skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Sorry about the weird characters..trying again)

Suggest you remove "CEO" from your title.

Having that word in your title has one, and only one, positive effect  your co founders are agreeing that you are the leader - and that increases your teams efficiency in the race to develop your prototype.

But the negatives are far too many.

When investors think of the word CEO, what typically comes to their mind is a person experienced in taking companies from the startup stage to the exit stage. Furthermore, a having a CEO position filled indicates to them that a significant funding round is in place.

If you are thinking that by giving yourself that title today you are positioning yourself for being the CEO post-funding, that is a false assumption. What is more likely is that at some stage in the companys evolution, an outsider will be better suited to take the company to the next level.

Of course, there are many, many exceptions such as Dell, Bezos, etc. But rather than claim the CEO title at the onset, and subject yourself and future CEO candidates to unnecessary discomfort, (we are seeking a CEO versus we are seeking to replace our CEO), let your funding stockholders make that decision.

Whats most important is that your baby gets fundedavoid all barriers to that critical event.
yah dude, put .asp or make it look like a java based server. Even .php would probably work nicely that way.
Yay! Witness the new "threads" feature! Thanks, PG!
Ah, I just saw the orange asterisk next to my comments and submissions. This will indeed prove to be useful. But seeing the replies to my own comments is the best, thanks.
The stereotypes of digg's users holds up especially well:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Digg
"passionate" is really a really weird one. I found "passionate about your laundry" particularly diturbing when I saw it on a laundry van - OK not very Web 2.0 but....
"Our software submits your pages to Altavista, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, OpenText, and HotBot." Nice. Those were the days. Does anyone else remember when google was underground? I remember when it seemed just me and a few of my friends knew about them. For 2 years I would say "don't use altavista- use google." and whoever it was would say "Googol? Ogle? What?" Guess it wasn't that long ago at that...
Junkdepot.com - The marketplace for everything else
From : http://www.profy.com/2007/03/16/junkdepot-startup/

From the article: "Junkdepot is essentially a clean and simple site to get rid of junk you don't want. As far as selling your items, Junkdepot may even be superior to eBay because it is easier and it is FREE."
YOUTUBE: Mark Cuban's motives - Valleywag
Perhaps it is overused but I like passionate. I decided a long time ago that I only wanted to associate with people who were passionate about things..

What I am tiring of is "social community", how much room is left for more of them?
Ask The VC:  How do you plan for M&A?
Doing heavy CSS, JS? Install multiple IE versions on the same machine
Watch their presentation during LeWeb3
playback at minute 7:09
http://portal.vpod.tv/leweb3/70070
Yeah this was on my mind as well. Obviously thinking pretty far down the road but I guess that's the fun of it.

So in that case what do you think of "President" or "Supreme Allied Commander"? Pros and cons I guess.
Google wasn't just underground then; it didn't exist. Google wasn't founded till a year later.
Kaneva: a 3D Myspace?
Neo-nomads transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office
I remember back when you had to manually submit your website to 30 different search engines. It's amazing how fast times change.
The top 25 UK web 2.0 start ups | The Register
Quintura for Kids - intuitive and safe search engine for kids
Startup School 2006 (1 hour video)
What's wrong with Ruby?
Not bad at all, how do you guys compile the white list?
Now http://www.socializr.com/ says that they are "gamma". Does that mean, its more crap than "beta" but it is still ok.
This along with some other goodies can also be found on this page: http://startupschool.infogami.com/ which was submitted here a little while ago. Good video though and worth a watch if you haven't already.
How to spend $1M on a domain name and lower your traffic
The Startup News: links to the latest on cool startups and web tech
Many Internet Start-Ups Are Telling Venture Capitalists: 'We Don't Need You'
The God of Startups
How to Hire Like a Start-Up
Steve Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
This would be a big improvement. I hope it happens soon.
Gasoline powered shoes and why Silicon Valley works by way of contrast
Setting up a sole proprietorship is as easy as going to a business kiosk and filling out some forms.

I think in BC you don't even need to register if you use your own name, so it's completely free (money/bureaucracy).
Popularity Might Not Be Enough
hmm. ambassador to France. Anyway, the last line of the first paragraph is dead on.
I hope these do well, but when I apply my internal "would I pay for it" measurement (I never click on ads [and try to ignore branding] so ad-based revenue sites don't make the cut) there was only one on that list that I myself would pay for- the first one, Garlik. That's just me, though.
Very good clouding.
What he's really thinking is how few good people they leave for Microsoft. Nearly everyone who gets an offer from both must choose Google. So the more people Google hires each year, the lower down the list Microsoft's top recruits start.
Same thing my dad told me haha!
Obviously biased, but I think he does have a point. Google has found an insanely profitable business in search and is using a shotgun approach to try to find another revenue source, and it had better work. Microsoft could lose Windows (to a Windows-killer - presume their apps would still run) and still be a nicely profitable company. Google without search, today, would be in deep shit. Windows has a much higher lock in than Google search does, too, and will do for the forseeable future.

