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by ryan 18y ago
Believe me it was really hard to not tell you guys what was going on... but we were/are bound by some pretty strong NDAs
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by ryan 18y ago
There are a few efforts underway to try and build a stronger aussie community in the bay area. Check out www.advance.org and sign up. I'm on the San Francisco committee and specifically thinking about ways to get entrepreneurial-minded Au
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by ryan 18y ago
Omnisio (YC startup) is founded by Aussies and based here in the valley.
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by ryan 18y ago
These guys launched less than 4 months ago... how can we possibly be talking about 'failure'?? It can take months, if not years, of iteration and course correction for a startup to find its groove. These guys are working hard.
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Rumor Twitter closed $15M round(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ryan 18y ago|0 comments
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by ryan 18y ago
Also they did stage the launch over a few weeks. I noticed it appear on my facebook page (because I'm in the Stanford network) well before it appeared on most of my friends'
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by ryan 18y ago
Unfortunately they all have different issues. Google video is good because it supports long videos, but some of their servers seem unreliable and occasionally videos fail to load. Blip is good but they don't support seeking well (i.e. you
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by ryan 18y ago
I agree - that's actually what our original plan was, although we decided to target the general case first.
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by ryan 18y ago
FYI we will be launching the slide-sync feature in the next couple of days which we hope will be really useful for video lectures. Ryan
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by ryan 18y ago
If this is your first startup, then it's definitely worth it. We weren't 100% sure going in, but coming out can say it was absolutely the right move.
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by ryan 18y ago
Plus, he wrote the book! :)
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by ryan 18y ago
It's actually a scaling issue - our server is seeing an order of magnitude more traffic than even our launch spike. We are working on a solution right now :)
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by ryan 18y ago
We are working on a feature that will let you whitelist a set of people who are able to add comments. The author can also choose to disable commenting completely.
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by ryan 18y ago
Thanks! We started around end of October last year.
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by ryan 18y ago
Sorry we had to bump up the number of php-fastcgi processes to handle the large number of simultaneous users that suddenly hit the site :)
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by ryan 18y ago
The talk on which the essay is based: http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/paul-graham-at-startup-sc...
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by ryan 18y ago
Videos are going up now at http://omnisio.com/startupschool08
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by ryan 18y ago
Here's the link: http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jeff-bezos/27:35 poor guy
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by ryan 18y ago
These are also going up, with slides, at http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08
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by ryan 18y ago
You might consider getting a co-founder. It's likely your moods will be out of phase, so that when one is down the other can be the motivating force and vice versa. Also accept the fact that doing a startup is an emotional roller coaster -
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by ryan 19y ago
We are considering several ideas, but think about this: with all the additional data we have about videos (comments, tagged people/highlights, synchronized slides, and metadata about individual clips in a compilation) we can better place mi
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The Chinese control the weather...(technologyreview.com)
5 points by ryan 19y ago|3 comments
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by ryan 19y ago
all 19 companies gave amazing presentations. I'm sure all will be spending the next few weeks talking to potential investors and figuring out how to take their businesses to the next level. Expect to hear a lot more news about the companies
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by ryan 19y ago
Nice work, I see this getting a lot of traction
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by ryan 19y ago
According to a survey from McKinsey[1], in answer to the question 'Why do you upload videos?': * 65% seek fame/want the world to see their videos * 59% do it for fun * 41% want to share experiences with friends * 29% want others to benefit
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by ryan 19y ago
Congrats on the launch guys. Great work!
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by ryan 19y ago
Nice interview. I just added a link to a whole bunch of videos of Facebook app developers telling their story complete with presentation slides (from the Community Next conference). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71986 Disclaimer: th
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15 Facebook application developers tell their story(blog.omnisio.com)
3 points by ryan 19y ago|0 comments
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by ryan 19y ago
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point, and will work on this.
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by ryan 19y ago
Thanks for the honest feedback. Yes my claim is very bold and ambiguous :) Conference videos are just the first niche we decided to focus on, but ultimately we will provide tools for representing a wide variety of information online, and c

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