crapshoot101

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Google to acquire micro-satellite company Skybox for $1B...(mashable.com)
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Five Hard Things That Great VC's Do(techcrunch.com)
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Story of Your Life is one of the greatest short stories I've ever read. I don't think there's an author in sci-fi who I hope writes a full length novel more than Chiang.
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PowaTag funding - $96M (techcrunch.com)
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Be that as it may, why is this true just for founders? Ie, we sometimes forget the echo chamber we live in around here - ie, no one owes anyone a "fundraising" opportunity. Early stage investment is absolutely about validation, bu
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
For a whole bunch of reasons, ie to pick a few: - you may have a NWC situation where cash isn't paid up front - you may want to continue to invest in R&D / tech development on newer projects that aren't currently generati
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
To this day, one of my greatest fish out of water experience is walking through the Mission in a suit and tie on my way to a formal dinner - I think I would have been less conspicuous if naked.
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Why We Started Fundera(blog.fundera.com)
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
To be clear, I hope we aren't talking about Dragon Age II, which was awful, awful gameplay on what was an intruiging premise. I enjoyed the original, but it clearly had some IAP (I don't mind, but I can see how someone else might
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
The interest of the individual YC partner (in this case) through a direct investment in the "best" ones, is not offset by the interest of YC as a whole (and those YC partners through their interests in YC as an entire entity) whic
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
diff funds have very different policies - most top tier funds (from my experience) have a hard rule against it, given the potential signalling issues. That being said, I know at least one Tier-1 fund that lets partners invest in an existing
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, but its interesting: Uber has a legitimate point that in the end, it was the driver - but an Uber drive is not a "part time" Uber employee only. Per their rationale ,would an Uber driver only b
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KV replaces Yuri Milner in YC Start fund(techcrunch.com)
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
It isn't a claim that can be backed up more than anecdotally - it's the typical jihad without real data.
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
But why on earth should VC's fund it in that case? Isn't that an entrepreneur's decision, not the VC's? Blaming the VC's for not funding this seems ridiculous to me.
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Wait, explain? Why should VC's fund something they don't think will make enough money? That seems to be a sense of entitlement - clearly, paid users were not enough to support this product on its own (which by all accounts, is a s
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Name them. What 100 are those? Malaria is one of the single biggest factors in the development of the average African child's life, and the effects of it resonate through a lifetime. It is almost certainly the most Important priority,
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Yes, damn that content creator wanting to try and charge you for their content!
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Damn it - amazing musician. Hope he's taking the proverbial walk on the wild side.
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Quotodian Ventures to Change Focus Towards Industry Experts (pandodaily.com)
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for a Ted Chiang novel - "Story of Your Life" is one of the greatest short stories I have ever read, and others like "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" are spectacular a
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Be that as it may, does it mean everyone deserves to be painted with the same brush?
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Yeah, we are in NorCal for all practical purposes; actual geography be damned.
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Micheal, just once make a post without VC'istan or whatever new derogatory term you've come up with. There's plenty of great stuff out here, and I'm sorry that someone didn't fund your dream, but saying stuff like &
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/12/twitter-files-papers-to-go-publ... - interesting; secondary valuations are in the $14-15B range per GigaOM. I'm a believer at some level.
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
That was incredibly depressing - the story gets flagged because its not newsworthy to someone.
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
Again, this is a standard trope at HN,but is wrong - they are not primarily financial it goes like hedge fund or PE guys. Most top tier firms are made up of former entrepreneur types. And the idea that they all don't invest in groundbr
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
No, again it isn't. If you are looking to raise $1M on a $3M pre and you're talking to two firms seriously with the idea of picking one investor (who would end up with 25% in that scenario), you might negotiate some of that point,
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by crapshoot101 13y ago
they really don't. I realize this is one of those conversations entreprenuers think VC's have a lot, but most VC's have ownership and $ thresholds they are aiming for in an investment - just splitting the baby in half with an
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Apple buys Passif SemiConductor(allthingsd.com)
4 points by crapshoot101 13y ago|0 comments

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