall 12y ago
GCC is essentially broken, rendering compilation of standard packages impossible. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61407 Our team was on Yosemite but we all had to move back to Mavericks to actually do work
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by randall 12y ago
The $60 uber of shame.
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by randall 12y ago
Sidenote: This is a huge upside of public moderation. Such a welcome addition to HN!
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by randall 12y ago
No tweets showing up. But yay otherwise! :)
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by randall 12y ago
OOhhh a fun name to throw out and speculate about! I'll try to hold back, but thanks for this. :)
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Earbits is back online(blog.earbits.com)
113 points by randall 12y ago|24 comments
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by randall 12y ago
FWIW, there's also some weird liability issues with regards to DMCA safe harbor. If you start monitoring some videos, you're then liable for them.
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by randall 12y ago
We used capsule, but switched to Streak. We found since we live in Gmail, and it lives in Gmail, it's a really really good fit.
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by randall 12y ago
I started a company and was hired by my first customer for a year. While there, I got to work on http://vidpresso.com while maintaining the IP. It was awesome.

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