BitGeek

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by BitGeek 19y ago
IF you treat an employee with respect and take him seriously and explain why you are doing Y instead of X, that employee will tell you again when he has other ideas. You can have as close a relationship with an employee as you do with a f
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Hey there- That's what happens when you have creative collaboration with someone. Every employee you hire should be sharp enough to be able to do so, and the good ones will be bringing ideas to you unbiden. If you've got a co-founder, gr
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Hmm... I don't know what was angry about what I posted. I just saw another "how to get a founder" thread followed close on the heels of a post on another site from someone lamenting that they couldn't find a co-founder. Sure, it has suck
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The plane analogy doesn't work because dual engine planes are more reliable than single engine planes... unlike founding teams, engine can't decide that they want to go in different directions and engines are not insecure, ego driven, or pr
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Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!
112 points by BitGeek 19y ago|94 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
LOL, I love guys like Joel Spolsky-- self anointed gurus handing out really terribly advice to uncritical lemmings.... this reduces competition in the marketplace for those of us who think (and have experience.) Joel is like one of those i
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Really, its backwards. Speed to market is a factor of team size-- the more engineers you hire the slower you are to get to market. So, VC funding slows down the rate of feature development. A small tightly focused and really motivated tea
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by BitGeek 19y ago
If a term sheet isn't horrible, then the lawyer you're using is the one the VC firm hooked you up with! Sounds like you believe you need to spend it all before you make anything.. I think you've got it backwards. If someone wants to charge
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Unless your product requires you to build a factory (and even if you're in the manufacturing business its highly unlikely that you can't profitably outsource even manufacturing) -- then you absolutely shouldn't take VC funding. YC, Angel,
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Sigh. Confusing correlation with causation is exactly the kind of foolish error that I'm talking about. I think its a very childish response to accuce me of being angry or jealous because I have a different opinion, tht is strongly held.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Because those are the terms that VCs offer, and the YC program is organized around getting a VC investment
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I think you gave what should be the correct answer, but unfortunately, I think in practical terms, it is not the current answer for this community.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Put another way- what this forum should be is a place where news is discussed and people provide encouragement and help to other founders. People here should be judged on how they help others, and the reasons they give for their advice. W
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by BitGeek 19y ago
No, anything that disagrees with the common "community" view... in this case, people's perception of what pg has said.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Best solution for this would be for you to start being neutral and less mercurial in your treatment of people on the forum. As for me, since you think I'm a troll, you should delete my account. I'll move along... its no fun when for every
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by BitGeek 19y ago
And right now the winds are not favorable for these startups, but because the winds were in that direction 10 years ago, everyone's convinced that's the only direction the winds blow. Look at the vitreol I've gotten for pointing out that
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by BitGeek 19y ago
That was a completely calm response. PG is engaging in exactly the behaviour he was accusing me of. I don't see how "namecalling" is keeping a high signal to noise ratio.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
That's cult-of-personality thinking. It invovles the fallacious argument "appeal to authority". If I told you I was Tony Robbins and I was a multi-millionaire., would that sway you? I doubt it because, despite being someone who has been
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I've never posted to reddit. I think you're confusing me with someone else completely. You are still trying to make a fallacious argument from authority, and are attempting to insult me for not doing the same? I'm making my points, and i
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by BitGeek 19y ago
My analogy does work, but I wasn't talking aobut YC, I was talking about VC. I wasn't saying the YC model was broken, I was saying the VC model is broken. This is not an "emotionally charged" analogy, it is exatly correct. This is pro
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by BitGeek 19y ago
No, you're missing the point. I wasn't arguing against YC, but against VC money. YC doesn't have liquidation preferences, and if it did, the multiple of $20k would be so small its not really relevant in this discussion.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Uh, no, I'm just saying that their hiring practices are messed up nad thus they often hire good people for the wrong reasons and exclude good people for the wrong reasons, and sometimes hire bad people for the wrong reasons. Like Zuckerman
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by BitGeek 19y ago
All of the points you just made are true. They are correct. I'm trying to make another point-- its very arrogant to assume that because this is the situation now, that this will always be the situation. America used to be the manufactur
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Your comment consisted entiredly of remarks about my person, and had no information about the point being discussed. Thus, either you are a hypocrite, or I am being asked to stop because I have an opinion that (apparently) disagrees with yo
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I don't have a quesiton of yours. I know just what your motives are. You're kissing ass, and you've been doing it as long as I've been here. Ironically, I don't find much that I dislike about Paul Graham. But the cult of PG is another mat
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Its a reaction to the fog of smug that surrounds YC. It really needs to be dissipated.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I am increasingly becoming convinced that facebook, and most tech businesses-- are totally clueless about interviewing. Its definately much worse than it was 10 years ago. Companies are starting to get proud of the fact that they are inc
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Funny, I wasn't talking about you specifically, but you spent your response talking about you. Since you have made it about you, you put yourself up as an example, thus continuing to argue my points would be easily construed as bashing y
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You didn't make an argument, you just engaged in personal attack.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Do you realize how patronizing you're being?

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