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by nlabs 17y ago
Your missing the point of the analogy. The idea is focus on customer acquisition in a niche rather than trying to go big with VC funding/IPO. You could have just as easily replaced "Italian restaurant" with "local flower shop" or whatever.
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A cure for the YC rejection blues(omnisio.com)
3 points by nlabs 17y ago|2 comments
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by nlabs 17y ago
that co-founder finder could turn out to be really useful.
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by nlabs 17y ago
1) 6 months 2) Applied last minute - No 3) no - going the bootstrap route investing 15k of my own money. 4) demo currently offline -will be up later.
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by nlabs 17y ago
patio11, I agree with you that bootstrapping is the way to to - the "Italian restaurant" software company
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by nlabs 17y ago
YC has connections, but in the end its up to you to make your startup successful. With your experience, you should be able to bootstrap yourself into a profitable software business. But this "Italian restaurant" style of a software company
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by nlabs 17y ago
Funny. Not going to apply again.
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by nlabs 17y ago
I applied soley for the validation. I really dont want to work in Mountain View
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by nlabs 17y ago
Sounds like you are at a point beyond where YC makes sense.
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by nlabs 17y ago
You speak truth python. YC is a good idea when you have your idea, and need some cash/guidance to get started. But once you have customers, even if your not "ramen profitable", you are beyond YC.
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by nlabs 17y ago
I wrote this data import module for my web app this morning. It reads csv and xls flat file data and imports it into by database and then displays a preview of the data to the user. If you have time please try it out and let me know any pro
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Data Import module: please break and tell(ec2-174-129-137-205.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
1 points by nlabs 17y ago|1 comments
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by nlabs 17y ago
Wow, thats a significant increase. Happy to hear that.
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by nlabs 17y ago
selection bias would only be a concern if you were trying make inference on all netflix customers (not just the ones that opt-in).
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by nlabs 17y ago
>> we are talking about the equivalent of the bank publishing the customer's driver's license information in a newspaper with their name obscured. Its more like the DMV publishing driving record history with any identifying info rem
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by nlabs 17y ago
Excellent advice patio11. Why you dont do a full time startup is beyond me. Let me know when you are available for consulting.
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Ask HN: Freemium: how far upwind should I stay
8 points by nlabs 17y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: How to interview programmers
9 points by nlabs 17y ago|6 comments
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by nlabs 17y ago
>>IIRC, they were warned about the fact that the second prize was revealing too much information, but went forward with it anyways. I did not know that. That changes my opinion about Netflix acting in "good faith". The argument I wa
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by nlabs 17y ago
>>If they know that the information can be de-anonymized using publicly available information, have they really made a good-faith effort? If your premise that Netflix knew the db could be de-anonymized is correct, then its not "good
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by nlabs 17y ago
I agree that if Netflix knew the data could be de-anonymized then they are liable. Just like if I bank knows that an identity thief is the emptying a customers bank account and does not stop it, they are liable.
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by nlabs 17y ago
Sometimes you release people (sometimes murders) because of a thing called a constitution...a case where there is liability for NOT releasing the murderer.
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by nlabs 17y ago
Thats too bad. Sounds like an interesting research area.
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by nlabs 17y ago
Again, I reiterate: the bank robbery example is irrelevant. Netflix anomyized the data from within their own db. You need to cross-correlate with another db to de-anonymize. A better example: a customer loses their drivers license/bank card
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by nlabs 17y ago
they could incentivize it with reduced monthly rates.
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by nlabs 17y ago
ditto my above comment. If netflix says data will be collected and then anonymized in its TOS, and it does so, then it acted in good faith. If a hacker reveals a weakness and Netflix pulls the plug, should they be sued? If yes, then how can
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by nlabs 17y ago
>> Are you arguing in support of my point? Banks insure themselves against robbery precisely because they are held 100% accountable for it to the customer. No, Im saying that your example was irrelevant. If netflix said in its terms
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by nlabs 17y ago
>>If I am your bank and I make a "good faith" effort to protect your money from robbery, how am I liable if I am robbed of your money? Banks take the precautions ahead of time (deposit insurance) against robbery-thats part of the "g
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by nlabs 17y ago
Maybe its somewhere in Netflix's terms of service that data on users movie preferences will be collected, however this information will be kept anonymous (as best as can be done by netflix).
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by nlabs 17y ago
Netflix Prize 3: How to create a meaningful database that is impossible to de-anonymize.

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