sydneyliu

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by sydneyliu 5y ago
This is epic! Just subscribed to a few of my faves!
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by sydneyliu 10y ago
For this example, let's pretend the product is Twitter. Since I think everybody knows enough about to Twitter to think about the scenario. I worry that questions like "What could we change" would miss the cases of "I was
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by sydneyliu 10y ago
For example, pretend you run product at Twitter and you want to learn from the people in your target demographic who don't come back regularly to Twitter after signing up. What would you ask them to get good/useful product feedbac
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Ask HN: Best questions to ask users who leave
3 points by sydneyliu 10y ago|4 comments
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Meet the Star Behind HBO's Silicon Valley: Richard Hendricks(commaful.com)
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Keys to a Successful Viral App with Snapchat Investor Jeremy Liew(usepencil.com)
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
we meet a lot of users during the week (and also sometimes have other meetings) so weekends are a really great time to focus on the product and build slightly larger changes to test during the week. fewer distractions and emails on the week
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
I think Sam is saying that without YC, there are some companies that may not end up succeeding or being able to raise and continue on (without YC's network, advice, speed, focus etc. to help them) The distinction is that they want to f
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Sam also just tweeted that 300 YC companies are no longer around. Amazing how much transparent they are and how great YC is at picking and training. So many really crazy ideas that most would think are insane and YC is able to find the ones
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
I thought this tweet from Twitch is pretty relevant and funny: https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/609429653271384065
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Ask HN: What do you think of “Text for X” invisible services?
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
A question I always ask myself for products I'm building and products I'm thinking about is: "If I removed this product from my life or my user's life, how hurt or upset would they be?" I think this is a good frame
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
I think traveling and staying in 1 place or area is a great way to learn and immerse yourself in a new place. I don't think I'd need 15-20k to do it. I'd spend all 4 weeks in an area where I don't fit in. Some South Amer
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Facebook's usually really good about fighting spammers and multiple accounts from what I've seen. Early community was facebook was filled with spammers but it's much harder to find spam accounts nowadays. Basically every acco
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Congrats to Andrew Chen! Heard him on the Product Hunt podcast and have learned a lot from his newsletter and Tweets.
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
This article is fantastic. Thanks so much for the share! Will definitely be studying this and thinking about this when meeting with our users.
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Really great to see this. I was a heavy Coursera user in high school (took 6-7 courses at a time) and loved it. It taught me a lot about what I was interested in, what I hated, and pushed me to really learn things before I got to college. M
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Ask HN: What are the best questions you've asked your users for feedback?
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
This is from what I've heard. I use SO all the time but don't really post, so don't quote me on this. The community can be fairly tough on people who are wrong or missing part of the answer. People who aren't extremely e
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Something I've always thought about with IoT is the fact that everything is hackable. There are very few things that the best hackers can't get to. With more and more things being automated (often times with more important info),
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Venture Deals by Brad Feld is great for how to fundraise and he does go over most of the basics and how things work. Mark Suster, from Upfront Ventures, has a really great list of blog articles you can read about raising VC: http:/&#x
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
I could see a future where there is an automated restaurant or cafe. In those cases, if optimized a bit more, you could have cheaper/better long term returns and also scale to locations without changing the experience. Many chains seem
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
I believe YC read applications as they came in for the fellowship (just as they say they do for most batches). This means that they likely spent a bit more time on the earliest applications since I imagine the flood came in on the last day.
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Congratulations to all of the startups who launched!! A lot more health, bio, and food related startups in this batch. Tea and sandwich making robots makes me think that one day YC will open its own automated coffeeshop or restaurant. Theor
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
Congrats! I always see these guys working, working, working. Even during the time we were hanging out they'd be on sales calls, sending out emails, etc. Keep killing it.
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by sydneyliu 11y ago
"While HR SaaS is never sexy" <---I disagree