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by dzink 9y ago
They simply want to boost conversion of their product, which likely sells less as a shelf item with hefty stocking fees for a commodity experience. For wealthier shoppers (the target market of these brands) shopping is entertainment - somet
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by dzink 9y ago
Do you guys have an ability to provide advice about what startups at early stages need to do for book keeping, filings, etc? You seem to be more affordable than competitors for early stages, so you would also deal with less experienced foun
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by dzink 9y ago
This is a natural development in the evolution of advertising. The moment a company picks ads as a revenue model is the moment it pivots to become Media. I am building a company that aims to eliminate the need for advertising, and actually
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by dzink 9y ago
I switched from Ruby to Go and could hardly be any happier. Go feels powerful and simple at the same time. I code whatever i need to code easily, instead of hunting for frameworks and evaluating dependencies (or dreading the next deployment
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AI turns sketches into code at AirBNB(thenextweb.com)
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by dzink 9y ago
What does YC think of companies that make affiliate revenue? Is it a positive or a negative in the VC world?
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by dzink 9y ago
After 6 real rejections I don't really feel them anymore. This year however we have a comeback - some really nice growth curves. If needed we plan to reply back with a beautiful steeply curved chart screenshot. Maybe tweet it? Autoresp
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by dzink 9y ago
These guys seem to be able to connect across video and messaging platforms. In the age where everyone is trying to be WeChat and connect billions, the pipes underneath that would be a downright bargain at $1B.
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by dzink 9y ago
> I just don't recognise the business painted here to be "tech" VC Cash influences power dynamics between tech companies very very heavily. If you're not in SV and chose to get funding elsewhere and are successful, sa
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by dzink 9y ago
Look at any analog - real estate property, an army of people, a kitchen. Anything left un-groomed during high use becomes unusable. Grooming software needs to be either someone's full-time job (real-life custodians), or a big constantl
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by dzink 9y ago
The bar in UX goes higher with every new competitor, and with that the amount of code under the hood.
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by dzink 9y ago
Is it legal to announce a funding event like this ICO in the press? Especially in a PR piece?
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by dzink 9y ago
There is a reason those guys actively denounce SSL. They use snip.ly and other tools that hijack the clicks from their social media references with an overlay to promote their products. The users see the WSJ or NYT article they clicked on w
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by dzink 9y ago
I'd argue there is a slight difference between lack of diversity in Medicine/Politics, vs Entrepreneurship through Software Engineering. In medicine, lack of diversity meant female patients with breast cancer got "butchered&q
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by dzink 9y ago
Try https://www.dreamlist.com
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by dzink 9y ago
Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot
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by dzink 9y ago
You have to know what you love about coding - Why do you do it? Ex: for exposure (your work gets seen), for competing with yourself, for recognition by peers (open source maybe), for most money for your family, etc. I got burned out coding
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by dzink 9y ago
"to selectively back companies that didn't participate in its accelerator program"
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by dzink 9y ago
If you focus too much on employees and thus managers, you get hoarding of cash within companies and the golden era of corporate jets and perks for corporate executives. In the 80s that led to major Private Equity activity to squeeze said ca
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by dzink 9y ago
From what is explained so far, this process doesn't kill mosquitoes. It just makes sure that some of the females (that reproduce 5 times in a life of 2 weeks as an adult) get fertilized with unproductive eggs. http://www.den
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by dzink 9y ago
Strong work! CloudFlare may be on their tail with Apps. https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/
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VCs ordered by percentage of female founders in their portfolio(medium.com)
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by dzink 9y ago
You need more stories like this to show people who wouldn't normally consider CS as a viable, lucrative path to a second career. Areas with high unemployment and people in dwindling old industries may get a second wind in life if they
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by dzink 9y ago
Actually, it is the right kind of incentive. If you are doing innovative work - go hire more people, because your payroll will be lighter.
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by dzink 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as a startup your metrics, learnings, and progress grows every single day, which means that applying early puts you at a disadvantage from your future self, let alone from competing companies, to get into o
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by dzink 9y ago
The model seems to correlate what worked previously to what will work next. However, in a field that is supposed to lead to new product funding - past industries may steer funding in the wrong direction from what will work next. Two issues:
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by dzink 9y ago
At MBA programs with accelerators, committed entrepreneurs often lose funding to polished classmates with Sales skills, but no actual immediate intention or ability to build a business. That is because between VC and high salaries elsewhere
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by dzink 9y ago
Ha! In 2013-14 I teamed up with another technical and a non-technical Booth student to create a class called Booth Hacks to teach MBAs and other UChicago students how to code in a practical way ( https://www.facebook.com/gro
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Venture investing in the US and Europe are totally different industries(techcrunch.com)
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by dzink 9y ago
Unintended consequences of this will be the complete dominance in affiliate and ad networks of major consumer sites like Google, Facebook and Amazon who already own products visited daily. It also means larger focus of all ad networks to aq

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