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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   in my experience few VCs will explicitly state a rejection on team to a founder's face due to that reason's propensity to generate a hostile reaction
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   it's called market mapping and that's exactly what he wanted
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   I Won't Invest (2019)(davidjarvis.com)

   18 points by dustingetz 2y ago|9 comments
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   i turned off the images, it’s under bandwidth saving settings but makes x much better and helps keep the alg away from memes also
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   are you the CEO? why would you disclose? YC is like a weekly dinner and a zoom call right? And it takes many attempts to get in anyway. Shoot your best shot and don’t make imaginary problems. Your cofounders can cover for you if you are not
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   For major products we use v3-alpha-789 where 789 is number of commits since tag v3-alpha, v3 is the marketing version, and alpha is the maturity statement, here meaning “stable with new feature work and enhancements in development, minor br
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   millennial boomer here where is the gen z cheat sheet for this git switch thing that i keep hearing about
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   zombie companies suck all the oxygen out of the room and away from productive companies, the victim is society and civilization at large and the damage is measured in lost exponential progress of unbound time axis, potentially millennia. Me
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   by dustingetz 2y ago

   Yes but mirror boxes are not real, except maybe the case of quark color confinement inside a proton?
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    Thanks, and LOL: we will model the spaceship as an idealized box with perfectly reflecting walls. This is necessary, because the second law of thermodynamics applies only to thermally isolated systems, to which we can assign a Hamiltonian
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    What about entropy? e.g. you send an egg around a CTC, the egg breaks (or like it’s a quantum particle whose wave packet disperses over time, or a bacteria powered by cellular respiration), the system cannot reconstruct without adding energ
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    yes, fly.io deploys also. Philadephia
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    example of distribution please? couldn’t find
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    Black String in the Standard Model – High Energy Physics – Theory(arxiv.org)

    1 points by dustingetz 2y ago|1 comments
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    group fitness scheduling platforms use facebook login and disseminate information through their business page, if you hard delete your account you’re hard blocking yourself from local small businesses. what’s so hard about just not using it
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    i’d worry more about getting your application read, you ever go through a folder with 18,000 resumes in it? you fog out after like 3. recommendations are the answer to this
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    i followed 1000 scientists on X last year. Quantum mechanics, particle physics, general relativity, astrophysics and cosmology, molecular bio, chemistry, math, microbiology, environment, linguistics, psychology, middle east, islam, French.
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    did you guys decide to publish code for Woldcard? i might take a whack at building something cool on top of this if y’all are interested in permitting that
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    this is excellent
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    you need a coach, for both knowledge and accountability. Sales is hard, you’re going to fuck up important calls and need to postmortem them correctly in order to improve and succeed. In the US a coach starts at about $300/hour (3-5 hou
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    help more people. Use your skills and resources to accelerate progress in the areas in which you are sufficiently competent. If my startup exits i have zero doubt that I will continue in this way.
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    9:30 asleep, 5:30 wake, get coffee, scroll phone, 5:55 out the door to exercise - run or group fitness class, 7:10 breakfast, shower, 7:30 ET zoom standup with Europe, work until 5:30 (tech founder), dinner with wife, evenings are free, 8:3
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    companies do not really have interests, individual people have interests. The founders, the board, investors, executives, managers, ICs, consultants, vendors, customers. Everyone is doing what their manager (customer) tells them to do while
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    a billion billion stars is the same order of magnitude scale as a billion billion seconds, which is about the age of the universe. Or, a billionth billionth second (one attosecind), which is the amount of time it takes for an electron to ch
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    tldr: that $60M series C was actually 37M + 23M venture debt from SVB who called the loan! (That is not a rugpull, that is exactly what the venture debt contract prescribes for this exact situation) Top tweet reply is Matt Levine’s take (ed
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    also it’s a negotiating tactic by the acquirer, VCs do it too - why buy a distressed company today when you can run out the clock and get it for free
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    imo more like the 50th time around, and by a computer scientist, and not on company time until after the abstraction POC is validated, for example both React and Angular were side projects before the firm decided to invest. Software develop
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    let’s hear your metrics on the issues of timeliness, accuracy, cost and bookkeeper churn that Bench faced?
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    as a seed stage startup, I still using google sheets, i use adobe’s online pdf-to-excel converter to OCR bank statements and paste from excel to google sheets. I then sort by transaction description and bulk categorize everything using Goog
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    by dustingetz 2y ago

    fibonacci retrace shows up in liquid markets a lot