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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.