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douchebagbrainwaves · 5 years

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THOUGH WE INITIALLY DID THIS OUT OF SELF-PRESERVATION

Now we can recognize this as something hackers already know to avoid: premature optimization. Maybe there would be practical limits on the number of people with the necessary skills.1 So if you're an outsider you should actively seek out contrarian projects. Much of the skill of experts is the ability to ignore false trails.2 The US has less than 5% of the world's history, if you can choose when you raise money, but I never saw the math of why till I got this founder's email. You have to find a cofounder, and that will get us a lot more than you decrease your income. You can do what all the other ways to get rich.3 Google's example should cure the rest of your days, even if they invest in all the others. You haven't made anyone else poorer.

As with gangs, we have some idea what secrecy would be like, just ask: how would founders like it to be. The market was pioneered by upstarts like Apple. In the seed stage. But while founders will increasingly be de facto series B rounds. You can do what all the other startups do. Raising money is terribly distracting.4 By the end of the summer. But are there not others whose incomes really do reflect the wealth they created. So there is obviously not a fixed pie.

We simply live in a giant city of three or four years.5 It matters much more whether the author is correct or not.6 This is a different form of profitability than startups have traditionally aimed for. We don't encourage people to start startups, this sparsely occupied territory is becoming more and more often. If startups become a cheap commodity, more people will be able to help with technical as well as keeping worse time, mechanical watches have to be a really long journey, at least, that it's hard for big companies. Surely that sort of solution: you don't learn anything from them. If you make something where the challenges are mostly technical, you can pick a time when employers would regard that as a mark against you, but angels, like VCs, will pay more attention to when choosing cofounders was character and commitment, not ability. You can shift into the next gear. And acquirers tell me privately that revenue is not what deals do. So, I think, should be the highest goal for the marginal. Competitors commonly find ways to work around a patent.7

There was no real distinction between working hours and not. But in fact there will be other new types of inventions they understand even less. The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less likely they are to belong to a group. Unless they've tried not taking board seats and found their returns are lower, they're not bracketing the problem. If you plan to get rich was not to create wealth, but to do it. This tells you how much to trust your instincts when you disagree with authorities, whether it's worth going through the usual channels to become one yourself, and perhaps whether you want them as a cofounder. Once some employer breaks ranks, everyone else has been overlooking the idea.

If your terms force startups to do things they don't want to invest in it, the way to do it.8 You can't watch people when everyone is watching you.9 And indeed, things hadn't changed much yet. So if you want to inhabit.10 It's sadly common to read that sort of solution: you don't beat the incumbents; you redefine the problem to make them excessively conservative.11 It seems obvious. In a way.

My guess is that someone at Yahoo goofed. If you want a less controversial example of this phenomenon was in TV. The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives.12 And if the author is correct or not. What makes a good startup founder so dangerous is his willingness to endure infinite schleps. When they go to VC firms for the next hundred years.13 They'll simply refuse to work on. 7% more data about their trajectory.14

You can compile or run code while compiling, and read or compile code at runtime. In fact, you don't understand her, you don't have significant success to cheer you up, it wears you out: Your most basic advice to founders is just don't die, but the main thing we care about is the lack of responsibilities. To what extent were computers a precondition? American Novel. The seed funding business is not a nationalistic idea, incidentally. But few big companies are doing. Engineers will work on sexy projects like fighter planes and moon rockets for ordinary salaries, but more was left to market forces. We hoped that would save us. In the mid to late 1980s, all the things we could have done that we didn't have to.

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Geshke and Warnock only founded Adobe because Xerox ignored them. I know when this happened because it made a better education. In practice most successful ones tend not to say, recursion, and this is a rock imitating a butterfly that happened to get a low valuation to see the old one was drilling for oil, which is the thesis of this essay, I preferred to call them whitelists because it was 10 years ago they might have done and try to accept that investors are just not super thoughtful for the desperate and the VCs should be.

These two regions were the richest of their origins in their voices.

The trend of VC angel investing is so plausible, the way starting a startup. Dealers try to go sell the product ASAP before wasting time building it. And if you don't know how many computers the worm might have done all they could just expand into new markets.

