Re:YC without being in YC
by aashaykumar92 on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:45PM
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I'm the jackass who downvoted you...it was by accident, I meant to upvote. I just don't have the option to go back on it, sorry.
fixed :)
Re:YC without being in YC
by aashaykumar92 on Friday May 03, 2013 @07:58PM
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Thanks! Not sure how you fixed it (or how you know its fixed) but if you're an admin, I'd love to know why anything I submit is automatically 'dead'. Email is [email protected], thanks again :)
He probably 'fixed' it by up voting the comment you accidentally down voted.
Re:YC without being in YC
by skbohra123 on Friday May 03, 2013 @11:50PM
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Probably he fixed up just by up voting.
I'm glad you brought this up--I use it as much as any other. Our iteration time for creating a fake mock-up and trying to sell it is only days. We can get through 5 tests in the time it takes to build one of them.
Re:YC without being in YC
by anandkulkarni on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:19PM
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This was probably the most important discovery I made in the startup process. Helps guarantee that you make something people want.
Would love to hear you elaborate on this...
Re:YC without being in YC
by petercooper on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:00AM
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I can't speak for Paul B but there's a great book called Ready Fire Aim by Michael Masterson that focuses on this technique that I'd recommend.
This is what I learned from YC. It was from Paul Buchheit.