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by dzink 9y ago
Replying while somewhat under-slept here, but I've been taking the course and from everything seen so far Startup School is an excellent step in the right direction. The world today needs more people solving the problems they see in th
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by dzink 9y ago
The 2/20 model doesn't go away because it is a signaling mechanism for quality during fundraising with LPs. A16Z actually raised their carry to 30%. Since only 1/4 of VC funds actually outperformed the S&P Index in a Kau
813.
by dzink 9y ago
Barnes and Noble was a great place to socialize as well, but enjoying tables and food with friends is not the same as buying retail.
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Agent-Oriented Programming(robotics.stanford.edu)
3 points by dzink 10y ago|2 comments
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by dzink 10y ago
Society or a company of people operates like an organism at scale - it can get sick with the slightest imbalance of resources, so its collective experience builds antibodies to protect itself. If this was an idea for a portable gadget, it w
816.
by dzink 10y ago
A non-profit simply means that it cannot hold money from one year to the next. To achieve that, a "non-profit" could give millions as executive compensation or contract inefficiently to for-profit "partners" who collect
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Ask HN: Is Trademarkia a good choice or should I go with a lawyer?
1 points by dzink 10y ago|0 comments
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by dzink 10y ago
Would love to see more about the past work projects, especially the bottom right one. Is this research group opening a line of communication with the public? Gitter, slack, a google group?
819.
by dzink 10y ago
Greg is humble, resourceful, and smart. That combination alone is enough to move mountains. However, what Sam's piece is missing is the "Why?". Why would someone who can do anything do YOUR thing and take any crud task it tak
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by dzink 10y ago
There are so many factors at play in team and client environments, so the best benchmark to use is your own productivity as a programmer. 1. Solving problems for the Nth time instead of the first leads to substantial gains in productivity,
821.
by dzink 10y ago
As a user I struggle to stay engaged with twitter - the moment I try to read, I am flooded with irrelevant content, yet the platform is the best place for niche interest information and fast niche information. The Signal-to-Noise ratio is t
822.
by dzink 10y ago
Tossing in an idea: Why not use a rolling application process where founders can update YC on any progress they are making with their startups and an internal system ranks and reddit-scores the startups. YC can jump in and send a note to a
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by dzink 10y ago
Go(Lang) backend + plain html, jquery and gulp on the frontend. After doing Rails for a while, I was tired of the slowness and layers upon layers of abstraction. Go is simple in comparison - the language philosophy helps you keep everything
824.
by dzink 10y ago
Having seen far worse adversity in the past, I see the opportunities I have today as a reward I should consume as thoroughly as possible. I've watched my parents struggle as entrepreneurs in the middle of rural Bulgaria. I worked my be
825.
by dzink 10y ago
During Brexit, people in job-starved areas of UK were reported as resentful for receiving handouts. They wanted gainful employment and their dignity back. You could have corporations foot the bill for basic income and people with certain va
826.
by dzink 10y ago
To get a closer-to-real cost of healthcare, especially surgical procedures look at veterinary care in the US. Similar tools and equipment, similar medicines, similar training, except pricing is not defused by third party payers and padded b
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by dzink 10y ago
They may try a central Medium subscription setup that trickles funds to authors based on some criteria, or maybe medium as a subscription manager for authors. Google played with this approach. Does anyone know if they've had success?
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by dzink 10y ago
I worked remotely (by 1000 miles) on the Times Square billboards for a major news network and learned the hard way that when you work for the news and make a mistake, you become the news. Nobody from the company saw the error, until it was
829.
by dzink 10y ago
Tactical steps YC startups have taken to jump through any one of the de-risking steps: https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/ would be fantastic. Especially stories of creative jumps. You could do a poll of the
830.
by dzink 10y ago
You are using Facebook ads for exposure, the same way consumer companies have been treating TV. You are looking for mindshare. How is that working out so far? Are you able to measure exposure to impact on future purchases?
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by dzink 10y ago
Looking at a closest line match doesn't seem to work well, simply by factor of positioning of the drawings. I suspect they need to rotate the recognition objects around their axis, but even then, you're drawing 3d objects and usin
832.
by dzink 10y ago
Content is king and now the telcos are likely fighting content rates renegotiations by acquiring content companies like TW. US cable subscription business was nearly 92 million households a few years ago. Now that Netflix has crossed more t
833.
by dzink 10y ago
Would you have noticed Dropbox and Instacart with that order?
834.
by dzink 10y ago
Made that mistake once - nobody viewed the re-submitted video.
835.
by dzink 10y ago
Is this an anonymous account for someone at YC?
836.
by dzink 10y ago
A social network is only as good as the recency of its data. They could integrate with Bing to show "people you know", and with other tools, it if people stop updating their profiles, it would be an expensive building acquisition.
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by dzink 10y ago
One aspect missed is that the government is getting juiced by leveraged PE deals, so a good chunk of PE returns are the tax deductions from the interest on the debt that gets split between debt issuers and PE firms. Why isn't everyone
838.
by dzink 10y ago
They've done this to me as well. Months ago a conversation with a medical key word I have never used in my life led to that key word being added to my "interests" on Facebook that evening (i groomed my interest tags to make F
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by dzink 10y ago
To see where the problems are: If you are a married woman and you earn more than your husband, you still end up with more childcare responsibilities and less money than your peers. If you are in a field that is dominated by women, your comp
840.
by dzink 10y ago
It came out a blink ago and their landing page doesn't even work (the button to get started wasn't clickable for me on Chrome, another google product). I managed to see the product by somehow finding an internal link to it. Reserv

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