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by swalkergibson 15y ago
I would think so. It seems like they are being genuine.
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
You should absolutely learn how to program! As someone who was in your position three years ago, I can categorically tell you that learning to program is one of the best decisions I have ever made. My suggestion is the following - try and f
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
If you fund my next trip to the Diamond, I will gladly place that webcam for you :P
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
Interesting. It seems like they are still attempting to grow in developing countries. Why are they focusing on this when their primary revenue stream is display advertising? I cannot imagine big-name advertisers are particularly interested
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
This is discussion is interesting. Are there any women that care to comment? It seems that, as of now, the commentary is coming from men deciding how women should feel.
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
Great implementation! I actually thought about creating something like this myself, but just have yet to get around to it, LOL. If you were so inclined, you should put some Easter eggs in there. How about grep for searching through the whol
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
You would have done better if you were able to convince the local bully to shakedown the kids that didn't bank with you... ;)
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
This looks like the most promising IPO yet. They are sitting on a pile of cash, they have a healthy profit margin, and it seems like they are the undisputed market leader in a growing industry segment. Question, how does the IPO price get s
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
With zero salary, I would say you need to get more equity. A working prototype is pretty amorphous, is it version 0.01? Like others have said, the accelerator is theoretically where a lot of the work will be done, so he is asking for quite
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
Godin is Seth Godin, who writes about online marketing and product development here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/ Many of his articles are immediately applicable to your start up, and in my opinion, are extraordinarily valuabl
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
Thank you Mike Rowe for putting this on the record! The trend away from skill-based learning to the ivory tower is contributing to a deterioration in both. University education is moving towards the average at an alarming rate. The value of
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
It depends massively on the intended market. Is it a consumer service? SMB service? Mobile? Local? Social? Color? For a consumer service, making a big launch splash on TechCrunch, SXSW, Disrupt, etc is awesome. Not a lot of start-ups are fo
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
This is a terribly common refrain. Perhaps all freelance developers in a given area should collaborate (read: collude) and come up with an agreed upon, open source scope of work document framework? That way, setting aside variables like pri
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by swalkergibson 15y ago
This looks very interesting. Quick question, as far as I can tell, one of the iOS devices has to function as the database server. Is this reliable? If so, that is extremely exciting...
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by swalkergibson 16y ago
This is a pretty neat article, but none of it really seems like rocket science. As far as I can tell, it just validates Fred Wilson's post regarding a startup's marketing budget ( http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/marketing.html ). Would anyt
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by swalkergibson 16y ago
I realize this is straying off topic, but why would an entrepreneur hamstring him/herself by agreeing to such a clause? It appears to me that such a clause benefits the VC in a big way, but puts a significant amount of undue pressure on the
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by swalkergibson 16y ago
As someone who was in your position about 2 years ago, I have the following advice for you. First, you should look at some tutorials before you find this individual so you understand the very basics of whatever language you are looking to g
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by swalkergibson 17y ago
"Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk That one is probably way, way too graphic, but if your intent is to subvert...you might even go with something from Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing perhaps?
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by swalkergibson 17y ago
Unless of course he has borrowed against his stock, like many people did during the first bubble. I would hope that he would have the intelligence to not get over extended and count his chickens before they hatch.
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by swalkergibson 18y ago
You sound like the type of person that does not belong on any start up team. You have to learn to get along with people (even businesspeople), especially because you will be working with them for 18 hours per day.
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by swalkergibson 18y ago
Why is this us vs. them? Starting a successful company requires a balanced, capable team, a ton of luck, and long hours. If this is your attitude, I would not want to hire you regardless of your self-proclaimed technical prowess.
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by swalkergibson 18y ago
Well, I think that based on the context of this forum (YCombinator is a seed stage incubator fund) we can assume most people here are interested in either starting a company themselves, or getting involved with one. So, is making a "success