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by vdibart 17y ago
Thanks for the clarification pg. I would think that it'd be pretty uncommon to be accepted at the pre-idea stage though, no? I mean, seed funding for literally nothing more than a good team is pretty tough to come by. For FI that's actual
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by vdibart 17y ago
Not taking it personally, no worries. Just want to make sure the FI doesn't get disrespected. Realize I might not be in the right place for that though :) I certainly don't understand YC as well as I do FI, but I would think a lot of it c
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by vdibart 17y ago
My first question would be why you consider YC to be your best choice. No offense intended to the host of this forum, but there's a lot of reasons that might not be true. Clearly YC gets better press, but as with FI it's not for everyone.
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by vdibart 17y ago
I hear you. I'm also glad to hear they're tweaking the formula. I think we can agree it's not only fair but important to set the incorporation requirement a little earlier in the session. From the Institute's perspective, there are some (
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by vdibart 17y ago
With regards to incorporation, I would only say the word "pressure" (at least in NY) might be too strong. They put it out there and make it clear - incorporate or clear out of the way. But in no way do they force you to do something you d
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by vdibart 17y ago
btw, my take on FI: http://www.nodroidsallowed.com/2010/03/02/tips-for-those-app...
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by vdibart 17y ago
I'm in the NY program, which is finishing up next week. I know a couple of others in the NY program lurk here as well. Feel free to hit me up if you have questions about Founder Institute.
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by vdibart 17y ago
Huh. Serves me right for being overly anxious. Thanks and good luck to you too bhousel.
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Ask HN: Anyone else do the Admissions Test for the W2009 Founder Institute?
1 points by vdibart 17y ago|2 comments
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by vdibart 17y ago
Great suggestion! Thanks for the heads up on this.
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by vdibart 17y ago
That's good to hear. Linux doesn't scare me at all. It's Linux on a laptop that scares me. I'm a command line kind of guy, but not a hardware kind of guy. I just want to spend time being productive, not chasing down info in forums. Las
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Ask HN: What to do with a spare laptop?
7 points by vdibart 17y ago|10 comments
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Major Fail at XMLTeam Tonight
5 points by vdibart 17y ago|1 comments
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by vdibart 17y ago
I agree. I was thinking of spam in a generic sense. He had to have generated a bunch of these and bulk mailed them or else he would have taken the time to customize them.
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by vdibart 17y ago
(Edited title after posting) LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcordi
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Ask HN: Anyone Heard of Joseph A. Cordi
2 points by vdibart 17y ago|6 comments
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by vdibart 17y ago
Doesn't exactly fit your criteria in terms generating revenue, but I wrote a plugin for TiddlyWiki ( http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ ) that allows you to store your address book inside a TiddlyWiki file. It includes import and export, and since
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by vdibart 17y ago
>> it would encourage people to create accounts on my system for the sole purpose of gaining these badges. I doubt anyone would make a (non-spam) system that rewards people just for signing up. The site creator would be careful to
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by vdibart 17y ago
It's an interesting idea but there are a couple of things you should think through before taking it too much further. I don't think depending on partnerships is necessarily horrible, but what I'm trying to determine is what the benefit for
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by vdibart 17y ago
I've been using rsync.net ( http://rsync.net/ ) for years. With your requirement to be able to encrypt, you can use a number of means since they are very flexible. One I've used is to have some/all of my files encrypted with TrueCrypt ( h
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by vdibart 17y ago
Agreed for the most part. It drives me crazy when people make absurd comments like "PHP doesn't scale". Besides the fact that there are plenty of examples of PHP sites that have scaled, it exposes a basic ignorance of modern software deve
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by vdibart 17y ago
Yes, I think that's fair and appropriate. PHP isn't necessarily sexy to many developers for a number of reasons (not a small part of it is the echo chamber effect), but it can be rewarding, productive, and performant. If nothing else, you
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by vdibart 17y ago
Ooo, this is total flame war bait.....You're making a lot of assumptions about what a "modern" language is here, but I wont' dwell on that : ) Suffice it to say you should give PHP another look, particularly in the context of some of the P
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by vdibart 17y ago
Founder of http://www.whizkidsports.com . Still a work in progress, hopefully ready by beginning of next baseball season.