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by asanwal 15y ago
New York, NY (full-time) CB Insights / Chubbybrain (cbinsights.com | chubbybrain.com) We're National Science Foundation backed and looking for 3 positions. 1. Front-end web developer - must love data visualizations 2. Machine learning exp
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Meat without Slaughter - 6 months to "bio-sausages"(newscientist.com)
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by asanwal 15y ago
This is great and quite amusing. I just wish I could compare the # of references to Cristal vs. Dom P over time :)
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Inside the Secret World of Hackers(guardian.co.uk)
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by asanwal 15y ago
Unfortunately, DC based on VC funding to local companies (including Maryland, VA and DC) doesn't hold a candle to NYC or Mass on the east coast. It's funding numbers have been buoyed in recent quarters by large LivingSocial rounds but other
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Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich(nytimes.com)
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Reddit and community journalism(hyperorg.com)
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Rapper, The Game, uses Twitter to incite telephone flash mob agst police(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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Should you meet with VCs early for feedback?(robgo.org)
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Pulling a Winklevoss? Ways To Ensure You Won't Find a Technical Co-Founder(chubbybrain.com)
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Gamification is bullshit(m.bogost.com)
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by asanwal 15y ago
NYC is a great place to found a startup. It's overtaken Boston as the #2 place for VC funding which means capital is available and more and more west coast VCs are setting up shop here which is good if $$$ is one of the things you are seek
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Never Meet VCs Unless They're Formally Pitching(allensblog.typepad.com)
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Start-up picks new Web address after hijacking(news.cnet.com)
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Biz Stone's Awkward Meeting with Mark Zuckerberg(thenextweb.com)
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Dear Intrapreneur - You are Nothing Like An Entrepreneur; Stop Fooling Yourself(chubbybrain.com)
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by asanwal 15y ago
You're right - the customer development model/ethos would have failed in identifying Twitter or FB. However, that's probably ok as Twitter and FB are outliers. I'm not sure setting out to build the next FB or Twitter is a a prudent "strate
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by asanwal 15y ago
Another related one which analyzes 32 post-mortems and identifies the 20 recurring reasons for failure http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/top-reasons-startups-fail-an...
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by asanwal 15y ago
No better way to learn than to do so great advice and post about strategies to do just this. Although I do wonder if this all can be realistically achieved in 6 weeks. The only thing I'd disagree with esp given the finite time available is
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by asanwal 15y ago
New York, NY - CB Insights / ChubbyBrain Front End Developer (full-time) We're a National Science Foundation backed startup that aggregates and analyzes private company and investor data. We are using this data to tackle some very hard pro
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Banishing the Wantrapreneur(nickgiglia.com)
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by asanwal 15y ago
Guess just a difference of perspectives. It's unfortunate that you're willing to impugn this entire sequence of events and everyone involved despite having no real evidence that this was in fact done for PR. But even if it was an elaborate
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by asanwal 15y ago
Whoa - why the bitterness? Sure there are non-profits that do a lot of good but that doesn't mean what Snapdeal has done is not worthy of recognition nor does it mean CNN should not cover them. And because Snapdeal is a startup likely busy
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by asanwal 15y ago
The Hipster-type examples of the world which gets all sorts of coverage on TC are the occasional winners and make everyone feel it's easy (success bias). You don't hear about the hundreds of other folks who put up a coming soon page and go
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by asanwal 15y ago
It'd be nice if startup advice wasn't so absolute and instead presented "rules" or suggestions as being situational. "If you’re doing a startup, you should have less features than your competitors" may very well be good advice for certain
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22 Coworking Spaces in NYC and How Much They Cost(chubbybrain.com)
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Groupon Chairman says company will be wildly profitable(bloomberg.com)
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by asanwal 15y ago
Interesting idea but on my first query, it locked up Chrome on me and went absolutely batsh1t crazy. Had to shut down Chrome and relaunch it. Will wait for MVP2.0
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by asanwal 15y ago
Prior discussion on this from the original source here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594982
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by asanwal 15y ago
- Jobs appears to have that certain je ne sais quoi. There are exceptional folks and outliers and he is one of them IMO. I wish I was smart enough to what it is about him so I could bottle that and become rich selling it, but alas... - Mar

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