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by capocannoniere 9y ago
Reddit raised $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion [1] Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise [2] Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation [3] Twitch was acquired by $970M, so I guess
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by capocannoniere 9y ago
> 10 YC alum are valued at over $1B and 64 YC alum are valued at over $100M. Impressive. But off the top of my head I can count a few more than 10 YC companies valued at $1B or more: 1) Airbnb 2) Quora 3) Stripe 4) Dropbox 5) Instacart 6
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How Blockchain Will Unlock Access to Capital in Emerging Market Economies(medium.com)
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by capocannoniere 9y ago
I'd be more than happy if the proceeds went to ACLU or Watsi or one of the YC non-profits
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by capocannoniere 9y ago
Am I the only one who would actually prefer these Amazon links to be affiliate links? Affiliate links make me feel like I'm paying back the curator(s) for the awesome recommendations I'm thankful for. However minor that might be.
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Deep learning algorithm diagnoses arrhythmias with cardiologist-level accuracy(news.stanford.edu)
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Ask HN: How do you stay up to date on advances in the cryptocurrencies space?
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Ask HN: Which companies are considered to have the best engineers in 2017?
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Amazon Shareholder Letters(phx.corporate-ir.net)
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Ask HN: What are ways to solve the chicken-egg problem for AI/big data startups?
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What if mathematicians are wrong about the “hot-hand” fallacy?(espn.com)
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You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse During Obama’s Presidency(nytimes.com)
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Startup Growth Guide(julian.com)
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Ask HN: How true is it that ninety-something percent of startups fail?
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Ask HN: What single book is the best intro to your field for laypeople?
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Ask HN: How do you quickly get up to speed on a new subject or industry?
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
You might not need Redux, written by the author of Redux: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
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How do you go about making an idea into a finished website?(quora.com)
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
Facebook is known to A/B test features in other countries before rolling them out to the rest of the world. Stories in particular launched earlier this year in Ireland, Chile, Greece and Vietnam. > Facebook Stories, a feature that p
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
> Teens and 20-somethings liked the fact that Snapchat was their real friends. Facebook has that goofy uncle, and coworkers from 5 jobs ago, and old classmates you don't really want to stay in touch with. Facebook has too many &quot
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
What are some recent examples? It would be particularly impressive for a team of ~2-3 people to: - build a product - handle legal/HR paperwork to set up a company + recruit + hire - launch - iterate based on feedback - Get solid tracti
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
Let me phrase this question in a slightly different way: At what stage would a company like Dropbox (or any other successful YC graduate) benefit the most from going through the YC program? (And I realize this varies depending on the indust
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Understanding Black-Box Machine Learning Predictions via Influence Functions(arxiv.org)
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Why Facebook's seemingly clumsy attempts to copy Snapchat may just work(businessinsider.com)
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Stanford research shows anyone can become a troll on the Internet(engineering.stanford.edu)
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
> I feel the inclusion of people like Camp and Musk hurts the point the story is trying to make. I think the point of the article still stands. The current immigration ban is limited to a handful of countries, but xenophobic bigotry gene
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
I assume what they really mean by Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups is that 51% of $1B+ U.S. startups have at least one immigrant founder , right? (as opposed to 51% of unicorn founders are immigrants )
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
Joel Spolsky has written a great article on software pricing: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-... This article was part of the reading list at Stanford's Startup Engineering C
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by capocannoniere 10y ago
> Greg is a world-class recruiter (he plans every detail of interviews, heavily researches candidate’s backgrounds, sends thoughtful and persistent followups, and so on), and I now believe even more strongly that someone on the founding
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Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists(news.stanford.edu)
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