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by adamsmith 19y ago
Great post!
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Raising Money: Every morning wake up and say to yourself 'They need me more than I need them.'(blogs.xobni.com)
18 points by adamsmith 19y ago|0 comments
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by adamsmith 19y ago
Raising more than 10x at a time can be like putting rocket fuel in your Vespa. If you burn through it then you're probably going to quickly. If you just keep it in the bank then you probably should have raised less. How can you grow too f
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Raising Money, Some Data and Tactical Advice, Letters to Graduating YC Companies, Letter 2(blogs.xobni.com)
19 points by adamsmith 19y ago|4 comments
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by adamsmith 19y ago
He probably could have hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete or unplugged the power, but that was it. The program absorbed other keystrokes and mouse clicks. Either way he was a cool older guy. He had to be cool to put up with 400 teenagers. I think his bi
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The Coolest Hack I've Ever Pulled Off(blogs.xobni.com)
8 points by adamsmith 19y ago|5 comments
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Why Engineers/Programmers Suck at Selling(blogs.xobni.com)
24 points by adamsmith 19y ago|3 comments
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by adamsmith 19y ago
Hi jwp, I think I tried or wanted to do f3hops. Either I did it and I was stretching the 2GB memory limit, or I couldn't. As you exponentiate the sparse matrix more and more you get a less and less sparse matrix. I was really hurting for
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by adamsmith 19y ago
Check out the report -- http://www.scribd.com/doc/747/Friendship-Prediction-on-Facebook Cliffs notes version: It turns out that how many friends of friends you have in common is the best predictor. After that, it's the number of photos
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The ugliest hack I've ever pulled off(blogs.xobni.com)
12 points by adamsmith 19y ago|4 comments
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by adamsmith 19y ago
Adam Smith (Xobni) personal blog: http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith
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Startup Advice and Lookup Tables(blogs.xobni.com)
5 points by adamsmith 20y ago|0 comments
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by adamsmith 20y ago
Howdy, The good news is that startups are actively looking for good hackers. Investors are also looking too, since that's one way they can really help their companies. So he can find cool startups and email them, or find cool investors (l
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by adamsmith 20y ago
I crawled the MIT facebook and built a friendship predictor that will take guesses at who, out of the people you are not currently listed as being friends with, you actually are friends with in real life. People's traits (age, sex, home st
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by adamsmith 20y ago
It went really well. The people who attend are the best part of startup school, for sure.
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The Life of an Entrepreneur, in 33 Seconds (no substance, just fun)(blogs.xobni.com)
6 points by adamsmith 20y ago|4 comments
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Y Combinator, Should You?(blogs.xobni.com)
16 points by adamsmith 20y ago|5 comments
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by adamsmith 20y ago
For an example of offering too little equity, see the Equity section at http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/5
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How a linker works [video, admittedly in RM format](mfile.akamai.com)
1 points by adamsmith 20y ago|0 comments
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Lecture videos from my favorite undergrad CS class(ocw.mit.edu)
2 points by adamsmith 20y ago|0 comments
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MIT undergrad's reactions to working at a startup(xobni.com)
22 points by adamsmith 20y ago|4 comments
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Black triangle: a useful shorthand and metaphor(rampantgames.com)
12 points by adamsmith 20y ago|1 comments