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Re: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

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Post by mkagenius »

pen2l wrote: post #2

Sam: Any reason why you couldn't set your phone down in a stable position, or just tell someone to hold it steadily for you? edit: I don't mean it in a mean way, just curious.

Its a pain to do that. Apart from that it was supposed to be a quick interview / informal one. Also, it was helpful when he had to show books.

Re: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

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striking wrote: post #13

For the question "What are some of the best books to learn from that you recommend for a young startup founder?", I decided to transcribe the answers. . "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" - http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804... "Republic" - http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Hackett-Classics-Plato/dp/087... (classic, feel free to grab a PDF) "The Principia : Mathematica…

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Re: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

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Post by tlb »

oh_sigh wrote: post #29
pen2l wrote: post #3

> We don't have a PR firm. I do think YC paid for an ad once in 2006 in the Stanford college newspaper, but we don't really do marketing. The thing we rely on most of all is founders we fund telling other people about our program. Really? That answer seems somewhat misleading, I don't know if intentionally. YC's biggest place to advertise is HN. In fact, look below right now -- 'Apply to YC'. In addition to reminders…

Didn't PG himself sing the praises of good PR firms during his Viaweb days?

At Viaweb in 1997 we were trying to reach mail order merchants, which PR firms were effective at, because they all read the same several magazines. It's not clear that PR firms have the ear of prospective founders in 2015.

For more on this, see http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livings...

Re: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

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Post by Pyxl101 »

pen2l wrote: post #3

> We don't have a PR firm. I do think YC paid for an ad once in 2006 in the Stanford college newspaper, but we don't really do marketing. The thing we rely on most of all is founders we fund telling other people about our program. Really? That answer seems somewhat misleading, I don't know if intentionally. YC's biggest place to advertise is HN. In fact, look below right now -- 'Apply to YC'. In addition to reminders…

Take note of what website you're visiting :-) news.ycombinator.com.

Is it really fair to call content on their own website marketing? I suppose there is a sense of the term in which that's true, but given the context I'm not sure that I would say so in the context of objecting to their claim.

Re: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA

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Post by ousta »

jkimmel wrote: post #18
striking wrote: post #13

For the question "What are some of the best books to learn from that you recommend for a young startup founder?", I decided to transcribe the answers. . "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" - http://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804... "Republic" - http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Hackett-Classics-Plato/dp/087... (classic, feel free to grab a PDF) "The Principia : Mathematica…

Molecular Biology of the Cell (Alberts) is free through NCBI! Many investigators jokingly refer to it as 'the bible'. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/

do you see any reason he put this book in the list?
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