Found|READ
foundread.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Found|READ is a startup founders' blog covering Y Combinator experience, talking to customers, rejection, and team motivation.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly link it as the author's own blog posts on entrepreneurship, with no stated opinion of its quality.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Why You Must Embrace Rejection to Succeed2 people · 30 points · first shared 2008 · 16 comments on HN
- 2To YC or to VC? That is my question…2 people · 11 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
- 3La Dolce Startup - Or, how one founder inspired and integrated a non-techie onto his team2 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 4Found+READ2 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 5Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups1 people · 81 points · first shared 2008 · 32 comments on HN
- 6The Motif of Employee Motivations (and how to leverage them).1 people · 31 points · first shared 2008 · 8 comments on HN
- 7The Secret...to talking to customers before you have a product -- or even a company1 people · 30 points · first shared 2007 · 5 comments on HN
- 810 Reasons Why Documentation is a Startup Secret Sauce1 people · 30 points · first shared 2008 · 16 comments on HN
- 9Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation1 people · 28 points · first shared 2008 · 3 comments on HN
- 103 Serial founders share their 'Success Hacks'1 people · 24 points · first shared 2007 · 5 comments on HN
- 11Einstein: Curiosity trumps intellect1 people · 24 points · first shared 2008 · 21 comments on HN
- 12Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/21 people · 22 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 13Mint.com: Why Design Matters Too1 people · 19 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 147 Lessons from the Zantaz Firesale (Sold for $375m, Founders Got Nothing)1 people · 19 points · first shared 2007 · 13 comments on HN
- 15Why you (entrepreneurs) should trust your gut. Always.1 people · 18 points · first shared 2007 · 12 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dennykmiu · 2008-04-27
Recently, I talked about how "Entrepreneurship is a deep desire to create and destroy at the same time." So clearly we have to be in dissonance with some and resonance with others.
http://foundread.com/2008/04/18/why-you-must-embrace-rejection-to-succ…
But more importantly, to follow up on your comment. The question really is about "making something people want". We all know that this is a necessary condition but is it also sufficient. In the old days, it would take a lot more than that to succeed (so it was not sufficient). But time has changed. I believe today under certain constraints, it can actually be both. In the following, I talked about "narrowcasting" and "entre-sumers" which are the corner stones for such paradigm shift.
http://foundread.com/2008/04/11/to-yc-or-to-vc-that-is-my-question/
dhouston · 2007-12-19
we:
1. picked a list of 50-60 words/prefixes/suffixes we liked
2. wrote a python script to generate permutations, and then
3. ran dig -f on the text file to see which weren't taken
4. scraped buydomains search results to see which ones were easily for sale.
absolutely everything else was a waste of time, although we're also working with a naming agency and that might be promising (but expensive).
amusingly, domains that were occupied by squatters or companies like buydomains were easier to deal with -- at least they're rational and the conversation, though annoying, is straightforward (arrive at a #.)
domains that are occupied but unused (and don't have a 'for sale' sign hanging up) are generally hopeless. if you get a response, you'll generally get some whacko who either won't sell it, or who will only sell for millions of dollars or something. you'll probably not believe me, and will learn this the hard way (just as pg told us months ago :))
ok enough bad news -- some links that might help:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/the_name_game.html
http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/223/The-Startup-Name-Game.as…
http://foundread.com/2007/08/20/3-rules-for-naming-your-startup/
and last and best (a 100+ page guide)
http://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide.pdf
hope this helps -- it's a struggle :)
electric · 2007-09-19
thomasswift · 2007-10-29
link didn't work for me - here is the new link http://foundread.com/2007/10/29/question-of-the-day-just-found-a-compe…