9/2 what are the hot new startups in SF nowadays?
\_ sixapart, hi5, bebo, digg
\_ I agree with you there with bebo... but why would you want
to work at 6a? they don't pay very much, all their drama
is all over the internet, i actually have a lot of inside
info about this company.
\_ He didn't ask where was a good place to work, did he?
I forgot, I should have added Linden Lab, though I personally
would not consider working there, they are a "hot new
startup."
\_ You're right, I just assumed he would want to work
somewhere that didn't suck. My mistake!
\_ sixapart is definitely not new, and arguably not hot. Unless
you think of imploding bodies as hot. hi5 maybe, bebo yes,
digg yes. I'd add slide to the list, though I'm obviously
biased, and you should ping me if you want to work here. -dans
\_ What do these companies do? I haven't heard of any of them.
\_ sixapart: originally built around MoveableType blogging
software. Sells MoveableType as well as hosted version
of MoveableType called TypePad. Acquired Livejournal
several years ago.
\_ hi5: yet another social network.
\_ Not just any, the 11th most visited site on the Interweb-
won't-ever-amount-to-anything-thingy.
\_ bebo: yet another social network. Big in the UK. Rumors
were flying about a Yahoo buyout a few months back, but
this did not happen.
\_ digg: collaborative news/content sharing and filtering
site, basically Slashdot for the masses. Has a *lot* of
users.
\_ slide: we make embeddable widgets and applications that
people like to add to their social network profiles and
web sites. We have a *lot* of users.
-dans
\_ Thanks for the responses. No offense to you, but
these startups seem to be rather lame. I wouldn't
want to get a PhD in CS in order to code for social
networking web sites. Is there anything really
groundbreaking or novel out there?
\_ Why not come with an idea yourself? (Not trying to
be snarky). I had what I thought was a really
\_ Why not come up with an idea yourself? (Not trying
to be snarky). I had what I thought was a really
good idea for a startup, but honestly I don't have
the courage to bet 5 years of my life on it. -- ilyas
\_ If you fail, it will probably take you less than
five years to fail. Also, if you consider
factors other than money, e.g. experience, it's
not a zero-sum proposition. -dans
\_ yeah, I'm sure working infinite hours for
shit money in a failed venture is a great
positive life experience.
\_ Like you would know. -dans
\_ I know. It sucks.
\_ I respectfully disagree, but then your
experience was probably different than
mine. -dans
\_ Believe it or not, it is considered really
great on your resume if you have started
your own company and failed.
\_ I believe it. I also believe that
a failed startup is a huge drain on
your life and there are plenty of other
productive things you could be doing
with your life that don't involve
such suckitude.
\_ Only a fool would enter into a
startup expecting to fail. Also, as
I mentioned in my comment above, the
experience is not necessarily one
that can be generalized as
'suckitude'. -dans
\_ 90% of startups fail, so only a
fool would enter into one expecting
to succeed. -tom
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\_ Don't be a douche bag. Quoting cute statistics
that you probably can't reliably source doesn't
say much for your credibility on the subject.
Last I checked, you never left the cradle of
academia. -dans
\_ Yet somehow, two of the three
startups I worked for went
public. -ausman
\_ Last I checked, I had 10 years of industry
experience before I started working at
Berkeley, and you had no fucking clue. Let
me check again...yup, still true. -tom
\_ 10 years where, doing what, if you don't
mind sharing?
\_ I do mind sharing personal details with
anonymous cowards. Send me mail if you
really care. -tom
\_ Whatever. You made a claim about
your tremendous clueful experience.
If you aren't willing to back that
up, then just whatever, as usual.
Either way, changing tapes 15 years
ago has nothign to do with the
world of industry today.
\_ I'd argue that, unless you're going to spin you're
thesis into a startup, you wouldn't want to get a
PhD in CS in order to code for most startups. Since
I haven't worked for any social networking sites, I
can't speak directly from experience on the relative
interestingness of the problems they face. As for
Slide, widgets may not sound like something terribly
PhD in CS in order to code for most startups.
Since
I haven't worked for any social networking sites,
I can't speak directly from experience on the
relative interestingness of the problems they
face. As for Slide, widgets may not sound
like something terribly
interesting, but, having seen how the sausage is
made, there are interesting challenges. In
particular, gracefully scaling to support the volume
of traffic we handle is non-trivial. It also raises
the question, what kind of interesting conclusions
and relations can you draw from such a huge data
set? -dans
P.S. I think Google's BigTable is pretty novel, but
it requires several layers of Google infrastructure
to recreate. I'm curious to see if couchdb, which
looks superficially similar to BigTable, might serve
the same purpose. Okay, its not a startup, but it's
groundbreaking.
\_ If a bomb took out myspace, facebook, bebo,
slide, friendster, digg, no one important
notice.
\_ *shrug*. Are you trying to make a point or
just trolling? Personally, I think the ideal
\_ No, I think my statement is 100% accurate
\_ Like who, Senator Ted "the internet is a
series of tubes" Stevens? -dans
\_ No one important cares about the
internets anyway. It is all just
a big waste of time and will never
amount to anything.
of the net as a democratic medium is a
worthwhile one to shoot for. I guess you
feel otherwise. -dans |
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