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by ajiang 7y ago
I think you can make the same point without calling it foolish.
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by ajiang 7y ago
I think the former: "Among the very fastest-growing new tech companies, the average founder was 45 at the time of founding."
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by ajiang 7y ago
Soda Labs | Founding Backend Engineer | Los Angeles & Taipei | REMOTE | Full Time Soda Labs is a hardware-as-a-service venture builder, founded by YC & Google alumni, venture backed by top VCs and the largest OEM in the world. We cr
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by ajiang 7y ago
Exactly this. Huge repercussions from the US government, not some kind of nefarious political play by Google.
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by ajiang 7y ago
China is no longer a cheap labor country. A significant amount of manufacturing is moving to India, Vietnam, and other SEA countries, with some assembly moving to Africa.
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by ajiang 8y ago
That's a very intriguing point! Can you help me understand it better? Are you saying that it is currently against the law for @jl to donate to Lambda School to sponsor 40 men to attend for free? I don't think that is your point,
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by ajiang 8y ago
I'd like to think HN is a place where people can have debate without resorting to saying things like "very stupid point" ;) You're absolutely right that free market doesn't mean your choices are exempt from criticis
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by ajiang 8y ago
EDIT: To clarify that the money is going directly to private individuals, as per Austen. Incredible, thanks for putting your money where your values are @jl. As for the numerous comments in this post around reverse sexism / reverse dis
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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage(usatoday.com)
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by ajiang 8y ago
Our team actually uses Franz. It is fantastic. I generally subscribe to the "one screen" philosophy that most people primarily use one screen for work. Franz is the one screen for me, connecting multiple Slack groups, FB messenger
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by ajiang 8y ago
Networks like this are extremely powerful for releasing potential energy. As much as I'd love to see the talks, it wouldn't be 5% the value of being in the room.
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by ajiang 8y ago
These projects are my favorite type of content on HN, where the question of "Why?" is met with "Because I can".
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by ajiang 8y ago
We believe that the $0.57 average revenue per user that Match Group reported in their Q2 2018 Investor Presentation is just a fraction of the user profile's real value. At the risk of taking the wrong thing away from this
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by ajiang 8y ago
Amazon has pretty incredible margins as a business. They invest the profit margin into new ventures and growth.
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by ajiang 8y ago
VCs also use projected future cash flows or as the previous commenter said, an approximation of such.
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by ajiang 8y ago
Yeah, that's the experience of working on a hardware startup. The amount of anxiety is unreal. Great writeup, with a rawness that most people don't get in these retrospective pieces.
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by ajiang 8y ago
Definitely not boilerplate. The privacy policy is quite light, doesn't define terms like "external parties", doesn't even have the company's name or origin.
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by ajiang 8y ago
Uh...I'm definitely not sharing my genome data with some guy named Ethan at unnamed company. https://meports.com/privacy
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by ajiang 8y ago
Very fascinating insight. As someone who moved from SF to Santa Monica, I can say that if I only stayed in LA, this would absolutely be the case. You lose quite a bit of network value, which definitely impacts (1) fundraising, (2) hiring, a
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by ajiang 8y ago
We should never accept standalone numbers. They are incredibly deceptive and don't tell the whole story. 1. What is the return that NY is going to get from increased tax revenue? 2. What is the time period that $48,000 is going to be &
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by ajiang 8y ago
Also read: Blockchain.com makes public their user acquisition strategy as well as the size of their marketing budget
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by ajiang 8y ago
Soda Labs | Various Roles | Taipei and Los Angeles | Full Time, Onsite, Remote Soda Labs is a connected hardware startup studio. We focus on creating new companies from internal ideas, involving cloud-connected digital hardware. We work dir
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by ajiang 8y ago
What an incredibly touching and personal post. It felt to me that the song embedded in the middle of the article perfectly encapsulates the mood of the writer. Definitely worth listening to and reading Tony's words.
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by ajiang 8y ago
YC 2005-2014 = Doing things that don't scale YC 2014+ = Making the magic of PG, Jessica, Sam et al scalable
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by ajiang 8y ago
That's a lot of assumptions you've made without any backing. 1) Building a startup requires the ability to build a tech product and knowing how to solve a problem and sell it. Bob the literature professor is not a good example, as
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by ajiang 8y ago
Really interesting study. Goes without saying that this would be a lot more impactful if it came with demographic breakdowns and confidence intervals. It did get me curious as to Swayable's methodology, which isn't really listed o
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by ajiang 8y ago
Startup School Battle Royale. Love it. Way to handle a really messy, potentially embarrassing situation. I feel for all of the founders that broke good news and then had to break bad. 10x more painful than just saying 'oh well' an
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by ajiang 8y ago
Without admitting or denying the allegations in the SEC’s complaint, Rothenberg and Rothenberg Ventures agreed to settle the charges. The settlement is subject to approval by the federal district court for the Northern District of Californ
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by ajiang 8y ago
Honestly I wouldn't downplay complexity of this stuff. Anyone can Google one item, but there are hundreds of items you need to stay on top of. Missing one could mean a massive liability. The takeaway should be that if it is not your fo
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by ajiang 8y ago
Yes. Since you (and I) can't be as productive while Slack is down, here's some fun non-work reading: 1) Story of Paul Le Roux: Former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US DEA. https://magazine

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