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by ig1 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet
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by ig1 14y ago
Ones which solve real pain points. But it's the wrong question to ask, YC heavily focuses on team over idea, the idea is a validation of the team as much anything else (i.e is the team smart and capable of thinking deeply about a space).
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by ig1 14y ago
Rational (IBM) have tools that can do it for C/C++ - what language are you looking for ?
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by ig1 14y ago
Fork and rename, but don't call it pdfminer2 as that's trampling over the namespace of the original. Rename it to something new.
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by ig1 14y ago
Presumably there were some risk factors in your case that meant that they rejected you, it would be much more helpful to everyone if you specified what they were (i.e. you were in a high-risk industry like gambling, ticketing, etc.) that wa
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Low Valuations on Dragons Den(blog.awesomezombie.com)
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by ig1 14y ago
I wrote an article on Dragon's Den valuation and why they're different from typical startup valuations a few years back: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/10/low-valuations-on-drag... Fundamentally the type of businesses that go on these
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by ig1 14y ago
Once you start getting to large scale purchases you'll tend to need to do a lot more hand-holding to close the sale in any case. It's not about pulling out a credit card and just paying for the service, but about multiple people in the cust
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by ig1 14y ago
Product Development
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by ig1 14y ago
Yes the counted metrics are much more reliable. It's much harder for TC to misenter an acquisition/funding round then it is for them accidentally add an extra zero to a number.
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by ig1 14y ago
Which part would you like data on ? - the unbanked payments issue is pretty well known in the payments/retail industry. See this press piece by Walmart: http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2012/04/26/walmart-anno... There's also several
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by ig1 14y ago
If you're unbanked you don't have a bank account, hence no debit/credit card. Between 18-24% of the US population fall into that category.
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by ig1 14y ago
(I run SeedTable which also does analytics on Crunchbase data) The problem with ranking by funding/acquisition amounts is the data is pretty dirty, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be incorrect data (because someone fat fingere
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by ig1 14y ago
Poor people are disproportionately likely to shop in-store rather than online because they're vastly more likely to be unbanked (i.e. no credit card) and be low-education. I'd hazard an educated guess that the percentage of income spent by
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by ig1 14y ago
Yes. It's happened on more than one occasion. (For example LightTable have mentioned it publicly here; and I'm personally aware of other companies who've had it happen but I don't know if its public in those cases)
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by ig1 14y ago
Read the Venture Hacks book (it's $9 from http://venturehacks.com/ or you can get it from amazon, etc.) as it gives you a lot of the basic advice on pitching VCs.
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by ig1 14y ago
H1B salary data is public so it's probably provides the most reliable source of data for larger companies.
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by ig1 14y ago
Why ? - if you made a mistake at work, how would you feel if your employer publicly published your identity ?
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by ig1 14y ago
Yep hence the word "inevitable" :)
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by ig1 14y ago
With the inevitable clashing, it clashes with Josh's Biz Dev for Early Stage Enterprise Startups event: http://www.meetup.com/unsexystartups/events/109255182/
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by ig1 14y ago
The research behind this article is pretty flakey. Measuring accelerator success by exits only works when you do cohort analysis, not when you compare companies created 6-7 years ago (YC and TechStars) against companies created in the last
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by ig1 14y ago
SSL is much more expensive to deliver at scale, it could potentially kill popular non-commercial websites as the costs of hosting would be much more expensive without the caching, etc. that non-SSL permits.
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by ig1 14y ago
TBH that sounds like a bad idea for any number of reasons. Presumably you have some kind of credit history, why not just get a loan for a couple of grand to cover you for a few months until you get funding (or borrow it off a friend) ?
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by ig1 14y ago
The value of Startup Weekends isn't in build a new startup from scratch (very few startup ideas that originate at SW last past the weekend), but rather from the fact that you spend a weekend working closely against a deadline with people wh
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by ig1 14y ago
I'm not convinced the model of online cofounder matching works at all. Cofounding is like getting married, a website for finding cofounders is like a dating website for people who want to urgently get married. You're much better off develop
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by ig1 14y ago
Look at the companies that both have invested in and speak to the ones operating in similar markets to you. YC companies: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 Techstars Boulder: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/
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by ig1 14y ago
It started out solving the one-to-many messaging problem (i.e sms for groups; what whatsapp and the kin are going after now)
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by ig1 14y ago
I assume it depends on a state basis, but IMHO the OP comment doesn't read like speculation, it reads like someone making a factual statement with the intention to influence the readers perception of the company in question.
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by ig1 14y ago
I imagine saying a financial institution has lost all of it's customers money (without evidence) would be considered libellous in most countries.
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by ig1 14y ago
Unless you have strong evidence to support that statement I'd suggest deleting it as it's potentially libellous.

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