{"id":333,"date":"2011-05-25T04:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-05-25T04:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:10:02","slug":"hype-flash-replacement-spawned-at-y-combinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/hype-flash-replacement-spawned-at-y-combinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Hype Flash replacement spawned at Y Combinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Startup Foundry website <a title=\"hype, startup\" href=\"http:\/\/thestartupfoundry.com\/2011\/05\/23\/why-two-engineers-left-apple-to-build-a-flash-alternative-the-hype-yc-w11-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">published an interview<\/a> with a software programmer, one of the cofounders,  Jonathan Deutsch, of Tumult Co.\u00a0 He left a job at  Apple to launch a startup.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was faced with the decision of continuing to work with the great  people on my team on a clearly high impact project, living with the  \u201cwhat if\u201d syndrome, or trying to forge my own path. \u00a0\u201d<strong>Regret  Minimization<\/strong>\u201d is what should win out in life, so it did. \u00a0I had done a  lot of different projects at Apple, and felt I made my mark both  internally on the company and externally on Mac OS X.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About his experience at Y Combinator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>YC is definitely worthwhile.  The network effects are staggering\u2026 it  gives any YC company an advantage in making the right contacts, finding  investment, and being in a support net with others in the same boat.   And if you\u2019re starting a company, why wouldn\u2019t you want every advantage  available to you?  Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit, and Harj Taggar all give  great advice with brilliant ideas sprinkled in.  The dinners are fun,  and there\u2019s a lot that we learned from the speakers.  Most founders  would come early before each dinner just to hang out and discuss their  startups or demo their products.  The atmosphere is electric and  contagious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/tumultco.com\/hype\/\">Hype<\/a> website. Unfortunately for Mac OS Leopard (10.5) users, the app requires 10.6. A bad decision for many thousands of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Startup Foundry website published an interview with a software programmer, one of the cofounders, Jonathan Deutsch, of Tumult Co.\u00a0 He left a job at Apple to launch a startup. I was faced with the decision of continuing to work with the great people on my team on a clearly high impact project, living with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/hype-flash-replacement-spawned-at-y-combinator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hype Flash replacement spawned at Y Combinator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-mac","category-design","category-mobile","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-5n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}