NSX2

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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, they could be motivated and interested, but I doubt they have the experience, otherwise they would have, with their resources, started a long time ago. About the do it better part, a bit harder. They have resources, but if they're ju
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by NSX2 19y ago
That might work. If it doesn't, I'll threaten to publish everything online for free, thus negating their own efforts and rendering their money spent into a black-hole of no return.
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by NSX2 19y ago
Or ... Or ... OOOORRR - you just gave me another idea in a way: What if I go up to BigCo and THREATEN to publish it online for free, thus rendering their money spent on research/subsequent patent-based revenue streams completely useless?
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, these are good points. I guess I could do the evangelist part or let someone else do it, but really I think it could speak for itself. As for the article in your link, I could be wrong since I'm not him, but something tells me his r
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by NSX2 19y ago
> You've made the mistake of believing an idea has value. > It doesn't. I didn't put much credibility in this line of reasoning before, and now that I found out that major companies are putting millions into just reasearching this i
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by NSX2 19y ago
> our best bet is to get a bunch of young college age > programmers to work with you. Columbia couldn't seem to care less, and the entire NYU structure has so far gotten ... hold your breath ... 2 resumes. Only one of which was re
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by NSX2 19y ago
If I could find some programmers who won't dismiss my value after I've transferred my insights, I'd gladly do it. But judging from the thinking processes of what I see on posts here ... Just to give an example, a few days ago a "bored deve
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by NSX2 19y ago
If I didn't care I think I would have shrugged it off a long time ago. Not trying to do it until recently has been more the result of massive amount of change in this area which I found I just barely kept up with. I just barely got to the
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by NSX2 19y ago
But that's the thing. My life now sucks because I've spent most of my spare time researching this. And progress has been so slow. Friends have drifted away, etc. If I give up and sell out, at least I'll have a comfy position at a respect
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by NSX2 19y ago
But what if on the last day of the second year, just as you were about to say, "The hell with this", you found out that people are just starting to look into it? Surely all the insight you gained over the course of your 2 years of trying i
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by NSX2 19y ago
How does that make a difference? Let's just say it's something that I know more about than however many PhDs they have looking into it and no matter how smart they are or what their budget is, it will be impossible to replicate the conditi
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Ask YC: To continue, or not to continue ... how do you know?
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by NSX2 19y ago
So, by that logic people only have something worth saying when they can link to an article where a recognized authority said/wrote it first?
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, let's say "strongly suggested". But then again in my experience when this is not mandatory there are always 1-2 "I'll stay in and seem extra dedicated" people. Then other people start growing roots at their desks. Then it all falls
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by NSX2 19y ago
I'm in NYC. We have Central Park and lots of Barnes & Nobles and Starbucks and stuff like that. If I could get the startup I have in mind going ... which I'm trying to do, just having difficulty finding available tech talent ... hint
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by NSX2 19y ago
Sent a message to your blog - or just "emailadrian[@]inbox[.]com"
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by NSX2 19y ago
That just means that those firms are more loyal the the VC funds than to you because that's where they get most accounts from. If I was a VC I'd think any entrepreneur who thinks he has an advantage hiring a firm that I've kept on retainer
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by NSX2 19y ago
What do you do? I'm in New York, have a technically simple (not discounting the effort into building it or saying it's easy) idea, and have some contacts in the financial world that can put money into something tangible. My shortcomings a
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well I do recall something to the effect of not being so quick to drop out of school / quit work and starting a startup without giving thought to the overall state of the economy because it was being artificially propped up by various metho
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by NSX2 19y ago
My point exactly. This is one of the more interesting ideas I've come across on Y ... and as you say it's cheap and I bet people can come up with the nuts and bolts relatively easily. Who's talking about it here? Now compare the top posts
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by NSX2 19y ago
First, define "value" ... then refer to your own post on "Should Points-Based Ads etc.". You think it's an interesting idea. I do as well. The poster does. As of now, that's it. Yet that's what I'd expect a lot more on Y. But so far "is
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by NSX2 19y ago
Nah. That would make too much sense. Plus it would take away the top brass's options to censor stuff that users like to talk about because they find interesting, but, say, top people running this don't want to talk about. Or have others
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, considering that these day's your VC's law firm probably also represents South American drug dealers and Eastern European arms dealers, not to mention many law firms are in a fit of M&A, so it doesn't really who you've been pickin
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by NSX2 19y ago
I would say there is one good thing about failure. To paraphrase an observation I've heard about why wrestling is one of the better sports to take up in high school: it teaches you to fight with all you have off of your back when you're li
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by NSX2 19y ago
Ok. Sorry for being a smartass, I totally didn't see your comment as meaning that at first. From first reading it seemed something some smug prep-school-bred i-banker would say when being dismissive. My bad.
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by NSX2 19y ago
Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, and lots of other people known for using their charisma to motivate other seem to be doing ok despite their, "empty fuel tank."
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by NSX2 19y ago
I'm pretty sure PG could build such a thing. You have my blessing. If it works out for you guys you can make even by hooking me up with some programmers.
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by NSX2 19y ago
I could see adpinion and clickfacts possibly going somewhere to an extent ... though only because I don't know enough about advertising to figure out if they won't be able to get lots of customers I can't help but notice, though, that click
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by NSX2 19y ago
From my understanding, Y has so far been involved in about 80 startups or so. Name 1 that provides a benefit people care enough to pay for. ... ... ... ... But if what you said is true, ie, that programmers are "more honest in terms of what
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by NSX2 19y ago
Okay, let's leave Google out of this for a moment. My emphasis was that the transition from "startup" to "business" seems to happen when you connect with paying customers. I even posted a post to this effect where I basically summed up the

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