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by czbond 6y ago
I'm going to be downvoted if I don't preface this statement: CompSci, know quite a few languages well enough. Good at it. I sure as heck hope that when my kids are career age - they're doing something a bit higher up the stac
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by czbond 6y ago
More affordable than free....?
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by czbond 6y ago
Thanks for asking - was curious the same. Always loved Rails, but then got into the "JS" toolset - which has been a cluster of extra required work.
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by czbond 6y ago
Yep - that's life. It's called 'the choices we make close doors'. Responsibilities we take on, have repercussions. Founders with such obligations can work at home after their job like every other person starting a small
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by czbond 6y ago
Disagree. If someone's choice either is to work for G, or start the company, it is the founders risk to take and give up that job for the outsized risk and return of starting up. It is not YC's need to compensate a founder for the
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by czbond 6y ago
Why would Y comb need to compete with someone who is considering an offer to G? In that case, the founder would leave for the better deal anyways - so it's best to leave before it gets REALLY hard.
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by czbond 6y ago
I don't disagree with that as a side effect; in the end, the only thing that matters for a company is runway of the founders.
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by czbond 6y ago
They don’t know at onset if a company deserves that much money. $25k is enough to see what people can accomplish in 3 months - maybe they take less equity. Most companies either have wrong leaders, wrong market, wrong skills, wrong business
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by czbond 6y ago
Not a filtering function - I know of a few founders who scrapped by on Medicaid and food stamps for years to build a successful business by they had no savings
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by czbond 6y ago
I’d suggest the opposite. One who is used to living off $1k a month for 1-2 years have an upper hand on founders used to a more cushy lifestyle. Or even having no income and almost broke for years like many successful founders I know of.
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by czbond 6y ago
Yes - but this is what every company does at founding. Get really lean, survive on whatever it can. Founders should expect company building to be a nervous and anxiety inducing endeavor for 7 years. It is incredibly painful - and not for th
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by czbond 6y ago
It is not YC’s job to support the company. That is the founders job. I’d suggest money supporting the company at seed diverts from a focus on monetary fit asap. $25k is enough to scrap by for enough months which should be the initial goal
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by czbond 6y ago
I think it is his heavy introvert side, which focuses on reflection and strategy. (In the pseudo-personality type world, "INTJ"). Entrepreneurs are typically ENTP, or ESTP and are extroverted, jump out and figure it out types. The
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by czbond 6y ago
OP is simply meaning the steps are laid out for those disciplines - and one must follow the path. It just takes the time and effort and one can progress there. Whereas entrepreneurship is finding the path, along with much more - and failure
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by czbond 6y ago
I laughed when I first heard about this. Maybe they took the approach of asking for so many un-reasonable things to make sure the school does not open.
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by czbond 6y ago
Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)
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by czbond 6y ago
Any thoughts or places to look for what impacts D & K have on the condition?
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by czbond 6y ago
Dream killer. Username doesn't check out. =]
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by czbond 6y ago
I was thinking before I saw your comment "seems an odd time to IPO" when people mainly talk about the AWS and Digital Ocean of the world. (Supposedly D.O. is IPO'ing next few years)
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by czbond 6y ago
I am only familiar with Rackspace of about 10 years ago. Beyond the marketing speak, what is their competitive advantage? Are they doing AWS prof serv?
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by czbond 6y ago
My line of thinking is this: For the past decade(s), the area of growth has been software. It has sucked in professionals into the industry who would have been biologists, chemists, physicists, etc. So my belief is that those areas are actu
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by czbond 6y ago
My suggestion is to look outside of SaaS. Software is much easier to bootstrap in the past decade, increasing competition (from within a customer, and competitors). We're in the phase where every single permutation of what one can do w
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by czbond 6y ago
I would suggest that the stories are never shared. SaaS are REALLY difficult to get off the ground.
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by czbond 6y ago
Agree. Math isn't as important, but things one doesn't fully grasp 'just programming' are things like internal language management (eg: garbage collection, speed difference in different algos, pointer impacts [lang depen
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by czbond 6y ago
Agree. I loved the theoretical side of CompSci (automata, programming language at the meta level, algorithms). Practical was boring to me and I lost interest in the day to day (7 hours of typing in an IDE!? joy). The problems of the practic
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by czbond 6y ago
Thank you. I spent longer than I wanted pondering if it was a battery acronym.
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by czbond 6y ago
Commits should really be signed. The first time I learned of this was when a malicious update was supposedly pushed to Tesla firmware. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work
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by czbond 6y ago
Thoughts on personalizing multi-group interactions. A few years back, I worked at a big4 consulting firm. I would often fly into some 'what city is it today?' to meet with a company's team and often up to CxO in F500. Usually
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by czbond 6y ago
Bitcoin transactions are already being de-anonymized at least in the U.S. - and if not today, the permanent ledger record means that the 'data exhaust' (hidden data surrounding a transaction) can back into it.
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by czbond 6y ago
Thank you for that really helpful reply. I re-framed my thoughts based on it.

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