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Y Combinator vs. Graduate School(startupboy.com)
13 points by vibhavs 17y ago|15 comments
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Looks like this is the TED version of his blog post at sivers.org: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668197
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Understood. On a related note, you may enjoy Officeal - a showcase of creative workspaces: http://officeal.com/ .
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by vibhavs 17y ago
You can find a slightly better (although not full-res) set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xobni/sets/72157623087041573/
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Link to said vlog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/05/10/thoughts-on-mozilla/
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Here's a good explanation that I found: "What does an EIR do?" - http://framethink.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/what-does-an-eir-...
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by vibhavs 17y ago
He also says: >I stay 2-3 years behind the trend. After the early adopters have left, there is this gap that can be filled by people who are willing to learn from the failures of the early adopters That sounds great in theory, but can a
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Also, I couldn't tell from the screenshots if the app allowed users to view comments on a submission. As we all know, the discussions can be as good as, if not better, than the articles.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
While this doesn't directly answer your question, I've found this to be helpful in the past: The Little Manual of API Design - http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Nothing big, but something I just thought I'd bring to your attention if you haven't noticed. I'm assuming you have different colored images for the menu bar items ("Plan", "Track", etc) when users hover. It doesn't look like the images loa
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Wow. A123 went through 11 rounds of financing. After getting used to seeing web/IT companies raising 3 to 4 rounds, it's easy to forget there are other industries out there that are much more capital-intensive.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Their original tagline was something along the lines of "it's preposterously easy to use." (I say it as "post-erous" too, don't worry).
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Perhaps too long?
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Well written blurb. Also, interesting: "Justin.TV is Kan's second company. He and Shear founded Kiko, an online calendar program, during their senior year at Yale University... The pair landed start-up capital from Y Combinator but struggle
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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) (bothsidesofthetable.com)
5 points by vibhavs 17y ago|0 comments
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Can We Please Have Jerry Back?(techcrunch.com)
21 points by vibhavs 17y ago|16 comments
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by vibhavs 17y ago
That was a pretty pointless article.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
Nope, they're right. There wasn't much there before. The Robotics Institute had a shop/shed of some kind. And also the CMU PD. But not much else.
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The rise of Xavier Niel says a lot about French business (economist.com)
40 points by vibhavs 17y ago|13 comments
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by vibhavs 17y ago
While I understand _why_ they had to introduce theming, I'm worried about the simplicity that I have come to love in Posterous. I just hope Posterous blogs don't become the next MySpace pages.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
I second that.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
I definitely didn't see this one coming.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
"The one number you should know about your equity grant," by Chris Dixon ( http://www.cdixon.org/?p=467 ), addresses some of these issues.
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A Tale of Two Pitches: why the best VC pitches are discussions(bothsidesofthetable.com)
3 points by vibhavs 17y ago|1 comments
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Getting a job in venture capital(cdixon.org)
19 points by vibhavs 17y ago|3 comments
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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
22 points by vibhavs 17y ago|17 comments
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by vibhavs 17y ago
No, I'm seeing it as well.
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by vibhavs 17y ago
That looks very cool. I just don't think it's a very efficient way of getting the information across.
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Dividing free and paid features in "freemium" products (cdixon.org)
25 points by vibhavs 17y ago|11 comments
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by vibhavs 17y ago
That's a good one. The analogy I often use is cooking: given a set of ingredients, there's a lot you can do with it; and the order in which you do it determines the end result. This, of course, does not take into the account the iternativen

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