Thank you, Pail and co. You're doing great things not only for those who apply and join YC-family but for the startup community all over the world.
The great thing is that you've found something that helped you to become more rich and to help the humanity (at least its geek part :)) in some way.
How Y Combinator Started
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#72It's hard for people to realize now how inconsequential YC seemed at the time. I can't blame people who didn't take us seriously, because we ourselves didn't take that first summer program seriously in the very beginning.
I attended the "How to Start a Startup" talk in 2005. I remember going home and reading pg's website, the whole thing, cover-to-cover. Later that year I met Steve Wozniak at the first Startup School held in Cambridge. Woz, Chris Sacca and pg left a lasting impression on me. I had never witnessed that level of information density and knowledge sharing. Amazing to look back at those humble beginnings. Always grateful for YC and the HN community.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to read your story on how you only made it through 2/3, and not the whole YC session.
you probably wouldn't honestly. just a simple founder dispute which lead to me leaving, nothing too eventful there
Au contraire, founder disputes are something very few entrepreneurs write about, especially YC-caliber entrepreneurs; and yet anecdotally, they happen rather frequently. I stand by my assertion that writing a blog post about it would be good; please consider doing so, especially if you have insight on how to avoid or prevent it from happening.
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#75So doing the winter batch in California seemed like one of those rare cases where the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious one were the same. There is nothing more heavenly, more sublime than that rare situation in life in which the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious choice align. There's a keen insight to be had there. Unfortunately, those moments are very rare. For instance, at least, in terms of my persona…
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#76Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know a good way to save/record an idea? I always think of one at the most inopportune time and by the time I have a chance to write it down I forget parts of it. Is there an app or service to help me?
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#77Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know a good way to save/record an idea? I always think of one at the most inopportune time and by the time I have a chance to write it down I forget parts of it. Is there an app or service to help me?
A notebook?
No seriously get one of those tiny (1/3 A5) ones which fit in any pocket, then all you have to do is remember a pen!
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#78Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know a good way to save/record an idea? I always think of one at the most inopportune time and by the time I have a chance to write it down I forget parts of it. Is there an app or service to help me?
I've love to hear about this as well.
As for me, I've gone through Google Notebook, now Docs - one big Ideas doc for undevelopped ideas, then as ideas get developped, they get their own doc. And now also Trello, which is great. On the dashboard, you see only card titles, and this allows you to hide complexity.
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#79Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know a good way to save/record an idea? I always think of one at the most inopportune time and by the time I have a chance to write it down I forget parts of it. Is there an app or service to help me?
Write it down on your phone? Or the back of your hand?
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#80So doing the winter batch in California seemed like one of those rare cases where the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious one were the same. There is nothing more heavenly, more sublime than that rare situation in life in which the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious choice align. There's a keen insight to be had there. Unfortunately, those moments are very rare. For instance, at least, in terms of my persona…
the colour of Greece, Italy, southern Spain, Portugal, Argentina, etc. I can appreciate the comparative orderliness and clockwork of Teutonic and Anglo-American civilisation, but it doesn't make me happy, and yet I need that whole universe in order to sustain my livelihood in any practical sense Maybe try Hong Kong? I haven't lived there but it seems colourful (in the Asian rather than Southern European sense) and ye…
For you people who talk about bouncing around working abroad, what do you do? Are you running your own company or freelancing? Or just moving to another country and then looking for work?
I'd love to work abroad but I don't really see how to go about it.