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Gabor Cselle
Personal blog · gaborcselle.com/blog · on HN as gaborcsellestartupsbusiness
Gabor Cselle's personal blog at gaborcselle.com covers startups and business. Since 2007, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “On Cloning YC in Europe”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Gabor Cselle's home page. Senior Director of Product for Google Workspace's GenAI Foundations team; previously OpenAI, South Park Commons, Pebble (T2), Google, Twitter, Namo Media, and reMail.
Most-linked posts?
- On Cloning YC in Europe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-02-22
- Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-23
- Three Clever Xobni Features (1/3): "Are you Happy?"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-01-06
- Startup School: Surfing the Wave2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-24
- Our productivity during Y Combinator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-09
What Hacker News says?
No, he might not, but getting funding of some kind is a pretty large part of the kinds of startups that they /are/ talking about, because it makes it easier to develop that massive, rapid growth that gets people's attention. Likewise, a sale or IPO aren't the only ways to derive value out of the startup, but they're the ones that get the most focus, because they're the fastest way to get the desired results (lots of…
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on “Hire Family People”- mk · 2010-02-04
Submitted How to Replace IMAP as a story · 118 points
HN discussion http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2008/07/new-company.html "I am leaving Xobni in late August and starting a new company." "There are lots of challenges left in the email and communication space. I have some exciting product ideas for my new company, and I feel like I understand the space like few others do." ;)
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on “Five Open Questions in Email”Submitted Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup as a story · 73 points
HN discussion- tu · 2009-01-31
http://www.makezine.com http://www.deutsche-startups.de - German Techcrunch http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/ - for creative inspiration http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/ - watch a new startup in the making http://www.codinghorror.com http://www.hackaday.com http://www.lifehacker.com http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com and http://www.getrichslowly.com - for personal finance Other tha…
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on “Ask YC: Favorite blogs?” Submitted Bill Gates demos Xobni as a story · 59 points
HN discussionpermalink: http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2009/04/our-productivity-dur... (for posterity)
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on “Our productivity during Y Combinator”Submitted Why Email isn't Dying as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSimilar thing from Xobni: http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2008/01/three-clever-xobni-f... I imitated it and the feedback from it is the source of daily amusement for me.
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on “Wufoo : A UI that Really Cares”Submitted Gabor is looking for a technical cofounder as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI'm sure there's a bit of Bayesian theory involved. I also hear they'll be extracting data from the email to spot trends and stuff. Reading Gabor's blog might give you and idea of what they're all about. http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are-reinventing-mail.html
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on “Pics: A Day at Xobni [YC startup]”Submitted I reject your rejection as a story · 53 points
HN discussionThis sounds very methodical: They have "innovators", "strategists" and "gurus". What they'll be lacking, though, is access to the entire nation's talent pool. They have no desire to attract people from all over. Unlike Boston or Silicon Valley, PHL is not a desirable place to move to. Also, they lack the pull of having a PG who is known to a hacker community. This is the main reason why you and I can't clone YC (and…
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on “New YC clone planned in Philadelphia”Submitted Five Open Questions in Email as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Business opportunities around Google Wave as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our productivity during Y Combinator as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will there be an iPad App gold rush? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions for Co-Founders (Gabor Cselle) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gabor Cselle, Xobni: The Xobni Office, and Thoughts on Startup Office Space as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Technical Look at Google Wave as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Model of Your Inbox as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Early Stage Spaceship as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mother Lode of Data on the Mobile Internet as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photo Story: The Days Before the Xobni Launch as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Clever Xobni Features (1/3): "Are you Happy?" as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup School: Surfing the Wave as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gabor on how engineering decisions get made as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Want Your .com For New Startup as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello, World: Meet Xobni as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Startup School Career as a story · 15 points
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