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by sharpshoot 19y ago
YC's been iterating on this model for 3 years now and are getting even better at identifying promising ideas and entrepreneurs. I suspect its going to take one or two more cycles to absolutely nail the model. In terms if lessons learnt, YC
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
I wrote it. I co-founded Snaptalent.
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Actually yes. http://www.libraryhouse.net/web07/speakers/profiles/#sumon_s...
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
To point 1: YC backs teams not ideas. Smart early stage investors back teams. To point 2: AT Interview stage, from one application form how familiar do you expect someone to be once you've read 500 forms. This is a pretty selfish viewpoint.
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So you got a YC interview? Now what.. (from the founders of Snaptalent, YC winter 08)(blog.snaptalent.com)
51 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|37 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
It was Auctomatic. Thats Patrick from Auctomatic. The only person i know who would dare to use an obscure framework and be a major contributor to that movement.
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
There was a seed round before that to get them started which was a lot larger than most YC startups take. Anyway, what does the size of the round have to do with what you are trying to prove?
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"Kulveer Taggar says he expected to wait a little longer before becoming a millionaire."(newsweek.com)
32 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|31 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Try meneame.com - the spanish Digg?
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
all comes down to if you can convince them. the founder of siebel systems got the first 20 employees to work for free initially.
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Justin.tv is hiring Python Hackers(snaptalent.com)
13 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|7 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
http://snaptalent.com/ads.html
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
What problem do you solve? How do you scale this? How big is the market? What do you want to do this the money? What key assumptions do you need to prove to make this a success? WHat metrics are you going to use to validate these assumption
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
If you are willing to do YC why not apply and do it. Successful founders have been through much more insurmountable obstacles before, why restrict yourself at the first hurdle. As a UK founder in YC i can say that the move to the valley is
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
The belief to take on a huge market and think you can win
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
No - ecommerce is about connecting buyers with sellers. The domains capture the intent, auctomatic provides the inventory to take advantage of that intent. Powersellers used to be tied to eBay, now they can connect to huge vertical audience
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Robot Scientist: the best job ever?(snaptalent.com)
21 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|10 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Apply to YC?
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Mixwit == superhit. These guys are underground but judging how viral it is and how much their traffic is growing its going to be huge. I don't often say this. Watch these guys.
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
I think the main constraint is the lack of creativity and the variety of tasks one has to perform in a big company. In a startup there are so many challenges and so many things to learn its always changing,
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
No one cares about the idea. In fact we applied with a different idea to snaptalent but it was the team that mattered. We could change our idea again and be confident of smashing it out the park because our team is super solid, motivated an
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Hey there, Sumon from Snaptalent here. Expect over the next few weeks for us to rampup the number of companies on here. Who else on the east coast would love this? Some great startups there that we can help get for you Email me: sumon [at]
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Hey there, No, you can still make those. This link is just for Non-YC companies that would love to give smart hackers awesome summer internships. I'm sure you'll appreciate the chance to check out cool offices and great companies.
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Adsense has its widgets on a lot of crappy sites and also your targeting ability is limited by keywords, while what you really want is audience level relevance ie rails jobs on rails sites, flash jobs on actionscript sites etc So if you rea
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Snaptalent now lets you buy job postings on the News.YC jobs page
9 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|8 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
2/3 of snaptalent's founders are british (Tim & I)
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Review of Snaptalent(paulstamatiou.com)
16 points by sharpshoot 19y ago|3 comments
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Hey Joe, Thanks for the comments. We're starting out in tech but will be moving to other verticals eventually. The other key advantage we have is that as the web's traffic is more international and as we add advertisers from different count
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
earle - would love to speak to you. shoot me a line: sumon@snaptalent.com
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by sharpshoot 19y ago
Hey Guys - Please Digg http://digg.com/tech_news/Snaptalent_Targets_Job_Candidates_...

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