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by pptr1 12y ago
I would love to believe what pg is saying. However there are strong counter points to his arguments. Uber and Travis Kalanick don't seem to be failing. They may have some negative publicity, but their growth is strong. Uber is probab
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by pptr1 12y ago
Why does it need to be replaced? '12 mini would still be going strong.
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by pptr1 12y ago
On that note, why does YC let so many MBA founders in?
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by pptr1 12y ago
Thanks for writing this Ankit. This will help tons of people.
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by pptr1 12y ago
"Don’t let funding take your eye off the goal: making something people want. Everything else, including going through Y Combinator, is there to support that goal but is not the goal itself." Exactly...
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by pptr1 12y ago
agree 100%. Getting into YC is a bad bar for success.
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by pptr1 12y ago
YC will miss out on allot of companies. It not humanly possible for them to be that good. I rather have a business that has that type of growth than get into YC.
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by pptr1 12y ago
I think the mindset to have here is that YC is so popular and the number of YC partners are so small, that you have a very small chance to get in the first place. I wouldn't burn too many candles hoping to get in or trying to figure o
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by pptr1 12y ago
That is allot of money to leave behind. However, if you can be happier doing something else for less money than go for it.
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by pptr1 12y ago
Agreed with edw519. How come no one asks where do old chefs go to? What about old artists? What about old musicians? What about old plumbers? What about old construction people?
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by pptr1 12y ago
Agreed. I would do a small project just for fun.
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by pptr1 12y ago
Rust really interest me. However I want them to get to 1.0 before I can evaluate whether or not to use Rust in my app. Currently I am using Go and it stable for my needs. Rust could make me switch once they get to 1.0 and people start w
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by pptr1 12y ago
Marc is extreme smart and talented individual. But when your on Twitter 24/7 and keep on making predictions your gonna be wrong at times. Sometimes you can be wrong in a really big way.
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by pptr1 12y ago
I am really curious about the technology behind the 5k iMac. I am not sure if there is any off the shelf GPU out there that can drive that display using retina type rendering. It's interesting they did a custom controller for the displ
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by pptr1 12y ago
The thing about bubbles is it sort of hard to predict. Also how many times have we seen the same bubble. Investors have already learned from 99 and they will short any IPO/Public company stock that does not have any significant growt
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by pptr1 12y ago
Honest question does anyone still use Quora? It seems more about being an ego contest than actually answering questions. They are definitely not the "library of Alexandria"... they far far from that.
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by pptr1 12y ago
On a contrarian point of view it is probably a good time to be on wall street and it is probably a bad time to be in tech.
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by pptr1 12y ago
PG made allot of valid points. It very useful to watch the video first. However here is one additional counterintuitive point. Not all startups work hard. The good ones are focused and might not have all the answers but you at least know
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by pptr1 12y ago
I understand the cynicism about YC and silicon valley. I think it's great to have some critical thoughts about the why and how. However these lectures are pretty good. I would highly recommend to watch them even if your skeptical abo
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by pptr1 12y ago
This is a pretty expected move on Apple's part. There typical MO is to assimilate the company entirely. The only reason Beats headphone is still around, is because it is generating revenue and will offset the cost of the acquisition.
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by pptr1 12y ago
Just finished reading Peter Thiel's Zero to One; and it is interesting that both him and Marissa Mayer are going to teach. He sort of disses her in the book. This is a quote from his book. "Beginning with brand rather than substa
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by pptr1 12y ago
I can't think of someone else right now who could come up with such an easy way to understand computers. "Playboy: Maybe we should pause and get your definition of what a computer is. How do they work? Jobs: Computers are actually
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by pptr1 12y ago
Why not have a social network for professional drivers. Let that network destroy any type of information withholding that companies like uber do. Leverage the power of scale. Unions 2.0
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by pptr1 12y ago
These new RFS are awesome. I hope YC help accelerate a few startups that doing these type of RFS. It would be game changing. I can see allot more investor interest in YC if a non tradition YC backed company based on one of these RFC make
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by pptr1 12y ago
I would use Merrill Edge with a Bank of America Account. It's super easy and fast to transfer money between BOA account and the Merrill Edge. This is the killer feature. There are limits but its faster than other brokerage accounts t
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by pptr1 12y ago
I am kinda of sick of hearing about how celebs got hacked and how it is such a big deal. The media over hypes these things and really the celebs involved should of used stronger passwords and/or 2 factor authentication. They should o
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by pptr1 12y ago
"This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired 'real' programmers and got things working. That's something that gets missed
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by pptr1 12y ago
Thumbtack really saved my former Condo association. Last August, the condo association signed 1 year contract with a property management firm. 6 months into the contract they suddenly gave us their 3 month termination notice. Apparently d
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by pptr1 12y ago
I can't figure out the reason why some of these companies got selected into YC. I can see why Bikanta, Helion Energy, Ginkgo Bioworks, BitAccess, and ProductHunt might get in. However, some other companies look like run of the mill

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