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by wellboy 10y ago
I am going through the same right now. 2 years ago I was running my startup Tennis Buddy, and everything was fine when I got pins and needles pain one morning all over my body and blurred vision. I have had this a lot of times before in my
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by wellboy 10y ago
more like 5/7 ok?
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by wellboy 10y ago
not bursting, deflating
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by wellboy 11y ago
Hmm! Thinking about this from a UX perspective, does it make sense for applicants to apply for YC core, but not for the fellowship. Is there an upside to that that makes sense or wouldn't it be better to put startups into fellowship by
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by wellboy 11y ago
The beauty of it is that love or just having someone to talk to can change lives and last for decades, no matter the background or what happened to a person. Pretty beautiful if you ask me :)
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by wellboy 11y ago
Reminds of the cycling world. Boundaries are pushed with doping and in order to stay competitive, after a while everyone is doping until the whole thing collapses. The same thing goes for bodybuilding, anyone has another example?
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by wellboy 11y ago
It is a disliked term, because it's a buzzword, which get really hyped up in the beginning until everyone can't hear it anymore. If you still use it after the initial hupe, it makes you sound like a tool. That's the thing wit
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by wellboy 11y ago
Speaking for Germany, which is probably the "best" country after the UK, here are a few reasons 1. Almost no investors who have built a tech-company before 2. Investors are very risk averse and want business models that monetize f
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by wellboy 11y ago
Not sure if I understand correctly, but doesn't Facebook have the "interest graph" completely built in through facebook pages? In other words, just as Twitter knows a user's interest through the hundreds of people they f
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by wellboy 11y ago
Freelancing is a numbers game. If you're in a city with a good startup ecosystem go to all tech events you can find for two weeks and hand out business cards letting people know what you do. After that you'll have your first clien
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by wellboy 11y ago
Like GoPro, just 10 times better?
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by wellboy 11y ago
To me, WoW taught me a lot for startups, especially PvP, because arena games were simply intelligence vs. intelligence fights. I think there is no other game or competition where such a broad range of skills is required in such a short amou
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by wellboy 12y ago
Great that you're doing an AMA! I'm a big fan if the concept of the MVP, however, having build 30+ apps and spoken with hundreds of founders how to buils their product, I have seen a lot of people struggling with the terminology o
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by wellboy 12y ago
There are 3 points that I hope can give you a better perspective on this 1. There is a nice startup wisdom that you really shouldn't worry about competition, you just need to be the best version of yourself. The competition has their o
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by wellboy 12y ago
One of the best startup articles written in the last few years. Looks like the startup ecosystem is finally finding its standards as there is now real data to back up the soft values, i.e. what's a good founder, what co-founder dynamic
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by wellboy 12y ago
I think, even though it's a bit sad, the assumption that mean people won't be successful, is incorrect. For the assumption that success is correlated with how kind someone is, there are just too many examples of previous and curre
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by wellboy 12y ago
It's a mathematical equation. They had an existing email list from Burbn of a couple of thousand users that they emailed when they launched Instagram. These users were extremely targeted because they already knew the company and becaus
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by wellboy 12y ago
Mean people succeed, good people succeed. Succeeding by being mean is pretty lame, everybody can do that. However, if you can succeed while still being good, then you are really talented, then you are a real founder at least in my book. Th
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by wellboy 12y ago
For this, you don't need to ask yourself how you solve problems with code, you need to ask yourself how you can solve problems with products. Coding is not the hard part, it is rather a means to an end. Figuring out for whom you are so
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by wellboy 12y ago
There just hasn't been much happening in the past 9 months with Bitcoin, it will probably take some time until the price will start to rise/fall significantly.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Excellent story. While I think it's worth throwing oneself into a startup for a few years, because there are learnings you will get this way, that you will never get anywhere else, there should be a long term vision. The story of Rafae
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by wellboy 12y ago
Cool project! What were the best use cases you had in mind for this?
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Steve Jobs about how sales-driven companies naturally lose their product sense(youtube.com)
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by wellboy 12y ago
You do need a co-founder though to build a startup. The value of having 1 person to bounce ideas off is incredible versus just yourself. The value of the second co-founder for bouncing ideas off is 50% less than for the first one, that&#x27
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by wellboy 12y ago
If you haven't sold a previous company before, you need to have strong traction (at least 5,000 users or $5,000 revenue within the last 6 months), otherwise you don't have a chance really. Also, you need to have a full-time commit
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by wellboy 12y ago
While it is good that this article tries to shine light on the things that really matter, discrediting social networks or apps that solve specific problems doesn't help the cause. The author is criticising 23 years olds that they are n
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yep, there is an ecosystem for whisteblowers building itself, that they can draw upon. Wondering when there will be a fund for whistleblowers :)
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by wellboy 12y ago
Phew, is there a way to hold the lectures a little bit longer invervals? I'd really love to watch them all, but a new one every three days is a lot to watch.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes there is a very, very big difference. For these high-stress jobs you get paid lots and lots of money. You don't get paid anything to do a startup, you might even do it for 2 years and NOTHING will come out of it.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ok, I didn't mean you literally have to become a psychopath, but that there are some parallels. I think if you ask people who built a startup if they sometimes felt like a psychopath, I think many of them will not say no. Some quick go

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