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by ig1 13y ago
It depends on the VC and the size of the round, some VCs only invest in a very specific area while others are more flexible for larger investments. Most of the major VCs do invest internationally in larger rounds. For example in the last ye
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by ig1 13y ago
Probably a bit too late notice for you, but this weekend there's a Fashion themed StartupWeekend event in London: http://london.startupweekend.org/events/london-fashion-start... Seems like it would be an ideal pla
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by ig1 13y ago
fwiw the generally accepted definition of open source (the OSI one http://opensource.org/osd ) prohibits discrimination between users. Hence none of the OSI compatible licence (i.e most major open source licences) will give
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by ig1 13y ago
From my experience it's much more individual than that "what makes this person exceptional ?" - which tends to be a combination of track record (what have they achieved previously) and individual traits (are they super-smart,
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by ig1 13y ago
Pretty shoddy reporting from the WSJ, Peter Thiel isn't (just) an investor in Palantir he's a cofounder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
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by ig1 13y ago
Yes. But no-one is going to remember "solve x for (1-(.95^x)) > 50" the purpose of the 95% & 20 is that it's easy for people to remember.
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by ig1 13y ago
This is actually a stats 101 issue. Imagine that most tests only had 5% false positive rate, then if you took 20 tests then chances are at least one of those is going to give you a false positive.
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by ig1 13y ago
Couldn't the same argument be applied to WebMD's symptom checker ?
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by ig1 13y ago
The average drug costs around a billion dollars to bring to market and decades in development and approval. 23andme might not be a small fish by internet standards, but they are by medical industry standards.
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by ig1 13y ago
There are certainly indy games that have got to the top of the appstore chart. Pou and Plague Inc are two examples (I believe both are single person studios), neither of which have significant viral components either.
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by ig1 13y ago
Seems to be a risky approach, the signals (pupil dilation, heart rate, etc.) described are ones that are known to be influenced by age, gender, race and medical conditions (including pregnancy). If large companies adopt it, there will almos
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Startup Salary & Equity Compensation(wealthfront.com)
1 points by ig1 13y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
Basically blogspam version of the NYT article that was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6764482
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by ig1 13y ago
1) Always get an experienced lawyer to review paperwork you sign. 2) It's pretty normal for people who give you money (be it a loan or an equity investment) to get their money back before you do in event of a sale. Imagine the situatio
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by ig1 13y ago
A lot of the comments here seem to fall into the line of "Why would anyone use this Dropbox ? - you can just use rsync". There's a huge gap between a Raspberry Pi which gathers dust in the corner and having a product that par
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by ig1 13y ago
IIRC Prizeo and Kivo both went through @EntreFirst and Vayable went through @500Startups prior to YC.
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The End of Retail as we know it(raconteur.net)
2 points by ig1 13y ago|0 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
Unless they've changed the article, from a quick scan of both articles I don't see the similarity other than they're both on the same topic. What are the specific similarities you have issues with ?
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by ig1 13y ago
What do these have in common: Criteo, Cvent, Benefitfocus, and Veeva Systems They're all recent tech IPOs (last few weeks). They don't get a lot of coverage in Techcrunch, etc. because that's not what they cover. If you want
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by ig1 13y ago
I'm guessing because unlike many other cities, the vast majority of restaurants in London have vegetarian options.
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by ig1 13y ago
I think Jason is overly focusing on one side of the relationship (i.e between the startup and the introducer) when I'd argue in actuality a lot of the value of the introduction depends on how well placed the introducer is to evaluate y
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by ig1 13y ago
It's too early to say (remember it typically takes 7-8 years to reach a major exit event). But SendGrid and LightSail Energy are probably the two that have raised the most money and are public about being rejected from YC.
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by ig1 13y ago
Many large startups who've gone on to raise multiple large rounds have taken money from VCs who've rejected them previously, it's not uncommon as VCs reject companies for a whole host of reasons many of which have nothing to
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by ig1 13y ago
I think we're talking cross-purpose; I think you're talking about inequality between countries while I'm talking about within countries.
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not anything new, conglomerates have existed for a long time before the internet age. For example consider Sony: Sony Computer Entertainment (gaming), Sony Mobile (phones), Sony Pictures (movies), Sony Music (music), Sony Life (in
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by ig1 13y ago
There was an article in the economist a couple of weeks ago which argued that because growing inequality was a global phenomenon it was unlikely to be related to tax policies, labour laws, etc. but rather due to global factors such as techn
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by ig1 13y ago
My mistake, shouldn't try to read articles pre-coffee.
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by ig1 13y ago
Hmm it's actually somewhere in between, it looks like about a quarter is sticker purchases, a quarter sponsored stickers, and a half in-app purchases. The above articles is off, if you read the link in the article it gives the breakdow
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by ig1 13y ago
You realize Line are doing around $100m/revenue month from sticker sales ?
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by ig1 13y ago
I've not seen a paper directly comparing the two, but if you look at resume correlation studies (comparing attributes of CV to acceptance/rejection rates), resume length generally has a stronger correlation to outcome in paper re

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