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by coolswan 9y ago
Sounded like a fire sale.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Don't tell this to Tony Hsieh who according to himself in his book went off to the mountains while Zappos was burning down. Turned out ok I guess.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Japan PM needs a strong show of support and response to North Korea from Trump and the US.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Darkhorse: Padmasree Warrior. They really need a seasoned executive who understands autonomous cars. My best idea to get her is for Uber to acquire NIO.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Interesting, it makes sense solving the first problem is metering than. Good luck!
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by coolswan 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance but is there actually enough water in and around India to make up for the shortage, but right now it's just not distributed efficiently? Or after solving for all these inefficiencies, there'd still be a shorta
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by coolswan 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with million dollar businesses but I think these companies are going after VC money and well, that TAM better be in billions for those VCs to give a damn.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Some companies go off the record. One reason is that they have deals or revenues they don't want to share with the public.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Isn't driving a public activity? Supposedly they're selling to HOAs; not sure how public/private those streets are. But I imagine you have a huge degree of control over that.
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by coolswan 9y ago
It seems like CCTV is just not used at all in US - I haven't noticed any. Maybe it's because there's no good infrastructure for it. Flock's stuff seems to be wireless and solar-powered(?), and sounds like in general very
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by coolswan 9y ago
Sounds like they do the latter too - action items to help utilize space better.
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by coolswan 9y ago
It sounded like mid-size companies with a few conference rooms at least. Agreed that it's crowded but also there's been no great solutions either. Unless you have the $$ to get Cisco systems.
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by coolswan 9y ago
I thought the same thing - FTP. I suppose we're all aging ourselves if we immediately think of that.
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by coolswan 9y ago
The startup addresses the obvious privacy question in the article but it's an interesting question. Personally, I'd rather protect my family than anything else.
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Sensor lets residents monitor who drives in and out of their neighborhood(bbc.com)
2 points by coolswan 9y ago|4 comments
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by coolswan 9y ago
That's a pretty bad typo. $136K.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Agreed. Fintech is huge in all growing emerging markets, especially those driven still on top of cash. No credit card infrastructure to mess with - move right onto digital wallets. China is the obvious example.
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by coolswan 9y ago
You mean white males?
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by coolswan 9y ago
The language barrier and easy access to lots of capital in China.
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by coolswan 9y ago
PeerGrade - https://www.peergrade.io/blog/peergrade-goes-y-combinator/
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by coolswan 9y ago
on the front page for me.
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The women behind Amazon Alexa(marieclaire.com)
37 points by coolswan 9y ago|19 comments
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by coolswan 9y ago
Despite it being so obvious, I really like their analogy, pharma::drug studio::movie vc::startup "Just" need one to work out!
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by coolswan 9y ago
Correlation usually insists on an existing lead as well.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Got that too. But if you're on Mac, you can play around with text to speech using os. import os os.system("say 'hello world'")
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by coolswan 9y ago
Everyone's feelings matters.
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by coolswan 9y ago
Yeah, was thinking the same thing.
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by coolswan 9y ago
This reminds me actually a lot of Jiro Ono (famed sushi-maker). "Once you decide on your occupation, you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your
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by coolswan 10y ago
Thanks for the AMA! What's the best way to deal with Google algorithm changes? Also, at what point does site performance actually impact my SEO?
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by coolswan 10y ago
sort of sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVI1NpCBF88 (tldr; same guy on how he overcame bullying - the very thing he's now doing)

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