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lurkageon Search War: Yahoo Opens Its Search Engine to Attack Google With An Army of Verticals

Ancient version: Gauls send swarms of untrained levies to attack Roman legion.

lurkageon On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

"I'm mostly interested in the emotional fragility of parents and wanted to see what would happen if I pointed out that logic does not back up his reaction."

= trolling

lurkageon Redeye VC: The Story of Francis Bates

Francis Bates became one of the first Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

More like he was an entrepreneur who, much earlier, happened to live in the region that became Silicon Valley.

lurkageon Go Home, Bill: It's time for a new era at Microsoft -- if only the company were ready

Woz might be a better model for most hackers. What made Bill unusual was that in addition to being a fairly good hacker, he was really into business. But while someone who cares about both is a formidable force, I don't think "pay more attention to business" is the best recipe for most hackers. For most hackers a better recipe might be "build lots of great new things."

lurkageon Ask YC: Dealing with a major event like death?

Most colleges would let you postpone finals after something like this, so you should be able to remove at least that cause of stress, if you want to. On the other hand, you may want to get them over with.

I recommend going somewhere far away for at least a week or so, to reboot your brain.

lurkageon Goodbye Amazon: Borders’ Online Store Is the New Face of E-Commerce

Ouch. I feel bad for Xconomy. They're going to be wishing they could pull this headline back.

lurkageon NYC Seed - funding tech companies in NYC

Doesn't seem to say anywhere how much they invest. How are you supposed to know if you want to apply?

lurkageon Jonathan Schwartz: A top blogger sees end to blogging

Sees end to "blogging" would be more accurate.

lurkageon I'm meeting Jeff Bezos tonight-- what should I ask him?

What does he know now that he didn't know when he started Amazon? What would he now do differently?

lurkageon Talented Web Programmer

Me too. Sixty pages of specs? That alone is enough to destroy them.

lurkageon One Response to Rejection

You will be more likely to get funding from angels if you have launched and can show some sort of growth. So if you can get to launch on the money you have, do that. Then find angels by asking acquaintances who work for startups to introduce you to their angel investors. They will do it if they think highly of your product.