Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by patio11 on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @01:15PM (#1115554)

Worth the hour of your time. One of many interesting tidbits was what personality traits predict success in YC founders (positive: determination, raw intelligence, and ability to sell $30,000 of Obama-branded cereal boxes, negative: meek body language).

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by fleaflicker on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @01:20PM (#1115568)

not to mention that the reddits won jessica over by being "cute"

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by kn0thing on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @01:38PM (#1115610)

I wanted to read these comments before watching the interview... big mistake.

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by kn0thing on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @04:49PM (#1116127)

OK, I'm listening to the interview. And confirming that everyone now knows about "the muffins."

Andrew, I love what you're doing at Mixergy, but you weren't giving enough credit to Steve. I hope I didn't say in our interview that there was something in me that made YC call us back or something in me that they saw. If I did (sorry, it's late here and I'm too lazy to relisten to our interview) I'm taking this comment field to correct myself and stress that for whatever reason we got called back (evidently it's a muffin-ness thing, that is, who we were - not our idea) was at the very least because of Steve and me and at most because of Steve alone.

Keep in mind, I was the only non-technical co-founder during that first round of YC. If only I (or me and my clone) had applied to YC, I can guarantee I/we wouldn't have even gotten invited for an interview.

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by kn0thing on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @06:55PM (#1116458)

edit for clarity:

>[...] was either because of Steve and me OR because of Steve alone.

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by gcheong on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @01:37PM (#1115606)

The muffins!

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Re:Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 start... by alanthonyc on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @07:31PM (#1116520)

Wimps need not apply.

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