abbasmehdi
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- March 8, 2011 (15y ago)
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- Sitting is the new smoking (theglobeandmail.com)
- Paul Buchheit: Misconceptions About Our Tattered Safety Net (nationofchange.org)
- Rock Health Peels Back The Curtain On Its Second Batch Of Startups (techcrunch.com)
- Why San Francisco is tech's utopia (money.cnn.com)
They make a point about the Bay Area by giving numbers for California.
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Aside from Alexa and CrunchBase, what do you use to a) assess the landscape as a whole and b) look into individual competitors?
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What kind of a business do you run and what was/is your user acquisition strategy?
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I was recently talking to my little cousin who is contemplating what to major in college. At some point during our conversation it occurred to me that in order to learn web development from the bottom up one does not…
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Does Rails have good IDEs? Do they help with management and debugging? Are they cheap? Do they have a learning curve? Thanks for your insights.
- UCLA Child Prodigy, Wrote Bestseller in Spare Time; Thinks You Can, Too (blogs.laweekly.com)
Wonder if he will apply for YC.
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I work around people who talk to one another at length. I can’t focus when someone is talking right next to me. Putting on headphones distracts me too because I start paying attention to the music/lyrics etc so that…
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Have any of you read both, Four Steps and Lean Startup? I just ordered Lean Startup yesterday, and someone lent me their Four Steps last week. I was wondering if any of you guys have read them both and think that if I…
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Hi Paul, You have written and spoken out on numerous occasions that you prefer startups with all dev teams. No sales guys, no business guys etc. You have never made any qualms about where you stood on the issue.…
- The Web is taking too long (infographic) (news.cnet.com)
A very cool info graphic on internet speeds and user behavior - with a surprising bottleneck exposed.
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If yes, which ones are they?
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Has anyone read through a service agreement with cloud service providers? First problem: Cloud hosting services are apparently not responsible for "security and privacy" of whatever you upload. This basically means you…
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Dear HN, Has anyone read through a service agreement with cloud service providers? First problem: Cloud hosting services are apparently not responsible for "security and privacy" of whatever you upload. This basically…
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Who are they and what are they doing? Especially those focused on K-12. Thank you!
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Is it just me or is it that Arnold Schwarzenegger and pg have very similar writing styles? Based purely on comparing PG's essays and Arnold's book "The encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding."
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My partner already owns a company that does good business - he wants to do a JV with me rather than creating a new company altogether for our new business. What are the pros and cons that you may know about? Any…
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We hear about companies all the time that get acquired for millions of dollars by giants MS, Google, FB, Yahoo etc. If these companies can be replicated for much cheaper, why aren't they? They hold no patents usually,…
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Since YC only gives a little bit of money that is supposed to last you until Demo Day, and it is a known fact that it can be a while until you get the actual check from an investor, how are founders supposed to pay…
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I have noticed that YC is very generous with its advice, which includes advice to all (even non-YC) founders through HN and PG's essays, and with it's open application process/criterion that allows other accelerator…
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They have already scrutinized your application, maybe found holes or gaps in it. I know they are looking for smart people first and foremost, but wouldn't it be awesome if you could get some feedback from them based on…