Ask HN: Is Y Combinator's office empty?
I went there a few day ago, no one's there... When do people usually show up?
Alex-Galapagos
Re:Ask HN: Is Y Combinator's office empty?
on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @01:10PM (#8109501)
Well, we're coming out of state for networking and wanted to check with YCombinator , maybe they can recommend an adviser.
Re:Ask HN: Is Y Combinator's office empty?
on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @01:06PM (#8109466)
it was Monday
Ask HN: Looking for startup advisor, any suggestions?
We're going to launch Alpha soon. Looking for advisor to make intros to investors/big startups CEOs to test our alpha. Those who've been there, done that, any suggestions who can be a good candidate? We're giving equity to the right advisor/s.
Re:Ask HN: How would you invest your money in 2014?
on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:01AM (#8079912)
I put it all in my startup
Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor
on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:00AM (#8079908)
As one of they guys on here (http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4739669.html) noticed, it's funny that the government organization is using email for contact: [email protected] . Yandex is a free service like Yahoo! in US. Let's put it this way, FSB has its own hacker group (called "Otdel K", you can read about it here:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%EF%F0%E0%E2%EB%E5%ED%E8%E5_...
Use Translator since there's no English version)
and wouldn't need to publish this kind of ad publicly.
Re:Ask HN: How to split equity?
on Thursday July 24, 2014 @10:34AM (#8079759)
it all depends what is he contributing.. You said that you believe "he can contribute a lot in many areas that need to be covered in order to build a succesful app company", but what is it exactly? Who's coding the app? You've already done first app, if he's contributing to marketing of the first app then he can get less than 30% of profits from that app. If you've already built second one, the same thing. If he's building the second app with you and brings more skill you might consider splitting evenly just for the second app, you don't have to give away equity within the company, you can make an agreement to split profits just for the second app, since he can decide to leave.
Re:Startup negotiation – first engineer hire
on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @04:23PM (#8076751)
Do you mind providing that advisor's name? We're looking for an advisor right now. You can pm me @ [email protected]
Re:What to do after a patent is discovered?
on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @04:18PM (#8076722)
You need to get a pattern attorney and ask. Basically if you word it differently and describe it differently then it's a different product
Re:NDA with contractors
on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @01:10PM (#8070134)
Did you require state issued ID? I mean if you work with contractors remotely
Re:How do you name your applications?
on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @01:08PM (#8070116)
I put a lot of effort naming mine.. Usually starts with what is behind the app's concept and then I play around with words
NDA with contractors
What's your practice signing NDAs with contractors that do work for your startup as a developer, 1.do you make them notarize the NDA; 2.do you require their state issued ID 3. neither
Re:5 mos. development already paid for what would you do with it?
on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:31PM (#8066136)
emailed you
Re:Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the ...
on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:12PM (#8066037)
bww, how did you get there initially? What app was it?
Re:Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:04PM (#8065983)
Ripple is a rip-off. You buy a gift card and the money stays there..
Wanted to share this article since it shows most recent trends
App data
Re:Be aware of phishing at airbnb
on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:46AM (#8063900)
sorry to hear about it.. Thank you for letting us know
Re:I Don't Know Swift
on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:26AM (#8063801)
We learned Swift right after it came out , then we realized that it's just not mature enough and stopped our project
Re:The Value of Acquisition
on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:24AM (#8063784)
you can start with your true goals right away, in Elon's example he wouldn't be able to start building Spaceships without having billions on dollars in his pocket... If the true goal/passion requires less capital and you have it available then go for it right away
Re:Postmates earned 400% more on a delivery than the delivery guy
on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:19AM (#8062691)
how do you know that he only got $5?Maybe part of $19 goes to him as well
Re:Ask HN: Should i quit?
on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:17AM (#8062685)
do it while you're working..
Re:Ask HN: On how many side-projects you manage to work at the same time?
on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:09AM (#8062675)
one
Re:The Value of Acquisition
on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:09AM (#8062673)
It seems like Elon Musk did exactly what you just described.. He sold his first 2 startups and now he's real passionate about things he loves: physics and anything that has to do with it (space, cars etc) . Once there's unlimited resource it's easy to do things you want
Re:I Don't Know Swift
on Monday July 21, 2014 @01:55AM (#8062653)
Swift isn't stable yet.. You can't do big projects in it.. We did some stuff in Swift..but it's not something that can be scaled as of right now