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by confiscate 8y ago
yes, but the key part of your statement is "if there are people offering to buy". Everything else about spread/bid/ask/etc is just mathematic sugar. "People offering to buy" is key. It's very easy for
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by confiscate 8y ago
No. I see what you mean, but in practice that's not what happens. Numeric value is determined at time of sale. Without a sale, the object has no "value". It might be useful to you in some way, but it's value is 0 unless
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by confiscate 8y ago
ya but if you raise an extra 100M, that most likely is an up-round, which means the value of employee's equity has increased example: as an employee you own 10% of the company. The 10% is worth $10. After company raises a 100M round an
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by confiscate 8y ago
because PayPal is like any marketplace platform. Demand side is always more important than Supply side. If there is Demand (people willing to pay), there will most likely be lots of folks happy to Supply (merchants willing to sell). The opp
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by confiscate 8y ago
ya but, does it scale?
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by confiscate 8y ago
ewams, I would like to see this word doc too. Would like to learn since it sounds helpful. Would be happy to contribute as well. I checked your website but it looks like it's down due to PHP errors. How can I contact you? My email is i
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by confiscate 8y ago
ya but that sounds like you are not the target audience. Most of the time in enterprise sales, the potential customer is too busy to try software himself. Learning a new piece of software takes a lot of time and effort. Unless you are a tec
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by confiscate 8y ago
yes but the ultimate goal, is to make an AI as "smart", or "smarter" than a human. That's why they keep making AI's play against human players in Chess, Go etc. It's not to prove computers are faster than
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by confiscate 8y ago
Yes but it seems impossible to manually assign a score to all those different situations? There are too many situations like that Is the outcome prediction score, itself, also produced by AI training? It has to be, right? Because it's
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by confiscate 8y ago
How does outcome prediction work? It sounded like that was based partly on Supply (Army size). But the AI only knows it's own Army Size, and not the human's army size. So how can the AI's outcome prediction be so accurate? At
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by confiscate 8y ago
Yes I am curious of this too. What happens if the human has a giant TV screen that can see the whole map at once Or, what if we slow down the game, so that the human can actually pause the game each second and consider what to do next. That
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by confiscate 8y ago
really enjoyable read, especially the evernote on customer journey! I think it would benefit if you wrote a blurb about yourself at the end. I.e. your accomplishments and where you are now etc. The story would be more interesting if we knew
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by confiscate 8y ago
True, but why laugh at Amazon? What can you possibly gain by picking on the "little guy"? The reporter is supposed to be an expert in this field. That's why 60 minutes hired him, instead of someone else, for the job. I am sur
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by confiscate 8y ago
True. But, the 60-minutes reporter didn't justify his claims based on risk or on math. He was skeptical because Sears is huge, and to him it was laughable [and yes, he did literally laugh many times in that interview] that Amazon can s
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by confiscate 8y ago
Amazon worth more than Sears? Can you imagine?
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by confiscate 8y ago
60 minutes interview with a young Jeff Bezos, 1999 https://youtu.be/VuI-ss5aQU8?t=629 "how do you view that phenomenon [laugh] that Amazon is worth more than Sears!? [condescending laugh]" "a couple of geeks
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by confiscate 8y ago
great observation. I noticed the same phenomenon but did not know there is a back story
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by confiscate 8y ago
1. first and foremost, ask yourself WHY this CEO is giving you her valuable time? It's a lot of inconvenience for the CEO. There must be a real reason (more than just being a friend). You need to know the reason for you being there. Ot
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by confiscate 8y ago
He should probably continue to post the video of the "people helping him put packages on their porches" as well as their friends who pretended to "steal" the package. Because the original goal was to uncover dishonest pe
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by confiscate 8y ago
there is an easy way to stand up heel-side. the trick is to first, roll in the "opposite" direction. When you are sitting down, roll backwards so the back of your neck is touching the snow, and the bottom of your board is pointing
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Arculus modern assembly line(techcrunch.com)
1 points by confiscate 8y ago|0 comments
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AI desperately needs regulation and public accountability(techcrunch.com)
1 points by confiscate 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple Watch’s ECG feature is already proving its worth(techcrunch.com)
3 points by confiscate 8y ago|0 comments
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by confiscate 8y ago
I am not sure what is valuable here though. It sounds like you think fundraising skills in and of itself is valuable. I guess that kind of makes sense But still, at best he can be a mentor for when you fundraise. But would you hire him or p
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by confiscate 8y ago
interesting. What kind of lucrative opportunities would they have? As a fundraising-consultant? Because I am curious as well
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by confiscate 8y ago
if you are the founder of Juicero, who burned through $118 million with nothing to show for it, would that look better on your resume?
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by confiscate 8y ago
I don't quite understand this. 2 scenarios: 1. Juicero who burned through $118 million with nothing to show for it 2. bootstrapped startup with $0 funding that made profits It sounds like you would rather be the founder of #1
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by confiscate 8y ago
> is a point worth noting. What is your point again? Either way, you will always be at the whims of your customer. So why is that a disadvantage when bootstrapping?
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by confiscate 8y ago
This is not YC's fault. I am not sure why you would blame YC for this. As you said, founders should focus on making great companies (not just great products), so they should not focus on the outcome release time. If you get into YC tha
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by confiscate 8y ago
ya but in this case, wouldn't you have to program a really complex loss function, to track a lot of things like lighting, edge detection, granularity, video compressions artifacts etc. basically at this point you would have a lot of if

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