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Hello HN! Back in the early 2000s, my business partners and I launched a number of websites. Some were successful (CollegeHumor, Vimeo), others were not. This URL features a detail…

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That's amazing! We started Campus Hook in 2002 (I think) but the timing was bad for a few reasons: 1. A few years early in terms of college student adoption of internet 2. A few ye…

> mindcrime 23 hours ago | link | parent True, but I know about the potential of companies, and failing to reach that potential is a form of failure. So you know all about the ulti…

> You don't know me, my life, my past, my future, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my goals or a goddamned other thing about me. True, but I know about the potential of companies, an…

> Pretty easy position to take once you've already earned your own "fuck you" money. True, though I certainly wish I'd known this position before I earned mine.

Maybe it wasn't clear from the article, but I was talking about the acquisition of a company, not a product. Hackers, and SV people in general, tend not to distinguish between the …

Yeah. My suggested title was "A Critique of Popular Ambition". In future articles I might ask for more input on the title.

The existing businesses were nurtured and optimized reasonably well. I was lamenting the loss of the creative spirit that generated those two businesses in the first place -- the l…

> Ten times out of ten, he'd take his buyout over again. How do you know that?

> With your fat bank account, you can start a new, independent company. It takes years to build a great company. Running a great company was better than having the potential to sta…

We chose not to support Firefox because we didn't want to use Flash or OGG Vorbis. But upon reading your comment I looked into it and apparently there is now limited FF support for…

Fine. But what advantage do you have over similar humans?