I liked this bit:

Asked by a student what keeps him up at night, Ballmer said managing people and relationships and shifting business models were the biggest culprits. Still, those aren't major interruptions.

"I actually do sleep very well," he said.

I'm sure he does.
Yeah, it must be killing him:

http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.php

Was it really different 5 or 10 years ago though? Microsoft hasn't been a cool company for a long time. Although I guess it was very impressive for the resume, and prior to Google, that was a choice you'd have to make.
Web 2.0 is bad enough! though I don't have any qualms with passionate. As you have to be passionate about your business in the first place. Although being passionate about something in itself is not a guarantee of being successful either.
Oh yeah add blogosphere to my list as well.
That is also true in Ontario, Canada; you are not required to incorporate if you're using your own name for the business.
Three notable generals who successfully implemented this strategy are Tariq ibn-Ziyad, Hurnan Cortez, and Xiang Yu. They managed to take on armies many times their size by deliberately cutting off any channels of exit.

Read more about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_ibn-Ziyad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan_Cortez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Yu
You are right. Have a look here:

Digg.com No Longer Just for Tech News Junkies

http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/790/digg-this-diggcom-no-longer-just-for-tech-news-junkies
"Google without search, today, would be in deep shit"

50% of Googles Revenue does not come from search.
I don't think these are the "top 25" UK web 2.0 startups. I think i'll write an alternative list.
daemon(s) originates from the Greek word deimon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28mythology%29 which means someone who is wise, knows things, has wide and wise knowledge of something.
In the ancient Greek times it was not linked to the concept they are now.
I wonder how much more social news can evolve without any new advances in the underlying technology. Without new tech (digital identity, semantic web, etc.) then the only thing you can do is to change the people present or the way that they interact. And if there is significantly more value that can be extracted by tweaking the design then it'll take someone smarter than me to see it.
SXSW 2006 podcasts
How on earth can they concentrate on their work in a cafe?
"With no agenda other than they're interesting, here's 25 UK-based startups that I think are worth watching in 2007. It's a very personal list - it's not based on financial metrics, user bases, or likelihood of being bought by Google. So this isn't the top 25 UK startups, in other words. It's just 25 cool ones."

I'd be interested to see your list, I'm tempted to draw up my own to see where the overlap is between different "top apps" lists
Google Web Toolkit Q&A Video (BAD URL, PLEASE DELETE)
Wouldn't these be a little bit more interesting?

http://2007.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/
Google Web Toolkit Q&A Video
The birth of AJAX - an amazing story
Official Startup School '07 wiki
That's a very clever site, but I worry about scalability- If you're adding links manually you're going to run into the same problem that yahoo ran into, but without the Ad-revenue to try to overcome it.

I'm also slightly worried that it's a difficult thing for kids to type or say, but I imagine they'll have it bookmarked for the most part.
Agreed, ignoring the fact revmap is not on there (travesty :-) ), the list doesn't seem that representative of the UK scene.
_Microsoft, because it invented the XMLHTTP object and without Google standing forth on this aspect, you wouldnt have been able to see any of the above mentioned miracles imparted to the web today_

That's the most badly constructed sentence I hope to read all day.
Startup Funding Options
done; we now have all three of these
there is a prototype of this at news.ycombinator.com/active
done (by you, in fact)
If other people agree with this, please upvote joshwa's suggestion. If you want to keep things the way they are, upvote this reply.
you can now delete a comment if it has no children by editing it blank
prototype at news.ycombinator.com/active
Some of us have been using http://startup_weekend.bluwiki.com/ to organize for the last couple weeks.

It's also seemingly down right now, which may actually be a sign to move our information to the official Wiki. Thanks Jessica.

(edit: Spoke too quickly. It's up again now.)
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"Gmail was the first most interactive web based email client which actually used the XMLHttpRequest to make a rich internet interface providing asynchronus behaviour thus making the email client more user friendly than any other in those days of 2004"

Aside from the atrocious writing, it seems to me this is mistaken: wasn't Oddpost the first web-based email client to take advantage of AJAX-style techniques?
Nice. We were having some problems with our ISP, which has caused ~2 hrs of downtime on bluwiki :(

If someone wants to volunteer to condense everything onto one wiki, I'm sure that'd be appreciated. Otherwise, I guess we could link between the two wikis or something...
That works well. A listing of the most active is better than a listing of recently commented on. What's the threshold for most active?
Paul Buchheit: My startup path
Steekr - New online storage startup
I should note that this is the way the reddit bookmarklet works... they're the ones who have set my expectations/habits.

