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SMS is generally point-to-point. A Twitter is a subscription can go out to many people at once, as they choose.
I don't understand why everyone is so critical of what Guy has done

He seems patronizing: his entire post reads like a satire, i.e., "Look, ma, I made a social networking site, too, just like the ones all the cool kids are visiting these days".

Also, he seems to enjoy mocking the lower costs inherent in Web 2.0 by exaggerating how cheaply he built the whole thing.

That may not be his intention, but that's certainly how it comes across.
Do you think he's being insincere or just a showman? My feeling is that Guy likes to exaggerate everything to make a point: in this case, it's getting really cheap to fail, so take more risks.

Thoughts?
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook F8 keynote!
Why, though? Because some bloggers think so, it is proven?
It smacks of insincerity, especially because he seems to enjoy the part about "no business plan".

Any responsible investor, either angel or VC, will want to have some sense about that, even if revenues and profits "come later".

YC gets a lot of criticism in that regard, but to their credit, they do ask applicants how they intend to make money with their project.
Picking a co-founder is almost like getting married; go with the wrong person, and your life will be miserable.
you jest, but one of my alternate yc app ideas was to create ad-serving tech that actually used variable contextual data (e.g. from a web app) to serve relevant ads, unlike adsense, which requires that google indexes your page.

see: http://www.startupping.com/forums/showthread.php?p=866#post866

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4994
That guy thinks he's Steve Jobs...
That guy is damn smart and an inspiration. He may well end up the next jobs
I totally agree that you need a business "model" - but do you really need a "plan" for a site that costs $12,000?

If he can get 260K page views, even a 0.5% clickthru @ only $0.10 an ad is $130. Not great, but if you can do it every day you've got a site that's pulling in $50K in revenue a year. Not bad, but could be something to explore.

I totally agree with you that you need to know where your business is going to go and if you want to get real funding you'd better have a business plan, but if you're running a $12K test, why not just make sure you think there's a model and then test it?
All the more reason to have a web service.
" ... you'll see a box from a co called lijit at the top of the page that uses the search terms from the referring url."

Or not.

Seems to be yet another reason I'm glad I surf with Firefox+NoScript
Interesting... I did exactly the opposite: after we started working on our startup I realized that I'll just burn myself to death by coding my ass off and not seeing anything outside of my monitors.

Besides, you really do start thinking more clearly when you add some physical activity into the mix. Perhaps there may be a simple medical explanation for this, possibly improved blood flow or something.

So I started running 3 miles a day, followed by a series of pushups and crunches, every day without exceptions, and actually I am getting close to be in the best shape of my life. :-)
He scares me.
Haha, Oh man. There are some things Jobs can pull off that Zuckerberg just can't.
ex: Today, we will start a movement!
From the article: "There are many things in life you are or can be responsible for, but the date of your birth is not one of them. When I meet someone who makes too much of their calendar age..."

Doesn't sound to me like I'm missing his point.

40 year olds have different strengths and weaknesses from 20 year olds. Very few people, possibly zero, can transcend that. I can't. And it's stupid not to adjust your game to suit your strengths.
I found the opposite with grad school: I was exhausted from all the work, and consequently I've been inactive and not eating well. Over the summer I'll be back at a normal 9-5 job, and I'm really hoping to get some exercise and nutritional balance in order.
Scribd gets $3.5M in Series A round led by Redpoint
I heard ~$25M post-money valuation.

Sweet.
It's nice to see the Yahoo web 2.0 crowdsourcing strategy extends beyond just buying shiny websites.
With contrived benchmarks you can prove anything.

Pick something with weird bit twiddling where C is better. I pick some business computing task involving lots of systems integration or some shit where Java is better. And on and on.

Garbage collection is a megawin and you have to be retarded or working on microdevices with 168 bytes of RAM to use C over Java. And that's really where anything on the JVM wins.
Well, if Scribd makes it to a liquidity event, maybe YC can pass their good fortunes on to newly funded companies and offer us better valuations :)
Zuckerberg may be a technical and business genius but he's an awful presenter. Anyone else find his voice, for the lack of a better word, creepy?
Study Reveals Payola in Online Tech Coverage
How to Stop Being Late
"Sales guys" have a slight bit of necessary insanity.
Nice, another YC success (or solid start) story.

I'm beginning to think that the YC's success is testament not only to the Summer/Winter founders programs but also PG's ability to select great talent.
'... news.yc really needs the ability to add a descriptive sticky first comment along with a URL otherwise the RSS feed, and this page, has bugger all on it to know whether to click on the link or not ...'

