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by sbraford 19y ago
Dangit Mr. Graham you're making me want to do a startup again! (just when I'm finally making > $100k if you include all the bad-ass benefits & shit!)
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by sbraford 19y ago
As PG has stated in his essays, it's much easier for a smart hacker to learn customer support, accounting systems, marketing/blogging, than it is for a non-technical person to pick up hacking in a few days. Non-technical founders tend to ov
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The "this thread is going nowhere fast" Slope(onwebapps.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
YES - this is my favorite new dev meme. So incredibly true it's painful.
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by sbraford 19y ago
So this is kind of like Orb only your music gets uploaded to a central server instead of streamed from your home PC? The UI is incredible.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Is it because the media files come from consumers who've already ripped their media into mp3s and upload the songs themselves? MP3.com bought a bunch of CDs and went to town ripping them, sans license arrangements with the studios.
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by sbraford 19y ago
YES! This freaking rocks.
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by sbraford 19y ago
If this counts as launching a startup then I've "launched" about 27 startups over the past 8 years. Others might call this a feature or clever hack. (not to denigrate at all what Mark did here - it's cool stuff, just not a startup in the
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Anyone going to BarCamp this weekend?
2 points by sbraford 19y ago|2 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
Luckily PC snobbery has been on a steep decline for some time now. Intel/MS people still love to deride osx/apple market share, missing the point entirely. Does BMW try to be the Ford Taurus of the automobile market? No, that would of cour
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by sbraford 19y ago
Here's a good one by Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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by sbraford 19y ago
It's cool that you actually googled some stats. But let's face it -- we're on news.ycombinator.com, where the majority of the applicants and chosen entrepreneurs seem to be college kids or people in their twenties. (with a few outliers?) A
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by sbraford 19y ago
lulz. Let's see him try and apply to YC now too. =)
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by sbraford 19y ago
I would be willing to trade the few users it scares away for the thousands (or tens/hundreds of thousands) that end up signing up as a result of these tools.
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Do you have a friend inside Google?
2 points by sbraford 19y ago|11 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
I don't get it -- Flash is already ubiquitous. Why does Paul want to boil the ocean? Even multi-file Flash uploaders with progress bar indicators are free and plentiful. My favorite: http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx The onl
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Book by an author who has the most popular class at Harvard(amazon.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Is Glam the Boo.com of Web 2.0 or Worth a $1bln ad deal?(venturebeat.com)
2 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Lessons for startup founders from Baseball home run stats?(arthurdevany.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|1 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
I tried something similar a while back. Results were quite lackluster. Perhaps these companies make the service much more enticing by providing necessary training on the other side of the world? From my experience: Was paying an Indian guy
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Working Together ... When Apart(sloanreview.mit.edu)
3 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Netscape bigger than Digg? (including forced netscape.com startpage users)(calacanis.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Fox News and The Onion: The Most Trusted Names in News, together at last(mashable.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Collaboration is Hard, Part III(onlyonce.blogs.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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Developer Platform on Google Apps for Domains?(sablog.com)
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by sbraford 19y ago
"If you want to increase your success rate, double your rate of failure." - Thomas Watson (thought I heard it attributed to Edison as well)
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by sbraford 19y ago
If you're a startup founder -- RUN, don't walk, from PMPs or any other type of overly-complex project management process. As a small team of 2-5, if you can't figure out how to ship code on your own, you're already in deep, deep trouble. Ma
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by sbraford 19y ago
Lots of great stuff in this thread. Elephant in the room no one's talking about: almost everyone reading news.YC wants the market to remain as healthy (and bubbly, if you call it that) for as long as possible. In 1998, the voices of the nay
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by sbraford 19y ago
Good point. What does "proven" mean? Even if you've worked with someone before, and things worked out well, there's no guaranteeing it will be 100% the same the next go around. Miscommunication is probably the biggest problem here. Were b
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7 Years of paulgraham.com (via archive.org)(web.archive.org)
7 points by sbraford 19y ago|1 comments

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