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Re:Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
on Monday January 30, 2012 @02:57PM (#3530383)
Hey, actually you can try our implementation at http://iDoneThis.com (author of the post here). We have a team thing we're rolling out and this post was in part to gauge interest.
Re:YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
on Saturday January 28, 2012 @03:25PM (#3523126)
I remember when Leaky (YC S11) launched, its design was quite obviously taken from Square, but they put the notice: "All design credit goes to Square. We based our design on their home page until we can hire a designer of our own." http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-...
Chris Hughes's Startup Jumo ‘Acquired’ for $0 and a Graceful Exit
Re:Here's why Pinterest has the best sign-up process on the web
on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:28PM (#2887539)
The whole "exclusive" web is played out. You are not special because you have access to a website.
The FCC’s Open Source Stance and the Case of the Vanishing Blog Post
Re:Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes
on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:26PM (#2871075)
Munch is used in various ways to describe oral sex, e.g., "carpet muncher", which refers to "eating out" a girl.
Re:How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism
on Sunday July 24, 2011 @12:43PM (#2799717)
True, nevertheless, there's a big difference between being able to solve a problem ex ante and being able to explain a solution ex post.
Quantified Self on a Budget
Re:EggCartel is a hyper-local Craigslist
on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:58PM (#2707299)
i don't know if i agree with this. I see your point, and it's valid. However, living in NYC I became accustomed to getting anything I wanted within a 5 block radius. Or at least, if you can get it within a 5 block radius, the convenience factor is so so much greater than going crosstown or something and/or hiring a mover.
Re:Ask HN: Payroll Tax Hacks
on Monday June 27, 2011 @06:19PM (#2703227)
this sounds useful. Thanks! I'll look into it.
Re:SearchYC is shutting down
on Monday June 27, 2011 @03:30PM (#2702644)
Thank you for running searchyc all of these years. It was a tremendously useful service.
Ask HN: Payroll Tax Hacks
Hi there, does anyone out there have payroll tax hacks? C-Corp with only 3 founders, no other employees, and a small amount of money invested (less than $100k). We want to pay ourselves, and that's about it.Does anyone have any payroll tax hacks? One (uneducated) thought I had was to not pay salary but use company money to pay for various expenses like dinner at the office. I read somewhere...
Re:Ten apps is all I need
on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @06:10PM (#2685573)
I agree -- and not just an ecosystem, but competition. Apple's native apps have to be up to snuff because of pressure from the store. Those few apps that rise to the top did so in part from the mechanism of competition.
Scoble on What Makes a Great Startup Pitch
Pitching to Bob Scoble at a Rest Stop
Ask HN: Why the jealous negativity at HN?
I'd like to preface this with two things. 1. I ask this question in all legitimacy. 2. I am sure that there are many exceptions to this rule... There are definitely many great, helpful members around HN. Perhaps I'm speaking only about a vocal minority.But why is there so much pettiness, jealousy, and negativity in HN??? You know exactly what I'm talking about. Someone will post about a...
Use good copywriting to reduce customer support load
600 to 6,000 Users in a Month
Re:Ask HN: Does YC Reserve the Right to Participate in Future Rounds?
on Sunday May 15, 2011 @06:07PM (#2550908)
Got it. Thank you.
Ask HN: Does YC Reserve the Right to Participate in Future Rounds?
On this page, http://ycombinator.com/about.html, it says: "We try to interfere as little as possible in the startups we fund. We don't want board seats, rights to participate in future rounds, vetoes over strategic decisions, or any of the other powers investors sometimes require."I just pulled up the YC Series AA docs, which includes the following clause in the termsheet under "Investor...