To expect the submitter to do this is ideal, but not scalable. (I know I've tried to add comments in articles as I've posted them, but gave up because of the number I submit. I do read them but now comment sparingly.) There is a real problem with generating volumes of information quickly. If you want speed, there is a limit on the amount of meta information a user can reasonably generate. If you want usefulness, this requires more time on behalf of users submitting.

Newspapers have this problem and solved it by training news editors to create catchy titles that neatly summarises the entire article in a small sentence - maybe even a few words. But not everyone writing articles on the web is trained in Journalistic techniques, let alone people who read this site. There is also the other problem when re-phrasing or changing titles of articles. Mutilating them into something un-recognisable from the original.

This is where the software has to work harder. By supplying users with the tools to classify, sort and value the submissions with tags, comments, summaries (already have ranking). I'm thinking here of delicious where tagging has allowed users to sort quickly by tag, then if they want to add more data themselves (descriptions, summary). The other way is to gather meta data from the source document (tags, microformats) where possible (un-likely as it takes time to process documents to generate useful things like summaries - even longer for meta data like microformats). Now the question is, could "pg with news.yc create some tools to help users or process new submissions extracting meta-data"?
5) Meg Whitman didn't start eBay.

4) See Paul Kedrosky's post about flaunting your age.

3) Since starting a web 2.0 business is mainly about discovering and implementing something novel, the most similar academic measure would be the number of papers published about novel ideas. While I know that women receive more diplomas than men, it's completely unclear to me whether they are coming up with the majority of the new ideas in the field. They might be, I just don't know.

2) This seems like it would only help for women specific startups. How many women specific startups are there left to create?

1) I believe that men are, compared with women, more likely to be competitive as opposed to cooperative. That being said, only a very small subset of men start Web 2.0 businesses, and I'm betting they are already much more cooperative than average. At least this would make sense, since it having a cooperative mindset would seem to be an advantage in putting together a diverse team to create something of value.

That being said, women probably would do well to start more startups. I can never understand why women complain that only 2% of fortune 500 CEOs are female, instead of complaining that only 2% of high growth startups are founded by women.

Also, it drives me nuts when I see girls I'm friends with buying business books specifically for women. While I've never read one, I can't imagine they are any good, at least compared to the normal Seth Godin / Guy Kawasaki / Paul Graham / Joel on Software / etc. (If they were any good, men would read them too. After all, it's the same process...)
The techcrunch link says 17.5
Sure, You Read Me, But Who'll Friend Me? (Facebook)
This reminds me of stories of game programmers that would wait 2+ hours for a full compile. In the meantime, they did crunches and curls, and ended up with rock hard abs.
How did you learn to program?
Zooomr: Importance of not having any downtime
Lala launches unlimited, free on-demand music
Sure, it's great from a user's perspective but I think they're going to bankrupt themselves if the licensing fees don't change. It's one cent per song per user. Techcrunch says they need an average of $65 revenue per user to break even. That just seems extremely unrealistic, but maybe they know something we don't.

Also see the French site www.blogmusik.net which enables on-demand music by aggregating MP3s posted to blogs.
The Colbert Report - Stephen Interviews Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Michael Arrington's "The Magic Formula" Presentation
Videos: The Startup Concept and Why I Want to Start a Company?
Killing Jacks (pick a focus and dive in)
'... Need more data ...'

One short measure you can decide on is uptake. If there is little or no uptake you know you are in trouble. But I agree there is a lack of information. Startups are designed to stumble all the time. Is keiretsus` startup stumbling? Is the lack of a compelling idea holding it back? Is the product something that "customers want"?

Is it an Artix? ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html
This widget is even worse than Snap crap.
Hey, the three of us at scribd are looking for more people to join our team. Chances are good if you're reading this that you're the kind of person we're looking for. If you join Scribd now, you'll have the real startup experience: you'll design the product (not only implement it) and work in a tiny group that accomplishes big things.

Send us an email to hackers@scribd.com and we can talk more about it. Or check out our jobs page just for news.yc readers here: http://www.scribd.com/static/newsyc

Thanks,

Tikhon
Major Relaunch for Ask - "Ask3D"
Get out when:

- you have no more passion (go find a more interesting project)
- you run out of money (go work for a few months and save up some seed capital, and find a more interesting project)
- you become seriously unbalanced (emotionally, spiritually) for prolonged period of time (say, 1year).
- you have serious health problems
I don't think users are being unnecessarily critical when they point out that Guy should have put the money he spent in development towards marketing (which includes advertising).

