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by ericabiz 13y ago
Techstars publicly posts as much information as they have about their startups here: http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/ Keep in mind, too, that this article seems to be referring to A or later rounds (&quot
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by ericabiz 13y ago
There is no context to this picture, and a whole lot of assumptions. Let's add one potential context. Over 80 tornadoes hit the Midwest yesterday. (Reference: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking&
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Yep, a bit of inside baseball there, I suppose! Glad it's all sorted. :)
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You've misunderstood. My point was that women seem to be in rare supply on Hacker News. I find myself often commenting on items as one of the "token women" in the community (token, n. "a thing serving as a visible or tan
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> That's rarely how wifes work. Sigh...sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't change my username to "tokenwoman", a la "tokenadult". :P This should go without saying, but not all "wifes" (sp) work the s
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by ericabiz 13y ago
As someone who, like the OP, is often on the other side of that conversation (I've helped startups raise seed funding and get into accelerators), here are a couple tips: 1) Be specific. Which investor do you want an intro to, and why?
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I can't speak for YC but I can speak about Techstars--I was in the first Austin Techstars class, and our Demo Day was a week ago. I have had one successful tech company exit and had already raised a seed round for my current business w
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To add another data point, I'm not on the YC list but I am part of the Techstars and 500 Startups lists, which are similar (I have several friends who went through YC and we've compared notes.) Surprisingly, the lists have similar
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're trolling or you genuinely misread my comment--I'll assume the latter. LeadPages generates real revenue to the tune of >$3M/year and is funded by Foundry Group as well as other angels and VCs. It
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I do. (I can't believe the one night I decided to go out with friends, this is the thread that shows up on Twitter--my wheelhouse!) I built and bootstrapped a tech company from the ground up in the Valley. Sold it in 2007 for 7 figur
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There are several ways Amazon could have prevented this. I wrote this post to bring attention to ways in which buyers can scam legitimate sellers using Amazon's "A-to-Z Guarantee." 1) Amazon can (and should!) require sellers
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(OP here) Yes, I definitely made a mistake--I saw the email and naively assumed that Amazon would deny the claim since the phone clearly was not stolen. I made an assumption that they had access to Verizon's stolen phone database, or t
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Scammed by Amazon's "A-to-Z Guarantee"(medium.com)
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Not just Dell. I have two ASUS PB278Q (27", 2560x1440) and they have the same problem. It so threw me when I got the first one that I ended up having to overnight a Mini Displayport->Displayport cable from Amazon Prime to drive it.
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Check out the ASUS PB278Q. $549.00 on Amazon right now, 27", 2560x1440, 16:9 ratio. I upgraded from a HP LP2475w (24", 1920x1200) and it is a night and day difference. I now have two of the ASUS monitors (one at home and one at wo
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by ericabiz 13y ago
They're asking people to revoke Buffer as an app: https://www.facebook.com/bufferapp/posts/566007046805080 Brutal. Once you revoke it, there's little to no chance that you're going to re-invoke it.
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by ericabiz 13y ago
> That said it really helps if you're already hanging around at a party with a CEO of a big, in the news, growing startup and thus have insider access to tell him exactly what you think after a few drinks. Sigh. I know Travis person
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As someone who also ran a hosting company (2001-2007, when I sold it--the acquiring company is still in business and doing fine today), there are some people who are building hosting companies for the long term, and many others who will sel
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> It is pretty typical for an investor to pronounce one thing and then do something totally different. They didn't do that. The original article was one of their partners saying they weren't doing as many consumer Series As a
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> there are no other places in the world where you can work in sandals while eating M&Ms. Heh, sure there are! I run a startup here in Austin, and there are plenty of tech jobs, sandals, and free M&Ms here. After living 10 years
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> I would hope and expect -- though I cannot confirm -- that the book looks at children of both genders. I haven't read the book either, but the article doesn't give me much hope. All of the following are direct quotes from the
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Hello, author. Meet me. I was much like the boy in your article--except in one way. I was thrown into tests at a young age which showed a high IQ. I had difficulty in school with outbursts. I did not easily read social cues from others. I h
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by ericabiz 13y ago
I like Reddit's /r/science ( http://www.reddit.com/r/science ). You'll find some of the same articles as Hacker News, plus some great discussion from smart people who aren't necessarily computer
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Please send me a message too. (Same as Chuck: No emails from recruiters, please.) We use both Erlang and Haskell at our company.
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If you would like a response, it's best if you're not anonymous. I am a hiring manager and I've interviewed (at this point) hundreds of techies, and I'm sure I'm not alone in being in this position on Hacker News. H
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by ericabiz 13y ago
Ugh. I have a Razer one sitting in a closet; it really belongs in the trash. (I'm typing this comment on a Unicomp Spacesaver M, and I'm a die-hard mechanical keyboard junkie.) To compare a Razer to this keyboard (or even a Unicom
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Sounds like you live in Seattle. When I visited there recently, I used car2go instead of renting a car. It's a car sharing service like Zipcar, but unlike Zipcar, you can drop a car off anywhere in their network instead of having to re
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Sure; I gave a great example in my blog post here: http://www.erica.biz/2012/failure-success/ Feel free to email me with more specific questions if you like; email is in my profile.
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Wow, I didn't realize it had been almost a year until you said that! Yes, I'm still on Ritalin--in addition, I found out that the night panics I'd been having (which I mentioned in that post as well) are actually sleep apnea.
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I think the author is on to something with the small bets, investors being wimps, etc. And I'd add to that: The pressure with these small bets is for a startup to produce something fast . The whole culture is designed around "Wha

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