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by yamada 19y ago
Ahhh ... but you're thinking of "traditional business" ... I'm thinking of a business where you don't need to make revenue and a large company buys you out because of your "strategic value".
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by yamada 19y ago
I'm voting up all of your comments from now on whenever I come across you because your comment made me laugh and I spit Dr. Pepper out of my nose and now my brain is tingling and I see bright little bubbles popping up all over my field of v
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by yamada 19y ago
Marlboro is not a failure. It improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people by helping them live the dream of being a handsome cowboy while they rode the subway to work.
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by yamada 19y ago
Ya I guess if you can monetize an idea 10,000 entrepreneurs had before you than you can call it a success as well. The smug sense of satisfaction will keep you warm for decades to come.
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How can we all write forum titles so interesting that we cancel each other out?
2 points by yamada 19y ago|3 comments
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Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
3 points by yamada 19y ago|12 comments
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by yamada 19y ago
But determinism is just what happens when you negate your own role in the system with personal apathy; otherwise you have the much more fun realm of scenarios and their associated probabilities, which are in turn largely in flux ...
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by yamada 19y ago
STFU you crypto-google employee!
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What's the difference between a startup and a magic spell?
2 points by yamada 19y ago|2 comments
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by yamada 19y ago
Working hard is for suckers. Look at cats and hot chicks - they don't work at all and yet they find people to bust their rear ends to provide food and housing for them. Hard work is for amateurs and suckers. Pros are in it for the money.
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by yamada 19y ago
STFU you crypto-narc!
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by yamada 19y ago
When corrupt old men in Europe who all know each other from P2 meetings agree that you have to be assassinated, then you know you've succeeded. That or if you can make 10,000 people in Silicon Valley slam their heads into a wall and shout,
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by yamada 19y ago
Don't forget the numerous articles that indicate that nearly 100% of YC startups have found success. Quite a heady business this entrepreneurism is ... 0.1% chance, 50% chance, 99% chance ... it's all so ... "dynamic".
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by yamada 19y ago
>> I don't think YC encourages people to keep trying with an idea that doesn't work. Rather, they encourage them to drop the idea and find another one. Many YC startups have switched their idea even during the initial 3 months. But
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by yamada 19y ago
>> And del.icio.us, and Flickr, and Reddit, and Digg, and GMail, and JotSpot, and Picasa, and Twitter, and Blogger, and HotOrNot, and LiveJournal, and Scribd, and AddictingGames, and so on. Talk to me in 5 years when nobody even rem
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by yamada 19y ago
I don't think I'm overly pessimistic. I'm saying look at post-2000. What do you have, in reality? Google (intelligence connections), YouTube ... doubtful to have gotten off the ground if one of the co-founders wasn't coincidentally relat
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by yamada 19y ago
Look - here's my point sans babble-bot 2.0 software: In ANY new endeavor, you need to have balance. Balance is the pre-requisite to the power you need to make it. The young, naive entrepreneur is supposed to focus on success because this
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by yamada 19y ago
EXACTLY. That is my general point - Don't be naive! If this article was intended as an internal memo, then it would be that - an internal memo. If people at YC meet up all the time I'm sure they could have many opportunities to discuss
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by yamada 19y ago
Also, this whole essay falls under the classic an quite fundamental analytical error of confusing correlation with causation, ie, startups who do "x" all wind up having success, therefore success is caused by "x". Example - all of our succe
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by yamada 19y ago
This article is complete nonsense and I don't think anybody will disagree by the time they read the end of this post. Nice talk but the problem with this insight, like most on this site, is that it is largely in-applicable and I bet nobody