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How many founders do successful tech companies have?(philosophically.com)
32 points by vnorby 14y ago|21 comments
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The Technology Party(philosophically.com)
3 points by vnorby 14y ago|0 comments
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by vnorby 14y ago
I don't know if this is true or isn't true, but Google Ventures' counter arguments are red herrings: "I don't know what Paul's thinking," Maris said. "It's just not true. Our portfolio speaks for itself." and "We've already clo
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by vnorby 14y ago
It's a funny, well-executed idea, but issuing official-looking city documents with "City of Mountain View" as the header and all of your identifying information is a great way to get written up by the police department.
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by vnorby 14y ago
"i probably shouldn't talk for that team too much, but generally we think of ads the same way we think of other communication on fb. if it's starbucks talking to their fans it's not fundamentally different than me talking to my friends. so
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by vnorby 14y ago
It seems like this could be built in Javascript. Might not be as precise but at least it would be demoable.
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by vnorby 14y ago
Before we wrote our new policy, I looked into this myself because I wondered if we could do without. In the US/Canada and some other places, it's not necessary to have a Privacy Policy (in the EU, it is) depending on what your site does. Ho
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by vnorby 14y ago
I am one of the authors of our new policy. Please read that part of their policy carefully: "We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Google unless one of the following circumstances appl
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by vnorby 14y ago
TOS and Privacy Policy are not the same thing. Terms of Service' state what rules the user must follow on the service. Privacy Policies state what rules the company will follow with regards to user data.
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by vnorby 14y ago
The reason that post has so many upvotes is because what he is describing is real, mental suffering and fatigue that most (not all, I guess) startup founders accrue. The end result of doing a startup is personal learning, growth, having had
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by vnorby 14y ago
The site is asking for an email which also happens to be a PayPal account (Placeholder text is "Email (and PayPal) address..."), along with a password. The user is not a known quantity and it's his/her first submission to HN, it's very poss
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by vnorby 14y ago
If you open the OAuth flow in a pop-up, with window.open (actually, for most browsers to open a pop-up, the user has to actually click on a link, so your href should be javascript:window.open(" https://oauth_start ) - target="_blank" might
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by vnorby 14y ago
We use APNS and C2DM, but you can turn them off if you're concerned.
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by vnorby 14y ago
You're right, that is annoying. Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what we're going to do. On hover on the Circles list, we'll swap out the member count for an Edit link: https://img.skitch.com/20120517-gg1dd9n3ecy5882gd8335tap44.j...
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by vnorby 14y ago
Where to begin - first, our apps perform at least 30x better. Facebook mobile apps sometimes lag for 30 seconds or more loading new content, ours is instantaneous. Our app was natively built for all platforms. Second, we are backwards compa
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by vnorby 14y ago
We are working on that for web (which is in beta), I'm assuming that's what you are mentioning. Our backend is ready to do Google Contacts and Yahoo, but haven't had time to wire up the front-end. If you download our app for Android or iPho
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by vnorby 14y ago
Everyme is an app that works REALLY well on all platforms for your purposes, not just pretty well. I would encourage you to give it a try. You might like it better.
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by vnorby 14y ago
That's an interesting idea. I am not sure if it's possible to do that and keep the same level of performance, features, and usability that we offer. If it was, I would certainly be open to it.
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by vnorby 14y ago
Push your back and forward buttons on your browser in the middle of one of the animations. That is seriously cool.
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by vnorby 14y ago
You can use GitHub for legal documents already. Just convert your documents to markdown. We put our TOS and Privacy Policy on Github from launch: https://github.com/everyme/everyme-legal We haven't had any issues or pull requests recently
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Startups Party at the Patent Office(businessweek.com)
15 points by vnorby 14y ago|0 comments
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by vnorby 14y ago
Sorry that wasn't more clear. I think privacy controls on a product like Facebook, designed and redesigned ad infinitum to make you share things in public, fail at doing so in the long run. Everyme was designed from the ground-up for privat
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by vnorby 14y ago
Updated my comment to be a little more clear on that, thanks :)
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by vnorby 14y ago
I can answer that for you here. This article is more about privacy as our product although it is also our policy. Our Privacy Policy and TOS outline things in legalese, but in human language, we take it seriously on the backend as well. We
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by vnorby 15y ago
Sam, slide to delete works on phone numbers, circles, stories, people in your circles, and other places in the app where you need to remove data. Hope that helps! vibhu@everyme.com if you need more assistance.
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by vnorby 15y ago
Yes, I agree! That is something we are working on. We are in a difficult place because we are extraordinarily cautionary about what messages we send through email/text but we don't to clutter the UI with alerts and confirm dialogs.
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by vnorby 15y ago
Hi newhouse. Thanks for trying Everyme. We've thought a lot about this process and have made sure not to do anything without your permission. We don't spam your friends when you create a Circle. We only share things with your Circle friends
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by vnorby 15y ago
I thought the same thing, it's very obvious that he's starting either his own firm, or will land somewhere else, and this article is a public attempt to retain his clients and advertise to new ones.
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by vnorby 15y ago
If you work in a tech startup, obviously you don't have to read every political story but I believe you absolutely should be aware about the Path situation, Kickstarter, and all other trends and most companies in our industry. If you're not
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by vnorby 15y ago
So we can trade Zynga shares on Facebook quarterly earnings reports. Sounds good to me!

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