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by ig1 12y ago
People don't seem to realize how expensive it is to bring a new pharmaceutical drug to market and why this approach won't work. A typical drug will cost between $1bn-$2bn and take about a decade of work by the time it hits the she
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by ig1 12y ago
Generally the multiple expected is lower for later stage rounds as there's less risk. Also Sequoia wouldn't have got anywhere near 35%. That said the investors would certainly be looking for >$1bn exit.
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by ig1 12y ago
You're travelling to a new city you've never been to before and you're looking for a hotel that's cheap but decent quality, in a safe area and well connected via public transport to the tourist areas. How many steps does
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by ig1 12y ago
No different from Breast Implants or other enhancement surgeries which are already mainstream.
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by ig1 12y ago
I looked at a few companies in this space when I was at a VC, and the fundamental problem was that they didn't provide enough value to the end developer. Aggregator APIs tend to provide extremely reduced functionality compared to the s
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by ig1 12y ago
For a while Random Forest (2001) blew everything away, but more recently deep neural networks have been making huge progress. For example Google's work in image recognition: http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2014&#x2
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by ig1 12y ago
It is an issue. It's even worse for big VCs because they have the funds to do the follow-on for any seed company they think is doing well. So it's not just a signal of being "top 3" it's a signal of being good. [The
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by ig1 12y ago
It'd be interesting to see hard data on that, from speaking with various YC founders in recent batches it seems a lot of them had recommendations from YC alumni. Back in the early days pg mentioned around 10-15% of the accepted class w
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by ig1 12y ago
Except a16z was their Series B investor, Oculus raised their Series A from a bunch of mid-tier VCs which implies it wasn't a hugely competitive round hence probably wasn't on particularly favourable terms. By the time a16z investe
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by ig1 12y ago
It's basically a catch-22 situation, if you don't run a (good) virus checker you have no idea if you've got a virus or not. It's not like in the 90s where viruses would just destroy stuff and taunt users, modern viruses
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by ig1 12y ago
It's not designed for casual readers, it's designed for professional readers who read it for professional reasons. $40/month is nothing in that scenario.
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by ig1 12y ago
Actual confirmation from BVP who are investors in Twitch: http://www.bvp.com/blog/twitch-time-wild-ride-start-finish
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Uber Corner Store(blog.uber.com)
13 points by ig1 12y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 12y ago
People seem to be very confused at to who the target market is here. This isn't about bricks-and-mortar retailers switching to use Amazon as a payment mechanism, it's about providing a payment services for the (largely) local serv
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by ig1 12y ago
Given how cheap server space is why that is limiting you, you should be able to get a few hundred gigs of space for a few dollars ? Also you shouldn't have performance issues with your numbers, you should be able to comfortably run a s
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by ig1 12y ago
Pretty much everyone has been hacked, it's more a question of whether they realize it or not.
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by ig1 12y ago
No, GPL only requires you to provide source-code to users on request. No general publication requirement.
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by ig1 12y ago
Except if your password gets compromised on two sites than hackers could identify the pattern and compromise every account you have.
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by ig1 12y ago
You do realize charitable giving represents hundreds of billions of revenue for non-profits every year ? - and that's excluding religious donations which are likely to represent an even larger amount.
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by ig1 12y ago
Have one million devices constantly streaming a random stream of data to each other; when a device wants to communicate with another it just swaps the random stream for the encrypted stream. Hence a trivial example of low-latency anonymity
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by ig1 12y ago
The original flight plan was 35,000 feet. They dropped to 33,000 feet at request of ATC.
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Marketplace Pricing(blog.imranghory.org)
1 points by ig1 12y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 12y ago
Well in this case is designed to mean healthy. Despite popular misconception organic and fresh food aren't necessarily healthier than frozen foods as many fresh foods lose significant nutritional value when stored/transported at r
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by ig1 12y ago
Read the linked document, they looked at other vendors, all the other vendors that could meet the requirements needed to make significant (charged) customization to their product to bring up to spec. LM had the only product that could be us
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by ig1 12y ago
I don't think you understand what USPTO need, it's not just a scanning system, it's an entire workflow system.
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by ig1 12y ago
No you couldn't. You could build something half-baked that didn't work in the majority of cases. If you think you could build a fully-operational EDMS system capable of handling a variety of documents coming in from different sour
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by ig1 12y ago
Write to your MP about this today - it has a much bigger impact than complaining on HN: https://www.writetothem.com/
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by ig1 12y ago
The data seems pretty inconsistent, for example Skype is included but Supercell isn't (both acquired). Also attribution to country isn't consistent. Sometimes the founding country is used and sometimes the current HQ location is u
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by ig1 12y ago
Yes, my mistake I was checking via Skyscanner who gave the cheapest route as Lufthansa. Hmm not sure why I'm seeing different pricing, but if the budget airlines do fly that route than obviously I withdraw my point. [edit: it looks lik
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by ig1 12y ago
The Israeli tech scene is actually very heavily networked probably more so then any startup environment outside of SF.

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