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Find Your People(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
806 points by jl 1y ago|283 comments
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by jl 3y ago
Joshua, Delicious/popular was mentioned a bunch of times in the podcast as a main inspiration. I'll send you a transcript someday if I can arrange it :)
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Listen to Steve Huffman tell the story of how Reddit got started(pod.link)
141 points by jl 3y ago|195 comments
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by jl 6y ago
Thanks Breck!
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by jl 6y ago
"But remember that making something for yourself is just a heuristic to guide you in finding an idea. In the actual execution, you need to focus on users. You need to understand what they want, and be fanatically dedicated to making th
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Women: Learn to Program This Summer(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
268 points by jl 7y ago|536 comments
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by jl 8y ago
This is a big deal: this is by far the biggest acquisition of a YC startup with a female founder/CEO. If you want to get an idea of how formidable Tracy Young is, watch her talk at the 2015 Female Founders Conference: https:/&#x2
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by jl 8y ago
Oh shit.
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by jl 8y ago
Incidentally, Drew's relationship with the HN community is even older than his relationship with Y Combinator. Two weeks before we interviewed Drew and Arash, Drew posted Dropbox to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by jl 8y ago
We thought they'd be successful, but it's very rare for a company to be this successful.
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by jl 9y ago
He does not. He stopped at the same time he announced his retirement from YC. (He'd at this point transitioned the running of HN to dang.)
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by jl 10y ago
I was giving a talk to 800+ women (most of whom were not affiliated with YC in any way) who attended the Female Founders Conference last April in SF. A majority of them have already started a startup, so of course I'm hoping they will
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by jl 10y ago
"But if a university really wanted to help its students start startups, the empirical evidence, weighted by market cap, suggests the best thing they can do is literally nothing." This is an important insight and will be totally co
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by jl 10y ago
Actually, I "blamed" myself for that because I never set up any formal parental leave program at YC back in 2009, which I would have been responsible for doing.
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by jl 11y ago
No, there's no connection with this essay and the last one. He's been thinking about writing about this topic for a long time. In fact, one of the things Paul and I talk most about is that life is short and we need to savor time w
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by jl 11y ago
Don't worry, he won't stop writing essays. I was going to expand this thought but when I thought what some of the responses might be, I thought, "Life is too short!" and left it as is :)
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by jl 11y ago
Now arranged by categories.
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by jl 11y ago
Fixed using "pre-order" category.
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by jl 11y ago
I hear you, though some folks will feel as if you are dismissing the impact of their products (e.g. Watsi). If it helps, check out (to name just a few randomly): http://www.helionenergy.com/ http://bikanta.com&#x
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by jl 11y ago
For sure in time for Hanukkah!
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by jl 11y ago
Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program,
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by jl 11y ago
It was my (Jessica Livingston) idea. I'm giving one of these as a gift to someone who will love it and am simply printing a picture of it. Not as great as the real thing on Christmas Day for sure, but I'm hoping they'll still
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by jl 11y ago
fixed
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by jl 11y ago
I know! Next year we'll be more planful.
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by jl 11y ago
Thanks. I adjusted the text slightly. Hopefully, it's more clear.
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by jl 11y ago
Sorry, not sure what happened but right after I launched this, my computer crashed! My blog post: https://blog.ycombinator.com/holiday-gift-ideas-from-y-combi... This was a lot of fun and came together really fast given the
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AMA with one of the pro bono defense attorneys for Richard Glossip(reddit.com)
42 points by jl 11y ago|29 comments
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XQ: The Super School Project(nytimes.com)
1 points by jl 11y ago|0 comments
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by jl 11y ago
I only know the backstory of Dropbox, but I'm certain Drew Houston would tell you that it was a painfully distracting process to obtain dropbox.com. I suspect if he could have done it all over again, he would have spent the 30 minutes
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by jl 11y ago
It's true, not all ideas are good and it's important to be flexible-minded about these things. But as I mentioned, the Airbnb founders knew from their own experiences using their product and from their user base (albeit small at t

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