benreyes
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Comment · 5 years ago
You mention rewriting Mojeek three times. Do you expect a fourth iteration?
Comment · 14 years ago
Good point. I'll probably add in some background textures, images next time. Perhaps also a next / back buttons along with a current page indicator. Any other suggestions towards how it'll signify a scroll action towards more content would be welcome.
I did on purposely have the 'pages' resize directly to the user's viewport using javascript as a visual style of design.
Comment · 14 years ago
Cheers rodly! Yeah I'm definitely not happy with it and want to fix that/get it re-done if we decide to keep it. I'll most likely have it stop animating after a while and also only load when it's in view. It's something one of us threw hacked together really quickly with HighCharts.js
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm really sorry about that, thanks for bringing it up Secoif. I've just pushed a quick fix. The website was supposed to be fully responsive to iPhone/iPad resolutions using various javascript and flexible width methods.
Unfortunately I made a change to video providers (to VidYard for analytics) which broke the video resize script (FitVids-JS). Whoops, my mistake.
Comment · 14 years ago
Regarding older founders. I'm currently working with one of the founders that is a statistical anomaly on the upper rage of the graph. Reality as I perceive it is far opposite from the case, perhaps this is why they are a statistical anomaly within YC.
Comment · 14 years ago
Something not quite but similar to the exchange program for New York City is 'Adopt a Hacker' - http://www.adoptahacker.com
One to check out. I would like to see a similar programme for London.
Comment · 15 years ago
I haven't finished listening to the podcast highlighted in this post but a point to note is that the book was rushed into print which may have affected the Isaacson's writing quality.
Comment · 15 years ago
Congrats to Justin and Jason, the podcast really is something to be proud of. It combines a nice mix of tech and startup discussion.
It's not really for people who like short podcasts, but this is what makes it great. You get depth where other podcasts won't go or that just glosses over talking points.
Comment · 15 years ago
Yes it would be impolite to bad-mouth specific people. But one can talk generally about traits and characteristics with a reflection on mistakes made and improvements to such processes.
Comment · 15 years ago
Your age does not matter. Depending on how old you are and if your a first time entrepreneur I suggest that you have a big vision but adjust your tangible goals correctly to the amount of time and resources you have available to you. Perhaps aim for something you could easily sell to another company or a product that can gain paying customers.
In terms of finding a co-founder, why not partnering up with another teen? Events like Young Rewired State (UK - http://rewiredstate.org/events/young-2010), hack days and barcamps all usually have teens attending them.
Check out TeensInTech (Bay Area - http://teensintech.com/) which also runs a teen tech incubator.
There are also a few online young entrepreneurial groups such as Millennium Generation https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockstars and theres WebeTalk IRC chat (http://webetalk.com) which is frequented by some of the youngest YC startup founders.
If you want to take a different more active approach try building something small and useful that will get you tons of press and coverage on HackerNews. You can also tip TechCrunch ([email protected]), building something that people are aware of outside of you telling them will definitely help you find and secure a co-founder. On top of that the media and others absolutely love young entrepreneurs stories. So with a bit of work you will be able to get coverage.
If you want to team up with a more experienced person, why don't you ask them to be your mentor, ask their advice (it's generally good to have personal advisors, they'll help you out). Build that relationship and if things look good, maybe you could ask them to join as a co-founder or help out. Many startups do this to acquire higher level executives or even investors.
If you have a technical background, you don't need a co-founder to start. I hope this helps and good-luck, many of us have been there before.
Comment · 15 years ago
When I read this line: "..even began offering her own Internet Survival Guide, free to download after submitting your e-mail address."
She gained my respect, it's basic marketing 101 but even grown adults trying to market a company often don't have this type of intuition to capture marketing/relationship leads whilst the buzz is still hot.
Comment · 15 years ago
As far as I'm aware (I'm friends with the founders) they have hired someone to run New Bamboo (Rails Consultancy) and have also merged their other SaaS product Panda (http://pandastream.com - Video Encoding) with another US company.
So the founders full focus is on the Pusher product. Most, if not nearly all investors tend to want you to put in professional management in a service business and spin off the product to a separate company before investing large amounts of seed capital.
Previously living at the Shoreditch Hacker House. Helped a YC S12 startup during the YC batch.
Currently at Zendesk.
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