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by devinmontgomery 12y ago
I think the best thing about it, more than being inspirational, is that it normalizes the idea of starting a startup - especially if you're from outside the valley.
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Google doodle winds up with one foot, kicks with other(google.com)
1 points by devinmontgomery 12y ago|0 comments
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by devinmontgomery 12y ago
Startup checklist item #378: Get some bullshit patents we don't even believe are valid to use defensively and/or pretend we have some protectable IP. Of all the things I don't want to spend time on, this is right up there.
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by devinmontgomery 12y ago
I got nothing from the project description, but here's the patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US6516866 It sounds like a mashup of injection molding and lost wax casting (what they call "lost core molding
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by devinmontgomery 12y ago
This says a lot about the alternatives YC says it's really competing with - the other things people who could build great startups would otherwise be doing. $17k is what two engineering students might have made at a summer internship i
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Only the Toughest Would Survive on Tatooine Worlds (2013)(newscientist.com)
2 points by devinmontgomery 12y ago|0 comments
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by devinmontgomery 12y ago
So I used this to answer the obvious question: life would suck on Tatooine, with an earth-sized planet shooting in and out of the habitable zone. Then I found this: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23051-only-the-t
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Thumbs up for clarity. There's some inherent complexity to having different rates borrows pay vs what lenders receive, but having interest broken up by both flat rate and APR and posting the registration fee in the same place makes it
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
That's the page. Something like "No fee to apply. You chose 5-30% interest rate. $12 registration fee applied to first successful loan." A calculator like Shipwire uses to help people calculate the cost of their fulfillment s
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
It would be awesome if your "What are the fees and interest?" section on your borrower page was this explicit and clear about what the fees and interest rates are.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
The way Zidisha markets its rates feels like a lot of services I see. It's how my phone bill, electric bill, almost all my bills work - hidden fees charged by everyone so you just assume you're going to be paying more than is quot
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
I think this is basically what Kickstarter is. It gives you a defined set of goals and a deadline. You do a pitch and get money. But instead of that money buying equity, it buys your product or service, validates your idea, and hooks you in
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Starting a startup is like going to war with hundreds of millions of people except instead of attacking you, they just do not give a shit about what you're doing and ignore you all the time. This is really important. When I first sta
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
I guess I was wondering where the startups themselves or press coverage used the analogy. And wasn't Yahoo's category system like a file organizer for the web? Google is more like sifting through co-workers papers to see what sour
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Ask HN: When has X startup in "X is like Y for Z" done better than Y?
6 points by devinmontgomery 13y ago|6 comments
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
This feels like a mashup between "If the moon were only one pixel" and Spritz.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
refuses to use version control It sounds like this person is used to working alone. If the parts you're working on are completely separate, that might be okay. If you're both technical and both working on the same parts, it seem
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Love this: The procedure has never been tested, he added.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
The only question is whether Watsi and BCBS operate within similar enough markets for their use to be considered infringement - I'm less sure of that. Even if they're in different markets, Blue Cross is well-known enough that th
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
"an HN" is right if HN is meant to be read "aitch en." The a/an rule is based on phonetics. And to your question, I guess not. :P
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
We make a conscious effort not to be influenced by early progress though, because there is no correlation between how far along a company is when they apply to YC and how well they end up doing. Given how many reapplications YC gets, it s
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
But what are future YC applicants going to use as examples of non-computer systems they've hacked?
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
This was great - I'd love to see more levels. As mentioned, the r-pentamino and other Methuselahs are over-powered. Maybe having some "friendly" cells that disqualify you if activated would make it more balanced.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
I don't mean to nitpick, but according to your table, an idea is worth anywhere from -$1 to $20. :)
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
I feel like I reached out and touched the face of the Internet. This is very very cool.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Margin on an item is different than gross operating margin. Amazon makes 20%+ margin, "pretty healthy", on "a lot of what it sells" (almost all retail items that are marked down 30% or less from their MSRP) and .5% isn&#
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
"0.5% for a retailer is an incredible amount of money." It's not nothing, but Amazon makes pretty healthy margins on a lot of what it sells. It's $.50 on a $100 purchase, which is cheap for an Amazon leader. It's ju
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Interestingly, the article appears behind a registration-required modal window, but you can read the whole article by scrolling down and leaving the window in place.
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by devinmontgomery 13y ago
Dear Employees: We don't actually think millennials are lazy and spoiled. But employing people is hard, and we make mistakes too. It would be great if there was a way forward other than us firing lists of grievances back and forth at e
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Plant that grows tomatoes and potatoes(theguardian.com)
1 points by devinmontgomery 13y ago|0 comments

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