Ask PG: What is a good size for a YC idea?

Re:Ask PG: What is a good size for a YC idea? by DanielBMarkham on Monday September 17, 2007 @06:53PM (#55938)

I was thinking what I needed was a sock puppet, or maybe a website with a name with too many vowels, like ooweblioo. I'm also considering a folksonomy of avatars, or maybe a paradigm-shifting web 3.0 application that virtualizes social dynamics in a new dimension.

Dang! That sounds great! I think I'll call the puppet Bob. Man, I'm almost there.

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Re:Ask PG: What is a good size for a YC idea? by icey on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:45PM (#58012)

Wow, it IS like 1999 all over again, isn't it?

I remember shopping for capital in '99, and we had quite a few problems getting VCs interested because we weren't asking for enough money, had a CEO who actually had 20 years C-level experience and a name that didn't start with the letter e.

About 2 years after we shuttered and sold off most of the code to various people, EMC implemented something very similar and made a few hundred million dollars off of it :/

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Re:Ask PG: What is a good size for a YC idea? by DanielBMarkham on Friday September 21, 2007 @03:25PM (#58053)

There's some similarity. Only this time, the big companies are buying up the little fish early in the game and absorbing them into operations -- which is probably a much saner thing to do than everybody betting they have the next Google.

We're seeing the beginning of "retail startups", where we can spit them out like six packs of Coke, fund them, get them bought up by Amazon or whomever. The industry really wanted to get to this point in '99. They've made a lot of progress since then.

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Re:Ask PG: What is a good size for a YC idea? by Xichekolas on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @03:30PM (#56461)

"I like the way you think kid... here is 10 million dollars!"

"By the way, can we make it 4.0? 3.0 is so 1999"

-Anonymous VC

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