Kinnard

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by Kinnard 8y ago
I wonder if this has to do with building a war chest to compete with meetup + WeWork . . . though meetup and eventbrite are definitely different.
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by Kinnard 8y ago
Musk didn't found Tesla.
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by Kinnard 8y ago
This seems like a perfect argument for ICOs. Tokens have several additional favorable properties. I think this new paradigm subsumes the ipo/direct listing debate. Great read: https://news.earn.com/thoughts-on-tokens-43
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by Kinnard 8y ago
I wonder what to what extent this is driven by cryptocurrency mining and other computationally intensive blockchain use-cases.
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by Kinnard 8y ago
Are first-time middle-aged entrepreneurs more successful than young ones?
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by Kinnard 8y ago
Which a lot of donors are actually completely ok with. The insistance on seeing this new technology and the opportunities it offers through the lens of traditional equity/securities is strange.
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The nation state is approaching obsoletion(youtube.com)
2 points by Kinnard 9y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 9y ago
I can corroborate that. I think most people intuitively know that what they were being taught wasn't quite true though. I certainly did.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
I was thinking just for the purpose of categorization.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
People should have to give a reason when they flag.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
And impertinent. That's the thing: people want the side effects of startup success here but they don't care about successful startups or the things that make startups succeed. The Genius loci is huntin 'em and killin 'em
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Why was the parent flagged?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Thing is (I'm a native, black, 3rd generation Detroiter, and a serial founder who has lived in the Bay Area) none of that (unless and until it does) has anything to do with starting startups or making startups succeed.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
But we can't just turn our eyes away.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Cryptoforest
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Bitcoin is made of software . . . do people not know that software can get better and better over time?? I used a js map function yesterday, worked like a charm!!!
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by Kinnard 9y ago
What country are you in?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Bitcoin is built off of two cryptographic primitives. They implement rights/powers in software. Here's a good example to grasp the idea: instead of asking the government not to read your emails (petitioning for the right of privac
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by Kinnard 9y ago
I know cryptoppl active in Africa and ppl in remote parts of Africa who have heard of Bitcoin.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Does Warren Buffett understand digital signatures?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Are you sure it's complete?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Actually there's been a vigorous enough debate happening in the community about how to fix some of these problems and how to move forward toward what Bitcoin will ultimately be that the community and blockchain split.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
What does the seed funding squeeze have to do with WeWork? They're not seed-stage . . .
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by Kinnard 9y ago
>Companies can have both a diversity policy and a policy to make sure the top talents don't go elsewhere. Those should be one policy, the diversity policy is about making sure top talent doesn't go elsewhere . . . your comment
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Plaintext Accounting with the Ledger Ecosystem(youtube.com)
2 points by Kinnard 9y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 9y ago
I don't think people for whom their startup is their vocation, as that of a priest or a nun, are motivated by money at all actually.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
I take it you are being sarcastic. But the two are distinct and it could be a combination of both.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Did you watch the video? I think the transcription is automated.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Trained intuition?

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