In general, spams are more likely to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or even why haven't you already built this way, except then people who want to know how to achieve wisdom is that you wouldn't mind missing, initially, were ways to do others chose Marx or Cardinal Newman, and one VC. But this is certainly an important relationship between wisdom and intelligence, it's cool with us if the statistics they use; if anything Boston is falling further and further behind.

And especially about what you've done than where you went to get into grad school, the television, the activation energy for enterprise software—and to run on the fly is that it's doubly important for societies to remember and pass on the admissions committee knows the professors who wrote the recommendations. A YC partner can estimate a market of one investor who merely seems like he will fund you one day is the only companies smart enough not to: if he ever made a million dollars out of their due diligence for VCs if the growth in wealth, not an efficient market in this department. Never attribute to malice what can be and still provide a profitable market for a couple of hackers with no environmental cost. A few startups get started in Mississippi.

Yahoo, but a lot of reasons American car companies, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by selling recordings. They therefore think what drives users to switch the operating system.

Though they are. It's a bit. In fairness, I use the name Homer, to take over the course of the 2003 season was 2. In When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation reaches a certain size it gets presumptuous for a lot of companies to build little Web appliances.

A professor at a disadvantage trying to dispute their decision or just outright dismisses it and creates a rationalization for doing so much from day to day indeed, is he going to do, I'll have people nagging me for features.

If you assume that P spam and legitimate mail volume both have distinct daily patterns. That's one of a press conference. But it isn't a picture of anything.

So it's a book about how to use them to get rich simply by being energetic and unscrupulous, but it is certainly part of its completion in 1969 the largest in the world. Com. You also have to keep them from the example of applied empathy.

Google was in his twenties than any other company has to be significantly pickier. In effect they were going back to 1970 it would take forever in the future as barbaric, but getting rich from controlling monopolies, just monopolies they create rather than admitting he preferred to work with me there. There are people whose applications are perfect in every way, it means they still control the company is always 15 weeks behind the rapacious one. Managers are presumably wondering, how much would you have to spend all your time working on is a particularly alarming example, the activation energy for enterprise software—and to run an online service.

No one writing a dictionary to pick the words we use for good and bad measurers. Even now it's hard to predict at the network level, and that don't include the cases where a laptop would be in most if not all equal, and they begin by having an associate cold-emailing a startup is compress a lifetime's worth of work the same thing twice.

Which is fundraising. Money, prestige, and on the other people who did it lose? For the computer, the employee gets the stock up front, and have not stopped to think about where that money comes from ads on other sites. Some find they have wings and start to get all the mistakes you made.

Or a phone, and I had no idea what most people haven't noticed yet.

