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What it feels like to have your startup torn apart by 90 Harvard MBAs

Posted by luxiou on Thursday October 31, 2013 @05:22PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/31/what-it-feels-like-to-have-your-startup-torn-apart-by-90-harvard-mbas/

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Re:Twitter acquires Crashlytics on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @04:57AM (#5133164)

crittercism has prevented us from losing about $150K worth of users.

Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First

Posted by luxiou on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:06PM
from the fastcompany.com dept.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001334/want-disrupt-industry-try-actually-working-it-first#full

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Re:How Y Combinator's powerful alumni network operates on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @01:28AM (#3588938)

It's true, I spent hundreds of hours healing Anson's suicidal gnome warlock in WoW before we ever started working together.

Re:CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards on Thursday February 18, 2010 @08:03PM (#1135857)

Congrats guys! I might use my borders card this weekend :)

Re:Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08) on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @09:35PM (#135658)

This is awesome.

Re:Hacker Music? on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @01:40AM (#61960)

http://anywhere.fm/luxiou/top_trance

A mix of old school and some new school melodic trance :o

Re:How did you meet your YC app team? on Thursday September 20, 2007 @02:46AM (#57281)

I followed him around and healed him in WoW.

Re:Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education on Thursday August 23, 2007 @09:04PM (#45946)

Fall '03, probably one of the most useful (and brutal) courses I took. MIT's CS program leans a bit on the the theoretical side, so classes like this serve up a good dose of reality.

Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07) on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @11:45AM (#40095)

This is a fine piece of flash/flex engineering -- congrats guys!

Re:The Importance of Saying "Oops" on Sunday August 05, 2007 @05:09PM (#39613)

Great article. A good % of the things I regret are situations where I wasted time/energy defending something I knew to be wrong, simply to hide the fact that I was wrong.

Re:[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anyw... on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:45PM (#39090)

We've re-enabled using the client uploaders to bulk-upload music.

Re:[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anyw... on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:18AM (#39027)

Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone! We've had a few rough patches over the past 12 hours, but we're up and running again (special thanks to the Dropbox team for their help). As a random aside, it turns out we're getting far more traffic from del.icio.us than TC right now.

Re:How to learn how to program well on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @08:37PM (#36755)

I would take the first job. It will likely put you in more "if I don't figure this out, nobody else will, and we'll be completely screwed" type situations, and those can be great motivators for doing/learning things you never would have bothered with otherwise.

Re:Summer YC startup launches: Versionate's Wiki End Run Around Google... on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @06:21PM (#33743)

sweet, congrats guys! -- who's on pager duty? ;)

Re:What are you doing about health insurance? on Monday June 25, 2007 @03:12PM (#30583)

If you live in one of the qualifying states (CA is included), http://www.tonikhealth.com has fairly reasonable quotes for "catastrophic" insurance -- $77/mo for their base plan.