danimal88

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by danimal88 6y ago
Sure. Tbh, I didn't really want this comment to be an opportunity to pitch my company or make it too specific about our solution as there are many different types of solutions, categories and problems that could use innovation capital
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by danimal88 6y ago
I build tech enabled, innovative physical infrastructure solutions for buildings. People do want them. VCs, less so, unless it's as high margin as a photo sharing app, destructive and lucrative as consumable businesses like Kurig, et
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by danimal88 7y ago
You'd think an easy enough change to the laws around IP for medical equipment would be that if they can't supply critical parts, particularly under extreme circumstances, they most hold harmless any supplier that is able to supply
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by danimal88 7y ago
Kind of crazy they couldn't find somebody to swap with
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by danimal88 7y ago
In general, it feels like this sort of company as a venture backed company is a waste of time. I understand you can create a 'brandless as a brand' company and make people think they are getting more for less, but this is literal
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by danimal88 7y ago
Assuming your bug fix mechanism is bug free...
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by danimal88 7y ago
Hard to say. One way is that they say got 100K in sales on 10K in ads. Then they said, hm, lets take 50K from sales and put it into more ads so we can get 500K in sales and the remaining 40K went to tooling/production. When that 50K
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by danimal88 7y ago
It would seem then that the real business opportunity here is probably in reselling used legos on an as needed basis. You buy or just get donated legos from people that no longer use them and then you can sell custom sets for people by runn
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by danimal88 7y ago
Just a though on the 200-300 buckets - perhaps you could create buckets in a grid and then just have the grid or dropper move around - once you know which bin is most appropriate for the part, the process of placing in the grid at that poin
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by danimal88 7y ago
Engineers like to hire engineers (and designers/product people). I think its because the utility and scope tend to be pretty obvious and you can always see more and more to build. As a founder with an engineering past (although you n
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by danimal88 7y ago
I'm worried about being on the road with these. If they are as indestructable as suggested/demonstrated, it seems like everyone else on the road becomes the crumple zone for both vehicles. Perhaps the anti-dent is different from
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by danimal88 7y ago
"[Designed to drive on mars]" Premature Optimization if I have ever heard of it.
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by danimal88 7y ago
I run a company ( https://flair.co ) that builds a device you could use but is admittedly out of your proposed price range. That said, it's consumer/prosumer grade and you can network as many as you want together. You
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by danimal88 7y ago
Paywalled so can't read the whole thing. In general, my understanding is that it is NOT exactly what happened. We are putting tariffs on ALL IMPORTS from China, whether designed, maintained, operated by a US corp or a Chinese corp. A
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by danimal88 7y ago
I don't understand why the US puts up with this while largely being denied market access to China. In my mind, it would be more symetrical to have applied tariffs to brands that aren't incorporated and substantially operating in
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by danimal88 7y ago
This is really missing the ESP8266 imho
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by danimal88 8y ago
Bayer is a filthy company that should have been shut down after being a key Nazi collaborator along with IBM, Siemens and others. Sure, they might be the victim of some cyber warfare, but in aggregate, they will never be a victim in my boo
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by danimal88 8y ago
Yep. https://ahrp.org/auschwitz60-year-anniversary-the-role-of-ig...
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by danimal88 8y ago
Its definitely a monopoly but I think this as much derives from the redundancy of running multiple cables/fibers/etc. hence a lot of these are natural monopolies. It's why utilities are handled the way they are as well. Sim
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by danimal88 8y ago
Was looking for the same thing but didn't see after skimming...
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by danimal88 8y ago
I really hate the casualness with which returns are assumed to work. Many goods aren't resellable after being returned with the end result being that they simply get thrown away. Its soooo wasteful.
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by danimal88 8y ago
https://flair.co
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by danimal88 8y ago
We basically just looked on Alibaba for factories that could do all the metal work that we needed, sent them a quotation package, set up a tour, confirmed their ISO:9001, negotiated terms, and were off to the races. If you have a CM where
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by danimal88 8y ago
I have quoted for parts in both the US and China. What I have seen is that generally, tooling is noncompetive - I got quotes for 22X the cost in the US...! That said, the advice we got from most of the people we were quoting with was to ge
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by danimal88 8y ago
TI chips can be quite affordable. TBH, 'Custom aluminum extrusion' - this is not a big deal at all. In China, the tool for this is < $1k and for what appears to be about 6 inches, perhaps its a dollar's worth a material i
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by danimal88 8y ago
A friend of mine runs this company, similar but I think actually better for sleep/circadian rhythms: https://circadia.health/
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by danimal88 8y ago
I build controls for many heatpumps ( https://flair.co/pages/mini-splits-and-window-units ) and follow the space pretty closely. They are truly magical with respect to pumping heat from the cold outdoors into a warm ind
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by danimal88 8y ago
Sticky/Elastic windows was definitely my favorite compiz option. It was just so ridiculous and entertaining.
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by danimal88 8y ago
I'm 100% as interested in Market Access as I am with IP theft. I'm sure there are small and large companies with IP concerns but overwhelmingly, this is a large companies game since they are the ones doing really heavy R&D li
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by danimal88 8y ago
If only we demanded more of the violence industry rather than the sex policing industry.

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