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901.
by sama 18y ago
VCs invest in founders, not management teams. Some of the good ones have a strong preference for those founders to be engineers. Most of the most successful VC investments have been backing very smart engineers. This pattern is not lost o
902.
by sama 18y ago
Search mail on the server!
903.
by sama 18y ago
too exciting
904.
IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc(engadget.com)
138 points by sama 18y ago|141 comments
905.
How to Be an Angel Investor(paulgraham.com)
122 points by sama 18y ago|54 comments
906.
Obama makes Bush's record public(whitehouse.gov)
75 points by sama 18y ago|28 comments
907.
by sama 18y ago
The best way is not to, I assure you.
908.
by sama 18y ago
earthcomber ftw!
909.
Nikkei down 10% overnight; central banks coordinate rate cut(nytimes.com)
5 points by sama 18y ago|0 comments
910.
by sama 18y ago
add the tag newsyc and find other new.ycers
911.
Bank of America offers $50B for ML(nytimes.com)
1 points by sama 18y ago|1 comments
912.
by sama 18y ago
One of the most important things you can do is appear credible. Most big companies forget that they did their most interesting things when they were just a few people with an uncertain future. When a big company wanted to visit us in our
913.
by sama 18y ago
Turing FTW! And lots of others. I think they have about the same incidence of intelligence/effectiveness as straight ones.
914.
Loopt update(tastyblogsnack.com)
11 points by sama 18y ago|1 comments
915.
by sama 18y ago
YC hackers--run in the other direction.
916.
by sama 18y ago
thanks everyone!
917.
by sama 18y ago
MacBook Air is a truly excellent computer. It's powerful enough for all but the most intense compiling. I don't know anyone who has one and doesn't love it.
918.
by sama 19y ago
Given that Matt Brezina submitted this, I would say 100% yes.
919.
by sama 19y ago
no need to watch, pg. more doomsday talk about the end of privacy as we know it :)
920.
by sama 19y ago
want a job at a cool startup?
921.
by sama 19y ago
wow, i have arrived.
922.
by sama 19y ago
PG is right that having an 'advisory board' is a bad sign. However, I think that sometimes giving someone smart and powerful a little bit of stock early in the life of your company can be very helpful. We did it, and it got us two very im
923.
by sama 19y ago
SLEEPING
924.
by sama 19y ago
Special invite to news.yc'ers to apply--let me know if you want to build something
925.
by sama 19y ago
Without naming either company involved, two companies from Stanford started approximately simultaneously with pretty much the same vision. One group spent months (literally) drafting employment and consultant agreements, filing patents and
926.
by sama 19y ago
Good: -Things that will get you more revenue -Things that will get you more users (and thus hopefully revenue) -Things that will make your product better (and thus hopefully more users) -Things that will get you great hires (and thus hopefu
927.
by sama 19y ago
If no new or current users/advertisers/customers/etc care about what you're doing, and no one in the company has a plan (or, more commonly I think, a desire) to fix it, you are probably in bad shape.
928.
More advice for new Y Combinator founders
124 points by sama 19y ago|28 comments
929.
Watch this video--excellent summary of SV at the end of 2007(youtube.com)
3 points by sama 19y ago|0 comments
930.
by sama 19y ago
The middleman approach to funding doesn't appear to work too well--none of the successful companies I know went that route, but many of the trainwrecks did. It's probably not impossible, though. You would do well to remember that investors

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