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Hi Harj,

Will you be engaging only promising groups, or all groups? Or will there be promising groups that aren't engaged at all until the deadline? Thanks

- an anxious applicant :)

i simply don't have enough hours in the day to engage all groups :)

i'm engaging promising applications where i'd like to know more about the team but no doubt i won't be able to engage them all before deadline so if you don't hear from me, it's not an indication you've not made it to interview

awesome news! like pg said, anyone who has met him knows how smart, determined, and genuinely nice he is. certainly a very valuable and welcome addition to the yc camp and he's already helped our group a ton.

No offense to anyone involved, but someone with an undergraduate degree from 2006, no matter how bright or congenial, seems a bit young to be a director of BD. It seems to me that YC would have been better served by an individual with more practical business experience, especially for one who will be passing judgment on prospective candidates for funding.

how did Harj's time at liveCurrent go? Im very interested as I remember all the press that Harj/Auctomatic recieved when it was purchased. What was accomplished at liveCurrent?

it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resources we'd been promised weren't available. from other people I've spoken to who have been acquired, this isn't an atypical scenario.

still, I ended up working on cricket.com and enjoyed it, took it from a site of spam links to a community for cricket fans with 1m monthly uniques and $30k revenue a month. I left after just over a year there.

Wouldn't be surprised if cricinfo made a big offer for that domain at some point. Where do you pull the scorecard data from?

we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.

That would be silly of cricinfo IMO. They have a well established decade old brand(in fact, one of the first websites on the Internet, I believe).

Why do you think they bought you guys then? I'm assuming the product has been shut down, and the team has since moved on - what did they get out of the acquisition?

Does this mean he's moving down to Palo Alto, or telecommuting from Seattle?

He lives in the Bay Area. He's flying up to Seattle for the meetup.

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