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wave··on AT&T Free Wi-Fi For Everyone
The answer is simple, AT&T is a potential sponsor of their site.
wave··on Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
Regardless of the reason, if something doesn’t work for you, you need to identify the root cause of the problem and don’t be too arrogant to move forward even if it questions your core beliefs
wave··on Would you have answered this job ad?
It seems some replied back saying "commerce on the Internet will never work, because people prefer to buy things in stores".

(click on "Show quoted text") http://tinyurl.com/52gdhr

wave··on Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?
What is going on with Business Week? I have to click five times to read the whole article and more than half of the page is crammed with ads and links.
wave··on Ask YC: Anything better than Google notebook out there?
If you have mobile phone with full keyboard, it not a bad idea to keep your notes there. You have your phone with you all the time, whenever you come up with something to write about, you don't even need a computer.
wave··on Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL
Congratulations.

how does the acquisition process initially start?

wave··on Game Changing Android Application
You can read interview with them:

http://tinyurl.com/4p4tg2

In other note: notice the robotic dinosaur in middle bottom of the video (30sec)

wave··on 9 People You Meet at Y Combinator (and what you can learn from them)
The article doesn't contain about what you can learn from them. I don't know if I like the name calling.
wave··on Ask YC: Feedback on startup: shouteureka.com
Good job. It looks nice and useful.

suggestion: remove "Email us at info at conceptual-clarity dot com" at the bottom of your website. It gives your site unprofessional look. Replace it with a form.

wave··on Startup School videos on Omnisio, synchronized with slides and questions
While watching videos on Omnisio, I found the pop-up comments to be annoying. Maybe the comments should be off by default or let people vote up/down the comments so that you can remove the negative comments
wave··on Ncache: a web cache system base on nginx. faster and more efficient than squid
Where is the evidence that it is "faster and more efficient than squid"?
wave··on [dead]
Howard Aiken said "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." I have a similar feeling when I'm trying to convince VCs to invest in startups Y Combinator has funded. They're terrified of really novel ideas, unless the founders are good enough salesmen to compensate."

http://paulgraham.com/googles.html

TheFunded Founder Gives Startups Some Advice:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/03/thefunded-founder-gives...

wave··on I got techcrunched!
suggestion: you actual logo size is 600x150, but you are shrinking it into 500x125, as a result, the quality is degraded. You logo looks much better in actual size: http://www.myplaylist.biz/i/myplaylist.jpg
wave··on I got techcrunched!
Keep us updated with the traffic effect from the TechCrunch mention.
wave··on Ask: ERP/CRM software for small businesses
Take a look at the following two solutions:

Compiere is open-source system of software applications that provides ERP, CRM, SCM for the small and medium-size enterprise. Versions are available for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac.

Openbravo is a web based ERP for small to median sized business. It's function include finance, supply chain, project management, manufacturing

wave··on Ustream.TV Takes $11.1 Million Series A
What does a Series A funding exactly mean? Is it the first funding after a seed money?
wave··on Solicit YC
Disqus is looking for interns. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158091
wave··on The clock is ticking: Today is the last day to apply to YC
I have submitted the application. I can't wait until the 9th to hear back from them.
wave··on Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders
JohnN, at what moment did you realize that you were not going to continue with your startup? What was the tipping point?
wave··on Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)
The middle box where you have references to Calendar, Easy Photos, Member Directory and Group Blog should be clickable to sample pages. People want to see sample pages before creating their own websites.

It would be great if you let people create websites without having to signup. Once they are ready to save then you can ask them to signup.

wave··on How to move your domains off GoDaddy
It is hard to believe the author because he uses a referral id in his link to Namecheap without a disclosure: "www.namecheap.com/?aid=88&rid=136544"

Having saying that, I don't know if Namecheap is better or worse than Godaddy.

wave··on Ask News.YC: What are the most useful things Y Combinator provides its startups?
SwellJoe, I checked your website and I like your web server administration tool. I think you need to partner with web hosting companies. I like to see http://slicehost.com offering this tool for their cutomers.
wave··on Startup School Wiki
Thanks for creating the wiki. Is there any plan to actually record this year’s event and add the video into this wiki?
wave··on Computer vs. Realtor: Computer Wins. Twice.
When I bought my house, I knew the area I want to live in. I searched for homes using the various websites (realtor.com, craigslist.com ...) I got comparable homes using Zillow. I didn’t really see a need for an agent, but once I found a house myself and ready to buy, I needed to get an agent because the seller wasn’t comfortable selling without an agent. I assume this will change in near future.
wave··on Quotably- new website makes following twitter conversations easy
I think it is a good idea. Contact http://twitter.com/help/contact and let them know. They usually post twitter tools on their blog, they might post your tool.
wave··on The Internet? Bah! - hilarious 1995 article by Clifford Stoll
He wrote it in 1995 and he turned out to be wrong. Can we get it right? How are things will be different in 2021?
wave··on You weren't meant to have a boss
The first thing you notice working at big companies is that they take away your admin rights on your workstation. You can not be creative with a restrictive environment. You are forced to use the tools everyone at the company uses and force to think like everyone else.

For those who are working at small company, stay where you are. It is true you don’t learn much at big companies. It is not much about how well you do things, but it is how well you are connected and how well you can exaggerate.

wave··on Ask: Where to get good feedback /prior/ to launch? Friends not competent enough to use mouse.
In order to get some feedbacks, maybe you should say something about what you are working on without revealing your product/service.
wave··on I quit
It is nice you were able to find 100k seed money. Most people don't have that opportunity. I am not sure if it is a good idea using credit cards, but it is not a secured loan.

Someone posted a quote by Shakespeare "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt."

wave··on Why Not To Do A Startup
What is the percentage of success for YC startups?
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