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topicprinter · 6 years

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I've been working on this product for ~2 years now. I don't develop, but I handle all the numbers and investor-related things since I spent some time working as a senior member of a VC fund.My co-founder built a beta 2 years ago and found me as I was one of its first users. I fell in love with the product and we've been working together ever since.In August, the app started to skyrocket in users, and we hit about 3k till date. Usage isn't the best, they figure out how to use it and get to the core value, but retention is poor. I'd say with 3-6 months of work on the product we could get the loop closed and have users returning and sharing.We've been able to grow all over the nation and we're steadily growing, based off of the rates we'll hit the 100k user mark sometime Q2 next year.Investors are starting to take an interest, so I'd say if we started to actively fundraise we could get a few angels by Q1 next year.So what's so bad?The team. We have trouble agreeing on anything. My co-founder has been working on start-ups for nearly a decade and he has anger issues. He yells a lot and doesn't listen to anybody when it comes to his team. He's absorbed in his phone, he's recently met someone online, and he's been focused on the content he posts online (down to the order of words in the post) and how he appears to his followers. When I push saying he needs to focus on our product he says that's him building an audience/following that'll be handy in the future and how he's also studying user behavior. I think he's lost it, and he tries to get off his phone, but he doesn't. One time I came over for 4 hours to work, of which we only spoke for 15 min because he was on his phone the entire time (yes, hours). I even left and he messaged me 2 hours later saying "where'd you go". Now, most of my time when I come over is spent on talking about if a post is "too forceful" or "is that funny?" or the girl he's crushing on. Mind you, this girl reads his messages but she doesn't respond to him, he's interpreting her saving messages as flirting back and her viewing his posts as a gesture of flirtation. I've told him he's wrong and there's nothing there, but he just says I'm crazy and don't understand it because they're both "real".When it comes to product, he's a great mind but a horrible team worker. He's hypocritical and any changes suggested by anyone (me) he feels as if it's changing the product and ruining his own vision. Of the entire product, it's all his mind in terms of the decisions and design. Our growth rate isn't the greatest and he doesn't let anyone experiment to improve unless it is his own idea. If someone suggests anything he attacks the suggestion from every angle, but if it's his own he names calls everyone and no one has control at the end, so even if we all disagree he'll still do it. He's also gone a little crazy saying he's seeing signs everywhere and he's starting to base product decisions off of them. When countered, he just calls you crazy and how we don't understand (because he has a decade of experience). He still has not been successful with his start-up ventures.I've been commuting 3 hours a day to work with him and my savings have gone from 12k to $400, I'm not sure I can do this anymore. He wants to change the entire core spirit of what we're building and that's not what I signed up for. I'm having conflict because he's also my friend (after being business partners) and I'm worried about him and his health. I feel if I leave he will feel like he has nothing left.He's also been unproductive because of this addiction to social media. We're weeks behind on a new version and the work he's doing could have been completed in ~2 weeks yet we're touching 5 weeks now. When you question his lack of work he freaks out saying he's working on art and we can't rush it (though this is an excuse he gives every time he misses his self-imposed deadline).I've tried speaking with him, and it just ends in yelling and me submitting because at the end of the day I can't do anything since I'm not the builder. After hours of digging, I feel like I get where he comes from but even then it's hard to be happy. Most of the time I just tell myself "this is the tough part of being in a start-up, most people die here. I won't let that happen" but is that a fallacy too?All these books I read on stories of incredible products lead to two things:I draw similarities between the "visionaries" to my partner and think, well hey all the successful ones are crazy and my partner is a smart guy nonetheless.Wow, none of these books talk about how shitty they felt between their co-founders, most stick together and can have normal discussions. We can't even talk about anything because he's either zoned out, doesn't care (because he controls the company), and yeah, we don't have any actual meetings.What do I do here? I know if I leave I can pick myself up and make opportunity elsewhere. On the other hand, I lose my start-up I've worked on the last two years and I'm not sure what would happen to my co-founder. I'd feel like I succumbed to the trough of despair every start-up goes through yet the other half of me says "no, this guy is a terrible partner, regardless of a great product".I do think he's a great product person. He knows how to build a great product, work well, and discuss things when he has had a full amount of sleep, doesn't smoke pot/cigarettes (he smokes pot every day), and takes it easy on the diet (he doesn't eat well). But those days are seldom, but when they do happen, they're great. If he was like that every day we would be leagues ahead of where we are now. I've told him this and he either gets sad or argues back, no change. I've threaten to leave and he gets quiet but doesn't change. Once I sent him a message saying we needed to have a serious conversation and he calls me multiple times because he gets nervous I'll leave, but doesn't change his habits.Do I bare the feeling of un-ownership in order to possibly build a company or do I slowly get myself out?

#/r/startups #reddit

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douchebagbrainwaves · 6 years

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I'M NOT CLAIMING THAT POTENTIAL WILL BE REALIZED BY THE EXISTING SHAREHOLDERS

In defend-a-position writing that would be the first money in, as they have in the past. Someone ignorant but smart will come along and reinvent everything, and in the process simply fail to reproduce certain existing ideas. You start by writing a stripped-down kernel how hard can it be? Painting has prestige now because of great work people did five hundred years before someone thought of casting hilt and blade as one piece. I realized when I started writing this. In that case, tweak your product and try again. As I was leaving I offered it to him, as I've done countless times before in the same direction technology evolves in. If free copies of your content are available online, then you're competing with publishing's form of distribution, and that's what it's going to feel terrible sometimes, then when it feels terrible you won't think ouch, this feels terrible, I give up. And then there was the language and there was my program, written in the language that required so much explanation. You know what a throwaway program is: something you write quickly for some limited task.

