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by allantyoung 13y ago
@satjot - can "they" detect what's installed on your smartphone? If yes, I can see how deep-linking would be a great feature for apps that have high value repeat purchases.
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by allantyoung 14y ago
Congrats Jon! What wonderful news. We still need to grab dim sum with our families!
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by allantyoung 14y ago
Downtown Oakland is awesome. Lot's of good food around especially if you don't mind walking a few blocks to Chinatown and you love Chinese food. BART gets you to Berkeley, San Francisco or further east if you're looking for cheap housing. I
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by allantyoung 14y ago
I feel the same way about Oakland. It's a few minutes from a major university in Berkeley that cranks out research, technology, and talent. Bryan, if you're ever near the Oakland Tribune Tower, let me buy you coffee or beer.
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by allantyoung 14y ago
Darius and I were in the same batch at YC and he was one of those guys you just thought would outshine everyone else. My takeaway from this excellent post was that once you start fundraising, you need to be on the hunt 100% of the time. I s
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Care to elaborate? I just found your comment interesting but I'd like to know what you're talking about.
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by allantyoung 15y ago
If this company can pull it off, it'll have something far more substantive than a resume or profile on LinkedIn. As an art, software engineering lends itself to opinions and kudos from the community. As a science, software engineering lends
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Jessica - you always look like the happiest person in the world. It is infectious.
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Where is there a current and crowd-updated list of accelerators? Does that exist?
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Be the change you'd like to see.
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by allantyoung 15y ago
It's unfortunate a few knuckleheads decided to "teach you a lesson." You can't please everyone. Thank you for wanting to contribute to the community and giving a gift to people who were not confident of their CVs and resumes. I'm sure you w
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Care to elaborate a bit? I think it would be very helpful for me and some others.
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Inside investors (those who invested pre-IPO) cannot "dump hard on day 1." In all IPO cases, insiders have a lockup period, generally between 60-90 days before they can sell any stock whatsoever. The only stock being "dumped" is the block o
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by allantyoung 15y ago
Never mind - that statement referred to a startup in a recent batch while Wufoo was part of a much earlier batch. Interesting to note that there are probably a few Wufoos in the total YC universe that reached meaningful profitability withou
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by allantyoung 15y ago
My guess would be Wufoo.
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by allantyoung 15y ago
While your advice makes a lot of sense, I think they can definitely get some traction with this idea. Here is a wrinkle that I think could work. Limit it to everyone that got an interview but didn't get in.
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Buffett may be a huge anomaly but he probably never had close to 50 positions in his stock portfolio at any one time. Some of the best investors concentrate.
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Can you point to any multi-cultural societies that are economically and socially balanced between ethnicities? Would such a society be less prone to looting in the event of a disaster?
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Why is there no looting in Japan?(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
8 points by allantyoung 16y ago|5 comments
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Hey this was a very entertaining writeup by misstatiana. I liked sort of running around with these guys from finance on Wall Street to China to cream puff franchises to YC. I got the sense that Eddy and Daishin are two guys who know how to
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by allantyoung 16y ago
No, it shouldn't count as revenue. The money owed to merchants is considered a liability and is probably treated as Accounts Payable.
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by allantyoung 16y ago
I suppose that we'll have a revival in the way we measure employees. Not everything can be put into neat metrics but there are probably lot of factors and outputs we haven't even begun to put together in a systematic way. Knowing who your "
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by allantyoung 16y ago
This should really read "Gnip offers metered pricing for firehouse of tweets" This is welcome news. Aside from search engines, no one wants to drink the entire firehose. Why doesn't Twitter just enter the monitoring business itself?
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Except that Groupon is from Chicago.
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by allantyoung 16y ago
I sometimes describe something as 'insightful' when it fundamentally changes my point of view or long-held beliefs. But why do we need to fundamentally shake someone's core behavior or worldview? By definition, most startup ideas are not ga
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by allantyoung 16y ago
His firm already went out of business. He states that he will write a post-mortem at some point in the future. I like the post-mortem meme sweeping startup world; I find them very enlightening.
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Hasn't there been instances where two YC startups working in a related space end up merging or one acquiring the other?
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Did you go down the route of hiring pros first and then just decided to go with friends for the voice talent?
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by allantyoung 16y ago
One of the founders in the YC W2010 batch had a very similar idea before abandoning it for something else. Your decision to build on top of Twilio makes a lot of sense. There is only a limited amount of radio stations in this country. And m
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by allantyoung 16y ago
Can you link to this special one-time tax exclusion? It would help tremendously for startup founders to understand this potential incentive. If this one-time exclusion is set to expire, then startup founders will want to consider accelerati

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