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Very impressive! Annual Run Rate is different from ARR though. Annual Run Rate is probably just taking one (or a few) months, and extrapolate that to a year. Still great progress f…

IMHO if your product and company works, you're in it for a long time. That means your co-founder should keep their motivation long-term as well. If your first sale happens within t…

Github has been down (or very slow) a lot the last few months. They used to have a good engineering reputation (at least with me), but it's been tough times over there.

We use our own tool internally ( https://www.intuo.io/ ). It works pretty well I'd say. What we do is basically: * Continuously give each other 360 feedback * Each manager does a m…

I have been at meetups all around the world (Belgium, Madrid, SF, Barcelona, London)... and HN London is easily one of the highest quality ones I've been to. If you're in/around Lo…

I've been living in Barcelona on/off since 2013. I don't have a problem with the tourists. I do have a problem with drunk tourists who pee and shout in the streets at night. Very d…

Why is Travis so bad? Ever tried CircleCI?

And a horrible climate in winter. If you're used to California weather, I wouldn't move to Sweden. It's like -20 in winter (celcius), plus it gets dark around 4 if you're lucky. Mo…

"And of course, there’s also the question of how Yik Yak will make money — as Crook joked, “don’t worry about the money” is something they say in Silicon Valley, but in New York th…

Cool! If you're willing to share, what is the most popular site people download videos for? I was thinking NSFW sites as well, but you said they only account for 0.65%.

What do you mean income from some casinos? Are casinos downloading videos, or what does that traffic source look like?

Another alternative to Leanpub is Softcover ( https://www.softcover.io/ )

the total valuation of the YC portfolio is way higher. Dropbox alone raised money at at $10 billion valuation back in January of this year. Then you have some others like AirBnB, S…

Great story! I was in Madrid in 2011/2012 and met the founders at one of the Betabeers events. Very driven and resourceful guys.. one of the very few founders I personally was impr…

No, this can only be used on the YC app.

I don't know. I just keep them for my own and thought I'd share them cause they might be helpful to other people. Maybe you can add some Markdown to them and keep them in that form…

Some notes I made. Might include minor errors or misinterpretation on my side. -> how do you identify markets that are growing quickly? trust your instincts students: watch what yo…

I've felt the same way for a long time... and the only way to get over it is to practice. Buy a whiteboard and practice at home. Buy some books (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Introduc…

Yup, I think you're right. Thanks.