You could also make a like/dislike bookmarklet the way reddit does...
Actually, "Outlook Web Access" (OWA) was probably the first, since XMLHttpRequest was supposedly added for OWA. Gmail was the first good&popular AJAX-style webmail client, so it helped legitimize and popularize those techniques.
"You don't need to have it all figured out right now. The important thing is to keep moving forward. Seek opportunities to learn or try something new, something with uncertain outcomes."

I liked that part. Working in startups is exciting and starting one is even more exhilarating. For years, I've always been interested in pursuing a startup, but it was more recently that I decided/discovered that there is nothing else I could do that would leave me satisfied.

On another note, I just recently finished reading your interview in Jessica's book. Good luck on that next adventure of yours; I'll be interested to see what you're going to be up to.
VIP Treatment
Pretty funny anecdote, even if having a relative purchase the item is a bit on the sketchy side. But I definitely understand having to show your business at its best in crucial situations.

I wonder how one would analogize this to a social network-based website where an influential blogger might be visiting to review. Would one populate the place with a buzzing community? Script certain features to respond flawless to expected invocations? It's much more manufactured (and wrong) in this case.
MySpace defeats YouTube in war game
Snipitron | Publish your online research
Search News YC (unofficial)
"Snipitron, a new social bookmarking site for academics, professionals and students, launched in pre-beta mode on Friday. On many levels, it's your conventional bookmarking site: you add URLs via the web interface, a bookmarklet or the browser plugin (IE and FF), add tags, add friends and explore websites bookmarked by others.

Slightly different is the idea of collections: all your bookmarks are part of ongoing projects, usually concerned with researching an assignment or a purchase."

http://mashable.com/2007/03/17/snipitron/
I wrote this because I wanted to look for some old articles which were no longer listed. I started crawling News YC over night at a slow rate, and it is still going, so many of the latest links and comments are not indexed yet.

I threw the code together, so feel free to report any bugs you encounter. However, I won't have time to touch this for the next few days.

I imagine at some time News YC will have a search feature implemented (it may even be today with all the recent changes), so Paul, let me know if you want this removed.
Wow; my slight annoyance at having someone write software I wish I was writing (instead of working on my damned talk for startup school) is outweighed by how impressed I am at your initiative. Plus it's actually useful...
Google Web Toolkit Performance and Interoperability
Slashdot isn't even on the list.
Startup Checklist
Anyone want to bet that their predictions will be wrong?
Why not just make your service good to every user instead of focusing on those people you think you need to impress? I think that every user should have the same great experience and not just a handful of hand-picked consumers. If you have a good product I think that'll show through regardless. It seems like if you feel that you need to do this that you probably find huge weaknesses in your product.
Digg For Photos - A Photo Voting Community
I think if they launch a database product then it would be even more useful.
Interesting. My personal experience definitely support's this. My brother's an entrepreneur, my dad's an entrepreneur, and just about every uncle on my dad's side is an entrepreneur.
Thanks, Jason. This is great.
Is there much to learn from that article? I guess what he says about branding is interesting, but it seems way to simplistic.

Take amazon for example which he puts into the first category. Its not appropriate, they apply themselves accross multiple category not just books and there marketplace (and some other products) are more like a service than ecommerce. Also he gives netflix as another example, I am thinking DVDs have high markups and there rental structure makes them again a bad example.

My real issue with this and his previous article is that its way to over simplified and doesnt give that much useful info except to say don't pick a market thats too small. Am i missing the point?
great hack jason, works a treat ~ any chance of a quick writeup of how?
I'm surprised there have not been more 'vertical' del.icio.us variants. Looks useful to a subset. For a business I wonder how much the 'niche' audience will restrict the sites ability to make money?

PRO:

simple

export data via RSS

pre-built input tools via browser

CON:

does not copy delicious conventions enough

free & long term viable? ('We're still working through the whole "money thing.")

redundant images of sites

does not export citations,
Scribd has made something that people want
I've seen at least 2 Scribd-hosted docs earning popularity on Digg over the past 3 days. Crazy because Scribd went live not too long ago and I distinctly remember a lot of people questioning its use case.
Reading 'Founders at work', so far his story is the one that most clicks with me. I'm a technical guy, so I really understand having lots of varied projects going on. The more difficult part is focusing on one single product.
Try comparing its traffic with reddit on alexa.
He said hiring growth is insane. It's fair to wonder what the heck 5,000 new hires are doing in a company of 10,000. Google makes all its money from ads and there's no way they're all involved in the back-end for that. If they're sitting around building cute little javascript applications then Ballmer is most certainly correct that they're insane.
"President" is technically correct if you have a corporation, since every corporation must have a President and a Secretary (one person can be both). Your other choice may seem nice, but it will lead to more questions. Your best bet is to keep it simple for now and go with "Co-founder". As of right now, it's all noise anyway...what matters is the title given to your product by your users :-)
Why can't it really be 5-20x better than your other options?
Yes, but they're not all up yet. In the meantime I thought people might enjoy some of last years talks
Another site that completely fails to make it clear what they do on the front page. "The best way to capture and share your research." What the heck does that mean?

