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by CyrusL 10y ago
Not true at all. The general opinion of investors in Silicon Valley is that is that after a seed round, founders should take a salary where they aren't worried about their bills but aren't getting rich.
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by CyrusL 10y ago
In my experience, there is a big variation in how people respond to Vicodin (and maybe painkillers more generally). Vicodin was hugely beneficial in reducing pain after a surgery I had. The main downside was the increase in tolerance after
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by CyrusL 10y ago
If a company grants you stock options as part of your compensation, you need still need to pay to get the stock. That's called exercising the options. If you leave the company, there is a limited window of time to exercise the option.
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by CyrusL 10y ago
This exists in bodybuilding. The naturals are on more moderate steroid doses.
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by CyrusL 10y ago
Cool. I just redirected http://slow.com to https://fast.com .
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by CyrusL 10y ago
The main fact missing from the article (and the comments here) is that most of the virtual items are initially generated through gambling with Valve. The majority of items in CS:GO are initially generated by purchasing a key (for $2.75) to
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by CyrusL 11y ago
It can depend on the usage of Tesla.com . For example, if Tesla.com was running automotive content, it would give Tesla Motors a strong argument that Tesla.com is confusingly similar to their own. This happens sometimes with parked domains
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by CyrusL 11y ago
New storage engine. Introduction from last October: https://influxdata.com/blog/new-storage-engine-time-structur...
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Very tasteful way to handle the parent comment :) Does Todd Persen talk about durability testing in the video or is more about performance benchmarking? I haven't watched yet. https://vimeo.com/153802549
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by CyrusL 11y ago
It's really hard to predict which companies will be successful at an early stage. YC was created to invest in founders that would have otherwise been passed over, often because their companies were so young. Getting a higher hit rate p
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Direct navigation is definitely becoming less common. The browser search bar, the awesome bar, and App Stores are increasingly becoming the ways that internet users reach their destinations. Still, .com domain names continue their march up
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Square uses "Gross Payment Volume" to describe that, not revenue. GPV is ~$30 billion. You can search for GPV in the S-1 to see the specifics: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000
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by CyrusL 11y ago
The implication is that bubbles require optimistic groupthink. I.e., if everyone thinks it's a good time to buy, then it's a bubble. Sama's point is that because so many people are saying tech stocks are expensive then there
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Interesting sidenote: I saw a reply to this post on Twitter where SourceDNA commented how the makeup of the top 100 apps differs from the long tail of apps: https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247709655547905
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Some YC companies have had big exits like Twitch. Also, there is a secondary market for private stock. It's possible for YC to sell some of their position in the big successes that haven't yet IPO'ed. In the early days, YC ra
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Transactions in AdTech are different than normal payments. For example, imagine an ad campaign spending $30k/month at a rate of $5 per 1,000 impressions. The customer may want their budget spread evenly throughout the month, so the sof
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by CyrusL 11y ago
Another exciting destination for http://asteroids.com !
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by CyrusL 12y ago
This is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
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Y Combinator Will Teach a Class on Startups at Stanford This Fall(techcrunch.com)
201 points by CyrusL 12y ago|3 comments
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by CyrusL 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER -- Palo Alto (Remote OK) We are a YC advertising startup. Right now, all of our mobile ad inventory comes from middle-man exchanges, but we’d like to start sourcing some of it directly from app developers. We have build
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Kamcord (YC S12), The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M(techcrunch.com)
2 points by CyrusL 12y ago|0 comments
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Chris said this in the comments: I don't think it's vertically integrated in the classic sense. This isn't oil company buying supplier. It's a tech company building the complete experience including non tech parts. The e
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by CyrusL 13y ago
The discount is more complex than that. Most users also aren't able to withdraw fiat from Gox, so there isn't a liquidity advantage to selling your coins (which would raise the supply and lower the price). The 50% discount is prob
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by CyrusL 13y ago
I read it as y = x - 1.5 The "times" means countable units of sex rather than multiplication.
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by CyrusL 13y ago
That's not true. An angel investment after demo day is worth a lot less equity than the YC investment. Most YC companies raise their seed rounds at $5 million - $20 million valuations, so it would take many hundreds of thousands or eve
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Nope. It's because of physical development more than skill. A top tier 18 year old body can hang in the NBA but would get wrecked in the NFL.
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Coinbase is not an exchange like Bitstamp or Mt.Gox. This fact is not just something buried in their T&C. Their company communication has never described their product as a tool for day-trading. They made a promise to deliver bitcoins a
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Will YC VC use these in the upcoming batch?
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Cool game! I just set http://www.asteroids.com to redirect to your app store page for the next couple weeks.
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by CyrusL 13y ago
The reason is that the per-share value is best for people who already own or follow the stock. For example, Twitter employees can quickly ballpark the dollar value of their shares with the $26 number. It's also easier for tracking move

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