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ryanb

1,980 karma · joined March 24, 2008

GP @ Orange Collective (YC alumni fund)

Also, RankScience (W17), 7Cups (S13), Tutorspree (W11), SeatGeek

https://www.orangecollective.vc

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ryanb··on New York is the greatest... and I don’t care what Antonio Garcia-Martinez says
The guy was an investment banker who had some sort of existential crisis when he realized that he wanted to work for a startup.

Let's get over it.

ryanb··on New York governor approves short-term apartment rental ban in NYC
I wonder if apartments on the Jersey side of the Hudson (Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken) are now going to jump in price on airbnb.
ryanb··on Racing to Fill Gaps Left by Google
why?
ryanb··on [dead]
Bogus.
ryanb··on My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel
I enjoy reading Max's posts, but find it odd how secretive he is about what his actual business is.
ryanb··on Ask HN: Recommend good PSD to HTML service
ebizzsol.com based in Bangladesh does good work for super cheap. ($75/psd)
ryanb··on Do people subscribe to blogs less now? My blog's numbers.
I personally no longer use RSS.
ryanb··on Ask HN: Help us seed NewsTilt (YC 2010) with thoughtful comments.
The design bothers me a bit, actually. It feels amateurish.
ryanb··on Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
"We've raised too much money - no turning back!"
ryanb··on Everyone I spoke with loved the idea...
Correct. I remember 28k being the norm around then.
ryanb··on NewsTilt is at the initial press release stage... good luck, guys
http://www.newstilt.com/ brings me to an App failed to start/Ruby error page.
ryanb··on [dead]
Hulu is promoting itself on YouTube.. interesting.
ryanb··on RIM buys QNX (link to actual announcement, not what Techcruch made up)
I remember running a QNX OS demo in the late 90's or early 00's that ran live off a floppy disk.. (with full GUI and everything) this was a big deal at the time. I was amazed.
ryanb··on IPad, the destroyer
Somehow I don't think it was meant to be satire, but I agree with you.
ryanb··on Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
For how much?
ryanb··on Ask HN: Review my site, 99audit
I'd try and explain more clearly what you guys do right on the homepage. I had to click around a bit before I got it.

Aesthetically, you could also use a more modern-looking logo.

ryanb··on Metalab's Andrew Wilkinson responds again: (The Great Mozilla Debacle)
Metalab should have solved this through private channels instead of in front of everyone.
ryanb··on Mahalo's disappearing noindex tags
I think this whole thing would have blown over if not for Jason's incredible ego and his "I can do whatever I want" response to the whole issue. Pissing off the geeks = bad idea.
ryanb··on Browsarity (YC W10) Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To Charity
I'm quite surprised that this idea got YC funding. They must have a great team.
ryanb··on My Startup (WindyCitizen) named one of Chicago's New Essentials
The traffic growth is impressive. How did you first start getting traction? What methods did you use to promote the site early on?
ryanb··on Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week
I think people may have assumed Mixergy was a philanthropic service to the entrepreneurial community by Andrew, which is why some here seem quite upset about this decision..

I don't necessarily think instituting a pay wall for older videos is a bad idea.. I'd love to see Andrew post some stats for his community about how successful this decision is/was when the dust settles a bit.

ryanb··on SAP serenely promises to be less bad
I spent a year+ working in corporate finance after college at a Fortune 500 company, and at the entry-level, this involved quite a bit of cost accounting/balance sheet work so I became quite familiar with SAP and its intricacies.

In my experience: SAP is painfully slow, incredibly non-intuitive, and the server inevitably crashes during every month-end close or year-end close with high usage.. so company wide everyone could be locked out of SAP for hours during the most critical times.

ryanb··on Announcing Duck It, a new way to search
I've noticed that the increased width can make it a little awkward to read, too
ryanb··on [dead]
Has anyone else tried the 250 year anniversary edition Guinness? They've had it out for a few months now, it's quite different and supposedly closer to what Guinness was originally like. Pretty good.
ryanb··on TechCrunch50 Feed
it says off air - is this actually going live at some point?
ryanb··on Techcrunch misleading about dangers of using "tweet" in names
TC intentionally didn't reveal their source because it would have undermined the outlandish assertion they wanted to make. As always, TC tried their best to make a story out of nothing.. Link bait.
ryanb··on Review my project: tweethegame | stream the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup on twitter
ah i didnt know about this. very slick. and you got ESPN involved?
ryanb··on Review my project: tweethegame | stream the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup on twitter
thanks. I didn't know about the AT&T site. it's very similar, and agreed- it could definitely use some design help.
ryanb··on Review my project: tweethegame | stream the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup on twitter
worth noting: tweetthegame.com was taken
ryanb··on A brazen ripoff of Twitvid
Google "twitvid" and http://twitvid.in ranks first, ahead of .io and .com. So there's a third one now, I guess.. I should make one.
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