I'm not proposing that charisma is the only factor, just that it's the only one left after the efforts of the two founders was still in grad school. What would make them say wow? Part of what software has to go through various approvals before it can be launched. This is a talk I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. And if you just hang on, things will probably get more attention from investors in a series A round, before the VCs invest they make the company set aside a block of stock for future hires—usually between 10 and 30% of the company? Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the vote itself, which is to design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs force hackers to be scientists, and companies force them to be engineers. Why should good ideas be funny? And yet, if they wanted is an important qualification—so important that it's almost cheating to append it like that—because once you get over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is imagination. Editors must know they attract readers.

Back in the 1970s it was fashionable to design new programming languages. So are hackers, I can say more precisely. It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. But often this mismatch causes problems. As a young founder your strengths are: stamina, poverty, might not sound like an advantage, but it has more potential than they realize. Don't write the essay readers expect; one learns nothing from what one expects. The sort of writing that attempts to persuade may be a valid or at least to know what is a small change and what is a small change and what is a small change and what is a small change and what is a momentous one. In the old days, the standard m.

So suppose you think you might start a startup explicitly to get rich and the other half are going to die. TV helped Kennedy, so historians are correct in regarding this election as a watershed. For example, when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci in the National Gallery, he put a juniper bush behind her head. Ditto for PayPal. Apple is an institution, and I'm just a person. If you move there, the peer pressure that made you work harder all summer will continue to operate. I do office hours I have to change what I was doing: sketching. And anyone who's tried it knows that you can't change the question. The better they are, we have a remarkable coincidence to explain. It has nothing to do with how abstract the language is. Into this already bad situation comes the third problem: Sarbanes-Oxley has practically destroyed the US IPO market.

And being rapacious not only doesn't help you do that, you stop believing there is nothing so tempting as an easy test that kind of idea. In the middle you have people who are earnest, but dull. I'm saying is that the kind of help that matters, you may not have to be the best supplier, but falls just short of the threshold for solvency—which will of course think of Perl. It couldn't be any other way. Above that threshold, software purchases generally had to be a search for truth. All of you guys already have the first two. In that respect it's a black hole. Oy. It had the same appeal as open-source hacking is all about.

You might also want to look at it. Or if they are, they are, we have to reach back into history again, though this time not so far. The reason things are moving this way is that the old way dead, because those few are the best startups. The startup would be underfunded! Most of what ends up in my essays I only thought of when I sat down to write them. The pattern here seems the same one we see when startups and established companies enter a new market. You can tell how hard it would be: don't do as you're told. Writers do this too. This of course gave empathy a bad name, and I completely agree with him. In Microsoft's case, it might not just be preparation for a startup is so hard that working on it can't be preceded by but.

So you need the kind of help that matters, you may find that your friends are now involved in some project they don't want to bother. So suppose you think you might start a startup one day, the evidence so far suggests you shouldn't work there. Indirectly, but they all wait to invest. Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. Above that threshold, software purchases generally had to be by someone who was at least forty and whose job title had x in it. You do not however want the sort of determination implied by phrases like don't give up as much of a difference as having first class functions, you can use something like continuation-passing style to get the effect of first class functions or recursion or even keyword parameters. This sort of change tends to create as many good things as it kills. If I could get people to remember just one quote about programming, it would be good for angels that there are good ideas waiting to be discovered right under our noses. They just wanted to add a new check, they should. It looks weird, but it is a good tool if you want to. But elegance is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one, and the content was irrelevant. But this time something new happened.

So at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations—in war, for example, is not intrinsically tied to classes. The river's algorithm is simple. The best place to work, there is of course Google. I say languages have to be. Sometimes you start with a promising question and get nowhere. So were the print media are in the scarcest ingredient in startups, at least, that means 2 months during which the company is sold or goes public.

#automatically generated text #Markov chains #Paul Graham #Python #Patrick Mooney #stamina #writing #head #change #Apple #ideas #cheating #software #supplier

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

The advantage of being good is that it makes life locally more efficient, but also to index and even edit them. I shy away from this question. They look superficially like the application of math to call it. It was as if someone had flipped on a light switch inside my head. The main reason may be that Moore's Law will stop working, and it did not seem cool in 1995 the way it does now. Nor do I think it will. You have to justify. Neither of the conventional desktop metaphor. How do you find them?

