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by iamelgringo 15y ago
1 x Core i3-530 @ 2.93GHz | 2 GB RAM | 1x 60GB SSD | 1 x 250GB SATA
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
1 x Xeon X3440 @ 2.53GHz | 4 GB RAM | 2x 60GB SSD Raid 1 | 1 x 500GB SATA
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Dude. Ping me: jonathan@hackersandfounders.com We're spinning up Hackers & Founders University. I have a hair on fire need, and I suspect you might be able to help. :) aka iamelgringo@ googles email service
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Gabe, we're all really proud of you, and happy for this next great step. Congrats.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
If a handful of YC companies are truly asking for a $9M or 14M pre... as rumors are flying around in Silicon Valley state... Then, I could see why VC's might say that the market is overpriced and frothy. Especially, since 6 months earlie
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
gods, I miss Stevey's drunken rants. And... after spending an evening looking at Google's calendaring API's... he's got a couple'a points.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Wow. The cost of 1 Petabyte of spinny disk storage is $100k. A friend of mine who raised money in 1999 said that to get their MVP off the ground, it took 20 engineers, and $7M in venture funding. I doubt $100k would have paid for the Ora
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Differences between PowerShell and other *nix shell variants are that PShell allows you to pipe full COM or .NET objects between processes or commends, rather than just piping the text files between different commands. PowerShell vs cmd.exe
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
This is why people should use Wepay.com I've been using them for years.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Ties.com might be an amazing and wonderful business, but I can't imagine too many investors getting excited about they types of exits they might have by investing in Ties.com. I wouldn't necessarily blame Angel List.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
It's not about VC. It's about angels, and Angel List. Angel.co has gone from 25 to 3000 investors in 18 months. Add 10 to 12 IPO's in the next few years, and you'll see thousands of newly minted "Qualified Investors" interested in angel in
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
That's actually a great question. I've thought of YC as more of the Ivy League experience. Exclusive. Great brand. (No disrespect intended). And, I think that (unintentionally?) pg and the YC partners have modeled a lot of YC around an Iv
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I started a meetup 4 years ago to solve this problem. It's turned into a startup of sorts: http://beta.hackersandfounders.com/faq/meetups/is-there-a-ha...
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Internet firms used for surveillance by law enforement(reuters.com)
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
The coolest, most helpful people I've met in Silicon Valley make a concerted effort to do just those two things: meet people and get things done. Meet at least one or two new people every couple of days. And, meeting people online... much
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
This is a gold mine
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
$120 million fund. 2% management fee = $2.4 Million a year. $2.4 Million a year sounds like a lot initially, but when you consider local salaries and costs associated with this. You might think that VC's make tons of money, but when you c
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Suck it up, boys. Pay your taxes like the rest of us. You're sitting on huge war chests of cash. You can afford to contribute a little bit of that to the common good. US companies in general are sitting on $2Trillion in cash. Productivi
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
"In Silicon Valley they hand out money like candy" I beg to disagree with you. It's still really hard to raise money. On average, it takes 6 to 9 months to raise a decent round.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
My pleasure. As far as I'm concerned, Startup Chile is one of the best sources of early money around for startups.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I've been talking with a number of directors at length about the program, and we've been promoting it at Hackers & Founders. There is no requirement after the 6 months. And, the government support is all about walking you through the l
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Rusty has done an amazing job, and he's a great guy.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Why is it a competition? Why is it NYC vs SV? Why can't it be both?
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
We don't have a Hackers & Founders Berlin, yet. :) http://beta.hackersandfounders.com/faq/meetups/
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
There's no official way, and it tends to be pretty hard to get a critical mass of people to attend. When I first started Hackers & Founders in Silicon Valley, it was 4 people and me in a bar. I kept the meetup going for a couple of yea
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
Angel List has the largest data set of startups, investor profiles and activity on the planet. That makes Nivi and Naval some of the most interesting players in Silicon Valley. I suspect we'll be seeing a very interesting investment thesi
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
In fact I am not sure there is a direct benefit to Chile at all. I assume it is a bet that some companies will stay, locals will develop support infrastructure / services and ultimately create an ecosystem that is Silicon Valley like. The
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
I've talked extensively to a number of people that run Startup Chile. They are very interested in getting early startups that are too early to even go into an incubator. That was a conscious choice. So, it stands to reason that you're n
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
They've actually set aside $100M to fund 1,000 startups over the next 4 years. It's one of the best economic hacks I've ever heard a government doing.
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by iamelgringo 15y ago
The much more important question is, how does one get a million users. Most startups never figure that out. Focus on that, scale later.

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