CyrusL

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by CyrusL 13y ago
How come investors give money to startup founders but not state lottery ticket buyers? Isn't their entire job to professionally evaluate these expected values? Being accepted to YC actually means being funded. With YCVC it's ~$100
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by CyrusL 13y ago
The median outcome is low, but the expected value is pretty high for starting a startup. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $20 billion after 7 years. That's about the same as 25,000 engineers working for 7 years. There aren't any singers o
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by CyrusL 13y ago
I am hesitant about the value of the data in the chart. It sounds like out of all the products sold via Gumroad, the .99 products convert better than the .00 products. Couldn't that just mean that the sellers who use .99 are savvier wi
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by CyrusL 13y ago
It would be more accurate to say that there is a lower bound on dilution with convertible debt (if the debt converts at the valuation cap) but there is no upper bound on dilution (if it later converts at much lower than the valuation cap).
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Can you explain how the set of possible anomalies are defined? Does each user decide them for their own application, or does Anomalous try to figure out when something weird has happened?
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by CyrusL 13y ago
I thought this would be interesting to post here for two reasons. First, I imagine most HNers probably analyze prices as the most rational and analytical consumers in the world. It's good to get a reminder that the rest of the world do
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Three short videos on Pricing(vimeopro.com)
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by CyrusL 13y ago
That was also based on the number of shareholders, not the number of employees. Facebook began issuing RSUs, which don't count towards the limit, to employees when they started approaching the 500 shareholder limit, but I believe tradi
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by CyrusL 13y ago
Harj is traveling right now. She means that only Garry and Alexis raised the money, but all three of them will invest it.
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by CyrusL 13y ago
It depends a lot on how you expect people to come to your site and the cost of losing them versus the cost of the better domain. If you run a TV ad for example.co , you can expect an order of magnitude more people to visit example.com inste
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by CyrusL 13y ago
It would be cool if you were more reserved with your usage of "squatted" to describe domain names. Amateurs commonly use it to mean "he has something I want," but in domainer lingo, a squatted domain is used specifically
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by CyrusL 13y ago
If you look at returns from even the most successful of funds, there's usually not a lot to be impressed by. That's not correct. The top funds have very high IRRs. For example, Foundry Group on slide 5: www.scribd.com/fulls
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by CyrusL 13y ago
It functions the same way as options vesting for employees. Founders usually purchase all their shares up front, so this term says that the company can buy a percentage back if they leave before 4 years.
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by CyrusL 13y ago
I believe the stakeholder culture is because tech companies often have the potential for rapid growth. For example, a barbershop's capital is mostly human, but there isn't a big chance it will IPO. This means the best barbers don't have muc
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by CyrusL 14y ago
An important distinction is that there are no characters to level-up in Starcraft, so you can't get "better" by just investing mindless hours into the game. The start of a Starcraft game is just like the start of a Chess game: both newbies
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by CyrusL 14y ago
This is a major ongoing topic in the ad world. For those interested in the topic, here are two more articles from today on publisher fraud: http://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/to-catch-a-bot... http://www.adweek.com/news/techno
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by CyrusL 14y ago
It requires a much larger number of dynos to achieve similar performance as the same setup with intelligent routing.
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by CyrusL 14y ago
One of the reasons Starcraft is interesting as an e-sport is because bugs like this have kept the game in racial balance for over a decade. For example, the game was not designed to give mutalisks the ability to stack on top of each other.
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by CyrusL 14y ago
I have put up a cool tilt shift video of San Luis Obispo on http://slo.com/
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by CyrusL 14y ago
Tangent: I met Craig yesterday randomly in a coffee shop. He seemed really smart and gave me a few Postgres performance tips. I didn't know he was a big deal. I guess those are the cool twists of fate people talk about happening in the Bay
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by CyrusL 14y ago
I have to disagree with this. It's probably true that e-commerce checkout processes are less optimized on mobile than on desktop, but that doesn't have a huge bearing on ad rates. The majority of all ad spending is for brand awareness campa
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LeanMarket (YC S12) replaces 2 martini lunches with RTB for mobile ads(venturebeat.com)
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The Digital Media Strategic Buyer LUMAscape released today(lumapartners.com)
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by CyrusL 14y ago
I got a letter in the mail recently that I wrote to myself almost 10 years ago. It was only one page long but it's ridiculous how much it moved me. I wrote about my relationship with my family and what I hoped to do with my career. Getting
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by CyrusL 14y ago
It's a bad sign if this isn't part of a large discussion with all your co-founders. I would get everyone together to talk.
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by CyrusL 14y ago
Having talked to Ron's cofounder, it sounds like there are a surprising number of applications for SpaceBase outside of gaming. The TC article seems to focus on gaming but I have a hunch it's mostly that they're going after one vertical at
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by CyrusL 14y ago
LeanMarket's value proposition is probably not very clear to anyone who isn't familiar with real-time bidding. This Google whitepaper goes over the industry at a high level: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
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by CyrusL 14y ago
Oops, I just saw you said few hundred thousand. I read "a few hundred" at first. Then yes, absolutely.
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by CyrusL 14y ago
No real invite system, I'm just trying to make sure any advertiser's campaigns seem like a good fit for RTB before I push them to test a campaign that probably won't succeed. Can you please reach out through the contact form or email first
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by CyrusL 14y ago
On the larger exchanges, not really. This would be like a retail investor wanting access to NASDAQ or NYSE rather than Schwab or E-Trade. Some of the 3rd-tier exchanges may be exceptions.

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