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Secrets Behind Successful Startups(viniciusvacanti.com)
14 points by vacanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by vacanti 13y ago
Author of the post here. Agreed with the general criticism of the title and have changed it to "How I Learned to Code".
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by vacanti 13y ago
I don't think you're wrong. It's a personal choice based on one's perceived strengths. Some people don't think it's a lottery. They think they can replicate success. Personally, I do think there is skill involved unlike a lottery. But, I st
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by vacanti 13y ago
That's a good question. If you can create a startup that's profitable day one, that's great. But, there are lots of businesses that need a fixed cost base that only turn profitable after millions of users. But, they turn very profitable wit
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How Our Tech Startup Succeeded Without the Tech(viniciusvacanti.com)
7 points by vacanti 13y ago|0 comments
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by vacanti 13y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I just made it more clear by changing it to 1.5 to 3 actual months.
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Lessons Learned Raising a $6 Million Round(viniciusvacanti.com)
84 points by vacanti 13y ago|4 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
Assuming both parties are rationale, I would suggest the timeframe be more based on completion of a goal (e.g., transition someone else to the role or complete this project you were working on) rather than a specific time like two weeks.
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Everyone at Yipit is Now Learning to Code(viniciusvacanti.com)
41 points by vacanti 14y ago|9 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
The post was loosely based on our experience years ago. We now have many users and our conversion rates are much higher. I just wanted people to know that getting some PR isn't the finish line, it's the start of the race.
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The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched(viniciusvacanti.com)
148 points by vacanti 14y ago|47 comments
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Lessons Learned from a Redis Outage at Yipit(tech.yipit.com)
13 points by vacanti 14y ago|12 comments
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How Yipit deploys from Github with multiple private repos(tech.yipit.com)
23 points by vacanti 14y ago|15 comments
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How I Taught Myself Python/Django in 8 Weekends(tech.yipit.com)
113 points by vacanti 14y ago|17 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
ugh. sorry. looking into it. thanks for letting me know.
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These Books Helped Save Our Startup(viniciusvacanti.com)
30 points by vacanti 14y ago|7 comments
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Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago(viniciusvacanti.com)
132 points by vacanti 14y ago|28 comments
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Pitfalls When Upgrading to Django 1.4(tech.yipit.com)
4 points by vacanti 14y ago|0 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
I would tell them to focus on a big problem that they are passionate about and have some credibility.
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by vacanti 14y ago
I just added reasoning next to each quote on why people regret saying them.
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Things First-Time Founders Regret Saying(viniciusvacanti.com)
11 points by vacanti 14y ago|6 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
Of all the excuses I listed, I think fear of failure is the root cause.
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How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch(viniciusvacanti.com)
128 points by vacanti 14y ago|55 comments
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by vacanti 14y ago
Completely agree. I always try to tell entrepreneurs that I believe in them but then give the critical feedback on their idea / process.
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How Getting Rejected by Founder Collective Helped Save Our Startup(viniciusvacanti.com)
45 points by vacanti 14y ago|5 comments
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by vacanti 15y ago
That's good advice on getting married to the problem. We clearly weren't married to it. That being said, you should still experiment on the problem you are solving as opposed to waiting for 6 months to roll something out.
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by vacanti 15y ago
Definitely not 100% conclusive evidence. But, after sending it to our almost 1,000 friends and families and seeing just 2 urls submitted after a week, we knew it was going to be widely used. After all, these are people very motivated to try
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The LOCAL Innovator’s Dilemma(muckerlab.com)
1 points by vacanti 15y ago|0 comments
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by vacanti 15y ago
We just posted on how Yipit handles settings: http://tech.yipit.com/2011/11/02/django-settings-what-to-do-...
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by vacanti 15y ago
First post on how Yipit handles Django Settings is up: http://tech.yipit.com/2011/11/02/django-settings-what-to-do-...

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