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by sachinag 17y ago
Oh, goddammit: Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups: http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren’t-cheap-... Horowitz agrees with sgblank and ries!
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is true but if you use Recurly you can swap merchant accounts as you need as they store your CC numbers. That plus TransFS is a powerful combination.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I kind of wish they used Anyvite/Tweetvite for the RSVPs. I guess it's hard to remember all your portfolio companies when they get into triple digits.
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by sachinag 17y ago
It's on purpose so that pg can increase pageviews and, as a result, advertising income. /you had to think for a second there because you're running AdBlock.
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by sachinag 17y ago
pekpongpaet and chadpaulson used it to win the iPhone hackathon competition at this past weekend's Day of Mobile. Chad claims he'll write a post about it, but if he doesn't, the tl;dr is that it made him a believer.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm astonished that the VCs were OK with this. Pandora must have had crazy-ass growth, because using new funds to pay people for past performance is very, very rare.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Seriously, they publish this every year in all the detail you could possibly want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget And if you think that the White House is trying to hide it, here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
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by sachinag 17y ago
The vast majority of OpenID sites require people to type in or copy/paste a URL. And most people haven't set up or don't know that Yahoo and Google and whoever else can provide OpenIDs. Seriously, Facebook Connect and Sign In With Twitter
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think this PR is a fake. It doesn't read quite right. EDIT: well, looks like my bullshit calibration was off this morning. I still cannot believe they threw "magical and revolutionary" into the first sentence instead of into Steve's pul
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by sachinag 17y ago
Local affiliate marketing in general.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm not sure how this would drive incremental sales instead of being unprofitable payments for sales you were gonna get anyway.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Absolutely - the dude's not the best rapper, but he's easily the best lyricist of this generation.
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by sachinag 17y ago
He, essentially, wrote and performed a bunch of love songs and ballads on 808s and Heartbreak. Sure, they're Auto-Tuned out of their gourds, but they're heartfelt love songs, all about a girl who left him. On some, he's angry at her, and
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by sachinag 17y ago
Oh! Another question (and I'm not trying to be a dick; I'm just really curious - data storage/retrieval in the cloud solves 1,000 other problems): how's Nasuni different than Cleversafe? Cleversafe runs their own data centers, I believe,
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by sachinag 17y ago
At my company, we continually are looking for new providers for shared storage. Right now, we're on Dropbox, but I'm evaluating just throwing them all into Google Docs since they give us free storage and we can copy/paste direct URLs for f
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by sachinag 17y ago
Of course they can be made. The biggest thing that YC gives to the founders it accepts is permission to be an entrepreneur . They recognize it, which is why they beg people who don't get in to keep going since the permission itself has
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by sachinag 17y ago
Where the fuck were the gainfully employed devs looking to make the leap when I was there? I didn't want to move to Boston... And it's baseball season, to boot. :(
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The Evolution Of The Customer Development Interview(blog.meatinthesky.com)
3 points by sachinag 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
Mentors are great, but cash is king. Unless they can credibly get real angels to write first checks, it'll end up limping along, the same as LaunchBox Digital and DreamIt Ventures. Sam Yagan and Troy Henikoff are the real deal and both ga
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by sachinag 17y ago
As the author, this is sufficiently similar to my argument that I'd say we agree, mostly. At the very least, please shop your incorporation business and get bids. However, I still don't think the corporate veil you get as a sole founder
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On Incorporation - Hold Off Until You Have The Cash To Spare(blog.meatinthesky.com)
39 points by sachinag 17y ago|33 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
As a former investment banker who has worked on numerous IPOs and follow-on offerings, there is only one thing you need to have a successful IPO: Institutional buyers who want to buy the stock at a price acceptable to the company. Back in 1
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by sachinag 17y ago
Wow, it's almost like good and bad are situation-specific. Well I never!
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is where vesting schedules are everyone's friend. I generally think that you should get a grant for the same number of shares that the three founders do, but if everyone's on a vesting schedule, they'll still own more than you for the
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by sachinag 17y ago
"incidental uses, non-consumptive uses, and personal, non-commercial uses."
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by sachinag 17y ago
Ah, it doesn't work for compound names (like Mary Beth). Hyphens and underscores still come through. :(
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Three Things To Put Off As Long As Possible For Your Startup(blog.meatinthesky.com)
47 points by sachinag 17y ago|19 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
Great execution. I know it's supposed to be anonymous, but I wouldn't require that. Have optional fields for a website, blog, GitHub (or Google Code or whatever the hell) public code repository, and projects they've worked on. I noticed
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is an exceptionally honest and forthright look at the pros/cons of a freemium model versus a simple free trial. I tip my hat to the Pollers for being willing to express their conundrum in such clear language in a public forum. Kudos.
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by sachinag 17y ago
$50 million is the same price as GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. It's all but impossible to tell how important strategically any one acquisition is to Google until they execute on it. This feels more important than Jaiku/Dodgebal

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