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The start up I interviewed within Dec 2005, Flipt(formerly radiate), finally died. I wish they would have listen to me in December 205 or in Spring of 2006 about my warnings about how Mobile Operators were switching to a SOA LBS/GPS model for mobile applications and that if you did not switch the server side to integrate with SO infrastructure you will be locked ut by Mobile Operators from the market. Also, remember I first posted here that Flipt would not get Sprint or BoostMobile because they did not integrate with Parlay OSA.
The reason I take issue with Paul Graham's methods in incubating Hackers(Yes, Flipt was a former Paul Graham incubator), is that he never goes back to the failures and does an analysis of why they failed and modify incubator methods to improve the success rates
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