yubrew

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by yubrew 19y ago
Loss aversion is a large reason why many of my high school and college friends end up not doing start ups.
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by yubrew 19y ago
dapper.net
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by yubrew 19y ago
Yet another technology looking for a market application...
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by yubrew 19y ago
Heh, looks like you responded while I was still editing my post.
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by yubrew 19y ago
While search could be better, Google's results for text are good enough. How much better could text search get? Is it possible for someone to build a search experience so compelling that I would want to switch? And even if someone made a
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by yubrew 19y ago
Adwords is good for testing out headlines and copy, but are you seeing much variation based solely on changing domain names?
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by yubrew 19y ago
If you believe in it, can't you refer it to someone else that does not have the same deal-breaking constraints as you do?
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Lightspeed Ventures Summer Grants Program(lightspeedvp.com)
2 points by yubrew 19y ago|0 comments
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With Google's My Location, Who Needs a GPS?(gigaom.com)
8 points by yubrew 19y ago|7 comments
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by yubrew 19y ago
Or getting work experience outside of your area of academic study.
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by yubrew 19y ago
signal to noise ratio seems extremely low.
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by yubrew 19y ago
Learn some basic hacking in (insert functional language here). I'm not trying to start a programming language flame war. The point of the statement is to do just enough so that you don't drive away potential technical cofounders. Basical
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by yubrew 19y ago
This question has been asked plenty of times before. Look up variations of "business/idea guy needs hacker." But you should at least hack a bit with Ruby on Rails so at the least you won't piss off your technical co-founder. If you have
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by yubrew 19y ago
"Humans are very good at detecting patterns, but rather poor at detecting randomness." This is so true.
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by yubrew 19y ago
I see. How about creating a public API (like someone else suggested) so we can see what it does, and then have a couple guys shop it around for you as you get validation studies going? Then you give people enough to get enticed, but don't
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by yubrew 19y ago
Subject matter expertise can be hired, as employees, or as advisors to your company. For this type of start up, you not only need a team to build out the product end users will ultimately use (an expensive endeavor in and of itself), but y
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by yubrew 19y ago
I am a tech commercialization consultant for some of the crazy stuff that comes out of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Scientists and engineers make all this cool stuff, but they don't really know what to do with it,
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by yubrew 19y ago
This is really interesting stuff. But I wonder, how much did this guy do? The 'machine' they talk about emits radiofrequency waves of a certin wavelength and strength, something that can be bought from a catalogue. Did he make the nanopa
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by yubrew 19y ago
Hi Hexayurt, we're looking at a couple different heathcare IT problems to solve, and creating expert systems for specific medical domains is one of the areas we are currently investigating. Can I pick your brain a bit? Send me an e-mail,
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by yubrew 19y ago
haha, iamelgringo, you beat me to bring up these comments. let me add on a bit to what you've already said. hospitals are not just run as businesses, but they also need to serve the public. as such, you also have ethical and social concer
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by yubrew 19y ago
He does radio ads[0] and tv ads on shows like "The Bachelor"[1] [0] http://onlinepersonalswatch.typepad.com/news/2006/01/plentyo... [1] See comment from Reddiance http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/yahoo-to-surge-...
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by yubrew 19y ago
Why do you say that? Sounds like you have some battle scars from first hand experience in health care. Care to share them?
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by yubrew 19y ago
It's whatever you guys decide is fair, and that depends. There are web businesses that rely on a strong sales team and you can actually hire an off-shore team, so the dev guy is not too important. There are businesses that rely on a techn
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by yubrew 19y ago
Asking and listening (imo) will not give you accurate reflections of their true traits. Test them like any other investor would test you for fund-worthiness. Find out what else they've done to demonstrate they are entrepreneur material. D
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by yubrew 19y ago
Full-time effort >> part-time effort. However, there are cases where part time is good enough. It varies on how much (smart and well funded) competition there is, barriers to entry, your own personal ambitions. In general, larger
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by yubrew 19y ago
It's not the start ups, but the investing circles that make the hub. Start ups can move pretty freely, but angels and VC's appear to be more set in one location. If you can convince gutsy angels to move from San Fran to Boston, or get Bos
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by yubrew 19y ago
Thanks! This will help keep track of the hundreds of new comments when pg posts a new essay. It would be nice to have something that lists the monitored threads. For instance, if I wanted to track the progress of this thread, it would be
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by yubrew 19y ago
One of my friends working on this, http://www.peerdecision.com/
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by yubrew 19y ago
I know this is a repost, but with the upcoming YC application, and new visitors to Hacker News, I thought this would be helpful.
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9 Business Selection Criteria(fabricegrinda.com)
3 points by yubrew 19y ago|1 comments

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