Guy's own blog proves that would have been his best course of action--as the publicity he got was free and would have been so regardless of what language he used or who created his logo.
Whenever your friends and family start trying to avoid the subject of your startup in conversations, it's time to quit.
Good article, and even better if you link to the original: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/03/12/5-ways-to-stop-being-late/
Or qraggle.com?
This is a really cool article about the "behind the scenes" workings of the Google search algorithms.
yeah, the intro/failed kumbaya was excruciating. but the rest (ok, i only watched about a third of it) was well delivered, and pretty damn compelling.
True. I heard 25 from someone I trust more than Mike Arrington.
Do you think that investors tell new users to spend the most they can on lawyers and incorporation fees at the outset simply to get them to focus on one idea and also feel a money crunch? Steve Pavlina says the only thing you NEED to start a business is an $8 domain name. He suggests entrepreneurs to get one of those free for 6 month web hosting plans.
Not to take away from positive aspects of YC that surely also merit attention, but when your (Paul Graham's) incubator-like program get mentioned in every single blog post and newspaper article about any of your companies, which leads to more mentions, that is viral marketing at its best.

Is that why it is called Y-Combinator (recursive/viral functionality is built-in?)
Interesting. Rock on!!!
Teenwag was launched with $1.2 million dollars http://teenwag.com
Alex valerio elcayerito3 on Teenwag.com last signed in about 11 hours ago
Allie Dimeco rosalina on Teenwag.com last signed in about 30 minutes ago
Fastest growing social network you probably never heard of!
A lot of hormones start flowing when doing exercise. I used to go burn myself running for a kilometer right before my exams.
As stereotypical as it may sound: family? I think women are not as much under pressure to succeed as men are. There tends to always be an 'easy' way out, which is to have children and stay at home.
Goodbye Yahooligans, Hello Quintura Kids
The Top 100 Alt Search Engines, June 2007
Programming in Java? You must be joking!
Open Source Web OS reaches version 1.0
Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors
There is something kinda funny about the numbers. I would expect to see more like 30-30-30 for founders, with 10 options pool. Maybe these are post-dilution numbers.
Insecurity is Ruby on Rails Best Practice
After 2 years, if growth is linear instead of exponential and you haven't figured out a business model not exacty where this product is going. Basically. :).
Yahoo: The Web's Future Is Not In Search
Yes, but "not working" might be difficult to gauge if it's something that grows according to a curve. You might risk bailing out before the inflection point.
Give your web app international appeal - Howto make your app multilingual easily
For a guy earning $20.000 a year, it may be a waste of money, but for someone at Kawasakis income level, it is a more than acceptable risk. He does not need to do much, and he has created a very popular site, established his name, and generated a ton of buzz.

This is a marketing guy, and he pulled off a brilliant marketing coup. Don't confuse that with starting a mom and pops store.

You guys are soooo thinking within the box. Think laterally, even in business.
The Next Web Summary
If I wanted volumes of information I know where to find it. This is news.yc. I'm hoping for quality, not quantity, and if that means a 70% fall in submissions, who cares?

Besides, having the ability to attach a comment to the URL does't mandate putting anything in it. It's suggestive to the submitter that they should make the effort though else their submission might not compare well against those that do.

And if a submitter thinks "Oh, this article isn't really good enough to spend my time on summarising" then that's a good test of whether they should inflict it on the rest of us in the first place.

Rant over. :-)
I may add this for questions, but for submissions I think it's good to make the submitter try to make the title do the work.

Gives you a denser frontpage too: reddit vs digg.
There are two reasons you might give up: the project or the people.

Most projects have some good idea buried within them. Often instead of giving up you can figure out what the good idea is, and refocus on that. But there are cases where you should give up on an idea: for example, when some external change has made it obsolete.

It's harder to say when to give up on the people. Probably some people are not meant to be startup founders-- either because they lack energy, or because they're hopelessly impractical, or because their minds are more suited to other work. It's hard to judge this for oneself. Sometimes it's even hard for me as a neutral observer with a lot of practice to judge.

In practice most dying startups get garbage-collected by money constraints. If you can't convince customers or investors to give you money, eventually you have to give up and get a job. It may be that test is the best we can hope for.
Some startups spend $12k on a fancy conference room table. That's real waste.

Most programmers could have created Truemors for $0 over a weekend. What options does Guy have if he wants a similar ability?
Launch your own startup for $12k ...if you are Guy Kawasaki
How about telling the submitter that on the submissions page? (Along with a few other choice things, e.g. there's a Feature Requests thread.)

I agree a good title is important, and a denser front page is good too, but that doesn't rule out an accompanying summary; it just isn't shown on the front page. The summary can still get shown at the top of the thread. And it's a real boon to those reading through RSS.
Summary: tells you how to use GNU gettext with PHP, part 1 of ???. (Hopefully, your web framework does some of this tedium for you.)
My problem isn't really with the amount of money he spent or the idea, it's mainly with his conclusions.

