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91.
by Gaussian 15y ago
I think in some ways the feeling of this piece embodies the phenomenon, real or not, it attempts to describe. The writer clearly harbors some negative feelings about hipster culture and his perception of its salesman roots, but he won't com
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Pincus is attempting to make it sound as if he wants to claw back equity from employees who don't do their jobs. But if they aren't doing their jobs, why not fire them? No, it seems to me that Pincus is looking at some people, perhaps they
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Extraordinary writing. Everybody should have such a talented sister at the lectern on the day they're remembered.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
An 18 year old would have to engage in some pretty dark stuff for me to indict them later in life as a subpar founder, partner or person. Spamming and porn don't even come close to qualifying.
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Aisle50 (YC S11) seeks a front-end blaster
1 points by Gaussian 15y ago
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Pretty trite. I think everybody understands that NDAs are uncool with the cool. And it's true that the NDA can look pretty stupid when you're some random hacker guy who hasn't done anything and you seem to be taking yourself incredibly ser
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Sure. Groupon has a few problems. But the idea that an underwriting firm such as Goldman or Morgan is some kind of arbiter of wholesome business fundamentals is ridiculous. Sorkin knows better than to suggest that.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Quick wit. Deft touch. Well done.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
NU grad.
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Aisle50 (YC S11) seeks a back-end thumper in Chicago
1 points by Gaussian 15y ago
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by Gaussian 15y ago
The only thing an investor should be worried about is whether the entrepreneur can think creatively and get shit done. Fund-raising protocol is overrated. INVESTOR SAYS: "Oh, shit, he asked me to sign an NDA -- what a noob!" So sure, that'
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Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring in Chicago
1 points by Gaussian 15y ago
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by Gaussian 15y ago
The nutritional content of Greek yogurt is definitely behind some of the craze. But those nutritional benefits aren't unique to Chobani; they're something that all of the Greek yogurts share. Chobani has somehow managed to grow faster tha
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by Gaussian 15y ago
They had originally pledged to only source their milk from New York state, but they've grown so big so quickly that they've literally bought every last drop of available NY milk. The farmers can't keep up. As a result, they're going to ha
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by Gaussian 15y ago
American Roquefort caves.
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The $700 Million Yogurt Startup(forbes.com)
221 points by Gaussian 15y ago|89 comments
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by Gaussian 15y ago
>What I don't get is why TechCrunch seems to give YC companies more coverage than 500 Startups companies. How can you possibly not get that? YC is a bigger deal, so it gets more coverage. There's little nuance to the matter. If 500 S
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Aisle50 (YC S11) is Group Buying for Groceries.(mashable.com)
85 points by Gaussian 15y ago|15 comments
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by Gaussian 15y ago
There's a ton of places that this can go. Just building on top of the functionality they've already enabled, this could become quite powerful very quickly. Here's this raw data stream that's existed for years that hasn't seen any good tande
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Love it. He had me at: "Scoured of Word, my computers feel clean, refreshed, relieved of a hideous and malign burden." Could have walked into the sunset right there. But I understand his need to fully skewer MSFT.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I think we need a case study on the core competencies of the author's point structure. Maybe we can re-org. Big value-add there.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
I read the story and I enjoyed it. But I immediately wondered where he was getting some of his very detailed nuggets. There's no doubt that this was written to give most readers the impression that SEALs were, in some form, primary source
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Google: Bidding pi x 10^9 no longer looks so adorably wonky...
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Techcrunch is just the beginning. Douse this now. Ensure everybody knows that this experience was an outlier and that Airbnb exists for its users; make the girl whole.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
A man haunted by more than the feds (another editorial from this weekend; Chicago Tribune): http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0701-hemi...
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by Gaussian 15y ago
It was a pretty piece, for sure.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Agreed. I appreciated both authors far more later on.
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by Gaussian 15y ago
That comment by the author, along with some others, makes TechStars seem more like going to grad school and less like intrepidly going balls-out to make a company work in the real world. I'm not saying that's the reality of the situation,
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Definitely a ripe spot for put options... but there are no public put/call options available for LNKD yet, as far as I know. It's impossible to price an option without having some history of the underlying security's volatility--and we hav
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by Gaussian 15y ago
Agreed. The writer gives credit to Facebook, Groupon, etc. and then throws in at least 10 phrases of hedging/qualification and then warns us of the next, as yet unseen, wave of startups that, it blindly guesses, might just be, perhaps, pos

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