benmathes

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by benmathes 12y ago
preferred vs common, participating preferred vs common (i.e. liquidation preference), possible pro-rata rights (thought at this stage further financings are probably unlikely) disclaimer: I work at greylock, who was an earlier investor, tho
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by benmathes 12y ago
I suspect there is just a semantic difference. Women are certainly competitive. The framing of the competition matters, though. Broadly speaking , based on the tactics of professional coaches of women and psychological studies, competing
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by benmathes 12y ago
Broadly speaking, competition definitely creates sex-based selection-bias. Men self-select into competitions more than women, and are more motivated by them. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201210&#x
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by benmathes 12y ago
"Meritocracy" is often the idealized thing we like to call the American economy, but it is far from that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno
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by benmathes 12y ago
Finance allows diversification in ways that operating (programming, marketing, etc.) doesn't. One usually needs to either (a) make money operating or (b) gain experience marking to either (a) invest your own money or (b) invest the mon
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by benmathes 12y ago
Get back to traveling.
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by benmathes 12y ago
AngelList's office was/is on Maiden Lane in San Francisco.
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by benmathes 13y ago
And you can use it for just 5% of any profits made on it. but seriously, have at it. Guaranteed there's prior art.
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by benmathes 13y ago
You could also automatically run split tests on a per-merchant basis, thereby automatically auto-tune the checkout for each merchant.
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by benmathes 13y ago
No reason to trust, no way to verify.
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by benmathes 13y ago
Money is an indirect representation of impact. It's not perfect, but positive impact can be rewarded financially.
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by benmathes 13y ago
I love your energy and appetite for life. I might suggest looking into the Myth of Multitasking: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+myth+of+multitasking
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by benmathes 13y ago
Incredibly useful if you're on medicare (what the price data is based on). For the majority of us _not_ on medicare, castlighthealth.com is solving this. It's B2B for now, i.e. Tesla pays for castlight and then its employees can u
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by benmathes 13y ago
I hope all the upvotes you're receiving is evidence that we _do_ care. Perhaps get into some multiplayer online games? They really helped me when I was feeling lonely -- especially if you start to play with a regular crowd and start to
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by benmathes 13y ago
Oh sweet, now I can actually put this up for less than $ArmAndALeg https://github.com/benmathes/earthquakes
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by benmathes 13y ago
Which is almost more arrogant, since it translates to "The country in the center". It's a little easier to understand why there's a strain of "we are the center of the world, outside our borders are barbarians"
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by benmathes 13y ago
Couldn't really get started (with the latest clean install of leiningen from homebrew). $ lein cljsbuild auto async-tutl ... java.lang.Exception: Unknown build identifier: async-tutl Did the name of the tutorial change? edit
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by benmathes 13y ago
80k as a US Average translates to about 120k in San Francisco, adjusted for cost of living. According to the startup jobs on angellist, SF is paying average salaries (adjusted for cost of living): https://angel.co/salaries
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by benmathes 13y ago
That's brutal, and hard to read, especially when I've experience shreds of that loneliness, that unreasonable fear that you have nowhere and no one to go to. Each morning I read a note to myself: "The high score isn't m
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by benmathes 13y ago
Reading legal docs does suck for angels. We launched a product on AngelList that completely standardized the seed-round docs (debt or equity), the early adopters liked it, but we didn't get traction and it was an awful lot of legwork t
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My Life is Great and I Wanted to End It.(siliconunderbelly.blogspot.com)
5 points by benmathes 13y ago|0 comments
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by benmathes 13y ago
I worked at RockYou.com in its heyday, which was when we had the #1 app on facebook, Superwall. Superwall used exactly one of the strategies outlined in this article: Fix one of the pain points on a platform. The platform was Facebook, the
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by benmathes 13y ago
This was a hack week project of mine sometime last year. I still get good use out of it, thought some of you might as well.
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Show HN: See How You Connect, right in GMail.(angel.co)
2 points by benmathes 13y ago|1 comments
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by benmathes 14y ago
Like all maxims, "by endurance we conquer" is meant only to remind you of some potential solutions. Knowing when to quit and when to stick with it is the hard part.
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by benmathes 14y ago
I know this isn't the right venue, I don't know how else to get in touch with you, Carter. I still have your camera that you lent me when I let you keep my backup squash racket. I didn't know you had moved to NYC without returning it to you
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by benmathes 14y ago
I like the embeds, but "dope" seems like terminology from a different domain.
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by benmathes 14y ago
I liked your writing style -- anecdotal with the moral at the end of each section.
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by benmathes 14y ago
It's only open to accredited investors. This is for legal reasons, I think. You can read more here: https://angel.co/help/invest
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by benmathes 14y ago
frisco: “This is not a local, social, mobile photosharing app. It’s really frustrating to see someone get a PhD in chemistry and decide what the world really needs is a better way to share photos in real time to music.” Clearly a lot of inv

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