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nlabs

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    Comment #1392162

    Maybe now the next iphone os will drop support for the tag!!

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    Comment #1204090

    If you want to take the long shot odds, go for it.

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    Comment #1192452

    Your missing the point of the analogy. The idea is focus on customer acquisition in a niche rather than trying to go big with VC funding/IPO. You could have just as easily replaced…

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    Comment #1192271

    that co-founder finder could turn out to be really useful.

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    Comment #1192198

    1) 6 months 2) Applied last minute - No 3) no - going the bootstrap route investing 15k of my own money. 4) demo currently offline -will be up later.

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    Comment #1192195

    patio11, I agree with you that bootstrapping is the way to to - the "Italian restaurant" software company

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    Comment #1192129

    YC has connections, but in the end its up to you to make your startup successful. With your experience, you should be able to bootstrap yourself into a profitable software business…

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    Comment #1192086

    Funny. Not going to apply again.

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    Comment #1192052

    I applied soley for the validation. I really dont want to work in Mountain View

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    Comment #1192046

    Sounds like you are at a point beyond where YC makes sense.

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    Comment #1192044

    You speak truth python. YC is a good idea when you have your idea, and need some cash/guidance to get started. But once you have customers, even if your not "ramen profitable", you…

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    Comment #1190914

    I wrote this data import module for my web app this morning. It reads csv and xls flat file data and imports it into by database and then displays a preview of the data to the user…

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    Data Import module: please break and tell

    I wrote this data import module this morning. I reads csv and xls flat data files, imports them into my db and displays a preview to the user. Please try it out and let me know wha…

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    Comment #1190442

    Wow, thats a significant increase. Happy to hear that.

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    Comment #1188744

    selection bias would only be a concern if you were trying make inference on all netflix customers (not just the ones that opt-in).

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    Comment #1188490

    >> we are talking about the equivalent of the bank publishing the customer's driver's license information in a newspaper with their name obscured. Its more like the DMV publishing …

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    Comment #1188471

    Excellent advice patio11. Why you dont do a full time startup is beyond me. Let me know when you are available for consulting.

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