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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Fixed (YC S14) Parking Ticket Service Gets Blocked in San Francisco, Oakland and LA

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blog.getfixed.me 11y ago

How our wait list grew to 30,000+ users – Fixed (YC S14)

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blogs.wsj.com 15y ago

$65 billion valuation for myspace...

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djburdick.com 15y ago

Why you need to do a hackathon

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: review my startup ironode.com (simple/automated security testing)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: website security app (sanity check)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: review startup uptimerobot.com (free uptime checking)

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djburdick.com 15y ago

1 habit of highly effective people

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: how do you decide when to quit, stick or pivot

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djburdick.com 15y ago

Why music subscription models don't work (mog, rdio, rhapsody)

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djburdick.com 15y ago

Dealing with startup stress

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finance.yahoo.com 15y ago

Meet The YouTube Stars Making $100,000 Plus Per Year

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david.ulevitch.com 15y ago

NY Times opendns video (simple and funny explanation)

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www.mailchimp.com 15y ago

Email Marketing Benchmarks by Industry (mailchimp data)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: is blogging worth it for startup founders?

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i.imgur.com 16y ago

Google US vs Google India

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beta.isound.com 16y ago

Please review the iSound.com beta - (Pandora for new music)

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: freemium services - are multiple subscription options better?

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techcrunch.com 16y ago

A Look Behind The ‘Words With Friends’ iPhone Gaming Phenomenon

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hacksushi.com 16y ago

Some popular/cool sites and the languages they use

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hacksushi.com 17y ago

Is PHP or Ruby on Rails better? How to pick a language/framework

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hacksushi.com 17y ago

Will your application scale?

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hacksushi.com 17y ago

Sync contacts/calendar/tasks with linux and the iphone

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hacksushi.com 17y ago

WTF do I click on? (site usability testing)

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hacksushi.com 17y ago

Don't pitch VCs too early

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1. A mvp shouldn't take 8 months. You need to launch faster and you need to talk to your customers before, during and always. 2. TC doesn't matter much. I've received 2 posts and about 4000 visits for each post and only a handful of real users from those visits - you need a good product. 3. The initial idea doesn't matter that much. You probably won't start with the best idea. Iterate, iterate, iterate to the best product and idea.

It's not easy. Good luck!! Hope you stick with it.

I agree. Inspiration is a big factor. I have hard numbers based on 50K users of where I think this can go; I just struggle with not finishing things.

Good luck with your deal! Pandora took 10 years to be where it is, so it's obviously the right thing to do in some cases.

be careful trying to firesale assets. we spent 9 months selling our assets and the price we got and time involved was NOT worth it. we should've just walked and shut everything down as quickly as possible.

Anyone want to argue why you should NOT blog? I'm debating starting to blog, but as a startup founder I'd rather put every minute into improving my company - or is writing a blog going to improve my company? Thoughts?