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by bethly 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Preferred shares are reflected in the current payoffs; that's what's responsible for the "low exit" portion of the slider not paying off at all. Are you talking about participation preferences t
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by bethly 9y ago
Ah, the glories of default html input behavior!
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by bethly 9y ago
If you ask the company should tell you what the "the total shares outstanding on a fully-diluted basis" is. If they don't tell you when you ask it's cause for concern; otherwise there isn't a way to tell what your
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by bethly 9y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate you letting me know; it's fixed now :) (For the curious, I added a click mask to the modal contents and forgot to update the links to fire anyway.)
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by bethly 9y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate the feedback. The price of the options eating into returns is reflected in the number we present (we assume a consistent valuation growth by stage and at exit), but taxes aren't and those can 40%+ in the US,
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by bethly 9y ago
That is correct! Rather than try to distinguish the Series A startups that exit during Series A from Series A startups that are going to raise more money before exiting successfully, I just assumed that every company raised the average amou
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by bethly 9y ago
The data set is definitely small (CB Insights data only had 61 companies that raised four rounds, for example), but it also surprised me how many Series C companies failed to raise. It might be because earlier acquisitions are an easier ex
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by bethly 9y ago
Hi! I'm the engineer :) I used two sources of data: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital-funnel-2/ which was specific to tech companies and http://files.pitchbook.com/pdf/Pitch
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by bethly 12y ago
I actually found programming easy. I started taking CS classes because they were a simple way to boost my GPA. When all words are cryptic, programming can be extremely well-suited. Coding mistakes come from a lack of attention and tooling
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by bethly 12y ago
OP here: thank you for the additional clinical background. That sound-symbol relationship is exactly what I have trouble with. I had intensive, systematic training in sound-symbol correspondences, and though it did not seem particularly ef
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by bethly 12y ago
That wouldn't test for whether we evolved for it. We could, at best, simulate early human societies with various levels of violence and see if one led to large jaws. (Though currently we have insufficient information to model such soc
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by bethly 12y ago
Only if the theories are falsifiable, which is not the case in evolutionary biology.
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The Dyslexic Programmer(blog.bethcodes.com)
7 points by bethly 12y ago|1 comments
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Why mainstream companies are losing black talent(qz.com)
5 points by bethly 13y ago|0 comments
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by bethly 13y ago
His quote was ungrammatical, but it sounds significantly worse when he seems to be talking about the women applying to YCombinator. His use of venues that have been traditionally hostile to women, conferences and open source, to try to make
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by bethly 13y ago
They are classified as "dependent personality disorder" under the DSM IV, part of the anxiety group of Axis II disorders.
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by bethly 13y ago
I almost hope this goes to court. I suspect Boston has plenty of people who would be happy to testify; dude's been infamous around her for forever. You'd think an entrepreneurship consultant would understand how the internet worked by now
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by bethly 14y ago
Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers & Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835
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by bethly 14y ago
Citations provided: http://blog.bethcodes.com/is-the-internet-convincing-women-n... The includes links to studies (like Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender d
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by bethly 14y ago
#9 actually does sound hellish. The rest of it mostly comes across as snide, since it's not actually exaggerated enough to be satire.
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by bethly 14y ago
A-Plus Players tend to underestimate the value other people find in stability, predictability and routine. On the other hand, A-Plus Players themselves can get tied up in perfectionism and never produce anything, much less anything like th
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by bethly 14y ago
Wow. I took the time to engage in good faith, to try to explain what it is like to be me and how that varies from what you seemed to expect. Now I feel like a shmuck for having assumed the same of you. Glad you found a way to dismiss ever
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by bethly 14y ago
Well, it depends what you mean by "effect". I certainly think I cope with it better because I am aware of what is going on. I'm experienced and successful enough to be confident in my code, and I got there in part by learning about sexism
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by bethly 14y ago
It's not that conscious, but every time I walk into a room full of men... hm, the closest analogy I can think of is arriving at what you thought was a fancy dress party only to discover everyone else is in jeans and a t-shirt. Every time I
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by bethly 14y ago
When I wrote a post that contained nothing but science it got flagged off HN with one up vote and no comments. I feel like there is a huge double-bind, where anything science-y is boring and dry and long and qualified with caveats and error
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by bethly 14y ago
Your attitude is derailing: this isn't a zero-sum game. I do talk about other under-represented segments, including the intersections. We aren't talking about them right now , and we don't need to stop talking about this in order to talk
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by bethly 14y ago
I am a damn good programmer. I have these problems. I am sorry you encountered gender-policing behavior at your last job: that is exactly what I, as a feminist, am trying to fight against for both men and women. Saying that because patria
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Show HN: Diversity-Related HN Stories, Collected(pinboard.in)
2 points by bethly 14y ago|0 comments
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by bethly 14y ago
I think, like many things, it is all about how you sell it. I have seen programmers with Masters be dismissed because of it, and another with a Ph.D. that he left off his resume trying to avoid the stigma. No one wants to hire someone as a
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by bethly 14y ago
Everyone seems to ignore the hundreds of articles that are written by women. Their technical articles get maybe 10 comments, while gender related articles get hundreds. I know personally my one gender related post has 50% more viewers tha

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