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by ig1 8y ago
If you're willing to consider St Gallen (~1hr from Zurich) you might want to take a look at Frontify ( https://frontify.com/jobs/full-stack-dev )
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by ig1 8y ago
When you take a high-valuation (compared to market) from any VC you set the expectation for the next round. Whenever you raise you should always consider the valuation you'll be aiming for at the following round and the metrics neede
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by ig1 8y ago
I believe there's at least one company with a larger private valuation that got rejected from YC (haven't seen a primary source confirmation of their rejection though).
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by ig1 8y ago
I'd love to fund a startup fixing this problem. It's a clear space where technology has the edge over humans and there's huge network advantages (e.g. you see a new account # for a known entity, especially at a different bank
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Bitcoin Challenge(bitcoinchallenge.codes)
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Data Science, Geography and Frontify: The Future of Venture Capital(medium.com)
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Data Science, Geography and Frontify: The Future of Venture Capital(medium.com)
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by ig1 8y ago
The Bloomberg article says suspicions were raised during a routine audit that resulted in a deeper audit. The routine audit could have uncovered hackers in Elemental's corporate network doing things like ensure certain machines go to c
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by ig1 8y ago
It could be trivially done through technicalities. For example if the exploit was found on the motherboard prior to it being deployed in servers that would be consistent with Apple's denial (not suggesting that's what happened her
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by ig1 8y ago
If you look at Apple denial ( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got... ) they make a curious statement: "Our best guess is that they are confusing their story with a previously-repor
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The Hackers are Winning(medium.com)
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by ig1 8y ago
As an independent observer (VC; background in investing both in the US & Europe, currently based out of London) - the French ecosystem has transformed massively over the last few years, it's essentially unrecognizable from what it
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by ig1 8y ago
You should consider using qualifications / simplifying the requests. The error rate I get for data entry tasks is around 0.5%-1% discrepancy between double entry. If you use prior reliability of the worker to tie break between who&#x27
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by ig1 8y ago
Revenue can collapse fast in SaaS if you don't have churn under control. Let's say there's a downturn (for economic or competition) reasons and new user acquisition falls to 80/month and churn goes upto 7%. You're
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by ig1 8y ago
Yes. Plenty of SaaS businesses (both bootstrapped and VC financed) end up flatlining. How sustainable this is depends on what space you're in, generally if you're revenue flat you become much more vulnerable to external factors (c
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by ig1 8y ago
One of the under-appreciated facets of SaaS economics is that you have to grow your growth constantly, regardless of whether you're bootstrapped or VC funded. If you're steadily adding 100 customers/month you might think that
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by ig1 8y ago
Broadly speaking you should have a MQL -> SQL -> Deal model (i.e assumptions for ratios between the three) and assumptions for CPL and SQL per SDR/AE. With these you can tie sales forecasts to marketing spend and sales hires. Obv
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by ig1 8y ago
At high-volume airports gates aren't assigned until the plane has arrived from it's inbound flight which is often <1hr from departure time. Checkin generally opens 24 hours prior to departure (some airlines now allow >7 days
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What you need to raise a Series A (and why it isn’t 100k MRR)(medium.com)
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by ig1 8y ago
Those aren't false positives in that they represent real genetic relationships (i.e they're identical by descent), as the database size increases you don't increase the false positive rate in any meaningful sense at higher ma
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by ig1 8y ago
There's no Europe wide prohibition. Specific countries disallow the sale of the product, but there's plenty of European countries where you can buy the health product.
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by ig1 8y ago
That's not how it works, the chances of two people matching as identical (on the SNP tested by 23andme) by random is astronomically low - orders of magnitude higher than the total number of humans who've ever lived. Generally at a
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by ig1 8y ago
The line between marketing making and prop trading is blurrier than you think. Whenever you quote a price you're implicitly making a prediction on the future of the market.
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by ig1 8y ago
It's more common than you'd think. I built one of the first in-house VC research platforms at Index Ventures back in 2012 (+am now starting a new early-stage VC firm in Europe where we're building our own tech to aide sourcin
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by ig1 9y ago
Most developed countries have an agency dedicated to data protection. The UK has the ICO, Japan has the Personal Information Protection Commission, Canada has the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Switzerland has the FDPIC, etc. Their ex
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by ig1 9y ago
https://dna.land/ (New York Genome Center/Columbia University) has a height-model based upon genome data which you can just plug your 23andme data into. (You can also give them your actual height so they can improve th
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by ig1 9y ago
Most of the serious ICO's (i.e from companies with product, employees, etc.) only take money from accredited investors to avoid falling foul of the SEC. There's also established equity crowd-funding sites (like WeFunder) who'
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by ig1 9y ago
Where are you based?
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by ig1 9y ago
Someone you report to on a day-to-day basis (i.e. team lead) is fine as are managers at previous companies.
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by ig1 9y ago
Even a couple of percentage points of churn is a big deal in the long term as you have to keep replacing those customers just to stand still. If you're in a moribund space you can get away with a MVP product for a long time, but if you

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