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by ankit219 5y ago
You may be right. I was drawing the conclusion from the stat about 55% prefunded startups, but that still leaves 45% w YC as first investor (45% of 414 is a sizeable 186). If you add 29% as only idea based, still leaves 66 at least which ha
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by ankit219 5y ago
> 55% of the batch raised money before YC At this point, it seems like YC is just optimizing on execution risk, and only care about those startups where market risk is eliminated (more or less). If someone has already invested in more th
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by ankit219 5y ago
The answer varies on what kind of space it is. Scenario 1: If it's a smaller space, and your odds of raising the next round are better if your competition raises a round - shows a market is expanding- then show them around the product,
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by ankit219 5y ago
People have different styles of working. I have found that if I am deep into a problem, dedicating long hours to solve it is more productive as I have the context for longer time and can try out different things as I am deep in the zone. It
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by ankit219 5y ago
I doubt it's any of the two. At the scale they operate, they will have multi level checks - automated and manual. Some automated checks would approve the ad, and then if the ad is getting a huge reach and engagement, they may have a ma
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by ankit219 5y ago
One way to look at strategy could be how do you predict the second order effects. Using a sports metaphor to understand, strategy would be that "Our opponents are ABC, whose strength is D. Our team would go in initially with X plan, lo
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by ankit219 5y ago
Looks good. In early stage teams it's easier to teach teams the tool you use because this way they can dive deeper. The teams I worked with were keen to learn GA and analytics as it helps them for personal growth. At another startup, o
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by ankit219 5y ago
Sometimes wrong things get upvoted and reach to the top on Reddit. How does this algorithm stop that? Case: In football (soccer for US folks), there was a report by Marca about two players fighting in dressing room after a terrible loss. It
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by ankit219 5y ago
I was shocked looking at the market rank algorithm giving 0 to the Zero to One book review on Goodreads (which shows up as a second result on Google). > We do not think it is much of a leap to say that the Farnam Street and Slate Star Co
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by ankit219 5y ago
This is a meta post. A discussion rose up on HN, so much that people at New Yorker took notice, cited HN, and that article is posted here too. A couple of observations since I last wrote my thoughts on this (last time i said this: https:&#
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by ankit219 5y ago
With reverse chronological timeline, it's harder to build a advertising profile. While it's important to know what tweets a user is interacting with, the personalization option can surface more things as "You might like"
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by ankit219 5y ago
Hey, thanks for the tips. I realize the different ways to communicate also plays a role. Somehow, I did not make that distinction as in my mind, there were very similar. Thank you for laying it out like that. (and also thanks to the child c
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by ankit219 5y ago
Posts and comments like this scare me.Not being a social person, while talking to others, my worst nightmare is when I ask someone a question, and they already have some presumptions about why I am asking that, and I would occasionally end
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by ankit219 5y ago
Not 100% sure, but could be a user based personalization thing. Or a location based thing.
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by ankit219 5y ago
Agree with the premise, but seems to me that the article does not justify this. I can understand ads, but ads do not affect search results. If you move past ads now (which most users do as they habitually ignore the space where ads would be
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by ankit219 5y ago
> Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have recently designed an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates silicon quantum dots with conventional readout electronics. This chip
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A CMOS-based chip that integrates silicon quantum dots and readout electronics(techxplore.com)
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by ankit219 5y ago
Journal keeping. For me, the key is letting those thoughts out. It may just be something eating away at me, sometimes it's just a confusing behavior. Journaling helps you think. It makes you feel like someone is listening (I write thos
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by ankit219 5y ago
Anywhere there are humans involved, there are bound to be multiple interpretations of the same words. This becomes a problem when you put humans in positions where if they do their job well, there is no upside, but screwing up has a large d
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by ankit219 5y ago
That is not my argument. A standalone number of 3M is good, especially when 3M new users combined with 100M existing ones demonstrate huge stickiness. What I am trying to say is that, reddit is attracting a lot of new users through SEO, yet
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by ankit219 5y ago
There is a distinct possibility that those users arent visiting regularly. They visit via Google search, explore a bit, don't create an account. Next time they come in, it's again via Google search. Reddit may or may not be able t
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by ankit219 5y ago
you also count as one of the DAUs and MAUs - minimum 2, as one logged in and one not logged in, and maybe more if you use incognito to search for those comments, because reddit will treat that as a separate visit from a separate user I gues
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by ankit219 5y ago
A definite problem from a company's perspective when their model is ads and gold/donations, both of which require users to be logged in. This directly affects the number of users willing to participate in discussions - both in big
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by ankit219 5y ago
> What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth Most growth is driven by Google Search. It accounts for almost half of their traffic. At this point, SEO is their moat. The problem they have
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by ankit219 5y ago
They have been touting MAUs and DAUs a lot over the last one year. Turns out their numbers are very very public. Whenever a new user creates an account, she automatically gets added to r/announcements. It's not a choice, they dont
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by ankit219 5y ago
Partly agree with you. My issue is just that nothing good was ever achieved by creating mass panic in uninformed public. And, we have had more than a few cases like that with far too many unintended consequences. In this case you may know w
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by ankit219 5y ago
There is a recent article by Max Roser on air pollution, providing a much needed context on what is happening: https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths One key point: > More recent studies tend to find
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by ankit219 5y ago
Agree with you. A lot of news publications tend to post about anything hoping searchers would land on their page for the answer. I google times for Football games, and the first link I get (in India) is from a news website, which does not e
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by ankit219 6y ago
I agree Goodreads is not broken. At least not for me. The answer is simple - it's single player mode is so strong that it's hard to usurp. A good comparison would be IMDb. Even if you dont have friends on Goodreads, you can do all
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by ankit219 6y ago
So, I did this very quickly. And, it's pretty raw since I just solved for my use case. I am not bragging or anything. Just want to put it out there for folks who use Google drive a lot. I do it and everytime I want to open a doc it tak

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