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Important numbers.

" To date, Yo has had over 2 million installs of the app and currently has over 2,000 developers who have started working with the API. "

Congrats! PH is a very good growth hacking case study for entrepreneurs.

Quote from the about page (http://www.ycombinator.com/about/) ...

"At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers."

YC's goal is to help startups take first baby steps and raise money on a larger scale.

So most important stat is what % of companies do that. Based on your data it seems (76 + XYZ) out of 716 where XYZ is companies out of 121 exits who raised more money prior to exit.

It'd be interesting to know based on cohort (batch) analysis if YC is getting better in achieving its goal or not.

It'd also be interesting to know where YC stands on this compared to other comparable accelerators/incubators.

How much time Quora founders are going to spend at YC headquarter during the program ?

Dividend amount is usually based on extra cash generated by a company. However, lower margin does not directly translate to less cash generated by the company.

This might impact startup fundraising trajectory. Investors may prefer to wait out for 3 weeks if VC partner's investment is a strong enough signal for them.

With billion dollar valuations these are not startups rather corporate giants.

No, it does not mean only build for iOS onwards.

It means give primary focus to iOS7 in terms of performance, UI, design idioms, usage of underlying technologies etc….

It means don't build apps targeting prior iOS and just reply upon backward compatibility of iOS7. Use iOS7 as your main target OS.

Any reference to support your claim that LLVM bit code is quite large ?

You need both to add value. How would a technology that is not used by anyone add value ? Note that, marketing is not just advertising.

Your response seems to assume that she has earned MBA, but she has not. http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesupan

In 90s, technical founders were able to launch startups successfully if they were technically strong. Getting designer was not top priority at the time. So everyone focused on having strong technical teams.

Eventually, people figured out that having someone with design skills early on your team can provide huge competitive advantage to your startup against tech only competitors. And today designer's role is very prominent in startup world.

Now all startups have technical and designing strengths on their team from day one, what do you need to stay one step ahead of the crowd ?

I have a feeling that code-wizard + design-guru team won't be good enough in near future.

Good for you. Google Tells Court You Cannot Expect Privacy When Sending Messages to Gmail http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/google-tells-cou...

People do care about privacy if they are given fair choice.

When choices are between

1) FREE (in small print, give up privacy) vs 2) Pay $X (and protect privacy)

FREE overwhelmingly influences the choice.

However, if you find a market where all competitor directly charge comparable prices to consumers for the product and choices are

A) Pay $x and enjoy the product vs B) Pay $x, give up privacy and enjoy the product as well ads

then it'd be interesting if option B) would gain significant traction.

... and you think Android phone makers are not in mad rush to get a finger print sensor as early as possible ?

Trick is to find a balance in the process so that author of an App is legally identifiable. This is to avoid episodes like "Fake Angry Bird App" and "Fake Mobile Banking App".

IMO, when I download ETrade App on my smartphone, it is good to know that someone checked that it was submitted by someone who is from ETrade really. If the process is rigorous for E*Trade, so be it. But as an end user I'd prefer it to be that way instead of making it _my_ responsible to verify before installing the app.

Now a days, compiler writers sees zero reason to write inline assembly.

First of all, it throws a wrench in high level optimizer's analysis. Plus, compilers and processors are getting smarter day by day while inline assembly in shipping code becomes more and more untouchable everyday.

Points 7,8,9,10,11 are not about web vs. app. They could be applicable to "old website design" vs. "new website design" story also.

Until you reveal your identity, you're wasting everyone's time.

If you don't want to get drowned by your feed then you want to keep an eye on http://signups.simplrinc.com

Is now the time to hire MBAs ? http://bhorowitz.com/2012/05/18/is-now-the-time-to-hire-mbas...

Is this a comment or rant ?

Their products are rapidly replacing household item PC. People used to buy PCs at regular intervals anyway.

You have to compare with respect to existing install base. New product sells in percentage compared to existing user bade is more interesting matrix.

The title is misleading. It should read :

"Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold <b> in 3rd quarter of 2012 </b>"

... but somebody can out-execute you on your own idea.

From the article quoted above ...

"... Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. Everyone in the Valley wanted a piece of it. So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if parc would “open its kimono.” ... "

I don't think either party had any delusion about the purpose of the "meeting".

How do you know it has crossed slowness threshold to prompt restart ?

I check HN couple of times a day and I have not felt any performance difference.

Isn't labeling a marketer as "growth hacker - someone focused on creating scalable growth by manipulating and measuring each aspect of the customer funnel" is same as labeling a programmer as "bug squasher - someone focused on establishing a project with consistently very low open bugs reports by manipulating and measuring each aspect of software quality control" ?