BitGeek

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by BitGeek 19y ago
YC fans mindlessly bash anyone who disagrees. Nothing different here.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
OH MY GOD! Its like you're brainwashed! Let me ask you this- - you're buying a car. You're going to use this car to deliver papers and make some money delivering pizza on the side. You're going to build a little business here that's wor
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I think this comment shows everything that is asinine and vapid about the YC "community". Ian Clarke invented freenet... the most successful peer-to-peer privacy network. And whether his businesses have been successful or not (I don't kn
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The main objection of the "trolls" is the strident ideology being shown. Here's one of my replies buried in the other thread: Anybody who build their business on nights and weekends while working a fulltime job is someone who has shown a g
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Its totaly in your control... move on, stop hanging out around the YC crowd and go build your company. Don't let YC determine your fate... they had their chance and passed. The absense of successful rejected is simply a factor of the YC p
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by BitGeek 19y ago
No. If you happen to know someone with a lot of money and, much more importantly, they know you well enough to know your trustworthy, you can often get a nice deal early in the life of your startup. But this is not-- by a long shot-- how
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by BitGeek 19y ago
troll: Internet slang for someone who disagrees with you, but whom you cannot come up with a cogent counter argument for. Yes, I mean "build your thing." This is NOT the "YC model". The YC model is "build a demo so you can get VC money"
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Nobody has a need for "solutions"... you use the word "solution" in your pitch, unless its saying "I've got a solution to your specfic problem and its product X" is going to lose customers. People have learned to tune out that smarmy vagu
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You don't even need to be in Silicon Valley. I've gone thru the process there and in Seattle. Its not hard to get funding... if you know what you're doing. The replies on slashdot disagreed with YC ideology, but that does not make them
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Of course, I get modded down to -1. Its really easy to mod down someone who disagrees with you, much easier to do so than to actually think about what they said. The smartest %30 of china is greater than the entire US population. The 1%
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Its a great deal for a blog or anything normal... If you need the bandwidth though, you can go to S3. Easily you could host your html at their site and then use S3 for the big files ($0.20/GB BW cost, $0.15GB storage cost at S3). I think
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Amazon's uptime is not that great. In fact, Amazon is probably one of the worst run "engineering" companies around. They hire bright people (generally) they just don't make them managers. Before I left, my manager (after a reorg) was a
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I've figured out what that odor is... I couldn't quite put my finger on it for the longest time, but now that I've identified it, its very distinct. Its smug.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
"everything I've seen and heard so far" Of people on this planet in the %99 of achievement-- intelligence and creativity-- China has far more than the US. Ok, you've just heard different, and if you think about it, its mathematically true.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Apple just ordered 500 million 4GB flash chips from Samsung, this is on top of their long term contract with Samsung. This is far more than can be accounted for by the iphone or ipod demand (And are expected to be shipped by the end of th
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Did you try running under parallels? Anyway, 5 years ago, getting Linux running on a Powerbook was really easy... I would think it would be better now, not worse...
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You're giving me rumor and second hand inuendo and no stats. You say you can't remember them offhand, but I don't think you ever heard any-- that weren't made up on the spot. The fact of the matter is, there are many very successful sta
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by BitGeek 19y ago
There's a lot of irony there, but I don't know how to make you see it.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I know you beleive that, but just look at the number of startups using MySQL.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Well, you know what they say-- those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. This goes doubly for entrepreneurship "classes".... though maybe I'm too harsh and that guy had actually started a business. In terms of the number of millionair
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by BitGeek 19y ago
The problem is that the term "lifestyle business" is just derogatory-- it has no meaning. Who are you to say that lifestyle businesses are not focused on growth? Or that they cant' grow fast and change large numbers of people's lives? Th
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by BitGeek 19y ago
enki- You need to set up a forum for prospective YEurope startups to communicate about the idea. I don't think this discussion is going to happen on this thread.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
If %50 of the value of YC is the fact that they require startups to locate in Boston or SF, then any startup who doesn't get into YC can get %60 of the benefit by simply relocating. Seriously, I hope that %50 of the "benefit" of YC is not
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Man, I'm amazed at the bitching here... Someone's trying to help foster startups in europe! The horror! There's no way it can be decent, right? Jesus..... Its not like the idea of doing early stage funding is that new, nor is the idea of
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by BitGeek 19y ago
This article highlights an area of confusion, I think. Of course, any new business is a startup. So, even your aunts diner that is opening soon is a startup. But when we talk about a "startup" here generally we're talking about a technolo
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Doing a Startup vs. Building a Business(blog.circleshare.com)
15 points by BitGeek 19y ago|11 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I've just unsubscribed from the venture hacks feed. Two articles of bad advice in two days... and I am not interested in getting VC money anyway. Too much time would be spent debunking their self-serving misinformation, and nothing to be g
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I've been subjected to meetings without chairs. The problem is, there are some people for whom standing is not much of a burden and they go on and on. So, I was forced to stand there at this daily mandatory meeting while people talked abo
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by BitGeek 19y ago
IF they were doing that much business, they shouldn't have taken venture capital--- but they, like most entreprenuers and people who get bad advice-- don't account for the real cost of venture capital. That real cost is $24B in this case.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
What would you do with $5M anyway? Would that cover your salary for a year? Or for 50 years? I'd like for people to realize that venture capital is not a fantasy, it is a nightmare.

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