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   by friendstock 13y ago

   Just to provide a counter example to balance your assessment of VCs: Our lead investor has a Ph.D. in EE from Stanford. Our secondary investor has an engineering degree from MIT and is a serial entrepreneur. They have been very helpful i
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   by friendstock 13y ago

   Re: board game, have you seen Burn Rate?
3. 33.▲
   by friendstock 13y ago

   ...so Yahoo is tracking all employee movements now? (Just kidding -- I think it's a great perk for Yahoo employees. Too bad they couldn't get purple ones.)
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   by friendstock 13y ago

   Congratulations James and Andrew, from a long-time user of Envolve (the precursor to Firebase).
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   by friendstock 13y ago

   > The bomb was dropped not to win the war, but to intimidate the USSR. This was actually the essay topic on my US History AP exam.
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   by friendstock 13y ago

   Funny... Thanks for sharing!
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   by friendstock 14y ago

   Congrats, Aihui!
8. 38.▲
   by friendstock 14y ago

   awesome!
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   What Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can learn from Asia(e27.co)

   21 points by friendstock 14y ago|0 comments
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Thank you so much for forcing Heroku to confront this issue! We've been seeing strange delays and optimizing based on New Relic for a long time... and whenever we reported this to Heroku, they would not admit to an issue. We ended up using
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    I agree. (I think part of the reason is that some startups have more team members, which takes up more resources in the office.)
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Not at all! If 500 Startups funds a company ($50,000) to join the accelerator, it will charge fees to help cover the costs of running the accelerator office space.
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    There have been many international companies that have gone through the accelerator program, including ones from Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, India), South America (several from Brazil) and Europe (Croatia, Estonia, etc). It's a great wa
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    They provide a prime office location (top floor of the tallest building in downtown Mountain View) and regular catered meals (several meals a week) as part of the multi-month accelerator program. When we took part in the accelerator, we wer
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    My experience is that 500 Startups people are friendly and down-to-earth. Not sure why you don't have a good impression, and hope that you can get a chance to meet more people from 500S and change your opinion. Disclosure: my startup was pa
16. 46.▲
    by friendstock 14y ago

    I wonder if they raised the round on... AngelList? :P
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    I wonder if they were using Pingdom to monitor the Pingdom service?
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    Ask HN: mobile data transport SDK?

    2 points by friendstock 14y ago|0 comments
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Congrats, Jason!!
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    "Oppa Chomsky Style" at 3:21 -- that's awesome!
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    this doesn't even load for me. bring back the old readwriteweb
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Thanks for your explanation! Yes I see your point. No need to delete your original comment...
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    I love this essay... but I'm concerned that the emphasis on growth so early on will cause some new startup founders to put their focus on vanity metrics, as opposed to spending time to talk with users and build a product that has true pro
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Does app.net have any significant traction? Or are you saying they are trying to grow organically (other than their Kickstarter fundraising)?
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Yes, good point! And it will be useful when you fundraise later on.
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Just because 500 Startups is using AngelList doesn't mean that you won't need to use social capital to get their attention.
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    NO.
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Hope it works better than the Google Wifi in Mountain View. That's become pretty unreliable...
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    is it Astro? They received VC funding from Kii Capital.
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    by friendstock 14y ago

    Thanks for your response. Regarding your comments on how VC's only fund "bad" entrepreneurs with inside connections... I've personally seen unknown entrepreneurs with good traction/product/vision/team get a fair hearing from VCs and actual