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by corry 8y ago
Obligatory Hammerbacher quote: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." Wonder what the opportunity cost of so many talented people spending their time at FB working on stuff l
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by corry 8y ago
Hmmmmm. "We are entrepreneurs that want to give back to the community, by making it easier to get access to early feedback by experts. You can always reach out for more info." My read: "we're not YC alum ourselves",
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by corry 8y ago
IMO the bar should be much higher for solo founders. If you have 2 people, then it's twice as many resources to check all the various boxes you need (sales, design, technical, etc) - otherwise the solo person has to credibly be an am
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by corry 8y ago
Interesting theory, I think there's something to it. There's probably some selection bias going on with the religious homes thing. Like the hidden variable that both religious adherence AND discipline/work ethic are caused by
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by corry 8y ago
Great article Aaron! This is such an interesting part of fundraising, since while every founder has "seed round" stories, only a subset have Series A stories. And even then, it's a further subset of founders who have had mul
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by corry 9y ago
In my experience, technical people latently believe the thing that people buy from you is a product. So if the product isn't done / ready / etc, then you are being misleading trying to "sell" them or engage with the
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by corry 9y ago
Notice that most of the comments here are describing post-hoc how having children has been fulfilling/great/worth it. Which isn't really the question - it's not asking if having children was a good move in retrospect
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by corry 9y ago
You probably already know this, but in case other readers don't, the depth of color on keto sticks is NOT a measure of "how deeply in ketosis" you are. The depth of color indicates how concentrated ketones are in your urine,
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by corry 9y ago
Here's the whitepaper that actually discusses what they are doing (much better than this article IMO): https://kin.kik.com/Kin%20Whitepaper%20v1.pdf Also here's Fred Wilson's write-up (he's an investor i
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by corry 9y ago
Note: I just came across this: http://avc.com/2017/05/kin/ Much better detail on the what's / how's / why's. Including link to the whitepaper.
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by corry 9y ago
Respectfully, I think you and others in this thread defining "Kin" too narrowly by thinking of it exclusively a premium virtual token for use inside of Kik. Yes, that's obviously the first use-case. But thinking bigger, the c
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by corry 9y ago
Because doing it as a decentralized cryptocurrency would allow it to one day be more significant than just an internal token systems. There is power in the combination of anonymous identity / messaging + bona fide cryptocurrency.
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by corry 10y ago
Good point. Canada is <60% European descent - but still not as big of a gap as I thought. Canada's big cities tend to be very multicultural -- Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal -- which maybe skews my perception a bit.
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by corry 10y ago
Even after reading the attached letter from Peter, it's not clear to me as to 'why New Zealand'. Sure... friendly people, environment, business friendly gov, familiar culture, opportunity to contribute to startup community et
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by corry 10y ago
Good analogy, but without taking into account the financing side of things it's only a partial picture. Imagine if that player was borrowing and spending Other People's Money since High School, based on the EXPECTATION that one da
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by corry 10y ago
Interesting comment. I've played soccer from a young age, and I can definitely see online <--> offline experiences influencing each other. The biggest area has to do with the use of space; when to expect other players to make run
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by corry 10y ago
Agreed that there's a ton of pressure and that can lead to unhappiness, stress, or worse. Doing startups isn't for everyone. Doing YC isn't for everyone. Doing YC with an idea that isn't working must be extremely unpleas
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by corry 10y ago
Really hard to read the article and conclude that "YC forced them to pivot". Sounds like things weren't working and YC was honest with them. From the same article: > We went back to PG, and he told us to stop worrying abou
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by corry 11y ago
You're right, I meant privately. It's been relatively widely known in Canadian tech circles that this is coming.
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by corry 11y ago
"...in the coming year". They've been claiming that the Canada datacenter is coming for awhile now... disappointed there are no details on launch date. Anyone have insight into the timing?
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by corry 12y ago
Good advice, and to expand on that: Even when they do read your application closely, I'd STILL expect them ask you questions that you answered in the app. There is a BIG difference between painstakingly writing an answer on your applic
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by corry 12y ago
Re: Minecraft - as an adult, Minecraft is the closest thing to lego I've come across. You can build anything, go on any adventure. Far more immersive than lego, but still crude enough that you need a bit of imagination to really get in
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by corry 12y ago
I had the exact same experience (e.g. creating simple point-and-click 'games' that were really just stories with multiple branches). What's cool is that as I made these games I kept wanting to add more to them (interactivity,
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by corry 12y ago
Seems like the easiest metaphor for this is "DNS for GPS" - i.e. in the same way DNS translates IP addresses into something human-readable, this translates lat-long into something easy to remember and work with.
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by corry 12y ago
Nice application process! It's funny what a little bit of styling does. Is this a small side web app you guys rolled yourself or are you using a decision-making product (like Submittable, etc) for the back-end?
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by corry 12y ago
Imagine: Google itself could find proof of this, given that it's organizing the world's information. In fact, Google is one of the only entities that could actually 'prove' this out. What would they do if they identified
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by corry 12y ago
No, you are 100% incorrect. CASL applies to any Commercial Email Message SENT to Canadians - server location doesn't matter. (Sorry for being harsh, but we need to get the correct message out there). Source: hours spent with our lawyer
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by corry 12y ago
Any soccer/football fans will tell you that it's a tough sport to predict for a variety of reasons: low scoring games, lots of potential for human error in officiating, high levels of competence of even weak teams, team dynamic vs
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by corry 12y ago
To me the WHOLE POINT of the Golden Rule is that there ISN'T a whole bunch of introspection / analysis / etc of the other person. You just use yourself as the litmus test - i.e. "would I like this?" is waaaaaay easi
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by corry 13y ago
I agree with your take and Scalzi's take: it had to play out this way given the stakeholders. What's more interesting (and I think your last statement eludes to that) is the lack of tolerance for Eich's views. The 'parad

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