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Have you bought any flash drives recently?
For printing stuff in college or sharing files with someone near you nothing beats a USB. Quick and easy.
I think there needs to be a moratorium on that AirBnB political cereal box story. "The most important thing to do is to focus on your business, but also it's cool if you spend time on a random side business," is a big mixed message.
It's definitely one of my favorite stories, and really serves as a great testament to the idea that staying alive so you can keep working on your product is easily one of the most important things for (early stage) companies.
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Have you bought any flash drives recently?
Plenty, you can get killer USB3 flash drives now. USB3 really is the Dropbox moment for flash drives.
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For printing stuff in college or sharing files with someone near you nothing beats a USB. Quick and easy.
Yeah. Except it's formatted in fat and your file is larger than 4GB, oops. So you reformat in NTFS, but now the guy with the Mac can't write to it. USB is fine, but the lack of FS support is a PITA.
Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Remember to translate out of startup-speak: "change the world" means "make a lot of money for our investors".
Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
Remember to translate out of startup-speak: "change the world" means "make a lot of money for our investors".
This is how you do great content marketing and branding. This entire video series is about inspiring people with a side benefit of illustrating what makes YC special. Compare this to content by other accelerators (of which there are many). It's not a lecture nor a recital of advice. It's a series of relatable and personable stories with a consistent theme. Start with "Why" you do something, not how or what.
Feel free to shoot me any suggestions of content you'd find useful via email. We're always looking for more ways to make valuable and interesting content more accessible to everyone.
I think there needs to be a moratorium on that AirBnB political cereal box story. "The most important thing to do is to focus on your business, but also it's cool if you spend time on a random side business," is a big mixed message.
Really?
http://www.ycombinator.com/press/ quotes 1297 startups
http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 has 1069 companies (+ ~100 from the S16 class) for ~1200 in total
Jessica is awesome. That said, this part near the beginning, where Sam says... >>Sometimes they create a small success, and sometimes they create these companies that really transform the world, and YC has been very fortunate to be involved in a lot of these, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on. I mean... really? OK, I'll grant you Airbnb, but Dropbox "transformed" the world?
I dunno. Before Dropbox I didn't really use a general purpose file store in the cloud for anything. I stored pictures on flickr and documents on Google Docs but nothing general purpose. Now I store my entire home directory, all of my financial & legal documents, and quite a few other things (some in Dropbox some elsewhere). I dunno if that's transforming the world or not but it's made a pretty big difference to me pe…
Are you encrypting these documents client side?