How often do you walk into a store, or call a company on. If someone had a problem, I can fix the biggest danger is surprise. If you grow to the size of a refrigerator, but a lot of money on a watch, you have to have an easy time raising money, or the market wasn't ready yet, b the founders solved the wrong problem, and the more people you can hire to manage it for you. It's also wise, early on, to seek jobs that let you do many different things, and in the few cases where it surpasses Python conceptually. The reason startups have been using more convertible notes in angel rounds is that they're not tempted by an offer from Silicon Valley to succeed. I'm open to different types of applicants—for example, about 95% of current spam includes the url of a site they want you to sell them.1 Thanks to Sam Altman, Patrick Collison, Adam Goldstein, James Lindenbaum, Reid Hoffman, Shel Kaphan, Mike Moritz and Kevin Systrom for answering my questions about various languages and/or language level support for lazy loading.

I must have been like when he was 10. It's hard to say whether fragmentation has been good for Google. Would it make the painting more interesting to people. They don't even get to choose which.2 You can tell how hard it is to get kids into better colleges, I mean this in an insulting way—of the kind of work you're allowed to do that is to visit them. 8x 5% 12.3 For example, it recently emerged that the famous glass artist Dale Chihuly hasn't actually blown glass for 27 years. And put this kind of thinking, when you're starting a business that starts small and grows big.4 Nothing seems to stick. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't care about a technique that should be unlimited, if the language will let you email them a business plan and trying to convince investors.5

9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. Nor does it harm you in the opposite direction. So the fact that it can easily kill you.6 So I'd advise you to be omniscient, but actually they have straightforward answers. The reason they like it or not, and if you look at these languages in order, Java, and Visual Basic—it is not clear whether you can keep hope and worry balanced, they will probably use small problems, and will go out of business if this one is possible, but it seems like that's what you were getting whether you liked it or not, we started out doing ___. People are all over this idea lately, and I think the experience of working hard on some problem, inspired by your confidence that you'll be able to dump ultimate responsibility for the whole thing collapse. It seems as if society just has to be suspense. Icio. There's a good side to that, at this point attempted certain gambits which I will not describe in detail, I'll just be able to develop software at all. '' I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. Seed firms will probably have set deal terms they use for every startup that succeeded, but 75% is probably on the high side.

You can have rules saying one shouldn't be mean, and if you're not one of the most powerful motivator of all—more powerful even than the nominal goal of most startup founders, and certainly not you as an investor? Startups are so hard that you can actually get work done. The danger is when money is involved, raising seed capital is comparatively easy—at least in the short term. What Made Lisp Different When it was first developed, Lisp embodied nine new ideas. I know are all terrible procrastinators. B, and then don't worry about it, and how important, relatively, are these other functions? The first hint I had that something was missing. Html 9. I bought was back-ordered, and a given programmer can tolerate a fixed conceptual load, then this kind of thinking, while others are starved of it. Because the components have so far. So few businesses really pay attention to you as a VC on your board. Kate Courteau is the architect who designed Y Combinator's office.

Bill Woods once told me that he would want to underestimate the power of investors as a whole. For example, when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci in the National Gallery, he put a juniper bush behind her head. I see five things that probably account for the difference. And software that's released in a series A round, because VCs are eager to invest again. You can't let how much you like the work. I think the main reason parents in industrialized societies dislike teenage kids having sex? Whereas I suspect over at General Motors the marketing people are telling the designers, though? You can increase the price for later investors.

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In a startup, both your lawyers should be working to help you in? Paul Buchheit points out that successful founders still get rich simply by being energetic and unscrupulous, but Javascript now works.

Mehran Sahami, Susan Dumais, David Heckerman and Eric Horvitz.

We're only comparing YC startups, has one booked for them by the fact by someone else.

Copyright owners tend to get kids into better colleges, I know, Lisp code. Then when we started Viaweb, if you were expected to do this would give us. You should take a lesson from the late 1970s the movie Dawn of the hugely successful startups.

But there is at least should make a conscious effort to be located elsewhere. Reporters sometimes call us VCs, I know it didn't to undergraduates on the richer end of World War II.

At the time it was briefly in Britain in the narrowest sense. From the beginning.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Joe Gebbia, and Jessica Livingston for smelling so good.

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