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280Slides caught my attention - sounds like Zenter - The Sequel? In fact, RescueTime & 8AWeek also sound awfully similar, don't they? This raises an interesting question. As number of YC companies increases, the chances of "collision" increases too. How is that handled?
280Slides caught my attention - sounds like Zenter - The Sequel? In fact, RescueTime & 8AWeek also sound awfully similar, don't they? This raises an interesting question. As number of YC companies increases, the chances of "collision" increases too. How is that handled?
But the main focus of the companyis this Javascript library for writing desktop apps, so that seems very much not-Zenter.
The presentations were awesome. The total value of the tech in the room was huge.
is there any video of the presentations? on paper some of these seem like hacker projects not startups so I would love to see how they see value in these startups.
I'm really interested in TipJoy, it sounds like they finally came up with a system for micro-payments that could work.
I get so excited to see whats coming out next from the YC womb. I'm very excited about InSochi and tipJoy especially. I can see non-profits and charities even using tipJoy . Pretty hip stuff!
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is there any video of the presentations? on paper some of these seem like hacker projects not startups so I would love to see how they see value in these startups.
what percentage of breakout success storieson the Internet did NOT start as hacker projects? Facebook, google, yahoo, etc. All started that way.
edit: removed google from the above list.
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what percentage of breakout success storieson the Internet did NOT start as hacker projects? Facebook, google, yahoo, etc. All started that way.
As counterpoints, myspace, flickr, and digg were not hacker projects. edit: removed google from the above list.
Hacker project:
"Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] In search for a dissertation theme, Page decided to explore the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[2] His supervisor Terry Winograd agreed and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[2] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend, whom he had first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of potential new students which Brin had volunteered to show around the campus.[2]"