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by rantfoil 18y ago
The spike itself? Announcing our funding on Techcrunch and the ensuing blog storm. ;-) EDIT: We also did launch group blogs and multiple blogs per account. That helped quite a bit, (fallentimes jogged my memory below) since we did see peopl
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks for the support from everyone on Hacker News! 1) Release something fast. Don't wait til it's perfect. Wait til it does one quanta of usefulness, and release. 2) Work on it tirelessly. Every day, all day. Well, take breaks, but you kn
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by rantfoil 18y ago
For instance, legal language HAS to be imprecise, otherwise no lawyer would ever agree to anything ever. So much negotiation every day goes into the subtle imprecision of clauses in contracts. That's why there are courts -- to navigate the
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by rantfoil 18y ago
use chatterous.com -- it's great for small group chat.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
It's interesting that "Ivy" has come up multiple times in this discussion, because I guess Ivy is synonymous with prestige. And I'd say prestige helps a little but not much if tokenadult's goal is to start a software startup after college.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Top credentials are useful for raising money. But it only helps a little on that front. It's a stamp on the forehead that helps some angels and some VC's feel a little better about investing in people who have never started something before
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by rantfoil 18y ago
It's not the populist thing to say, but I'll say it anyway. The top colleges are a great place to be because of the friends you'll make and the level of competition at those places. You can meet amazing people anywhere, but generally speaki
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Hilarious comment, but seriously: after 4 or 5 clicks, I just didn't feel like clicking on anything else. I didn't see anything interesting until a small little list of a few interesting existing itineraries. It's trying to be too many thin
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Note that this is not the most up to date compete.com numbers. The latest came out today.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thank you for the mention, Paul. We really appreciate it. I think the main reason why we'd like to be able to add Posterous through the FF main page is the fact that people don't understand RSS, especially our users who are brand new to blo
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Entrepreneur's Guide to Email Delivery(zohrob.com)
35 points by rantfoil 18y ago|5 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
While I love this conceptually, cooliris.com hasn't had very rich support for varying types of RSS feeds. For instance, they fail to support basic MediaRSS constructs like groups, even though I pass it perfectly reasonable / compliant Media
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I guess we knew this day would come. I'm surprised they didn't just decide to sell it back. Perhaps Derek would want to keep running it? They were pioneers in identifying the Flickr/dSLR aesthetic, and there remains a void there in the comi
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The quote about the 30 results sounds tenuous at best. Did the user search 20% less often because of an imperceptible page load time, or because they became overwhelmed with the number of search results and decided to quit? User experience
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Textmate is absolutely essential for Ruby on Rails / Ruby development. What I realize now is that it's a scriptable text editor that integrates super well with everything you want to do with Rails. Basically anything you'd like to do with R
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Congrats to our friends at BackType, Dropbox and Co2stats! YC has really been making an impact on the tech startup scene and it's great to see that being recognized here. Vote Posterous for Best Mobile Startup. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This is a great explanation of why it's hard to find a job as a hybrid jack of all trades. Founders/owners don't really want hybrids because they're harder to manage, and often have a harder time proving to the world that they're better t
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by rantfoil 18y ago
It's a members-only site and it's hard to become a member without actually being a model, makeup artist or photographer. Though I suppose it doesn't hurt. ;-)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Satish Dharmaraj of Zimbra was our lead angel investor. Really great entrepreneur AND hacker.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Definitely, feel free to follow up offline, my contact is in my profile.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Massify looks like it has the potential of becoming a great social niche play for indie/low budget film production. ModelMayhem seemed like a tiny idea, but now they're as big as friendfeed. Not everyone is going to be churning out Henri Ca
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We support it through autopost right now. Lots of people use it today just for autoposting to that plus Facebook, Flickr and most major blog platforms.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
YC startups in general are more well suited for angel rounds than Series A. Angel rounds usually mean less dilution and a ton more flexibility. For us, we're getting a lot more valuable advice, connections and help from real engineers/entre
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We'll be adding ways of getting more than 3 soon, and we'll also roll out an automated way of merging. We could have waited, but this release was so huge and really one shipped feature is worth two in the Git repo. =) EDIT: Here's the worka
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Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel round(techcrunch.com)
59 points by rantfoil 18y ago|23 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
http://tonik.com works for me. I pay $140/month for their best plan. Aside from the annoying over-friendly wannabe 20 something text on the website, it's been worth it for peace of mind.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Keep in mind that a team of hybrid code/business people would destroy a team of pure coders and pure business people any day. It's fine to specialize, but a startup requires all of those skills collected in as few people as possible so that
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I love the code explanation. grin
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Well, by distribution, I mean "How do you acquire users / mindshare / customers?" Marketing, actually. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Distribution is and always will be the #1 problem for new web startups.

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