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by rantfoil 18y ago
As a startup founder, paying $18.5K to launch may not be unethical, but it really sucks. That cost just doesn't really take into account the fact that tech startups are so incredibly low cost to create now. In YC, we created companies for &
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Pitching VC's and angels: The Baby is Never Ugly(ricksegal.typepad.com)
1 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Linux has no viruses because not a whole lot of people use it as an end user operating system. If only we could say Linux has no exploits... ah... now that would be truly remarkable.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Been following this blog (on posterous ;-) ) -- really interesting experiments.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I'm not a very big fan of Remember of Milk (I think their UI is super over-complex) but someone very nontechnical was just mentioning to me that they support email. This is notable, because nontechnical people almost never talk to others ab
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Congrats to the picwing team for a great widget. It's really well done! They're a super talented team, and it's rare to get together people that can just really kick ass on both hardware and software. Also, not all of those photos are mine,
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by rantfoil 18y ago
BackType fills a huge need for every startup founder out there who wants to keep on top of what people are saying about their product. I look at it every day. The BackType guys have really nailed it.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Aww, common maxklein! Say something nice just once!
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Write a book / famous blog and it'll be worth easily tens of thousands. "Usability Consulting" =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Here's the real problem with entrepreneurship classes -- What's the point? People who take an entrepreneurship class are missing the point -- they're probably better off either taking more engineering classes so they can build something peo
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I remember reading this story in Valleywag, and thinking it might be plausible. But recently I met Guy in person and got to know him probably a bit better than the people who wrote this nowpublic.com hit job. I've decided it couldn't be a t
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by rantfoil 18y ago
What's funny is when I first saw the title of this blog, I thought it was the reverse-- Signal vs. Noise (37signals) implementing SquareSpace CMS in Rails in 18 minutes. That would certainly be more interesting to me, anyway.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Frogmetrics has an incredibly talented team and incredible market opportunity. It's a great privilege and honor to be in the same YC session with them!
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by rantfoil 18y ago
What I'd love to see is a summary of great ways to marry both simplicity and power. Low bar and high ceiling is something of a holy grain in any given application. Here are a few: 1) 80/20 -- pareto principle should be applied at all times
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We'd love for you to try posterous.com -- it's a YC 2008 company and we're growing fast. It's great for a beginning blogger. It's dead simple blogs by email, and it's the easiest way to post a ton of photos or video straight from your digit
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Looks like the link is back. I enjoy Dziuba's writing, but it's not cool to personally call out PG. My only reaction to this article: Don't feed the trolls.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Congrats to the PicWing team. They're building the true next generation of the digital connected home. It's rare to get a team together that is so talented both on software user experience and hardware design.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
If you set Jott.com up to send email to post@posterous.com, we automatically clean up the email they send us and just post the Jott.com transcribed content. That's one fast way to get voice to text to posterous. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
For short videos of around 20 to 25 meg, it's quite viable. It's actually ideal for camera phone and small digital camera videos, because it's long enough to see something interesting but short enough to not bore people.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This is fantastic. Thanks for the link and the advice. Talk about being helpful... I'd like to +10 karma on DarkShikari's account.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Well, not quite. But who you get married to will determine a huge amount of how happy you are, possibly for the rest of your life if you're so lucky. =) Similarly, for a startup (or engineering team), each hiring decision is so important th
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by rantfoil 18y ago
If every first date lasted TEN HOURS. Well, if you're cooking breakfast in the morning, maybe a second date might be expected. ;-)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Luke, you guys at Startuply has been working insanely fast too! They recently rolled out an awesome resume tracking system for employers, which we definitely hope to be using in the future.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
9.5 hours is actually just thorough. Hiring is the #1 thing any engineering org has to do right. Remember, a false positive will cost you far more in dollars, time, and effort than a false negative. Microsoft is a huge company. The best thi
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks kyro! Paul says that the 10 weeks of YC are some of the most productive times you'll have in your entire life. We can confirm that first-hand. =)
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Posterous.com (YC summer 08) launches Video support(blog.posterous.com)
35 points by rantfoil 18y ago|21 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Wufoo is basically the best UI for form building ever created.
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Photos from YC Cambridge event with Paul Graham, Kevin Merritt and Nabeel Hyatt(garry.posterous.com)
4 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Incredibly cool. How could they possibly think they could just put the stored value on the card itself, unencrypted? I always assumed the card was just a token that refreshed some database on their end, instead of stupidly storing it in hex
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This is the kind of bottom-up stuff that can change an organization from the inside. Congrats to the ididwork.com team.

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