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Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs (via) I was excited about Dgraph as an interesting option in the graph database space. It didn’t work out, and founder Manish Rai Jain provides a thoughtful retrospective as to why, full of useful insights for other startup founders considering projects in a similar space. # 16th September 2022, 6:43 pm
We never shipped a great commercial product. The reason for that is we didn’t focus. We tried to do a little bit of everything. It’s hard enough to maintain the growth of your developer community and build one great commercial product, let alone three or four, and it is impossible to do both, but that’s what we tried to do and we spent an enormous amount of money doing it.
— Solomon Hykes # 7th September 2021, 2:47 pm
Which investors would consider a natural language processing startup in London?
I don’t know the answer, but I know how you can find it: track down as many London-based AI/machine learning/NLP startups as you can and look at who their investors are.
[... 48 words]What are some early examples of SaaS?
37 Signals’ Basecamp was one of the pioneers if modern SaaS back in 2004.
[... 27 words]Are you less likely to be accepted to Y Combinator if you don’t know how to make money yet?
If you apply and say “we have no idea how we will make money” you are much less likely to be accepted than if you say “we’re not 100% sure how we will make money, but our initial thoughts are to try X”.
[... 156 words]Y Combinator: I’m interested in how what the YC$ were spent on was impacted by whether you were from outside the Valley when you went thro the program or were local?
If you’re from outside the area you’ll spend a chunk of the money on rent (and maybe car rental). If you already live in or near Mountain View you won’t need to do that.
[... 71 words]What systems/software are absolutely worth purchasing for a solidly funded e-commerce startup?
I’d use a small fraction of that budget for relevant SaaS subscriptions—things like www.kissmetrics.com or www.mixpanel.com for user analytics, www.moz.com or www.ginzametrics.com for SEO reporting, or www.geckoboard.com for building a custom dashboard.
[... 93 words]What is the real risk of pirating Microsoft software as a startup business vs an individual user?
I agree with David S. Rose—integrity matters. Look in to BizSpark.
[... 108 words]What can startups do on big data day one?
Log everything, and then forget about it. That way you’ll have data you can analyse later on, but aside from setting up logging and log storage you won’t waste any time messing around with Big Data when you haven’t yet found product-market fit.
[... 58 words]How can I sell an idea to investors?
At minimum: build a prototype. If you really want then to take seriously, launch a first version and demonstrate traction.
[... 34 words]How should two equal startup founder formalize a cliff?
A company is a legal entity. The person who leaves the company is the person who resigns from that legal entity.
[... 36 words]What is the best way to choose between two equally feasible start-up ideas?
Which one is most likely to still be exciting to you in five years time?
[... 121 words]Are there any websites, forums, or blogposts that discuss startups’ technology stacks or IT infrastructure?
The website www.highscalability.com has a good collection of articles on this topic (case studies about specific startup’s technology stacks) stretching back several years.
[... 45 words]How do you recruit programmers without risk of them leaving and jacking your idea, especially without initial funding?
You could ask them to sign a non-compete (which I believe are non enforceable in some jurisdictions, including California) but you might find this deters some skilled programmers.
[... 89 words]How do I quit the startup I founded without causing too much fallout?
Have you discussed your situation with your investors? They are likely to strongly prefer you taking a larger salary than stepping down or taking on consulting work.
[... 46 words]What are the top five items to pique interest in developers to join a startup?
It’s all about shipping.
[... 251 words]Are there any startups outside US which are/were part of incubators & seed programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, Y Combinator, AngelPad or similar?
Our startup http://lanyrd.com/ was part of YC Winter 2011 and is now based in London.
[... 45 words]Document startups in chaos as Adobe’s Flashpaper discontinues. Don’t be a sharecropper. # 5th September 2008, 1:57 pm