The Internet Startup Song - Parody of Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

The internet startup song and 100 Y Combinator company logos.THE INTERNET STARTUP SONG LYRICS:Entrepreneurs of the class of 2009... launch a startup.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, startups would be IT.The long term impact of startups has been proven by analysts, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering and thus far shortlived experience.I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty of simple HTML. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of simple HTML until the web has been completely eaten by Flash and AJAX. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at your site in the Internet Archive and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay in simplicity and how fabulous your site really looked.Your app is not as lightweight as you imagine.Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to code PHP by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles with your servers are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4am on some idle Tuesday.Add one feature every day that scares you.Tweet.Don't be reckless with other people's data, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.Tag.Don't waste your time jealous of other people's traffic spikes; sometimes you're TechCrunched, sometimes you're not. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.Remember compliments you receive on your company blog, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.Keep your old wireframes, throw away your old Paypal confirmations.Blog.Don't feel guilty if you don't know how you'll monetize. The most interesting startups I know didn't know at 22 million dollars of funding how they wanted to make money, some of the most interesting 40 million dollar startups still don't.Get plenty of link love.Be kind to your beta users, you'll miss them when they're gone.Maybe you'll get bought by Microsof...

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