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by ig1 12y ago
If you haven't heard it before then I'd definitely recommend listening to Sacca's critique of Blumberg pitch on TAL: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/533/i... I've he
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While I worked at a VC I ran some analysis on Angel performance and found (for top-tier angels) past performance does in fact predict future performance. That is if you took the top-tier angels today then the investments that they make over
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Because a government hacking another government to disable military infrastructure is clearly an act of war. Spying is a pseudo-accepted peace time activity, military sabotage isn't.
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You could say the same applies to any top-tier consultancy firm. Many professional occupations require people to be away from home/family for extended periods, people do it because it's necessary for the career they want to have.
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Don't touch it. Any decent investor would give the intro to the other company in any case if they thought there was mutual benefit to both parties. I'm assuming the investor is not a regular tech investor given their behaviour, bu
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Not that it invalidates your larger point, but I feel I should point out that I invented FizzBuzz while primarily interviewing European candidates in London :)
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They can't. But no-one can reassure you that your router didn't have a backdoor put into it before it was shipped to you either.
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Looking at the market for editors is the wrong place to start as their users aren't necessarily going to be your users. The key questions you need to ask are: 1) What's going to be your competitive advantage ? 2) How much are peop
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What you need to be thinking about is how different models affect incentives. With your subscription model there's no way for the participant to work around you, but with a per-transaction based commission you need to think about how t
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I find it hard to believe that any late stage investor doesn't realize the difference between net and gross for marketplaces. Obviously startup founders talk about gross because it's the bigger figure, but even early stage investo
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PLM is much more focused around known conditions and benchmarking those patients with each other rather than discovery of new conditions.
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One thing I've thought would be useful for a while is a platform to allow people with unknown diseases to get matched up with others with the same symptoms. While CrowdMed can help with rare diseases it's less useful in cases wher
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It looks like Privdog which was bundled with CIS didn't have the vulnerability (it was an older version of Privdog) but if you downloaded it from the website you would have had the new version (Privdog v3 or later) which would have had
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by ig1 12y ago
Did you get Privdog with Comodo Internet Security, if so can you share what version of Comodo Internet Security it was ?
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The problem with these sort of lists is that without more details they're not that useful because it's hard to identify relevant investors. What would make such a list useful would be: 1) List of past investments 2) Track record o
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Yes. I had the same problem and Apple did a free out-of-warranty logic board replacement for me.
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You realize new BMWs have telematics data sent back to BMW ?
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It's a complex topic, far more than an HN topic can cover, I'd recommend Brad Feld's book "Venture Deals" for a deeper look at the topic.
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Violation of fiduciary duty is only a requirement in order to meet the "Manipulative and Deceptive Practices" part of SEC Rule 10b-5. However there are other ways that requirement can be met for instance SEC v. Dorozhko found that
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I wrote a piece on open source business models that you might find useful: http://blog.imranghory.org/open-source-business-models The big risk with your suggested approach is that you have no defensibility as there's n
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Varonis and Trusteer essentially deal with the issue of "the bad guys are already inside" and Lifelock the damage control element of post-compromise. I'd say in mobile security space Good Techonologies, OpenPeak, Ionic, Teles
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CISO budgets are exploding at large companies; in '98 most of these companies didn't even have a CISO. Firewalls have proven to be ineffective and companies are willing to pay for solutions that are more effective. Attackers have
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As a startup it's your job to convince investors about the size of your market. When a FoodTech startup or FashionTech startup pitch to investors they don't assume the investor will have an in-depth knowledge of their market, they
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This is pretty much standard practice in Europe. If you're storing/producing an information about an individual as an organization you have to operate on the assumption that the individual has a right to read it as in most cases t
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A couple of things this doesn't address: 1) Corp dev can also do strategic investment; you probably don't want this at an early stage but can be worth considering at a later stage. 2) Corp dev teams don't magically know that
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It depends on the type of business. If you're working with content licensing (i.e Spotify, Netflix), product integration (more common in b2b SaaS), marketplace supplier relationships with major partners (say if Airbnb wanted to offer M
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Find the companies you want to work for and reach out to them directly. Even if the company doesn't have a current opening they may be willing to create a role for you or put you on-top of the pile for when a role does open up. It&#x27
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Generally it's considered normal practice for a founder to draw salary post-seed funding, although it's common for it to be below market rate (rising when you raise your A)
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The daily variance of USDBTC is around 2.3% - over a multi-week crowdfunding campaign the volatility of Bitcoin could easily cost you vastly more than payment processing fees and is unpredictable.
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You should go in with the assumption that the company will fail. So if you're looking to relocate to a new city consider what will happen in that case, i.e. are there other employers in that city who you'd want to work for, etc. I

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