"For not a whole lot of money and time you can get something out there and see if it works."

This has been true for some time, and anyone with any technical inclination whatsoever has already figured that out. However, it doesn't mean his other conclusion is true:

"One thing is for sure: no entrepreneur can tell me that he needs $1 million, four programmers, and six months to launch this kind of company."

The reason it was that cheap and took that little manpower to build was because the idea was so simple and fairly derivative. It's basically Digg for rumors. Hey, it might work and a lot of people might use it, but you won't find many ideas that can be built off of a Wordpress installation, even though Pligg would've been a better choice as the linked article states. If your idea amounts to a list of things that people vote on, then yes, it will take very little time to build. There just aren't that many groundbreaking concepts that fit into that mold. I guess it depends what he means by "this kind of company", although there aren't many definitions that would render his conclusion valid. The vast majority of ideas will take a couple of months and a few programmers to put together, although he's right about the $1 million.
Apple-II flyer from 1977
I don't think he did this as a serious startup. I think he did it to find out what the base cost of a web startup is. $12k is pretty cheap for a VC to learn that.

The only catch is, he may have learned less than he realizes. What he's learned is what it takes to make a prototype. Most of the work comes after that.
Should You Raise Venture Capital For Your Startup?
TechCrunch notes that the Apple-II went on sale 30 years ago today. Their source is Wired. Wired's source is apple2history.org.
How other businesses make money: from a cab driver ($75,000/year) to a publisher ($2.3 billion/year)
Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
Lala takes a bite at Apple
Facebook Follows Up to Viral Growth with Official Announcement
The Future of the Interview
Lawyer ratings site not without objections
Google Desktop vulnerable to attack
Microsoft teams with Linux distributor Xandros
The copyright buzz from the 'Electric Slide'
Google, Salesforce.com to partner on Web site
Competing as Software Goes to Web (Apple vs. Microsoft - trying to save the PC OS)
Someone took the Big Idea that I was passionate about. Now what?
Interesting, if not entirely new. I don't see anything RoR-specific in that problem, though.
Users is the wrong number. How many happy contributors do you have?
Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0
10 ways to procrastinate and still be productive
I'm posting a link to my own blog because I wrote the post intending it to be tongue in cheek. Much to my surprise (and amusement) over 50 people have bookmarked it on Del.icio.us.
I'm surprised adsense doesn't offer this. It must be quite common for a web app. to be showing a page to many different users, but for it to know particular information about each user. It really needs to be able to pass that onto adsense.
You could probably still do it. These guys aren't so far along that they're unbeatable. Just look for a chink in their armor. What's missing or broken in the way they're doing it?
Immigrant Startups Continue to Grow
Reminds me of Getting Things Done...I should really finish that book ;)
What your Startup Company Boss Really Wants from You
_You know, this kind of joke seems to rile Java apologists to no end_

I've really never known a Java programmer to be riled by any joke. I've never known any Java "apologists" at all, though they probably exist. Oh, well. That just highlights one of the good things about using Java or Windows: You are generally _not_ an unreasoning fanatic. Try criticizing ANY OBSCURE LANGUAGE...THEN you will rile people:

http://programming.reddit.com/info/1vo0v/comments/c1volq

Look at those downmods. I point out something perfectly true (ie, that unpopular language fans typically overrepresent the importance of minutiae) and get downmodded into oblivion.
I confess: I could never really quite "get" Java. I always felt like it was pushed down everybody's throat by Sun on a wave of everybody's obsession with hating Microsoft. Write once, run everywhere! actually always meant run NOT on Windows. At my school they switched from Pascal to Java in less than 2 years after it came out.

But putting all this religious crap aside, and ignoring libraries for a second, I could never quite see the appeal of coding in a language of expressive power just little higher than C++ yet so severely crippled comparing to the latter. Java and Visual Basic invited ex-taxi drivers into the industry, making interviewing process very exhausting and time consuming activity. And, most importantly, Java programmers have always seemed... well... unhappy with their jobs to me. Perhaps due to Java's dominance in "boring" sector of "Enterprise wonders". ("Office Space" comes to mind)

And, by the way, when was the last time you saw "Loading C++" message on your cell phone? :-)

I guess I shouldn't have said this. I successfully managed to dodge Java ever since I graduated and that makes me a non-insider :)
That's funny - I thought this was my blog post. I covered the same question a week ago -

http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/5/18/someone-already-thought-of-my-idea-_-now-what/10156/view.aspx