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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Send out a press release NOW! While you're aiming for a different audience than vator.tv, you can really leverage the buzz/scandal behind vator.tv and Bambi Francisco to your advantage and get your site known.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Bots and fake profiles suck and your visitors will smell them a mile away. Throw a party for your friends, have them all bring laptops and make up a drinking game around posting things to Study Stickies. Or you could just ask them to do it.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
"With its expansive views of the San Francisco Bay and sky-high electricity usage included in the rent, that high-rise is now dubbed the "Yscaper"" Skyscraper - Yscraper, home to six ycombinator startups.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Also check out http://copyblogger.com, The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan Kennedy and Triggers by Joe Sugarman.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
I'd love to see a mashup of O'Reilly's list of cities with the locations of funding applications sent to VCs. You could throw in another one with all the YC/Techstars applicants.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
One of the problems our project faces before launching is building up enough content to make the site useful for early users. Thanks to everyone's tax dollars, our problem is now solved and then some. I've found ready to go databases and ar
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Using public domain for instant content generation(usa.gov)
1 points by yaacovtp 20y ago|1 comments
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Most Awesome Web Launch of a New Book of Short Stories(noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com)
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Kosher for Passover food that tastes good. Big, hungry market for it.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Not applicable for young web startups. Banks like lending to people and businesses with assets and revenues not ideas. Plus, if you take on debt you it makes it harder to cut and run if your idea doesn't pan out the way you planned.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Shhhhh, patience is a virtue.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
A stack of composition notebooks from back in grade school.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
#1 Leave a comment on someone's blog you usually visit, but never comment on.
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99 Things to do instead of Twittering
1 points by yaacovtp 20y ago|2 comments
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Here's his original source. http://valleywag.com/tech/lazy-valleywag/spying-on-federated-media-250003.php With only a handful of people on the conference call FM must have sent out the clip on purpose to help recruit new publishers. The c
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
I don't think anyone is applying for the money. After all most people are in their 20's with little to no responsibility. Just living in the Cambridge area for the summer will eat up a chunk of money. If you have a great idea and must have
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
I hope no one has epilepsy. TOFP - Too Obnoxious For People.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Boycott link bait.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Did you try searching? http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Oops, if only there were a "this looks like another article" warning button. "Are you sure you want to spam our readers?"
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
And on a shared hosting account you can host unlimited domains. I won't name them, but on company with the word "host" in it's name spelled out in the T & C that each account is limited to 30,000 individual files. If each site only had one
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Do you have a backup plan if you don't get Y Combinator funding?
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Control + minus a dozen times makes reading the online version so much easier/faster.
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Paid copy editors already battle with writers over grammer and word choice and you want to provide a service to casual writers? Setup a package consisting of "The Elements of Style" and a link to copyblogger.com and one of two will prove be
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
New restaurants need anonymous and confidential reviews more than web 2.0 startups do. Aren't 1000's of blogs already writing about the latest web startup?
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Basically, do anything, keep learning and expanding on it and you'll be an expert in the field relative to most others you work with. Do it with something you love and you'll come out on top. I'd love to see a salary polling site that mashe
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
I've already done "1. Start your own landscaping company" and it's definitely a moneymaker 8 months a year on the East Coast. Then I took what I've learned landscaping and started on "3. Start a website or blog" blogging about the landscape
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Group health insurance is one of the perks of having at least 2 founders. According to my insurance broker, we just need to people on payroll working at least 25 hours a week to qualify for a group plan. Healthy people in their 20's get bet
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Bigstring.com could have funded over 200 ycombinator teams. Hurrah for baby steps!(yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com)
1 points by yaacovtp 20y ago|0 comments
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by yaacovtp 20y ago
Two years of Stanford business school - $150K + lost income ( http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financialaid/budget.html). Filing fee to incorporate in Delaware - $89.

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