SamHo

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   by SamHo 14y ago

   Yay!
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   by SamHo 14y ago

   I know Rene from the Forecast team and while I also had an initial negative response to the term "hack" everything they say in the application process makes sense. Really, they just wrote a hack to find YC alumni, then see how they were con
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   by SamHo 15y ago

   I think filing patents defensively makes sense. I witnessed this firsthand at Google on the Android team as the patent wars started and because most Googlers are anti-patent, Google was at a severe disadvantage to MSFT, Apple, etc. Ideally
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   by SamHo 15y ago

   As an advisor (on the giving side) and an entrepreneur (on the receiving side) I totally agree with this. It's tough because people are nice, but as an entrepreneur, I learn the most from the negative advice I have gotten from mentors (I've