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by wellboy 13y ago
Wow thank you, when I get all inspirational and big thinking, I'm used to getting shot down by HN, so it makes me happy that it resonates with you. How to aim for $100M? Try something crazy, something that other people will look at you
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by wellboy 13y ago
I know every HN reader will hate this, but my advice, try to add $100M to your 2016 income. Why so? If you aim for $100M, after 3-4 years it is possible that you land somewhere between $5M-10M. However, if you aim for $100k, you will land a
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by wellboy 13y ago
AWesome, awesome, awesome. Can you also support client-side support for the people that are using Parse? As in, write a few lines of code in my Android app that sends a push to me. Last question, why did you choose to launch on Android?
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well, if you want to improve the lifes of millions of people, your company has to make significants profits and grow strongly. The thing that most people don't understand is that if a company isn't profitable, its products will ne
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by wellboy 13y ago
Startups are not about making money. If you are the entrepreneur behind the startup who is mostly in for the money, your startup will suck in the end and you will shut it down or leave it with a bad feeling. If you don't give a f abo
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by wellboy 13y ago
Isn't this good, because it kept the insane rents in Silicon Valley down a bit at least?
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by wellboy 13y ago
If you cure AIDS, you're worth probably $50B, so there's that.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Wow this thread was severely punished. Rank #34 with 56 upvotes and posted 2h ago. There is another post on the front page with 37 upvotes posted 2h ago on rank #5. Wow. So punishment. Very algorithmci downwotes.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Can you please make it like this: http://bitcointicker.co/
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by wellboy 13y ago
For an investment opportunity, the price has quintupled over the last 72h you know. And for fun. :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
Yeah sorry, I think you have a lot of basics missing so it would take several years and experiencing the world lots more for you to understand it.
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by wellboy 13y ago
> women don't really have it hard at all in tech + affirmative action I'm sorry, but the facts are all against what you were saying. I've read numerous stories about female programmers having a hard time fitting in at work
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by wellboy 13y ago
Looking at the other comments, he was serious...gotta fight that!
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by wellboy 13y ago
If you mean that he meant his comment to be satirical, I can't see a hint for that anywhere in his comment.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Why the downvotes, I said kindly?
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by wellboy 13y ago
Yeah, but the upside for female founders to have a female-only event is much bigger than the downside for men not being able to attend such an event.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Could you kindly s tfu please? Women do simply have it much harder than men in tech and if you even criticize them for trying to build a community, you do a lot of harm to the whole industry and will scare away even more women from becoming
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by wellboy 13y ago
"It's time to grow up, fuck no" http://appreneur-diaries.com/its-time-to-grow-up-fuck-no
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by wellboy 13y ago
Though, at entrepreneur meetups/event, it's funny EVERYBODY speaks English. Just yesterday at hy berlin, all the pitches were in English and 1/3rd of the people getting food/drinks are non-Germans. So almost every conver
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by wellboy 13y ago
Idea: Make a post-mortem startup website, where recently deceased startups can open-source their documents to the whole startup community. Pivot for everpix maybe? This somehow has the same vibe as the becoming of Mattermark to me.
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think lots of web development companies will hire you. Reasons? They can pay you much less than the normal graduate, but at your age $20/h is awesome and very cheap for the company --> win-win. How to apply? Find a web dev compan
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by wellboy 13y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot, too. Is there any startup that inevitably needs early investment? Except for biotech or massive big data startups of course. Because if your product does something new, you can ALWAYS get PR. What I
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by wellboy 13y ago
If you're only looking at cash in the bank afterwards from the exit maybe. What doing a startup does is worst case, that it accelerates your carreer a lot. If you do startups for 2 years, you can get the jobs (if you want) that people
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by wellboy 13y ago
Good article. Key learnings: 1. Being an above 25y founder was viewed as advantageous and below 25y founder was viewed a disadvantageous before YC/2005. YC made being <25y old founders viewed as advantageous and >25y founders as
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by wellboy 13y ago
Cut the guy some slack, he also has to learn. Do you think you would have known straight away how to defend your company against the press, hackernews haters and how to apologize to millions of people when you were 23??
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by wellboy 13y ago
Seriously? Can we stay a day without constantly checking hackernews and the internet? And then posting about it to show how much YC fanboi they are? Maybe be productive instead and actually code your startup instead of posting on hackernews
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by wellboy 13y ago
It was most likely the Zynga announcement. 10M monthly users is quite something and there were no other relevant news around over the last couple of days.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Correct, that's why I wrote $10B and not $4B * 1.15^12 = $21B.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Why would you sell your company for $4B, when you're growing by 15% a month or whatever and are very likely to be worth >$10B by the end of the year and quite likely to be worth $20B the year after??
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by wellboy 13y ago
I just created Hackernews Coin. They give you a website link that you need to refresh. Now, I need to wait... It's awesome how the crypto-currency ecosystem becomes harder and harder to kill with hacks like this.

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