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Re: Paul Graham Should Fill the Startup Funding Gap

Scott Wheeler — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:42:23 -0000

I've been tracking YC launches for a good while and I have a hard time believing that any of them had real "the next Google" power. Google is very much a technology based company, and leveraging that technology in increasingly diverse fields has been the key to their explosion. In contrast, most YC companies, as others have pointed out in the past, are clever, usually media oriented startups that fill some niche well. I think the conventional wisdom that YC startups go work against is, "Why do I need that?" In the early days of Google they were working again, "There's no way you can pull this off..." I feel like therein lies the difference ... and the risk.

Re: Obama's Smoking Makes Me Just Say No on 4/22 in PA

Scott Wheeler — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:26:58 -0000

I also would have loved to have seen a democrat that I could get behind, but am none too thrilled with Hillary and Obama.

That said, I feel like the "do as I say, not as I do" argument against him is weak. We all do stuff we're not proud of. Everyone believes in stuff and then works against it. Some people rationalize that, others stick to their convictions and bring their actions in line. In this case, like most, I'm not disappointed in Obama's character, I just find him a complete political lightweight. (My standard line is that he seems to believe in hope, change and a better future, but not economics or foreign policy.)

Re: Desktop vs. Browser?

Scott Wheeler — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:52:51 -0000

The overwhelming majority remains on the desktop. I find that desktop apps tend to have higher throughput.