Just one caveat: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/02/11/its-official-i...
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This cut may be a better single experience, and maybe would have increased the monetary single experience, but I dunno if it could make up for $1.4b in revenue.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23196385
Even further back from that, there have been studies where researches can do this with children very easily.
if you believe in the company, and the founders, go to them and fight for what you've created and your position. If they don't listen and help come up with a solution to retain you, it's probably time to move on.
I wonder if you could make enough revenue via crowdfunded support? Recurring subscriptions and one time contributions can really add up.
At Beacon, we helped Techdirt.com raise $70k to cover Net Neutrality full time.
I think your community is incredibly passionate and probably would cover what you need.
Email me (adrian@beaconreader.com if you're keen, we'd love to help (and give you a big discount on our cut).
cheers Adrian
In particular, Dalton is someone that helped us when we got rejected after our first interview, stayed supportive, and always has actionable insight and advice. He's also just a legend.
As to Alexis, I honestly don't understand how he does all the things he does - he's just going at like a million miles a minute. As high profile as he is, I actually think his value is underrated in the YC community.
they kinda buried the lede...
We're working on more options for getting people involved while trying to keep the model simple.
Good to get this feedback!
At least for us, it saved us a lot of discussion when we could say "is this particular feature helping us grow?" and if the answer as no, we would move on.
But I do think, even at the earliest stages, it isn't hard to gauge interest by showing demand. Sign up pages are simple enough to do.
But the reality is that with or without YC, you're going to need to learn how to close some of those contracts on your own.
Of course having connections is super helpful, but you're much more likely to get those introductions if you can show that you get things done without them.
So my advice would be to work on closing smaller contracts / deals and show that you are capable of running those processes first (and you also show growth!).
Then it's a lot easier to recommend you and pass you along to people in a network.
Your early 20s are all about feeling pressure to make your mark on the world, but not necessarily knowing how. I think a lot of people struggle with that.
But, barring medical or unforeseen tragedy, you've got a Lon ways to go.
5 years seems like a lot of time when you're 22. But less so when you're 30, and even less when you're older.
I second the suggestion that you might want to talk all this out with a therapist who's objective and can spend some good time wih you.
But at least for me, the best advice I got in my early 20s was "don't worry so much, life has a way of finding you"
The best thing about startups is you don't need YC to make it happen. You need to work on something you and others find valuable that you're willing to work your ass off for.
Maybe others get in on their first try, and are clearly more able, capable, or validated than me, but that's not really how I gauge why I do things. Neither is getting rejected.
I'm the first to admit that I'm not nearly the smartest person to ever apply to YC. Hell I'm probably one of the dumbest. But there's no reason not to apply. The only downside is getting the rejection letter (and the free mixpanel credits). The upside, at least so far in my experience, has been well worth it.
2 Backspac.es - mobile photo storytelling
1 Beacon - fund a writer, read everything on the platform
Lots of things "Might" happen. But it's all just speculation without any sort of insight or evidence.
If he had cited reports, studies etc. in other states, or even countries that showed ANYTHING it would be helpful.
Instead he links to another Slate article (his own) with the same speculation, again with no sources or citation.
It'd be like if I wrote this:
"WhatsApp might be the worst thing that happened to Facebook. Imagine if everyone stops using WhatsApp because they hate facebook. That would be disastrous. Or what if they all use facebook and then stop using WhatsApp, that could be good or bad too.
Regardless, Facebook has a lot on its hands now."
If you're in a chat app all damn day (like all my family is), and something comes up (OMG it is Dad's birthday), I'd rather just get the shopping, reservations, etc done right then and there at the point of relevancy.
WeChat's success isn't about having the credit card, it's about making that moment of action extremely fluid.
Along the way we learned a lot about why YC is important, what it does for you (and what it doesn't) and why the application process is one of the best ways to think through creating your startup.
We've been really lucky to have great alumni help advise us and give us feedback on our applications (yes, all of six of them, thanks Jason Freedman!).
So hit me up if you want me to look over anything, it's the least I can do: hello@sandersak.com
EDIT - I may be slow on the reply until after demo day ;)
You can take the exact same structure he uses there and apply it to any piece of news.
But you know, pageviews...
"A key question about the public health impact of legal marijuana is how does it change alcohol consumption patterns. To the extent that legal marijuana displaces legal booze purchases, you're going to see an offsetting decline in alcohol tax revenue. Which would be fine—a big win for public health, in fact—but not quite the financial bounty states may be hoping for. Alternatively, if legal pot leads to a complementary surge in beer drinking, you'll have lots of tax revenue but potentially large problems."
So we don't have any evidence or idea if this will affect booze sales, but you know, it could! Also, if it doesn't, there could be other problems, just in general for people...
You could even imagine a time where citing sources actually trickles money back to them to reflect their value to a new study.
If you know grad students, I'd love to chat with them: adrian@beaconreader.com