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Pushed from the U.S., They Find Hope in Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’(wsj.com)
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My Last Day at Moz, My First Day at SparkToro(sparktoro.com)
10 points by freddier 9y ago|0 comments
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by freddier 9y ago
For some years now the average YC batch size has been 100+ companies. With so many companies, it's inevitable to select and support competitors. My experience is that conflict of interest is not a thing at that stage. If you feel like
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by freddier 9y ago
The interesting thing about this is that Spectre seems to work in AMD and ARM as well as Intel. (Meltdown is the one that seems to be Intel-only). This contradicts what AMD said today and also contradicts the Intel press release. ARM did a
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by freddier 10y ago
What's his worst and best case scenario for the future? Specially regarding energy, transportation and the social effect things like solar, self-driving cars and cheap access to space will bring.
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by freddier 11y ago
We're considering opening it up to certain third parties. If you're interested, f at platzi.com
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by freddier 11y ago
I didn't find any particular strong bias against me due to my race/ethnicity compared to my batchmates. There were ocasional subtle moments of doubt from certain people at first, nothing too obvious. But I think fundraising was as
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by freddier 11y ago
Thank you. Japan is amazing.
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by freddier 11y ago
My cofounder went for the O1, I'm in the process of getting an L1. A tourist visa is a good start as long as you know the rules and limitations. It's 100% legal to start and own a company in the US with a tourist visa.
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by freddier 11y ago
To be fair, discrimination exists and it happened to me occasionally while raising post Demo Day. In subtle ways. But there's people like that everywhere so I used it as a filter for good people.
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by freddier 11y ago
I know some YCF companies. They loved it. I wanted to move to Mountain View and do the full three month program. But if I couldn't, YCF is a great deal.
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by freddier 11y ago
At YC? Nothing. They have no reason to do that. It'd defeat the purpose of YC.
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by freddier 11y ago
I never lied about metrics but I've seen startups that do outside YC. Most of them don't do it out of malice but due to bad math. It's easy, for example, to miscalculate CAC in the early days of your company.
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by freddier 11y ago
I'm the author of the article. After being part of YC, I had a lot of things I wish I knew before doing it, from common mistakes to humble reminders. Specially being an "international founder". Happy to answer any questions.
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by freddier 11y ago
OK, Most (all?) startups have broken things. Mine did and I tried to hide them at first. But I guess YC is at a point that, after thousands of startups, they've seen most of the patterns and just want to help you fix them. They'll
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by freddier 11y ago
Indirect experiences and anecdotes. Also, it's inevitable sometimes to feel ashamed of certain things in your startup, so you actively avoid talking about it. But they know. And you end up talking about it, which is a good thing. So...
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by freddier 11y ago
Of course! We did our first technical live class in English thanks to you guys <3
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by freddier 11y ago
Thank you so much for that, Ramiuz. I hope you still learn from us now that we're Platzi.
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by freddier 11y ago
I tried this at Coupa Cafe. It's really clever. The lid in the cup has a filter, so it can brew while staying inmediate and portable. I got Earl Grey + Lavender. Cheap and great. I kept the filter lid :)
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by freddier 11y ago
Wow. We were mentioned in 6 bytes, steego. At Platzi, we just launched in English. We've been doing this for the Spanish-speaking world for two years (switch from EN to ES in the header to check it out), with more than "7 classes&
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by freddier 12y ago
I love that it's not about goverments but governance. Open Source projects can use this. Apartment buildings. Obviously getting modern tools to shitty politicians is always going to be the focus with things like DemocracyOS, but I&#x27
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by freddier 12y ago
I didn't know cloudacademy, cool. We have livestreamed classes with industry pros. Among them, that I mentioned on the parent comment. There's a lot of real-time collaboration among students, like shared notes, questions and files
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by freddier 12y ago
Awesome! I remember you too. Well, this is why we've been so busy.
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by freddier 12y ago
We had to resync the videos, but Monday afternoon, they'll be ready at https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/
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by freddier 12y ago
We started in Latinamerica and we do a subscription model. $29/month for access to everything. We have more complete courses, 2 weeks long, about design, marketing and programming. We're right now planning the first english course
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by freddier 12y ago
In the tech industry (design, marketing, programming) we're seeing that companies don't care about credentials when they see an awesome portfolio. Google VP of People Ops said they no longer care about GPAs [1] On the other hand,
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by freddier 12y ago
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of Platzi. We've done classes with RethinkDB, YC partners, Sails.js/Treeline and Product Hunt. They're all free right now and will be for a while. I'm happy to answer any questions.
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Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Skills, Not Diplomas(techcrunch.com)
62 points by freddier 12y ago|19 comments
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by freddier 12y ago
The livestreaming of the class is over now. But we'll upload the recordings ASAP to: https://courses.platzi.com/classes/develop-apps-sails-js/ All your feedback will be welcome, thanks!
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by freddier 12y ago
We're almost there. What would you like? RethinkDB from scratch or something more specific/advanced?

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