wouldn't that be nice.

Are there any best practices for launch day email announcements? Good ways to build a list, or take advantage of one you already have?

When looking at it from a start up point of view...isn't is possible to emulate most (all?) of the lessons you learn from grad school in the start up environment?

I was actually thinking the other day. What would happen if Instagram applied for YC ? (May be they even did :)) Some of the characteristics don't look so good. Shall we see….

- A single founder…at least to begin with (they had a 80/20 split because Kevin apparently committed earlier) http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/11/business/la-fi-insta... - A non-technical founder: http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-forma... - And the idea is for an app to share pictures in 2010. Even Facebook and Twitter had a really good mobile app by then.

I say their chances did not look very good. That said, they probably would have benefited much from being in YC.

I actually think YC would probably have picked up on them...Especially with the early traction numbers. It would be interesting to have a postmortem of applicants...but I doubt YC would ever release that information.

Oh, but the things you can do without a monitor, a mouse and keyboard :)

It is always a fine line. It will be interesting and telling in how Kickstarter will respond to this. You remember the Air BnB set of events...

Some bigger schools now teach with their own set of materials that the professors put together. I think it might be precisely because of this reason.

Here is a new standard. If the Instagram people asked the same questions, would they have a billion dollar company today?

It sounds promising, but it is hard to see how this would be useful on something that is anything above basic.