The FAQ is four paragraphs long, of which only two sentences are at all meaningful.

How about just having the front page say: "SNiPiTRON is a way to build research projects based on the web pages you capture. Then you can share and discuss your research with friends, colleagues, co-workers, etc." Even this is too wordy and could be cut down.

Why even bother building it if 90% of the people who get to the site are going to hit the back button within the first ten seconds? heh.
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Disclaimer: I'm no accountant and maybe I'm not reading the figures correctly, but here goes.

It's closer to 61%/37% search/adsense, but look at the profit. It seems to me that for Adsense the revenue of 1,197mm this quarter had a 'Traffic Acquisition Cost' (i.e. what they pay to website owners) of 975mm, so they see very little profit from that.

Without search, this quarter, Google would have been 947mm in the red instead of 1030mm in the black. Without Adsense, which is 37% of their revenue, they'd have lost just 222mm from their bottom line.

In contrast, Microsoft's biggest earner in 2006, Office, had a revenue of 14,488mm without which they'd still be in the black by 3774mm pre tax. Which is actually far less comfortable than I expected, but Google is under much more threat from Newgle than Micorosft is from any of their competitors, present or future.

Links:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/default.mspx
http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html
get the right culture going, and the tech looks after itself
The Penny Gap - In-Depth
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20 Smartest Companies to Start
What he said really struck home with me, too.

"If you're interested in startups, don't sit around waiting for the perfect opportunity, just go find one that sounds interesting [...] The startup will probably fail, but you will succeed because you have learned a lot more than you otherwise would have."

It's exactly what I've heard so many successful people say.

The startup path is a scary one for me, but spending my life as a "worker bee" is even more scary somehow...
I agree in the sense that you don't want to try to upgrade a lousy experience for the benefit of a few VIPs visiting the site by putting manual effort into it (I think artifically speeding up the sale of their items is borderline in this camp). But I don't think you'll ever get around the fact that sometimes shit just happens when you least want it to, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with ensuring that VIPs are getting the high quality of service that you designed for your customers by manually reviewing their experience. Using the same system that you're using to manually review a random sample of customers to make sure they're getting the full experience.

Kind of like taking extra care when you've got a few grand in your wallet, but you wouldn't be careless with it when you're broke.
Ladies who Launched: A look at women entrepreneurs
Google blog search is open. Any thoughts?
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Interesting.

For the lazy among us: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=scribd.com&site1=reddit.com&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=6m&size=Medium&url=reddit.com
Becoming an SMS spammer is among the 20 smartest startup ideas? That would be pretty sad if it were true.
can you like do your H1B through a consultant and "consult/work" for your company through the consultant.
good initiative. well done.
Thanks to Bryan Kennedy of Likebetter for most of the new look
Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?
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This has serious implications for opt-in versus opt-out on the internet. I wonder if Google will donate some legal help for this since there's the potential for a troubling precendent to be set.
http://snapshot.compete.com/reddit.com+scribd.com

This seems more likely to be the reality. Alexa is pretty broken.
Make Way for Copyright Chaos - Lessig on Viacom vs Google
--- LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared.

Over $6600 per video, discounting dupes of which I'm sure there will be masses, I wonder how they worked those figures out. $/view?

This could be a nice idea for a startup - something that can determine whether a given audio sample or video clip is pulled from copyrighted content. Of course it depends on sites like Youtube existing and users on it infringing.
I like the wider layout. Much more engaging and consumable. Subtle, still YC, yet well done. Kudos.
North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be exact. Yourself?
Don't feel like reading that. Here is the headline from twitter's website:

"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"

Okay. This sounds like a bad parody of the worst aspects of Web 2.0. I mean: I'm not sure how such silliness can be "TOO good". Is it good at all? Walk around any college campus and you are likely to hear the following half-conversation coming from somebody talking to his cellphone:

Person X: Whuzzu?

Person X: Not much. Just leaving class.

Person X: Yeah, just going to class.

Person X: Whuzzu. [click].

How to monetize that? Twitter? Whuzzu?
Yes, it is. Reddit sure has a nice, strong looking curve.
2007 Web Predictions
Sounds exactly like what I would expect from a VC and exactly the opposite of what someone like Larry Page would do. I think my energy is better spent fixing valid critiques and requesting a follow-up review once you have.

Better to build something that can stand up to the harshest of reviews than run around spraying perfume on dung.
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