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by wellboy 12y ago
If you think about it, if you want to do a startup, you basically have to become a psychopath, because you constantly have to tell yourself that everyone who is getting a job is doing it wrong, which is 99% of people, you have to be willing
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by wellboy 12y ago
It's not that hard to get to know someone who knows someone at SV Angel. If you have something to show, just write an investor or entrepreneur you like if he can give you advice on something on your startup and they will surely be will
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by wellboy 12y ago
Awesome lecture. A summary of the points that hit home for me 1. Really try create amazing first moments in your product 2. There are many first moments in your product, every feature of your product has a first moment 3. The little things
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by wellboy 12y ago
Definitely check out www.startupdigest.com. It sends you a weekly digest of the best startup events in your city, where you will meet young people like you who also want to start a tech startup.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes this applies when you haven't raised funding yet, maybe if you've just raised your A Series, but not if you're a billion dollar company. Of course there are always security holes, but they should really not be that gaping
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes this applies when you haven't raised funding yet, maybe if you've just raised your A Series, but not if you're a billion dollar company.
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by wellboy 12y ago
What do you mean? AirBnB is for renting out stuff that is actually yours, Uber is for getting something to you with the press of a button.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Having worked in a hospital for a whole year I can agree. Hospitals are the perfect example for something that you thought as a kid would be handled by ultra-smart people, doctors who love their jobs and who know best how to take care of pa
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by wellboy 12y ago
Adding to this, for every new app, there are three new apps you can spin out of it. Take AirBnb, now there are dozens of AirBnb for X models. Uber? Dozens of Uber for Xs as well. AirBnb for boats, office spaces, parking lots. They all worke
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by wellboy 12y ago
I'm not sure as no system is 100% secure. It's only a matter of how high you want to set the bar, but this bar is very low imho.
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by wellboy 12y ago
How a company with $163M in funding is not able to put just a normal encryption into their app or hire someone who knows about encryption is out of my comprehension. We implemented a standard Blowfish encryption in university at a small pro
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by wellboy 12y ago
Really cool write-up and awesome to see a really soft consumer product in YC. It looks like you actually want to take on Craigslist. I think it is definitely possible, however, it would need something really strong like YC behind it, but if
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by wellboy 12y ago
The other bad idea, local travel experiences, there were hundreds of them, but it's really hard to get critical mass, because you need to have enough experience hosts, experiences and then also visitors. The only ones that made it work
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by wellboy 12y ago
Why is Estonia the smartest country? Because in Estonia, EVERYONE needs to learn how to code, from primary school to graduating high school. http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/
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by wellboy 12y ago
Interesting, I've seen a lot of definitions for a startup now, but none of them really seem to grasp the core of it. Startups have repeatable business models, large growth rates, but Amazon is that and it's not a startup anymore.
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by wellboy 12y ago
This is huge. Social payments could be the biggest business model for Facebook and even blast their revenues way past $100B. Lots of startups, many great ones have attempted it before, but all failed due to lack of traction. Facebook doesn&
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by wellboy 12y ago
Phew, how fortunate that the dollar does ;)
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by wellboy 12y ago
It does sound a little silly, I'm using the word "founder" or "startup founder" now, it can replace the word "entrepreneur" around 7 out of 10 times and people get it.
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by wellboy 12y ago
I get your point, but it might be you do not want to build a $1B company. Y-Combinator is designed to build $1B+ companies, however, it is not designed to not build $1B companies at all. So if you don't want to do that, yes do not work
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by wellboy 12y ago
I think this will make quite some sense for the German startup scene, not just Berlin.
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by wellboy 12y ago
He is hitting hard the second criterion with hundreds of thousands of visitors. It is either track record, or traction. Traction trumps everything :)
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by wellboy 12y ago
I think the post tries to encourage more people to start startups and to apply to YC, however, I think the way this post is formulated, it gives the impression that if you have a good idea you can simply apply, which I don't think is t
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Famous logos and their hidden messages(diply.com)
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by wellboy 12y ago
It doesn't matter what your situation is, it's the same with any investor. If you have strong traction or a strong track record, you will get investment, be it YC or someone else, no matter if you're a parent or not. Of cours
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by wellboy 12y ago
Chegg is doing this big time and they are already IPOd.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Awesome, for me Watsi is one of the most inspirational startups right now. Reminds me that if someone can, doing amazing startups is the right thing to do!
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by wellboy 12y ago
I've been doing my startup and have been working in companies on and off on the side and to be honest I have a quite strong opinion towards the point of view that people need to collect experience in a company before starting their com
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by wellboy 12y ago
Awesome, this is how it´s done. Finally some real founders start to be out there!
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ah got it, so Germany doesn´t like the "Lyft-part" about Uber, right?
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by wellboy 12y ago
Anyone knows why Uber has to pay 250k fines and all the other German taxi apps, such as MyTaxi that have raised $10M, don't?

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