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I think Reddit is the greatest thing to come out of the first batch.
And I always think that if you pitched it to anyone at the time, how many would've laughed in your face?
Knowing that there was a place out there for entrepreneurial geeks like me helped tipped the scales for me; YCombinator plus Hacker News itself has made me feel like I am not alone in trying to make it as a geek-entrepreneur and I am glad for it.
YC + HackerNews has made the tech world feel like a smaller, more accessible place for me.
Interesting how YCs very first web-statement in 2005 remaines true and current. http://web.archive.org/web/20050324062234/http://ycombinator...
Interesting how YCs very first web-statement in 2005 remaines true and current. http://web.archive.org/web/20050324062234/http://ycombinator...
"Privacy Policy: We're too lazy to look at log files, and haven't yet written any software to do it.
Terms of Use: When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page."
Love it. Unlike many other sites, this one hasn't changed in years.
edit: privacy policy is gone (so I presume they got around to writing the software)
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no, I meant like direct to institutions like pension funds. why would a pension fund give money to Sequoia, and then have them give it to YC? that's an unnecessary management fee the pension funds have to pay
Because the pension funds want to invest such huge amounts of money that I suspect Y Combinator wouldn't know what to do with it. If a pension fund wanted to invest $250m in YC, they'd have to scale up by so much I doubt it would work the same.
I wonder if pg has written anything about this, if there is some point of diminishing returns in the lean startup scene
So 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…
Speaking 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 made it to scratch my own itch but I hope other people find it useful too.
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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.
That's such an encouraging read.