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1.		Dilbert on Venture Capital (troyangrignon.com)
		11 points by kf on July 4, 2007 \| 2 comments
2.		Top 8 'New to the Valley Survival Tips' (jtame05.wordpress.com)
		9 points by jmtame on July 4, 2007 \| 8 comments
3.		Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs (smashingmagazine.com)
		8 points by dawie on July 4, 2007 \| 1 comment
		pg on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding It would not seem courteous, believe me. Some fraction of the people who apply to YC are nuts. If you have a web site where you offer money to people who fill out an application form, nuts apply. Are we supposed to tell them they're nuts?
5.		Blasphemy: The Case Against Ruby on Rails (alterlabs.com)
		8 points by nickb on July 4, 2007 \| 10 comments
6.		DiveIntoMark slams "Project Zero" (diveintomark.org)
		8 points by nickb on July 4, 2007 \| 3 comments
7.		Apple Developer Connection - iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone (developer.apple.com)
		7 points by brett on July 4, 2007 \| 1 comment
8.		User experience isn't just visual design (alistapart.com)
		7 points by ericwan on July 4, 2007 \| 2 comments
9.		Helma Javascript Web Application Framework (helma.org)
		6 points by iamwil on July 4, 2007
		donna on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: 10 Startup Tips (Reasons I Left a Sequoia-Based St... Really good points, thank you. I'm curious, you walked out, but do you know if the start-up ever launched?
11.		Developers cooling on Windows desktop, study finds (Shift away from Windows began two years ago, now accelerating) (news.com.com)
		6 points by gibsonf1 on July 4, 2007
12.		Let Your Customers Build Your Business (ducttapemarketing.com)
		6 points by donna on July 4, 2007 \| 4 comments
		paul on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: 10 Startup Tips (Reasons I Left a Sequoia-Based St... Nope. Also, it's not a clone in any meaningful sense.
		dhouston on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding dude, give it a rest. and read: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid_2.html yc's already given you something better than what you'd get out of a canned one-sentence response: a fantastic resource in which anyone can put up their site and get a lot of feedback, for free, from a lot of smart people. 100% of the "hey news.yc check out my site" posts i've seen, including yours, have gotten useful, actionable feedback and have consequently improved.
		js on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding What are our chances ? We are catering to a business software category and not a web solution. We are developing a product that will solve business problems and is not for general public. - JS
		menloparkbum on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding Someone should have told juwo he's nuts. He could have saved a lot of time and money.
		far33d on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding Colleges don't tell you why you didn't get in. Companies don't tell you why they never called you back after you sent in a resume. Why would you expect any more from YC?
18.		Intro to Amazon Web Services for Ruby Developers (amazonwebservices.com)
		4 points by mattjaynes on July 4, 2007
		npk on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding How advanced do prototypes have to be? For example, did loopt have a prototype? If not, how did they demonstrate their ability in embedded systems programming? If they did, did they bring in a hacked up cell phone?
		pg on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding We've funded those.
21.		How to Forecast Revenue and Growth (womenentrepreneur.com)
		4 points by donna on July 4, 2007 \| 1 comment
		staunch on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: 10 Startup Tips (Reasons I Left a Sequoia-Based St... ...why purely engineer-driven start-ups fail: no business sense. I'm not sure how you managed to draw that conclusion. His bonus point is that the CTO didn't even do work, that's hardly engineer-driven. And they had a Stanford MBA, who was apparently a drain during product development. Most successful technology startups are engineer-driven. Google is the ultimate example of just how far a couple engineers can go without any "business sense".
		pg on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding The more the better, obviously, but you don't have to build anything. We would have funded Loopt after nothing more than talking to Sam about his plans. I don't remember exactly how far they were along then. I think they may have had a simple app running on phones, but with simulated location info.
24.		Respectance Launches: "Myspace for Dead People." (techcrunch.com)
		3 points by pg on July 4, 2007
		far33d on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding A rejected YC application is much more like a trivially rejected resume than a rejected candidate who interviewed. Do you think employers have a responsibility to respond to every single resume that they get in the mail with detailed descriptions of where they can improve? Your complaints sound more like you are sour about being turned down than anything else.
26.		eBay To Craiglist: Game On With US Version Of Kijiji (techcrunch.com)
		3 points by kf on July 4, 2007 \| 2 comments
		sabhishek on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding People might ask you first if its ok to "telecommute" from India, before applying. I was not aware "asking" that may put them into "egregiously broken" category :)
		pg on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding Lately we've had a lot of people emailing us asking how to apply, so we got the w2008 application form up. Really there's no reason not to switch to the next cycle as soon as we pick the startups for the previous one. One the whole it's probably better to update the application incrementally. You'll get more attention that way; we may even suggest ideas; and we're not likely to have time to do that if you apply the day before the deadline.
		earthboundkid on July 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| on: On the Tenacity of Internet Explorer 6 I wonder. I have trouble getting my girlfriend to mute the TV during commercials. She finds them entertaining. :( I wonder if other people like "punching the monkey"? shudder
30.		Lisp:Good News Bad News How to Win Big (naggum.no)
		3 points by dbosson on July 4, 2007 \| 1 comment
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